Tag: archives
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The Pathé News company produced newsreels on events and places both important and strange for the greater part of the 20th century. That footage is now housed in the British Pathé archive, a collection of 85,000 historic films spanning the years 1896 to 1976. [A couple of weeks ago], British Pathé announced that it had…
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Today survivor testimony is almost exclusively video testimony. Even if this change seems like a minor one (in sync with that from radio to TV and Internet), what matters is the act of witnessing in the communicative context of the electronic media: The visibility bestowed by video ensures the formal “audiencing” of the survivors and…
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In 2014 the Science Museum in London will open its brand new gallery, Information Age. The gallery will bring communication technologies and their users to life, beginning 200 years ago with the arrival of the electric telegraph and coming right up to the present day. Mobile phones have radically changed the ways we communicate, especially…
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David Pogue on Why We Shoot Home Videos
[Cross-posted from the WITNESS Hub Blog.] In case you can’t tell, it’s my day to catch up on all things New York Times… David Pogue, that paper’s personal technology columnist, posted recently on why he, we, shoot video and take photographs – and why we want to archive them. His suggestions: 1. For our older selves.…
Sameer Padania 