| Rick Prelinger on 11 Jan 2001 16:36:57 -0000 |
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| [Nettime-bold] Internet Moving Images Archive |
The Internet Moving Images Archive site is up and running (though, I hasten to say, still under construction). This resource contains high-quality digital video files representing ephemeral (advertising, educational, industrial, documentary, amateur and government) films relevant to the study of 20th-century American culture and society, media and media production, communication, technology, landscape, urban history, economics, political science, warfare, the New Deal, and many other subject areas. At present it contains approximately 360 out of a planned total of 1001 titles, all from Prelinger Archives. All are available for free downloading and reuse, with no restrictions other than that the films cannot be resold or licensed by anyone in their entirety or as stock footage. Our intention is that these titles should circulate freely as "open-source" content. I encourage you to download this material for your own use and for the use of your patrons. I hope that easy access to these films will assist scholars, mediamakers, teachers, students, exhibitors and members of the general public in coming to terms with the complex and diverse audiovisual history of the 20th century. The digitized video files are in MPEG-2 format; see the site for information on playback. In the next few months they will also be available in MPEG-4 for lower-bandwidth users. Please visit the site at http://www.moviearchive.org/movie/index.html. Shortly, the simplified URL will be http://www.moviearchive.org. At the moment, the site does not work with Netscape, but we are working on fixing this shortly. It works fine with Opera and IE. An article on the background and rationale for this project may be found at http://eserver.org/bs/52/prelinger.html. The Internet Moving Images Archive is a project of the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) in collaboration with Prelinger Archives. With many thanks, Rick Prelinger Rick Prelinger Prelinger Archives http://www.prelinger.com P.O. Box 590622, San Francisco, Calif. 94159-0622 +1 415 750-0445 Fax: +1 415 750-0607 footage@panix.com _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold