Bringing random video clips from online into imovie...

I want to find old 1920's footage of trains and people on trains and put the clips together for a 3 minute music video to go with a song a friend and I wrote. Is it possible to find clips online and bring them into imovie in order to do this? I am very new to imovie so the more info I can get the better.
Thanks in advance!

There is a site here. By sure to read the licensing and attribution requirements.
If you can get a quicktime file that meets your need, you can import into iMovie using the FILE/IMPORT.../MOVIES command.

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