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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