[general_devel] RES: AP's film library moves online

[Vern Weitzel]

Subject: [vnnews-l] RES: AP's film library moves online
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 23:59:39 -0700
From: Stephen Denney <srdenney at gmail.com>
To: vnnews-l at anu.edu.au


The archive is at: http://www.aparchive.com


http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/660214

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AP's film library moves online TheStar.com - entertainment - AP's film
library moves online

July 03, 2009

The Associated Press is digitizing and has begun to release a treasure trove
of historical film footage from the 1960s and '70s that had been sitting in
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's former World War II headquarters in London.

The archive includes colour film recordings of a young *Yasser Arafat*,
Libyan leader *Moammar Gadhafi *immediately after taking power, *Richard
Nixon *with Romanian dictator *Nicolae Ceausescu*, *Fidel Castro *meeting
Latin American and Eastern European leaders, as well as a young *Saddam
Hussein *in Paris.

So far, 17,000 pieces of film content from the late '60s to the mid '70s
have been restored and digitized, with 700 items being added each week at
aparchive.com.

Notable items include *Jane Fonda*'s controversial visit to North Vietnam at
the height of the Vietnam War and *Elizabeth Taylor*'s star-studded 40th
birthday party in 1972. There are other cultural moments, too, from hippies
at music festivals to bizarre fashion shoots.

*Associated Press*