Draft:StormStock

StormStock is a collection of weather and climate stock footage founded by American filmmaker and storm chaser Martin Lisius in 1993. The brand is owned by Prairie Pictures, Inc. of Arlington, Texas. Content produced by StormStock is licensed for use in TV shows, films, commercials, and other video productions. Topics include footage of hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning, climate change, supercell thunderstorms, extreme weather, and natural disasters. The collection focuses on producing content on high-resolution formats including 4K, 8K and 16K video. Lisius tracks and films storms and is the primary contributor to the StormStock collection. For his innovation and work developing StormStock, Lisius was nominated for Footage Person of the Year by FOCAL International in 2023. News about StormStock appears regularly in video and film trades.

Innovation
StormStock was the first stock footage source to produce and license content on 16K video, beginning in 2018. The 16K camera system was designed and built by Martin Lisius utilizing two 50-megapixel stills cameras synced by a trigger cable which captured a left and right image simultaneously. The images were stitched together and rendered as a 16K video (15,985 x 5,792 pixels). In an interview with PetaPixel in 2020, Lisius said, "“I wanted to create a medium as large as the sky. 16K offers the tremendous resolution depth needed to pull that off.”

Collaborations
Notable TV and film productions utilizing footage from StormStock include:

1996 - "Flipper" TV series.

2000 - "What Women Want" feature film.

2001 - "Spy Kids" feature film directed by Robert Rodriguez.

2002 - "City of Ghosts" feature film.

2003 - "Air Crash Investigation" TV series.

2004 - "Naked Science" TV series.

2005 - "Lovewrecked" feature film.

2006 - "The Devil Wears Prada" feature film.

2006 - "An Inconvenient Truth" feature film. Academy Award for Best Documentary (Feature).

2006 - "Perfect Disasters" TV series.

2007 - "Saving Grace" TV series.

2009 - "Wild Pacific" TV series.

2010 - "American Experience: Wyatt Earp" PBS TV documentary.

2011 - "Criminal Minds" ABC TV network series.

2011 - "The Universe: Crash Landing on Mars" TV documentary.

2012 - "Sandy: Anatomy of a Superstorm" TV movie.

2012 - "NOVA: Deadliest Tornadoes" PBS TV documentary.

2013 - "Walking with Dinosaurs 3D" movie.

2014 - "Lucy" feature film.

2014 - "Son of God" feature film.

2015 - "Cinderella" feature film directed by Kenneth Branagh.

2015 - "Tomorrowland" feature film.

2016 - "The Story of God with Morgan Freeman" TV series.

2017 - "Geostorm" feature film.

2019 - "Blinded by the Light" feature film.

2020 - "The Secret: Dare to Dream" feature film.

2022 - "Earthstorm" TV series.

2023 - BBC "Planet Earth 3" TV documentary series.

2023 - "Postcard from Earth" documentary film directed by Darren Aronofsky.

2023 - U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere concert series at Sphere Las Vegas.