12 million newsreel photographs scanned and published to the web

Historic photo archive available on the Web

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London -- A collection of more than 12 million photographs, capturing

scenes from the Boer War to the D-Day landings, was published on the

Internet yesterday.</em>

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<em>The images, which date back to the turn of the 20th century, have

been captured from the archives of the British Pathé newsreel, a

cinema news service that predated television.

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<a

href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20031014/NOTE14-4/TPTechnology/">http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20031014/NOTE14-4/TPTechnology/</a>

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The British Pathé newsreel website is: <a

href="http://www.britishpathe.com">http://www.britishpathe.com</a> but

it looks like it might have fallen under the weight of quite a few

slashdot visitors. :)