# Oh, the humanity (and everything else captured on those old newsreels)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 26, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-humanity-and-everything-else-captured-on-those-old-newsreels/726245 "2015-07-26T18:10:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-humanity-and-everything-else-captured-on-those-old-newsreels/726245/1 "2015-07-26T18:10:32Z")

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I just saw that AP and British Movietone have uploaded (or are in the process of uploading) a huge amount of old newsreel footage onto YouTube. According to [this New York Times article](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/business/media/youtubes-historical-footage-expands-both-serious-and-silly.html), we’re talking 17,000 hours and 550,000 videos huge.

To get you going, here’s a classic, taken from the article - “[World Shocked By Kidnapping Of Lindbergh Baby!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4e0BSMzCrw)”

As a sucker for this type of stuff, I’ll say again - thank God there was no Internet when I was young and was in the process of ‘building’ my life. In fact, I don’t know how the ‘kids’ today can resist. There are just too many distractions. But that’s another thread.

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**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-humanity-and-everything-else-captured-on-those-old-newsreels/726245/2 "2015-07-26T19:10:26Z")

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[British Pathé](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGp4u0WHLsK8OAxnvwiTyhA) put their stuff up last year as well - [Here’s one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6njRwz_dMw) of Gandhi’s visit to London in 1931 where the narrator goes on and on about Gandhi’s unusual appearance but doesn’t bother to mention [why he’s there!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Table_Conferences_(India))

The [World’s Fair](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZTzzleIcwo) newsreels and [years in review](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIN4liBbSoo) are always good.

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**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-the-humanity-and-everything-else-captured-on-those-old-newsreels/726245/3 "2015-07-27T22:42:46Z")

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British Pathe can be streamed at Netflix.