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BBC movie and video archive onlineBy Lars Våge
(July 25 2004) The number of clips will continue to grow and soon you will also find material from the CBS archives. The press release states that the BBC archives have half a billion feet of film and 350 000 hours of video while the CBS archives have some 700 000 hours! The motivation behind the new web site is obviously to make money from the often unique collections of these two companies. So if you find something in the online archives that you would like to use in a movie, documentary, or news piece, you can obtain a license to do so – provided you pay for it. But you can search the archives, watch the clips and even download them all for free. All you have to do is to register and volunteer some information about yourself and I promise it is well worth the effort. To prevent you from taking advantage of their generosity, the film clips have a water mark and an id number. The BBC Motion Gallery has an advanced search form where you can decide if all the words of your search must be present, to query for an exact phrase, to exclude certain words and to limit your search within twelve categories. You can specify if you want to find clips in colour or black and white and if the source should be film or video, 4:3 or 16:9 format. You may even specify from which angle the motive should be seen and the approximate distance from which it is filmed, the time of day, the time of year, the decade, and the weather. You may also choose if the film clip should be from indoors, outdoors, up in the air or under water, in slow or fast motion. If that is not enough to impress you, there is an altarnative way to search, called Concept search. It works like a directory where the movie clips are divided into the main categories Home, Body, Work, Time, Mind, and Play. On the next level you will find lots of subcategories like desperation, nostalgia, adrenalin, confrontation, relaxation and so on. BBC Motion Gallery is a very thoughtfully constructed search service with many specialized search functions. My favorite item at the moment is the dance of the puffin from the Outer Hebrides. 
This article was originally published in Internetbrus, a Swedish blog on search engines and Internet searching that has been online since early 2001. It is written for both searchers and educators. Internetbrus is owned and edited by Lars Våge and Lars Iselid. Lars Våge works as a librarian at Mitthögskolan and a programmer for JL Informationsteknik. Lars Iselid is a librarian at the Umeå University Library, freelance journalist for the computer magazine Datormagazin, He can be found blogging under the pseudonym Cyrille at Iaslash.org. Lars and Lars are co-authors of a book on Internet research: Informationssökning på Internet. © 2004 Lars Våge and Lars Iselid. Published with permission.
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BBC Worldwide recently launched the web site BBC Motion Gallery. Right now you can find 10 000 movie clips from BBC’s extensive archives on the site – and that’s only the beginning. 