Whether you call it stock video, B-roll, or archive footage, we tend to think of stock footage as something left to cheesy marketing videos and the occasional filler content in a larger project. In fact, some TV watchers make a fun game out of spotting the same footage recycled in different projects, which is how we know that both Indeed and the mortgage provider Guaranteed Rate bought the same footage to the coveted Super Bowl commercial platform last year! Fortunately, not all uses of these convenient pre-filmed archive clips are so dull, and they’re used in a wide variety of projects. Sometimes, they’re even the backbone of the entire piece! Here are just a few fantastic movie projects (and the people making them) made entirely with stock video – but you’d never know it!

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Ok, this one is a bit of a cheat- but it’s a treat,...