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12 Million Historic Photos Scanned to Web

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the little-slices-of-history dept.

Snosty writes "The Globe and Mail is reporting that British Pathe, a cinema news service dating to the 19th century, has scanned one image for every second of their 3500 hours of 35mm film. That makes for 12 million images covering everything from the Boer War to the Beatles available on their web site!"

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  1. Perfect job for interns! by DrFlex · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here in Canada, internship salaries are partly financed by the government.

    The job of scanning 1 image of every second of 3500 hours worth of footage seems like the perfect intership.

    Starts out interesting...
    Quickly becomes boring...
    After a while you want to throw up each time you make a scan...
    Half way through you actually throw up every time you scan a second...
    When you're done, all that is left is an insensible blow of twitching flesh!