19th May 2012
Vintage TV Intoxicated With Getty Images Films and Stills
1st September 2010
Vintage TV, the new music TV channel launched in the UK, has
agreed to license film footage and still pictures from Getty Images
to produce videos for recordings made before MTV made music videos
hip.
Starting from 1 September, the satellite-transmitted Vintage TV
plans to show videos accompanying classic rock and pop songs
recorded between the 1940s and the 1980s. The targeted viewers are
music fans in their Fifties and older.
Until music-TV pioneer MTV was launched in the US in 1981, music
recordings were not produced with videos. Vintage TV will use
material from Getty Images' stock of 360,000 still photos and 8,000
hours of film to produce videos especially for those golden
oldies.
The new TV channel is reported to be also using archive films from
the UK public broadcaster BBC, news producer ITN, and Eagle Rock
Entertainment, among others. The goal is to have produced 500
videos by next January.
Photography by Vinzenz Schwab at Gallery 1839 London