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AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday July 25 2015, @04:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the 2-years-of-24x7-news-clips-here-I-come! dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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!

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @05:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @05:06AM (#213426)

    fuck google. why aren't these on archive.org? Don't tie me to a proprietory (yes, it's proprietory - ask anyone with a sony smart tv that's older than 2 years whether they can still access yt content) platform.

    Wasn't the biggest drop of archived content to google the cancerous and deceit-fuelled appropriation of all the usenet archives 14 years ago? That was countless millions of items.

    FatPhil (posting cookie-free from his phone in the hotel sauna)

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by maxwell demon on Saturday July 25 2015, @06:53AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday July 25 2015, @06:53AM (#213437) Journal

    yes, it's proprietory

    No, it's proprietary.

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

  • (Score: 2) by CirclesInSand on Saturday July 25 2015, @01:41PM

    by CirclesInSand (2899) on Saturday July 25 2015, @01:41PM (#213475)

    Wikimedia commons would have been my first suggestion, but it seems that they don't want to let go of the copyright fees. Bunch of crooks.