The BBC is opening its archive of iconic news clips from Devon, Cornwall, Lincolnshire and Humberside online.
As part of the Creative Archive Licence pilot, web users can now download and keep more than 100 TV clips, totally free, for their own personal use.
The released clips feature key moments in local history such as dramatic scenes from the miner's strikes, incredible shots of the Torrey Canyon disaster, shocking images of devastating flooding in Boscastle and Lincolnshire, and emotional scenes as Falklands soldiers come home to their families.
The archive also contains interviews with celebrities such as the Beatles and key political figures such as Harold Wilson and Arthur Scargill. There are also nostalgic gems like footage of holiday makers at a Torquay holiday camp, stockbrokers (complete with bowler hats and rolled umbrellas) skating to work during the big freeze of 1963, and a 1964 TV report about the new fashion for boys to have long hair.
Under the terms of the Creative Archive Licence users can download, edit and share the clips, with the hope being that the key images of the past can be ?rediscovered and reshaped by a new generation?.
http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/devononfilm http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwallonfilm http://www.bbc.co.uk/humberonfilm http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshireonfilm
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