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The BBC, the bfi, Channel 4 and the Open University set up the Creative Archive Licence Group to make their content available for download under the terms of the Creative Archive Licence.
BBC clips - available now!
Around 500 clips covering natural history, world changing news stories, local news reports, programmes from the early days of television and other incredible footage are currently available from the BBC's Creative Archive website.
BBC Schools have also released a wealth of material specifically designed to tie in with the national curriculum in the Open Schools Archive
To download the BBC's Creative Archive content you must register with the BBC's Single Sign On (SSO)
Existing BBC SSO members must log in and sign up to the Creative Archive Licence Campaign's Single Sign On terms before being given access to download content.
bfi clips available now
A series of clips is available for download now under the terms of the Creative Archive Licence at the bfi's website. Further material including silent comedy, early literary adaptations, newsreel footage and archive footage of British cities in the early 20th century will be added over the next 18 months.
Channel 4
Going forward into 2006, Channel 4 will continue to help the UK's untapped creative talent to get noticed. Plans include:• 4Docs, a brand new resource launching this spring for aspiring documentary film-makers, showcasing new works and connecting new talent with broadcasting professionals and each other. The service will include copyright-cleared stock footage for users to incorporate into their films.
• Pix-N-Mix, part of our flagship IDEASFACTORY creative talent development scheme, providing VJs with specially-commissioned and archive content for incorporation into their audiovisual productions.
Channel 4 is developing other projects for launch over the next 12 months. Watch this space.
Open University
The Open University is planning to provide content that users could not easily get for themselves and which they could use creatively. Chemistry experiments that are exciting and memorable.
Views of the interiors of public buildings where filming would be difficult.
Innovative graphics sequences.
There will be clips of natural features, such as aerial views of the Franz Josef glacier, and the Open University will continue to select new material during the life of the pilot.
As well as clips, the Open University intends to provide a small number of complete TV programmes and some radio programmes
It aims to provide some sequences that retain their original commentary and some with only the effects track and hope that the archive of clips will give users plenty of opportunity to be creative. For example:
• holiday movies of Sienna Cathedral exterior can be combined with Open University footage of the interior;
• video revision notes on the alkali metals can be constructed by chemistry students;
• an endless loop of a volcanic eruption at night might make a novel screen saver for a computer;
• an illustrated essay on using the theorem of Pythagoras for maths homework.