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Google Video to Host American Television Archive Interviews

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 26, 2005 - 5:31am.
Mountain View, Calif. - Google announced on Wednesday a joint effort with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation, to make its archive of interviews with TV actors, writers, producers and directors available on Google Video. "The Foundation's Archive of American Television is probably the most diverse, complete and fascinating resource of its kind. The stories are told through the eyes of the creative geniuses -- in front of and behind the cameras -- who shaped and continue to shape television into the most powerful medium in the world," said Television Academy Foundation chairman Steve Mosko. As of today, the first 75 of the Foundation's 284 films are available from Google Video, including interviews with TV industry personalities Alan Alda, Michael J. Fox, Norman Lear, Carl Reiner and Ted Turner.
tags: Interviews | Google Video | American Television | Archive |

U.K. Launches $1.8 Million Project to Digitize British Library's Sound Archive

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 19, 2004 - 4:26am.
London -- A $1.8 million program has been launched to digitize 12,000 sound recordings from the British Library's Sound Archive. The 4,000 hours of audio, including a live recording of Paul Robeson in Othello, Florence Nightingale speaking (one of the earliest sound recordings), and Arthur Conan Doyle talking about the genesis of Sherlock Holmes, will be digitized by the U.K.'s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The Archival Sound Recordings project is being funded by the U.K.'s Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) as part of an $18 million project to provide sound, moving pictures, census data and still images online for long-term use by the further and higher education communities in the U.K.
tags: U.K. | Archive | Digitize British Library's | Sound |