Collection for media professionals
Sound & Vision manages one of the largest archives in the world. This rich and growing archive material is available for use in new productions.
A brief glimpse of what's preserved and available in the Beeld & Geluid media archive. Watch the showreel full of clips from documentaries, animated films, TV programs, news reports, online videos, and commercials.
Sound & Vision focuses on collecting and preserving most of the audio-visual heritage of the Netherlands. Our collection is extremely suitable and accessible for reuse and is a unique source of information for students, academics, journalists, international production companies and broadcasting organisations.
Take a look
Footage from our archive is used in many television and film productions. See a few examples in our showreel.
DAAN, our digital catalogue
A connection to Sound & Vision’s digital catalogue DAAN is available for professionals in the media and science industry for a small monthly fee of € 30. This allows media professionals to browse, watch and license materials from our extensive library.
Mail sales@beeldengeluid.nl to apply for DAAN connection.
Happy to help
As a maker or professional, you can also search for footage from the collection without a connection to DAAN, for example via zoeken.beeldengeluid.nl.
We are happy to help you in ordering excerpts or complete programmes. When you're planning to use found material in your professional production, please contact our Licensing & Business Services. If you know exactly which fragment (title, broadcast date, time codes) you want to use, you can submit the request form below.
Costs of licences and services
Costs for technology and services are charged to professional orders for re-use. In addition, there are licensing fees depending on the intended use. These costs are defined in consultation with the entitled party, to whom we transfer the licence fees.
Our experts are ready to help you with more complex searches through our extensive archive, or when there is an extra urgency involved in obtaining the footage. If desired, we can provide the material with subtitles.
- For a simplified indication of the costs for using archive materials and the special rates of (extra) services, please see this Rate Card voor Media Professionals.
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Ask our Licensing & Business Services for an estimate of the costs for your production and how we can assist you.
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User and general licence terms and conditions Archive Beeld & Geluid (Sound & Vision)
Contact
Licensing & Business Services
For all questions regarding re-use.
E sales@beeldengeluid.nl (Monday - Friday, 8.30 am - 5.30 pm CET)
Free re-use on Open Images
On Open Images you can view and download a small part of the Sound & Vision collection for free. This material can be re-used free of charge because it’s part of the public domain or because it has been made available by the copyright holders under a Creative Commons-license. In this license, a number of conditions may be attached to the re-use such as a mandatory name or only the use in non-commercial communications.