Open Vault

Open Vault provides easy access to short excerpts from historic videos produced between 1950 and 1993. The videos were excerpted from four programmes: Say Brother (388 segments), the Ten O'clock News (543 segments), the New Television Workshop (368 segments), and a series entitled War and Peace in the Nuclear Age (51 segments). The programmes were produced by the public television station WGBH. They hope to start adding a major collection during 2008. Transcripts of the programmes are sometimes available. Video excerpts average one to three minutes and easily load (after QuickTime is downloaded). Keyword searching is possible. Users can browse...