John & Yoko, Jackie O, Warhol and others Star in Clip Licensing Sampler Added to GME's Website
/This brief, bouncy Gartenberg Media Clip Licensing Sampler, includes scenes from experimental and independent films that GME makes available for clip licensing purposes to film and television productions worldwide. The clips that we license comprise riveting and dynamic imagery of notable scenesters and their lifestyles, featuring Andy Warhol, Jackie Kennedy and extended family, John & Yoko, Miles Davis (shooting hoops with Lennon at a celebrity gathering in Riverdale), Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga (all performing with the Velvet Underground), Allen Ginsburg, Michelangelo Antonioni (visiting Shirley Clarke and Jonas Mekas at the Film-Makers' Cooperative) and a score of other key figures from the artistic and cultural worlds. GME’s library of clip licensing footage also features unique street scenes of New York City from the 1940’s onward (with a particular focus on the 1960’s), that have been utilized as B-roll footage by various production companies.
GME has licensed clips for documentaries directed by leading filmmakers Martin Scorsese, Todd Haynes, Errol Morris, Ric Burns, and Joe Berlinger. Production companies to which we have licensed include Radical Media, Motto Pictures, Steeplechase Films, Augusta Films and others. Their films and television programs have been broadcast on PBS, BBC, Apple TV+ , WDR, Showtime, and other international networks, as well as shown in film festivals and released theatrically. Filmmakers whose work is popular with our licensing clients include Jonas Mekas, Warren Sonbert, Peter Emmanuel Goldman, Gideon Bachmann, Jackie Raynal, and Jack Waters. Many other filmmakers are also available via GME’s extensive distribution collection of experimental and avant-garde films, and also independent films and documentaries.
Our objective in this enterprise is to increase the value and import of these artist-driven moving image works by placing them into a larger cultural context. GME President Jon Gartenberg has gained a reputation as a go-to source among footage licensees for underground films from the 1960’s to the 1990’s.
Click here to see a description of our individual clip licenses. A number of these clips are licensed in conjunction with our European partner Re:voir, also in accord with the individual filmmakers or their estates.
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Many of these clips are licensed in conjunction with our European partner Re:voir, also in accord with the individual filmmakers or their estates.
In addition, as exclusive representatives of the Estates of photographers Hugh Bell and Raimondo Borea, GME has licensed photographs from their archives of jazz singers Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan; educator and activist Kenneth B. Clarke; and John Houseman of the Actor’s Studio. These and other photographs from these artists’ collections have been licensed for documentary films (Billie, The Blinding of Isaac Woodard); book publications (“Acting in the Academy”); USPS Forever stamps; and permanent museum installations (the New York State Museum), acquisitions (the National Museum of African American History and Culture), and exhibitions (“Art of Jazz” at Harvard University).
GME Fine Arts Curator David Deitch has presented GME’s photography collections to the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) and the American Photography Archives Group (APAG), and knows these picture collections in depth.