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Welcome to Our 20th Century Archives by Cummings Entertainment LLC. We manage one of the world's most significant privately held historical film libraries. Spanning the 1920s through 1980s, our vault features rare newsreels, iconic broadcast footage, and cultural milestones. Our E&O-friendly assets are digitized in stunning HD/4K master formats. Explore our Pond5 collection to find the exact, production-ready historical imagery your project demands. (715 out of our 4,000 historical clips vault)
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Explore a rare collection of behind-the-scenes Hollywood footage, celebrity interviews, entertainment news, and original television content from the Cummings Entertainment archives. Highlights include clips from the award-winning The Making Of... series, which took viewers onto film sets for interviews with actors, directors, and filmmakers, along with footage exploring stunts, special effects, makeup, and the production of major motion pictures. The collection features material connected to films including The Terminator, RoboCop, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Delta Force, Lifeforce, Runaway Train, and many others, with appearances from prominent actors, directors, and entertainment personalities. Additional entertainment footage includes celebrity interviews, movie-industry coverage, music and entertainment news, premieres, and television production material from Cummings Entertainment's broader broadcast and digital media history. Ideal for documentaries, retrospectives, biographies, entertainment programming, news features, educational productions, and projects exploring Hollywood and popular culture.
1960s Collection
Explore a defining decade of political change, social progress, global conflict, scientific achievement, entertainment, fashion, and popular culture through authentic archival footage from Cummings Entertainment’s Our 20th Century Archives. This collection includes footage relating to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, the March on Washington, the Selma voting-rights march, the Civil Rights Act, the Watts riots, apartheid protests, the Vietnam War, anti-war demonstrations, and major Cold War developments. The collection also documents the Space Race, including Alan Shepard’s first U.S. spaceflight, John Glenn orbiting Earth, Edward White’s spacewalk, and the 1969 Moon landing. Additional material covers The Beatles’ arrival in America, Marilyn Monroe, Sidney Poitier’s historic Academy Award, Hollywood premieres, fashion shows, professional sports, world leaders, and changing everyday life throughout the decade. Ideal for documentaries, television programs, educational productions, museum exhibits, historical retrospectives, news features, advertising, and digital media projects. Individual clips are available through Pond5, with curated collections and expanded licensing available directly through Cummings Entertainment.
1940s Collection
Explore the people, events, and daily life of the 1940s through authentic archival footage from Cummings Entertainment’s Our 20th Century Archives. This collection documents a decade shaped by World War II, military mobilization, the home front, political leadership, wartime industry, transportation, international affairs, postwar recovery, entertainment, fashion, and changing American life. The footage includes historical newsreels, military activity, government events, industrial production, public gatherings, travel, culture, and other visual records from one of the most consequential decades of the 20th century. The broader archive was developed from historical material covering politics, world news, entertainment, fashion, and technology.
1930s Collection
Experience the defining events and everyday life of the 1930s through authentic archival footage from Cummings Entertainment’s Our 20th Century Archives. This collection captures a decade marked by the Great Depression, economic recovery efforts, changing political landscapes, advances in transportation and industry, cultural milestones, entertainment, and daily life across America and around the world. The footage includes historical newsreels, public events, government activities, industry, aviation, transportation, fashion, communities, and other rare visual records that document one of the most transformative decades of the 20th century. The collection is ideal for documentaries, television productions, educational programming, museums, historical research, advertising, and digital media projects.
1950s Historical Footage
Step into the 1950s through authentic archival footage from Cummings Entertainment’s Our 20th Century Archives. This collection captures a pivotal decade shaped by postwar growth, Cold War tensions, political change, technological progress, transportation, fashion, entertainment, and everyday life. The footage is well suited for documentaries, television programs, educational productions, museum exhibits, historical retrospectives, news features, advertising, and digital media projects. The broader archive spans major moments in politics, world news, entertainment, fashion, and technology across the 20th century.
WWII Collection (Public)
Explore authentic World War II archival footage from Cummings Entertainment’s Our 20th Century Archives. This collection documents the war from America’s early military response through the Allied victory, including the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Atlantic naval operations, women supporting the home front, military doctors and nurses, General Eisenhower, the Battle of Stalingrad, the New Guinea campaign, the D-Day landings, atomic bomb testing, and Japan’s formal surrender.
The Making Of... Collection
Go behind the scenes of some of Hollywood's most iconic films with The Making Of..., the award-winning television series produced and directed by Drew Cummings. This collection features authentic behind-the-scenes footage, on-set production material, cast and crew interviews, special effects, makeup, stunt work, and exclusive filmmaking content from major motion pictures released throughout the 1980s. Featured titles include The Terminator, RoboCop, Halloween 5, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Delta Force, Runaway Train, Lifeforce, Invaders from Mars, No Way Out, My Left Foot, Invasion U.S.A., Death Wish III, Breakin', Firewalker, Murphy's Law, and many more. The collection spans more than 30 feature films and showcases interviews with acclaimed directors and stars including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, Peter Weller, Robert Englund, Kevin Costner, Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Katharine Hepburn, Daniel Day-Lewis, Christopher Walken, Roger Moore, Roy Scheider, Charlie Sheen, Oprah Winfrey, and dozens of other notable filmmakers and actors. In addition to individual clips available on Pond5, full broadcast-quality episodes of The Making Of... series are also available for licensing directly through Cummings Entertainment.