Associated Press puts up loads of historical footage on YouTube

[trabant]

Just saw this a few hours ago and have been trawling it...

https://www.youtube.com/c/aparchive

AP have made their own archive site which provides more details on each video

http://www.aparchive.com/

 

[Pickman's model]

have you found anything worthwhile?

 

[trabant]

Worthwhile?.. I'm not so sure! Most of the footage is fairly mundane, but its footage I haven't seen before (or of events I didn't even know about).

Interesting report on radicals in Switzerland (1980)



The Philadelphia black liberation group MOVE shoot out in 1978. The video is extraordinary, to get the people out of the basement that had locked themselves in as a refusal to leave, the fireman start pumping water in...

http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/c0063656/b5c0aa1c8e08e034c9277d43091c5324

Mayday 1978 in Greece. The video isn't great, but the description states that leftists and anarchists had a ruck. Anarchy in Greece was a relatively late development in comparison to the rest of Europe. 40 years later, the same fights are still happening.. In the video you can see a bunch of tanks/APCs on the streets..

http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/GREECE-MAY-DAY/013ad125ce54ee8d2624eb7515161db9

Bizarre mish-mash of stories, has a few shots of Tariq Ali looking pretty dapper.

http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/-SAFE-IN-BRITAIN-/ae5540bde77745deabea8aae0e57784a

Slovenian demonstration against German-national Carinthians after they were tearing down dual-language signs (1972)



Some intersting shots of Greece during the Junta

 

[trabant]

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[Yossarian]

Huge amount of footage from British Movietone going back as far as 1895 also now online.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHq777_waKMJw6SZdABmyaA

My grandfather's brother died in the 1939 Thetis submarine disaster, was surprised to see footage on Movietone's front page.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

That's a great find

 

[trabant]

Huge amount of footage from British Movietone going back as far as 1895 also now online.

Cheers for the link. I still have my fingers crossed that the BBC might pull its finger out and digitize/open up its archives one day..