A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward

A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward(movingimagearchive.com)

15 points by momentmaker 2 days ago | 8 comments

USeyller 33 minutes ago |

Sounds rally cool. How and where are the movie clips collected, and how is it verified that they are in public domain?

mocheeze 30 minutes ago | |

Many of these are sourced from the US Government, which means public domain. They also have links to the sources below so you can verify source and copyright.

Animats 22 minutes ago |

This looks like a collection of clips from the Internet Archive. "General Aviation - Fact or Fiction" is on the Moving Image Archive at [1], and the full version is in the Internet Archive at [2]. Most of the content is from the Internet Archive. What's the point?

At least they don't slap their logo on public domain material, like Periscope Films does.

[1] https://www.movingimagearchive.com/sources/general-aviation-...

[2] https://archive.org/details/gov.ntis.ava12749vnb

bryanrasmussen 1 minute ago | |

Depending on how they serve these clips (do they save them locally etc.) the point could be to take load off the internet archive.

The other point might be to provide better search capabilities than IA, also taking load off. Sometimes verifying something actually is Public Domain on IA can be work in itself, putting more work on a primary resource. In short it seems to me these people are doing a good thing.

mocheeze 11 minutes ago | |

BTW they don't hide the source of the videos. Scrolling down on the video page links to the collection and source.

cowboylowrez 6 minutes ago | | |

I was considering getting a new computer, how much computer do I need to be able to handle that scroll do you think?

pmdulaney 2 days ago |

I don't see how to access the search function. All I see are example videos.

jolmg 48 minutes ago | |

Right above the thumbnails is a search input. On the top right is also a link that says "Search" that takes you to it.

cowboylowrez 34 minutes ago |

lol that website is a p-i-g pig but can you make it a bit slower? that would be hilarious haha

holy shit took 90 seconds to CLOSE man thats rough