CriticalPast.com offers one of the world's largest collections of royalty-free archival stock footage, with over 57,000 historic video clips and 7 million still photo images available to both professionals and consumers. The company was formed by a team of archival research, film, and Internet professionals, working together to create one of the largest privately held online archival footage sources in the world. Its royalty-free collection spans thousands of hours of historic video, millions of still photos, and continues to grow. The company’s world-class storage and hosting environment and unique image processing algorithms allow it to instantly transcode full-resolution images into various formats on demand, filling customer orders in minutes for download or shipping worldwide. Drawn largely from U.S. government agency sources, the clips and images in the CriticalPast.com collection are available for license without the clearance concerns encountered when ordering from typical stock footage providers.