BBC Motion Gallery has expanded its stock library with archival footage from the Austrian Broadcasting Corp., Austria's largest public-service broadcaster. The deal allows BBC to add a selection of clips dating back to the 1950s to its library, which currently consists of 500 million feet of film and 60,000 hours of digital video.

BBC Motion offers historic, sports, news, celebrity and event footage to clients within film, broadcasting and advertising industries under rights-managed and royalty-free licenses. Recently, 35 minutes of BBC content were used in Leonardo DiCaprio's environmental documentary, The 11th Hour.

BBC says Central European footage from Austria rounds off its international collection, which also represents America's CBS news archive, NHK's archive from Japan and China's Central TV archive.