posted Oct 28 @ 02:00 PM by Jason Kottke · gift link

The Moving Image Archive is a collection of over 120,000 clips from almost 2300 archival films drawn from public domain collections.

The internet is full of forgotten films, and this archive is a growing library of that collection. When synthetic footage can now fabricate the past, preserving verifiable history matters more than ever before.

A few things I found while poking around:

[Amateur film: Chicago World’s Fair] (1933) . “This 1933 amateur film features Chicago’s Century of Progress World’s Fair and scenes of New York City.”

Story of a City: New York (1946) . “This 1946 film explains the historical and economic forces behind New York City’s growth into one of the world’s largest cities and its vital relationship to the rest of the United States.”

Alice In Wonderland (1915) .…