Oddball Film+Video

Oddball Film+Video or Oddball Films is a stock footage company based in San Francisco, California.^[1] It was founded in 1984 by Stephen Parr, an archivist, imagemaker and writer. He was the director of Oddball Film+Video until his death in 2017.^[2]

Oddball Film+Video

Industry	Stock footage/media post-production
Founder	Stephen Parr
Headquarters	San Francisco , US
Services	Stock footage licensing and research services
Website	oddballfilms.com

Background

Part of the interior of the archive. The wall displays part of a "17 Reasons Why" sign that used to be on top of a building in the Mission.^[3]

Oddball Film+Video has provided stock footage for feature films such as Milk, documentaries like Ballets Russes and The Weather Underground, television programs like MythBusters,^[4] websites such as Boing Boing,^[5] and web projects around the world. Oddball Film+Video's holdings consist of over 50,000 archival^[6] and contemporary 35mm, 16mm and HD media elements, many digitized for immediate online distribution.

For several years, Oddball Films hosted weekly public events where it presented rarely-screened genres of cinema, avant-garde films, and ethno-cultural documentaries.^[7][8]

Business

Oddball's international client list includes ABC News, The American Experience, BBC Television, Canal+, Discovery Channel, MTV, Nokia, NBC Universal, Walt Disney Pictures and Yahoo.