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kate
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 Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:34 am Post subject: National Archives & Google Video ( some WWII Vids) |
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Press Release
| Quote: | National Archives and Google Launch Pilot Project to Digitize and Offer Historic Films Online
Washington, D.C. and Mountain View, Calif. – Feb. 24, 2006 –
Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Co-Founder and President of Technology Sergey Brin today announced the launch of a pilot program to make holdings of the National Archives available for free online. This non-exclusive agreement will enable researchers and the general public to access a diverse collection of historic movies, documentaries and other films from the National Archives via Google Video as well as the National Archives website. |
Links
http://video.google.com/
http://video.google.com/nara.html
National Archives Video Sections - includes
| Quote: | United Newsreel Motion Pictures (1942-1945)
During World War II, the United States Government financed its own newsreel for overseas viewers, entitled THE UNITED NEWSREEL. This is selection of government produced newsreels, deposited in the National Archives, was produced by the Office of War Information and financed by the U. S. government. A typical newsreel issue, shown in U.S. theaters and abroad, averaged 10 minutes in length and consisted of several short stories concerning allied military operations in the various theatres of war, as well as stories of events taking place on the U. S. home front. The extent of the coverage and the quality of the combat photography was excellent in most cases as culled from footage shot by military combat photographers. Designed as a counter-propaganda medium, this newsreel series totaling 267 issues was reportedly released in sixteen languages and was distributed in friendly and neutral countries, but was also dropped behind enemy lines in a German language version. |
looks like about 58 WWII newsreels there now - fascinating - the one for DDay, showing the massive buildup of supplies & equipment, etc., (has some German film mixed in)
The clip for “Iwo Jima” is several clips, ends at a concentration camp
sending this link around to some of the younger generation..lest we forget
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GenrXr
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| Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:11 am Post subject: |
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Be cautious of anything from google. this is a company run by people who have contempt for the people who make our country great. they are wanna-be social engineers. Billy Gates cannot stand these communists and will soon destroy them and this is good. people might think of gates as bad, yet he is nothing more then a geek who loves technology and has never been political or an activist. well until the other billy sicked a dog named reno after him and had him crying on a deposition tape. After that the geek billy started giving billions to charity and caring for everything in the world. wicked billy had accomplished his task, yet now that good billy gives he has a pass to actually do his technology again without being bit by the dog. Outcome? Good billy wins and google dies.
Why? Because google is a netscape type company which MS can easily replicate.
Only company which microsoft ran into which it could not compete with is intuit. And google is not intuit.
edit: replaced infringement of reno to bit by the dog
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kate
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| Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| GenrXr wrote: | | Be cautious of anything from google. |
….. cautious? about what - viewing these newsreels, or that they are legit?
the source of the films is NARA, with google facilitating the viewing from NARA's archives
This intent of this post was about an important slice of American history, about WWII and our service men,
being made accessible to the public
.... regardless of Googles’ motivations
yeah, we know thay want control of information on the internet --which could be another whole topic itself
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