Tag: Online archives

The Understanding 9/11 Television News Archive has Launched!

A blog from the collections team at www.archive.org recently announced the launch of Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive. It’s basically a library of news coverage of the events surrounding 9/11 from both the U.S. and international broadcasts from all around the world. This resource for scholars, journalists and the public, the library presents one … Continue reading “The Understanding 9/11 Television News Archive has Launched!”

A blog from the collections team at www.archive.org recently announced the launch of Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive. It’s basically a library of news coverage of the events surrounding 9/11 from both the U.S. and international broadcasts from all around the world. This resource for scholars, journalists and the public, the library presents one week (3,000 hours from 20 channels over 7 days) of news broadcasts for study, research and analysis, with select analysis by scholars. It’s quite impressive. Check it out.

Also, see what AU School of Communication Professor and Director of the Center for Social Media, Pat Aufderheide had to say in her contribution to the archive entitled, Therapeutic Patriotism and Beyond.

Streaming Video Alert: Ephemeral Films on Archive.org

From their website:Ephemeral films are non-fiction films usually made for educational, industrial, or promotional purposes. The two classic ephemeral film collections found on the Archive are the Prelinger Archives and AV Geeks. In addition to these classic collections, you may view guidance films from the post-World War II British government, drive-in movie intermission ads, and … Continue reading “Streaming Video Alert: Ephemeral Films on Archive.org”

From their website:
Ephemeral films are non-fiction films usually made for educational, industrial, or promotional purposes. The two classic ephemeral film collections found on the Archive are the Prelinger Archives and AV Geeks.

In addition to these classic collections, you may view guidance films from the post-World War II British government, drive-in movie intermission ads, and videos documenting the history of San Francisco from 1906 to the early 21st Century. Many of these films are available for free download.

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AdViews: A digital archive of vintage television commercials

Quoted from the AdViews site:“AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B). Founded in 1929, Benton & Bowles was a New York advertising … Continue reading “AdViews: A digital archive of vintage television commercials”

Quoted from the AdViews site:
“AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B). Founded in 1929, Benton & Bowles was a New York advertising agency that merged with D’Arcy Masius McManus in 1985 to form DMB&B. Major clients included are Procter & Gamble, Kraft, Schick, Vicks, and Post, among others. Commercials will be added in phased batches over several months in 2009. The commercials are a part of the D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles Archives found at the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in Duke University’s Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.”

Joe Bob says “check it out”.

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