Posted on 02/27/2006 6:43:23 AM PST by i_dont_chat
Search giant Google Inc. Friday announced the launch of a pilot programme that would make films from the collections preserved by the US National Archives available online.
Through this service, the general public would be able to view historic documentaries and movies belonging to the National Archives for free via the Mountain View, California-based company’s video service, Google Video. The pilot programme features 103 films. The non-exclusive agreement boosts Google's efforts in popularizing its online video search service, which so far has not been tremendously successful.
(more at link)
(Excerpt) Read more at newratings.com ...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6020302018400450975&q=1894
Also in the archives are many historically educational short films. This may interest history buffs and students, as well.
I wonder if they will offer high-resolution downloads.
I doubt it. I am an amateur videographer, and these things might come in handy from time to time, in documentaries.
Thanks for the post.
Huh. Do they have those 1960s-era health class videos? Those are a hoot.
That's cool. Even with my jaded video-oriented brain, it still looked really cool.
I introduced a couple of people here at work to Google Earth last week. Sure would be nice if there was a little more hi-res there as well. Maybe if you pay the $$$.
Already online. Google is playing catch-up.
If you want public domain flicks, documentries, etc. etc. Internet Archive has been doing it for years.
http://www.archive.org/details/movies
Looks like they have Reefer Madness, the ultimate in PSA trash.
Niiiice...I'll poke around there later. Thanks.
Have you ever seen Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in "The Mystery of the Leaping Fish"? He plays Coke Ennyday, Scientific Detective who uses coke like Popeye uses spinich. It's silent and it's a hoot.
marking post, that's a cool site!
"If you want public domain flicks, documentries, etc. etc. Internet Archive has been doing it for years.
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They have, but their server is horribly slow, sometimes unavailable, and the service is spotty. I've given up on archive.org altogether. Even with broadband, it's so slow most of the time that I give up long before the film is downloaded.
If Google makes this work, it will be a real help.
:-)
Try www.zillow.com or www.homepages.com ... They both have some far better resolution images than google maps (IMO). They're not "flyover" quite like Google, but good for searching specific neighborhoods or addresses.
I can't argue about the slowness of the downloads. I use cable broadband and catch the downloads on off-peak. I stay away from the bloated mpg2 and enjoy the heck out of it. :-)
I rarely if ever try to view the flicks straight from their servers. I only do that here:
http://www.movieflix.com/
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