Help us find extended cuts of CONUS Archive clips

CONTEXT AND BACKSTORY:

We are making a film project that contains police activity like dashcams and other related things, we are not trying to make

ANY MONEY from this, all we want is to make this project for FUN!

Our goal with this project to give out a "old feeling" of VHS for this film.

And since its police related content we wanted some footages off conus.com.

What is conus.com?

Conus.com is a site that contains footages from far as the 1800s and beyond, and our goal is to grab footages

from the 1990s and 2000s.

Our goal is to have these footages in GOOD CONDITION!

Conus can only allow us to get these clips through a license which means we don't own them.

And their prices and rates are insane.

These are the listed prices on their website: "$40/sec with a 30 second minimum OR $60/sec with a 10 second minimum"

And we also don't have a registered LLC nor we have that type of money.

So we decided to email the people behind the site asking if it was possible to buy it than licensing.

And their response wasn't so great.

They responded "Can you please be more specific with your request including the following blah blah blah".

And i replied back saying "IF it was POSSIBLE to purchase than licensing".

Their response back was expected "license for production use"

Proof: Possible_Purchase.png

So we decided to write a letter to the people behind the site telling them that we are making this for a

school class project.

We had to make sure the letter was perfect without error.

But there was an error to it because we forgot to add most of the other footage ID's on there.

we realized the mistake too late though as we had already sent them the email, we hoped that if they approved it

we could tell them that we forgot to include some other id's and ask if we could use those ones aswell.

This was the title of the letter in the email: "AV class project"

With the letter stating: Dear, Conus Archive

My name is X, I'm an 18yr old highschool student, I've been working on a project for my film and TV production course.

I'd like to know if there would be any way for me to have access to the following videos in their original quality and

frame rate. The project will not be posted online nor will I be making money from it.

I sincerely thank you for your time,

X

(The video ids here)

When the next day came they responded.

And their response was outrageous.

They were wanting to charge us 17/sec which means 1,000$ for 60 seconds!

Proof: Response_To_The_Letter.png

Now we bring this here for YOUR HELP to get these videos in their EXTENDED GOOD CONDITION!

Which means having them in 480p or high quality, full entire clip (from start to finish), 29.97 FPS or 30 FPS and finally

having the entire footage without a watermark.

The preview clips you see are the footages we are tracking down to use for our project.

There are 2 folders containing clips, in one folder there's the original fps clips and

the other folder has the lower fps clips.

All clips are not the entire footage and all are in 240p quality, which makes this worse having not just a

watermark on as some don't have a watermark, but every single preview clips has those black bars.

And what makes it even worse is that most preview clips have those lower fps which is 15 fps.

There is some clips that aren't able to be previewed. We have the clips from their Official YouTube channel which has a few

pros and cons. The clips are in 480p good fps but not the entire footage and there's a YouTube watermark which shows their

YouTube channel CaughtOnTapeTV.

These are the videos that are available to be previewed on their channel: 286195, 287370, 287517.

Here's images showing that they cannot be previewed: the_18_wheeler.png, pickup_chase_leaves_cows_running.png, dump_truck_loses_it.png.

In the lower fps folder, there is another folder inside containing some of the same clips from their Official YouTube channel

showing proof that they were never recorded in that framerate.

On 289286, where a pickup smashes into a police cruiser, that footage actually contains 5 different angles and

there's proof in the "Example Clips" called "wwpv 2007 pickup chase.mp4".

On 217558, where a semi fleeing from police, there's actually the same footage on ground without commentary and

a helicopter overhead footage. The proof for this is in

"Example Clips" called "Semi Trailer Catches Fire, Police Chase In DT".

Speaking of commentary footages, hopefully we can grab these clips without commentary

which are (43790, 53968, 91079).

On 204137, where a train smashes into the back of a stopped semi. That footage was recorded by Lars Eikens,

he had recorded MANY close calls of people racing against a train. Were hoping to grab all of them as possible,

we have proof in the "Example Clips" a folder called "Train Close Calls" of clips that we ripped off from other tv shows

and there's probably ALOT more that I'm betting on being out there, were hoping we can get those too.

Proof: lars.png

In another folder that contains a tornado and a train clip, I'm pretty sure conus.com doesn't own them

so they're probably out there somewhere.

On the low quality footage where a train is dragging a semi, we tried tracking down the raw footage down but

we were unable to find it.

On the August 2005 tornado clips, we tried tracking down the 4 main raw footages that was shown on a tv show called

"Destroyed In Seconds." We only ended up finding news footage on a Facebook page called

"2015-08-18News 3 Now Channel 3000_Stoughton Tornado.mp4" other than that we weren't able to find it.

Final Statement:

In conclusion, we need to get all of these footages raw in GOOD CONDITION such as

480p or higher quality, the entire footage (from start to finish), 29.97 or 30 FPS, no watermarks, and kept clean.

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