Pathé was a British newsreel company that started back at the turn of the last century, and produced bi-weekly news bulletins between 1910 and 1970. Their archive footage, some 3,500 hours, is online and freely available, thanks to a grant from Britain’s national lottery.
Specialists at Pathé spent over 50,000 hours to process the priceless 35mm film archive to digital video.
The film had been stored in 30,000 square feet of specialised warehousing. Its digital descendant, however, takes up about five square feet on a Pathé storage computer.
It’s designed for streaming video, even at modem speeds. It’s also been broken out into some 12 million still shots.
Very, very cool.
(via Doyce)
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