Boston public television station WGBH has started to do what many people long for TV stations and related entities everywhere to do: chop up their archives into short video clips and make them findable online. Open Vault boasts a growing library of clips, mostly from the ’70s. Quick picks:
Nam June Paik’s “9/23″
Featuring the Paik-Abe video synthesizer.
Man Ray, Man Ray
The man and the dog.
“Negro Masonry in the United States”
Chamillionaire wasn’t first.
Robert McNamara reading a Teletype message from Nikita Khrushchev sent during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Wishlist:
- Embeddable clips
- Better ‘related videos’ functionality
- Tags
- More New Television Workshop video art clips
But WGBH hasn’t stopped at the vault, they’ve also opened up a sandbox of clips for your manipulation in what may be their most visionary move since the hiring of Monty Stark. Break out the video synths (or software).
