World History
Source: The Guardian
Digital Archive of British Newsreels Goes Online
From the article, “…archive of 3,500 hours of news bulletins starting in the era of silent cinema in 1902, when Pathe News opened in Britain, and ending in 1970…Some 15,000 hits were counted on the site by lunchtime yesterday and 3,500 people downloaded film clips. Clips are free at present [for personal use] but web pages already have forms which would allow prices to be charged. A spokesman for Pathe News, which is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust Group, said subscriptions would be introduced in several years’ time, “but they will not be prohibitively expensive”. He added: “The site will be immensely useful to historians and to others. There are enough footballers on it to keep a fan going for months.” A long-running complaint against Pathe News was that it followed the views of governments too closely in framing news for its mass audiences. A tendency towards propaganda is reflected in the archive.”
See Also: Direct to the British Pathe Web Site
See Also: NewsPlayer
“Re-live the events of the past hundred years, witness them at first hand as they happened. Newsplayer brings you video footage of music, fashion, art, lifestyle, sport, crime, royalty, weather, showbiz, wildlife, transport, science and war. All live and uncut historic events.” This U.K. based subscription site costs about �25/$40 per year.
See Also: FrostTV
A database (fee-based, �25/$40 per year) of hundred of interviews (searchable/viewable online) of interviews conducted by David Frost.

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