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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. Uhh, not quite... by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 3, Informative

    Uhh, no, not quite accurate. I tried looking at the archive after reading this story on the BBC yesterday. It was down then, so I'm not surprised it's still down now. More a case of BBCed than slashdotted.

    Give them a few days to realise that their press releases were a bit more effective than they originally anticipated and I'm sure that the site will be alright.

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  2. Re:Archives of historic/public-domain images? by abevilac · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Library of Congress has a long term project called "American Memory" which collects images in American history though some are copyrighted others are public domain. http://memory.loc.gov/