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I would like to know if there is a way in Windows 7 to find the fim-strip used in videos and movies in Windows 7? How can I find this template in Windows 7? Is it a png or vector or jpg?

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Hello Jane

I am not sitting in front of a Windows 7 PC at the moment, so I cannot determine for certain what your screenshot image is showing.

Is that how the actual WMV file shows in Windows Explorer when you view your WMV files as "Thumbnails"?
Does the filmstrip overlay show continuously in the video while it is being played in VLC Player?
Does the filmstrip overlay only show for WMV files, or does it show in icons for other video file types like AVI, MPG, MP4, etc?

I believe that what you are seeing is just an overlay that is applied tothumbnails so you know instantly it is a video file when you are only seeing a large thumbnail and not the file names and their file extensions.  The filmstrip image (film sprocket) is most likely to be one of the resources contained inside one of the Windows Explorer "shell" DLL files.

These "adornments" come as drop shadows, photo borders on digital still image files, and film sprockets for video files, and the setting that causes the film sprockets to display for video files is in the registry as a value named "Treatment" under the key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\video
and/or
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ACTUAL_FILE_EXTENSION_HERE
The value is 0=no adornment; 1=drop shadow; 2=photo border; 3=video sprockets.
(reference: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/cc144118(v=vs.85).aspx#overlays)

Windows is able to extract thumbnails from the actual files, for example a text file would show a miniature representation of the content, a JPG file would normally show a thumbnail of the actual image file, and a video would show a miniature still of the opening frame of the video.  The "adornment" is just fetched from the Windows Explorer resource file and overlaid onto the thumbnail in a similar way to how the VLC Player traffic cone icon is fetched from inside the VLC Player's resources and displayed in the corner of the thumbnail.

My best guess would be that the images used for the drop shadow, photo border, and video sprockets thumbnail adornments will probably be PNG files inside the file "shell32.dll", "imageres.dll" or "explorer.exe".  There are programs that allow you to view and extract icons and cursor files from Windows resource libraries (DLLs, EXEs, etc) (example; http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iconsext.html), but I am not sure if there are ones that allow you to view and extract image files like PNGs from them.

Try the IconsExtract program I linked to above (download links near the bottom of that page).
Install it or unzip and run the EXE, depending on which version you download.
Browse to C:\Windows\System32 and select shell32.dll or imageres.dll.
Can find the video sprocket image or icon.

I found image of the icons inside imageres.dll on a Windows Vista or 7 computer, and it looks as though the thumbnail adornments are icons 180 to 183:
http://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/customization/152093d1379296573t-imageres-dll-change-folder-win7-imageres-2.jpg
and
https://diymediahome.org/wp-content/uploads/imageres_icons.jpg
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I'm trying to find and get the FilmStrip icon. I don't know if its a Vector image or .jpg?
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Thank you Jane