"British Pathe is one of the oldest media companies in the world. Their roots lie in 1890s Paris where their founder, Charles Pathe, pioneered the development of the moving image.They were established in London in 1902, and by 1910 were producing their famous bi-weekly newsreel the Pathe Gazette. After the First World War they started producing various Cinemagazines as well.

"Anticipating a future with widespread access to large digital libraries of video, a great deal of research is currently focused on many areas related to digital video. Research in these areas requires that each investigator acquire and digitize video for their studies since the multimedia information retrieval community does not yet have a standard collection of video to be used for research purposes.

"Based in Amsterdam and Paris, the European Archive is a non-profit foundation working towards universal access to all knowledge. The archive will achieve this through partnerships with libraries, museums, other collection bodies, and through building its own collections. The primary goal of collecting this knowledge is to make it as publicly accessible as possible, via the Internet and other means.

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"Die Website Chronik der Mauer ist ein Kooperationsprojekt der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, des Deutschlandradios und des Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam. Sie stellt das derzeit umfangreichste multimediale Informationsangebot zur Geschichte der Mauer dar.

" Russian Archives Online (RAO) is an online collection of Russian and Soviet-related archives and other sources of film footage, photographs, illustrations and audio, along with supporting documents and text.
RAO exists to serve both the casual student of history and professionals in need of high quality archival material.

"Forty years ago, thousands of Brevard County space workers launched men to the moon and brought them safely home."