Here at the USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive we have thousands of hours of stock footage available for licensing. This comes not only from the over 80 years worth of student films, educational films but from many different collections shot specifically to be used as stock footage or for documentaries that were never produced. Below you will find a growing collection of downloadable clips you can test out to see if the footage is right for your project. If you don’t see what you are looking for please feel free to contact us at filmrequest@cinema.usc.edu and we will be happy to discuss rates and deliverables with you.
Los Angeles Hospitals Footage 1950’s
Reel Call Number – i099613
Various shots (all exterior) of most of the big hospitals in the Los Angeles Area. Some moving shots passing by the hospitals, medium shots and some close-ups of the hospital signs. Footage includes St Vincent’s Hospital , Hospital of the Good Samaritan , Medical Center , College of Medical Evangelists , White Memorial Hospital , Good Hope Clinic , Saint Joseph Hospital , Huntington Memorial Hospital , Rancho Los Amigos , City of Hope , Veteran’s Administration Hospital , Cedars of Lebanon , University of Southern California
Medical Science Footage ROLL 1A 1950’s
Reel Call Number – i099645
1 – Heart Footage – ms doctors over operating table–light changes from red to green and back several times–for 50′ then the white lights come on until 75′ and then back to red and green until 103′, back to white light until 121′, red to 125′–
2 – Woman in lab coat sitting at box (cu) makes notes – 11′
3 – Same woman at different machine talking (cu) , exits – 11′
4 – Same as #2 above–changes to red at 22′, continues red for rest–27′
5 – CU patient’s face looking up–17′
6 – MS doctor with mask on, talking to another man –16′
7 – cu. putting xray plates in position, many takes–70′
8 – same as #1, red to white light–24′
9 – Another shot in white light like #1-12′
10- Early line drawing–doctor in blood letting scene–6′
11-Same subject different scene
12-Dr. interviewing woman in office–ls, xray on viewer–13′ , cu woman –7′ , cu woman–6′
13-MS Doctors gathered around patient–32′
14-cu xray–5′
15-MS preparing patient for xray, African American attendant wheels equipment up and gets ready for pic–26′
Medical Science Footage ROLL 1B 1950’s
Reel Call Number – i099656
1 Heart Film–students and doctors standing around patient laid out on table in office, camera dollies in to MS of patient–9′
2 – cu woman reacting to someone talking, office seq, above-10′
3 – man (cu) w/ crew looking down (same seq) – 6′
4 – ms people gathered around patient looking at cardiogram – 18′
5 – ms same as above, doctor point to heart and talks – 9′
6 – ms same people gathered around table without patient, talking over problem–30′
7 – ms people gathered around patient, walk over to machine and look at dials, stand around and talk–40′
8 – cu man looking down, talking–14′
9 – ms group listening to man above, doctors in small classroom -11′
10- cu doctor in white coat talking–3 takes – 36′
11 -doctor and observer (bill hale) ms talking with x-rays in background – 10′
12 -ms man in front of classroom in #8 above –another man stands up and talks half way through – 25′
13 – overshoulder cu of graph that man passes around in scene above – 18′
14 – cu man seated reacting to man in shot 12 – 13′
15 – same as #11, beginning of seq Dr. puts up x rays – 16 – ms begins same as #7, Dr. is listening to heart beat of patient and talking — 50′
17 – same as above in beginning, woman picks up stethoscope and listens to heart, turn patient over on side – 20′
18 – Same action as #7 starts with nurse and doctor -80′
Medical Science Footage ROLL 1C 1950’s
Reel Call Number – i099657
1 – Heart film – cu hands sewing up operation cut – 34′
2 – cu bottle hanging (saline solution) – 7′
3 – cu man’s chest, hand comes in with round object and places it on chest – two takes – 15′
4 – cu doctor face with mask on looks up and down – 7′
5 – cu woman in white reacting to people – 14′
6 – cu face of machine with dials and meter , hand comes in and starts setting knobs – 14′
7 – stuff dripping through tubes could be blood – 3′
8 – cu man’s face , talking with machine (#8) in background – 14′
9 – cu man’s chest , hand comes in with tube of goop and puts drops on chest, then comes in with another gadget and makes marks – 28′
10 – cu arm, big hypo needle comes in and injects stuff in – 15′
11 – two more takes of above but not as good – 15′
12 – cu machine recording heart beat on moving graph paper two takes – 15′
13 – cu green machine with dials and wires plugged in, hands come in and fiddle with the knobs and make the dials jump around. two takes – 28′
14 – cu dial with needle moving 3 takes – 56′
15 – same as no 14 – 10′
