12 Million Historic Photos Scanned to Web

Snosty writes "The Globe and Mail is reporting that British Pathe, a cinema news service dating to the 19th century, has scanned one image for every second of their 3500 hours of 35mm film. That makes for 12 million images covering everything from the Boer War to the Beatles available on their web site!"

Not a single...

[Anonymous Coward]

Not a single post and its incurs the wrath of Slashdot.

Perfect job for interns!

[DrFlex]

Here in Canada, internship salaries are partly financed by the government.

The job of scanning 1 image of every second of 3500 hours worth of footage seems like the perfect intership.

Starts out interesting...
Quickly becomes boring...
After a while you want to throw up each time you make a scan...
Half way through you actually throw up every time you scan a second...
When you're done, all that is left is an insensible blow of twitching flesh!

Photo Coverage

[nucal]

I can only hope that they covered the Goatse image ...

no, I mean REALLY covered it!

Just the B's?

[worst_name_ever]

That makes for 12 million images covering everything from the Boer War to the Beatles

How many images will there be once they finish the rest of the alphabet?

Mirror?

[Anonymous Coward]

I would have, but my idle 10 terabyte storage farm is in the shop.

Re:Historical benefit

[Threni]

"That's exactly why everyone with a camera, regardless of skill or quality of equipment, should take photos of mundane objects in their neighborhood."

I don't think there's going to be a shortage of mundane photographs anytime soon - especially with the fact that you can't even buy a mobile phone now without it having a camera embedded in it.

> Was their writing on it?

It probably was their writing, yes.

>How many close-ups of fire hydrants as they were >installed 100 years ago exist?
>What was a typical telephone pole like 100 years ago?

Man, are you tripping?