The Associated Press is uploading more than 550,000 video clips to YouTube — covering news events dating back to 1895 — which the news org said will be the largest collection of archival news content on the Google-owned platform to date.
AP, together with newsreel archive provider British Movietone, will deliver more than 1 million minutes of digitized film footage to YouTube. The goal: to provide high-profile, searchable repositories that let documentary filmmakers, historians and others find news footage, and to promote licensing deals for rights to use the video.
The archival footage includes major world events such as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, exclusive footage of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. Celeb footage includes Marilyn Monroe captured on film in London in the 1950s and Twiggy modeling fashions of the 1960s, as well as segments on Muhammad Ali, Charlie Chaplin, Salvador Dali, Brigitte Bardot and Elvis Presley.
Well done, Associated Press (AP) and Movietone!
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Saturday July 25 2015, @04:13AM
I doubt they have film from 1895, so will this be just radio reports for the earlier years?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @05:41AM
Still too early to be a radio broadcast. I am guessing still images.
(Score: 1) by ledow on Saturday July 25 2015, @08:34AM
What?
The British Film Institute has HOME MOVIES from 1903. 1895 isn't a stretch at all.
We had these things called moving pictures, you know.
Yes, I doubt that they have any, but video from that period isn't impossible.
(Score: 2) by BasilBrush on Saturday July 25 2015, @04:06PM
Film from 1888:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myQpkIlv_lw [youtube.com]
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