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Found on You Tube: Amazing Videos from the Library of Congress
Following a deal between the U.S. General Services Administration and several social networking and video sharing sites, the Library of Congress has begun to distribute some of its vast audio and video collections—including 100-year-old films from the Thomas Edison studio—on YouTube.
For more than two years, the Library of Congress has been posting photographs on the photo sharing site Flickr (see http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress); with this latest agreement, we can now view some of the amazing original recordings in the collection.
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said in a statement that the new agreements “remove many of the impediments to making our unparalleled content more useful to many more people.”
The Edison Films videos are entrancing to watch -- take a look at this one, from 1895, which features the film portion of an attempt to make an early sound motion picture:
