The Associated Press and British Movietone have announced that they will be releasing more than 1 million minutes of digital archive footage to YouTube, making this the largest upload of historical news content on the popular video-sharing platform to date. And best of all, it’s accessible to everyone!
Think of this mammoth upload as a visual encyclopedia, a way to access and view unmissable historical footage that you may have never seen before, and all of which offers a unique perspective on seminal moments of recent history and are truly fascinating.
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The newly uploaded videos will be available to watch on both the The Associated Press and British Movietone YouTube channels, with some of the videos dating back as far as 1895. There is footage of the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 and the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, as well as footage of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 and images of London’s Blitz taken in 1941, featured in the video below.
Stephen Nuttall, the director of YouTube in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said: ‘Making this content available on YouTube is a wonderful initiative from AP and British Movietone that will breathe new life into their footage and no doubt delight our global community – from students researching history projects to curious culture-vultures and the billions in between. It’s a historical treasure trove that will give YouTube users around the world a moving window into the past and I can’t wait to explore it.’
