AP Makes One Million Minutes of Historical Footage Available on YouTube
Source: washingtonpost.com
You’ve probably read about events like, say, the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Certainly you studied them in high-school history class. But until Wednesday, you couldn’t see news footage of the bombing of Pearl Harbor as it was shown at the time — because that’s when, for the very first time, the Associated Press put footage of that incident and half a million others online.There’s footage of the Titanic pulling out of an Irish port. A vintage newscast about the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby.
AP and a partner, the newsreel archive British Movietone, published 550,000 video stories spanning more than 1 million minutes and 120 years to its new YouTube channel.
Comment: Isn't it funny how Obama get the first spot in this "historical dump." I guess he really has been a force of destruction like no one else, so it makes sense on second thought. All of this is "official" history mind you, but the footage can be very valuable to video producers.
It’s the biggest dump of historical news the site has ever seen. It’s also a huge and exciting step in an industry-wide push to digitize information that’s typically been locked up in archives and museums: In the past year, for instance, huge troves of photos, artworks and other historical artifacts have been digitized at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Natural History, and the Smithsonian.
See the YouTube channel here
Source: washingtonpost.com
