Just wanted to give a heads up that the stock footage company Footage Firm is giving away 18 broadcast quality clips for free of many major cities and some specialty stuff:
http://www.footagefirm.com/freeclips.asp

We are also looking to acquire footage from videographers, so please check our posting in the Helping Hands board:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/forumdisplay.php?f=52

Sincerely,
Joel Holland
joel@footagefirm.com

This could not have come at a better time. Amazing. Thank you, and thank god. In a secular way.

" The footage was shot digitally using 3-chip cameras, captured digitally by firewire, and exported to a DV deck via firewire, maintaining complete uncompressed, broadcast quality."

I found this on your site, and it just didn't sound right. Isn't DV, by it's very nature, compressed?

It is, yep. Even when capturing from camera to hard drive it's encoded in DV.

Hey, he's only 20.

http://www.joelkentholland.com/biography.htm

Well, now he's a twenty-year-old who can fix the technically incorrect assertion on his website.