Corbis Takes its Motion Collection to New Heights

Company Begins Offering New Footage from Serac Adventure Films

Seattle, WA, Apr. 24, 2008. Corbis, a creative resource for advertising, marketing and media professionals, today announced that the company is adding extensive High Definition (HD) footage from Serac Adventure Films, an award-winning production company specializing in high-quality expedition films.

The new collection from Serac Adventure Films includes some of the best Mount Everest footage available, including the first HD video on the summit as well as stunning images from the entire climb including Kathmandu and the Trek to Base Camp. There are also clips of unforgettable scenes from the documentary “Farther Than the Eye Can See," an award-winning intimate look inside blind climber Erik Weihenmayer’s historic ascent as well as four other remarkable ‘firsts’ on Mount Everest.

"This is the type of footage that can be essential to making a really great spot work, but it’s very difficult to find," said Michael Brown, President, Serac Adventure Films. "By working with Corbis Motion, we are able to make the exclusive footage of our award-winning and prized films available to a larger audience and help make great creative ideas a reality."

Corbis plans to add additional travel and adventure sports footage shot by Serac in North America and Africa later this year and into 2009.

"Serac has some of the most breathtaking work I’ve ever seen, and it’s just the kind of footage that clients have come to expect from Corbis," said Skip d’Amico, Director of Photography, Corbis Motion.

Corbis Motion offers a rich library of contemporary and archival footage with more than 25,000 clips and 30,000 hours of video. The contemporary collection spans themes including people and lifestyle, business, sports, travel and destinations and nature, while the archival collection covers news and events, arts and entertainment and sports. Corbis works with partners including Paramount Pictures, USFL, US Soccer Federation, MGM film library, Oxford Scientific Films, Warren Miller Entertainment and dick clark productions, Inc.

 

About Corbis

Corbis is a creative resource for advertising, marketing and media professionals worldwide, helping to bring creative work to life with the highest quality photography, footage and rights services. Corbis offers a preeminent collection of more than 100 million creative, entertainment and historic images, a comprehensive footage library, the world’s deepest rights and clearances expertise, a roster of elite assignment photographers and an award winning media management solution. Headquartered in Seattle, Corbis serves more than 50 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.corbis.com.

About SERAC Adventure Films

Serac Adventure Films is an award-winning production company specializing in high-quality expedition films with breathtaking imagery and compelling, dramatic narratives. The first to bring an HD camera to the top of Mount Everest, Serac Adventure Films is known for capturing footage in the world’s most physically demanding and dangerous environments. Serac Adventure Films recounts experiences—from mountaineering and river expeditions to cultural explorations—that are set along the still-enthralling and exotic edges of the globe, and brings these riveting stories to theaters, broadcast television, the Internet and other new media platforms. For more information, visit www.seracfilms.com.