100-year collection of newsreel archives uploaded in high resolution to YouTub

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April 21, 2014, 12:12:46 PM Last Edit: April 21, 2014, 12:20:43 PM by steve58
Credit for this to Erik Rutins on Matrixgames...

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British Pathé, the U.K. newsreel archive company, has uploaded its entire 100-year collection of 85,000 historic films in high resolution to YouTube.

The collection, which spans 1896 to 1976, comprises some 3,500 hours of historical footage of major events, notable figures, fashion, travel, sports and culture. It includes extensive film from both World War I and World War II.

http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/british-pathe-uploads-entire-85000-film-archive-to-youtube-in-hd-1201159599/

I think I'm going to lose a lot of time watching these

https://www.youtube.com/user/britishpathe
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April 21, 2014, 12:30:08 PM
Wow that is awesome thanks for sharing.
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April 21, 2014, 03:56:02 PM
Quote from: TheCommandTent on April 21, 2014, 12:30:08 PM
Wow that is awesome thanks for sharing.

+1 That's a tremendous resource.
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