Just a few years ago there was a particular problem--and it was expensive and ugly. You needed a clip of, say, the Paris skyline, a lightning flash in the Sonoran desert, or a winning goal by Wayne Gretzky. You knew this footage existed, but where? That hunt frequently turned into an aggravating, time-consuming search that, often enough, came up empty-handed. "Commonly, it simply was impossible to locate what you wanted. In good cases, you'd get lucky and it would only take three to five days of phone calls, faxes, express deliveries," says Armistead Whitney, the founder and chief strategy officer of Sekani, Inc., a New York-based business that lives to conveniently and cost-effectively provide the footage art and video directors need to make their productions sparkle. "That's why I started Sekani," Whitney continues. "I had been involved in broadcasting and in media production, and I knew how hard it was to get the clips you wanted, when you needed them.
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