Footage-Now is a stock footage production company which licenses 35mm motion picture images for advertising, television shows, and feature productions. All the footage has been shot with a pin registered 35mm motion picture camera. These images have been used for primary photography and background plates in digital composites.

Footage-Nows Director of Photography Bruce Manning shoots with a Mitchell Fries 35mm film camera. He edits with a Mac G4 and all the Adobe software he can jam into it. In the past 10 years he has stock piled an impressive, eye popping array of images; from lush tropical beach scenes to New York City, kids, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Car Pov's, desert images, waterfalls, clouds, suns, people, surfing, golfing, Americana, the kitchen sink and more.

Bruce Manning knew as early as 9th grade that he wanted to be a cameraman. After high school he studied photography in college and soon after graduating found a job as a graphic artist on Star Trek, The Motion Picture. He worked his way up through the ranks, operating motion control cameras (cameras powered by computers) for the visual effect industry.

For several years he worked at a fashionable Hollywood production company, Robert Abel Productions. As an effects cameraman he won several Cleo awards for shooting TRW, AT&T, Levi Strauss, and Panasonic Glider. Another large job included Michael Jackson's Triumph video.

Later, while working at Richard Edlund's Boss Film Inc. Bruce refined his skills while shackled to the optical printer. While doing his time, he worked on jobs such as Tron, Indiana Jones, Buckaroo Bonsai, and Alien 3.

Read Bruce Manning's article about blue-screen compositing in Animation World Magazine…

Working in live action production, he worked on high profile feature films that required long hours under sometime harsh conditions. Just a few of these included Turner & Hooch, Terminator 2, Patriot Games, Man Without a Face, Beethoven's 2nd. On a second unit crew, Bruce rigged cameras on vehicles such as insert cars, airplanes & boats. These were some of the tools used in getting the shots that make these films so exciting to watch.

When at last he'd enough, he had gained the experience to start his own company. He moved up and out to Director of Photography and CEO of Footage-Now.

To ensure complete satisfaction, Footage-Nows team researches its databases, to discover the perfect subjects you require we will prepare a custom edited demo tape at a minimum fee, containing time-coded numbers to make certain you receive the desired scene. We can ship the final product to you over night.