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Germany's largest public broadcasting service has started an online photo/home-movie archive asking their audience to look into their private albums/reels, digitize them and upload them.

Only prerequisit is that the photos/movies were made before the 1990s (be from a analogue world).
And that they pass the broadcasters censorship (whatever that means).
Things that are of special interest to the editors will be digitized by the broadcast station on their cost.

The interesting thing about this online collection is that it is quite random. Much more than most collections of this kind.
Searching the collection is difficult due to the scarce information typically added. Even years typically are only vaguely true.
One way to search could be to give in a year (best ending on a zero) and one gets material mostly out of that decade.


The collection is called Digit.





(Tricky is the legal situation as it will not ber clear whether the uplloading Person actaully has the right to do so, as in cases of bought collections. The broadcaster do not hint at this issue at all.)
 
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Some of those are brilliant. I liked the one on Rostock, a train going up a hill in the middle of the town, now that is something you don't see too much of these days. 061-16

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One of the differences between the two project is that in the project on East-Germany the curators are going to visit people who sent in films and have them speak about what one sees. To be found under "Stories". Whether they will be subtitled I got no idea.
This project, in contrast to the west-german one, is restricted to moving images. That likely reduces the involved people to the more effluent ones. The archive already shows that there are exceptions.
 
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