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AP releases a million minutes of filmed history to YouTube

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Associated Press, in company with British Movietone, has released a million minutes of historic world news on to two YouTube channels.

The collection of more than 550,000 digitised video stories dates from 1895 to the present day and it is claimed to be the largest upload of historical news content on the video-sharing platform.

AP says in a press release that the two channels will act as a view-on-demand visual encyclopedia to offer “a unique perspective on the most significant moments of modern history.”

Read entire article at The Guardian