Posted on 07/22/2015 10:12:03 PM PDT by bob_denard
News org, together with British Movietone, aims to promote licensing deals with filmmakers
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.
The content is available on two YouTube channels: AP Archive and British Movietone, whose collection spans from 1895 to 1986. Last year, U.K. newsreel archive company British Pathé uploaded its entire 100-year library of 85,000 historic films in HD to YouTube, comprising some 3,500 hours of footage.
Much of the material AP is putting on YouTube is already searchable and available to preview on aparchive.com. Alwyn Lindsey, AP’s director of international archive, said putting the content on the world’s biggest Internet-video platform will increase the exposure of the collection.
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That’s 17000 hours of lies, BS and pro Dummycrat propaganda.
Associated Pimps.
Remind me, was it AP or Rooters that got busted Photoshopping “war” photos several times? Might have been CNN, one of these liberal drivel outlets with an agenda........
Bunch of maniacs.
I’ve seen the videos where they crash on snowy roads but apparently snow is not necessary.
They are required to have the dash cams for insurance reasons.
Well I thought is was funny
If dash cams were as common here as there, I'm sure there would be no shortage of material. And we'd be able to understand the pre- and post-impact swearing.
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