16 – cu patient’s face on bed with operating cap on looking up and writhing in pain – 3 pieces – 10′
17 – cu table with medical apparatus, hand comes in and shakes test tube with blood in it and puts it in a storage can – several takes with cu of the can to match cutting 0 65′
18 – cu x ray footage several pieces – 23′
Medical Science Footage ROLL 1D 1950’s
Reel Call Number – i099650
1 – Heart film same as roll 2, no 6—28′
2 – MCU , people above, doctor listens to heart of patient and asks woman to come up and listen , she comes up and listens and talks –18′
3- CU reaction shot, female technician–20′
4 – CU reaction shot , man with glasses looking down–12′
5 – MCU, 2 shot over shoulder of man talking to doctor with mask on , nurse comes in and helps doctor put on white robe–33′
6 – medical classroom–pans from x rays to teachers to class and back , lots of movement in shot–long–83;
7 – Dr. and students walk from machine to patient on table and start placing wires, etc.–17′
8 – continuation of above, Dr. talking about patient, all exit except 1 doctor and patient–30′
9 – Drs. and students walk in with patient , patient lays down and they start talking, pointing, and placing things on the patient’s vbody–36′
10 – same set up as #2 above, woman listens and turns patient over and listens then talks–28′
11 – MS people working over patient in operating room–27′
12 – same as #4 ,roll 2 — several pieces , total footage–65′
13 – same as above — dr. listens with machine and earphones–25′
Medical Science Footage ROLL 1E 1950’s
Reel Call Number – i099646
1 – CU Dr. hands in red light and white light working on patient with hypo needle and tubes and wires, many takes –58′
2 – CU hands with hypo needle and drawing the liquid out of glass container , 2 takes –35′
3 – CU front of machine with dials, vu meter, hand comes in and sets knobs–20′
4 – CU DR. with mask on looking down –6′
5 – CU rubber gloved hands filling test tubes with Blood from patient , 2 takes–43′
6 – CU hands with hypo syringe taking off needle and putting onto tube in patient–16′
7 – CU Dr. hands making the cut in the patient, and sewing up the cut, several gooey takes–70′
8 – CU cardiogram (chart) finger comes in and points–25′
9 – CU patient’s face , patient on operating table, looking up–25′
10-CU patient’s face with oxygen type mask on, needle on dial next to him is going around–17′
11-CU nurse–10′
Medical Science Footage ROLL 1F 1950’s
Reel Call Number – i099651
1 – X-ray footage , heart film , black and white neg–42′
2 – same as above–color–(overall green cast)–18′
3 – same as above — several pieces–45′
4 – X ray room , preparing patient for treatment–10′
5 – same – 20′
6 – MS people and DR. standing around machine with patient laying on table on the right side of screen–19′
7 – MS shot–two shot people at desk (Hale and Dr.) x rays in background , they talk , two shots –6′ and 18′
8 – MS Dr. with group gathered around patient listening to heart with stethoscope –20′ and 15′
Medical Science Footage ROLL 1H 1950’s
Reel Call Number – i099647
1 – MS lab technician preparing culture disk–6′
2 – MM lab technician filling test tubes–8′
3 – MS Doctor inoculating school children–4′
4 – MCU Doctor and boy being inoculated, girl enters, pan to others–20′
5 – MS same as #3–20′
6 – CU crying baby being measured–12′
7 – MCU female lab technician working with microscope–20′
8 – LS lab, 3 people, 2 females, 1 male –10′
9 – MS doctor getting ready to give inoculation, prepares hypo, gives it–50′
10-MS Doctor consulting with patient over x-rays, turns on viewer
11-MS Doctor talking (same as above)–10′
12-same–14′
13-MCU Doctor–9′
14-CU x-ray–3′
15-CU slide in microscope (matches #7)–10′
16-MS female lab technician filling test tubes–4′
17-CU red liquid dripping through tubes–5′
18-MS doctors examining patient on table–27′
19-CU doctor’s face masked, red light-20′ and white light–10′
20-CU green rubber glove massaging–30′
21-CU face masked , red , three shots–30′
22-MS Doctors at operating table–10′
23-CU Doctor’s face masked, green and white light–15′
24-CU electrical dials on instruments, lab person enters, twists dials, exits–10′
USC Stock Footage – Medical – Troy on TV 1952 Roll 1
Reel Call Number – i099682
B/W Footage – Dental clinic sign ; female dentist looking down and speaking to child patient ; large class with male student standing up to answer question ; long shot of large class ; professor in robe at head of class sitting ; professor in chair receiving papers ; female student examining something ; male student shot through test tubes ; long shot of center desk inside hospital with nurse and doctors ; medium to cu panning shots of medical students conversing ; long shot of medical examination room. Students overseeing operation multiple angles and shots ; Overhead shot of operation ; medical students in masks watching operation from balcony ; doctors scrubbing in ;