[Squeakland][ANN]Free Video Archive for English Schools... From British Pathe & ITN Archive

[Darius Clarke]

FYI,

The Regional Broadband Consortium (RBC), a group of 10 local
organisations set up to promote the development of high resolution
content in English schools, have agreed to fund "Version 3.0" of the
British Pathe web site.

This will enable the production of Quicktime 6.0 files of the entire
3500 hours of footage in the archive by the autumn of this year. Through
the development of some very basic authentication software schools will
be given free access not only to these files but also to the existing
high resolution Windows Media Files and to the NOF Funded JPEG images
which should be on-line next month.

School children throughout England will therefore be able to build
projects across a huge number of subjects using not only "clean" high
resolution video from the archive, but also pictures from one of the
largest selections of historical images available anywhere in the world.

Due to the added functionality of Quicktime 6.0 it will also be possible
for school children to create their own programmes using specified edits
from the video files.

The arrangement with the RBC for High Resolution video and photos will
run in parallel with Pathe's NOF-Digitise contract, which facilitated
the original encoding and publishing of the entire archive at lower
resolutions in 2002.

All the Best
Peter Fydler
ITN (for and on behalf of British Pathe Limited)
http://www.britishpathe.com/index.cfm
http://www.itnarchive.com

PS. Quicktime 6.0 low resolution Preview Files will be available free of
charge to all, and high resolution versions will be available for
PowerPoint and Web licensing alongside the Windows Media Files.

Cheers,
Darius























































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