Licensing and Information
In addition to the videos tapes listed here, the Aurora Color Television Project possesses about 100 hours of top-quality, true speed, true color video recordings of the aurora.   Film images from other sources are long-exposure, elapsed-time images that are sped up to give the illusion of auroral motion. Only ACTP's fast frame rate images show the aurora as it truly appears, with its curls, swirls, and shear motions.  Our television camera (operating at 30 frames/second) has a film speed equivalent of 2 million ISO (ASA) without the equivalent grain of a very fast film. The camera's color video output is standard broadcast quality, RS-170A, NTSC.

We sell images from the Aurora video and a few other special cuts, such as a rare Great Red Aurora from March 1989. These images have been licensed for use by the National Geographic, BBC (several titles), Heather Cooper's Guide to the Universe, CBS's Northern Exposure, CBS Winter Olympiad TV, The Planet Earth series (PBS), Discovery Channel (many productions), Beyond 2000, and Castlerock Productions, to name a few.

Our image sales policy lists charges from $18 USD/second up to $120 USD/second, with a minimum sales or kill fee of $600.00USD.  Licensed images are supplied from digitally noise reduced camera original tapes on Betacam-SP, in NTSC, with a new time code track. The licensed images are not out-takes or in-takes from an edited master. They may contain frames not in any of the above productions.  Licensed images supplied for your editing will contain lap or pre-roll frames on each end, if the frames exist, typically 5 seconds at each cut's end.  A complete sales policy and price list is available on request.  Contact:

Daniel L. Osborne
Geophysical Institute
University of Alaska
Fairbanks AK 99775-7320
Phone: (907) 474-7107
Fax: (907) 474-7290
E-mail: Dan.Osborne@gi.alaska.edu

or

Sheila Finch
Geophysical Institute
P.O. Box 757320
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320
Phone: (907) 474-7562
Fax: (907) 474-7290
E-mail: sheila@gi.alaska.edu

You may also request the image distribution policy and pricing information online by clicking here and providing us with your information.

Questions about the aurora videos and licensing may also be directed to Sheila Finch (sheila@gi.alaska.edu).

 

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This page last updated Tuesday, September 14, 2004 at 05:20 PM by Ed Hoch.