I found this very interesting film from 1937, that I strongly
believe is free from copyright. It is 15 minutes and presents
a Swedish newspaper, including several of its journalists,
and a tour around the editorial and printing offices.
From this film, I made 5-10 second long clips that present
each journalist, to illustrate many Wikipedia articles,
and some 1-2 minute clips to present printing technology.
I uploaded each clip separately, adding categories and
descriptions in English and Swedish.
This takes a lot of time!
In addition, I created Timed Text subtitles for some of
my clips, but these are of course not shown for the full
film, since they are two different items. To get subtitles
for the full film, I would have to copy the text and
recompute all the time offsets.
Whole film,
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Varje_dag_en_v%C3%A4rldsrevy.ogv
A clip with English text, explaining page layout,
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ombrytning_Stockholms-Tidningen_1937…
The HTML 5 <video> tag has attributes for start and stop time,
so shouldn't it be possible to just upload the whole film once
and then specify these attributes in each article, e.g.
[[File:myfilm.ogv|thumb|start=4:38|end=4:47|John Doe]]?
Is this possible today? Is it used anywhere, so I can see an
example?
This film comes from a new website, filmarkivet.se, which was
launched just this month. It's a cooperation between the
archives of the Swedish Film Institute and the multimedia
department of the Swedish National Library. I happen to know
the people in both places, so we should establish some formal
cooperation as soon as the head of archives is back from
the Berlin film festival.
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se