http://www.britishpathe.com/
British Pathe has put online the entire footage of their black and white newsreels, shot from 1910 to 1970 on film bi-weekly, in a searchable online video archive. While you have to pay for commercial use of the 90,000 video clips and 12 million still shots, the ease with which you can dig in and find that historical photo is fairly inspiring and time-saving.
A
quick search for Barrymore has clips from John Barrymore's wedding, and from the 1947 Academy Awards. See a random sample of what's available with
the lucky dip.
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