Back to the articleOr how about... #
Posted Monday 24th December 2007 16:51 GMT
Happy slaping Prince Charles?
Queen's Speech hits YouTube
"already has some 8,500 subscribers" #
Posted Monday 24th December 2007 16:51 GMT
Of which 5 are probably British.
Let's face it, the Royal Family are now nothing but a tourism export.
She doesn't need YouTube... #
Posted Monday 24th December 2007 17:32 GMT
...Another more suitable URL is still available:-
OnesTube.com
I just can't wait to see if that name actually gets bought!
What tube? #
Posted Monday 24th December 2007 18:07 GMT
As the great George Carlin would say when someone would say that the country is going down the tubes, "What Tubes"
What tube?
' comments disabled ' #
Posted Monday 24th December 2007 18:07 GMT
Title says it all.
Must be scared of hearing what the public does think of them.
What a great idea! #
Posted Monday 24th December 2007 21:17 GMT
For an incorrigible Anglophile like myself, this is pure gold.
Say what you will about it; bash on the Queen and the Monarchy all you want, but I find the entire concept fascinating. Not because of the Royalty aspect, but by the fact these films and videos are being made available for the public view instead of wasting away in some archive somewhere where only a select few ever gets a chance to see them.
One of the films they have available is the Royal Wedding in 1923. Think about that. A silent film document of an event that happened in 1923. Who would think that an ephemeral piece like that (probably made for a newsreel of the time) would be viewed with interest nearly 85 years later? And the film itself (for its age) is in remarkable shape!
I would like to see the archivists in the U.S. government get their collective heads together and place archival films of Presidential inaugurations and special events of this quality on YouTube. Would there still be usable newsreel footage from the 1920s?
re: comments disabled #
Posted Tuesday 25th December 2007 13:44 GMT
they weren't disabled at the outset.
i managed to get one in.
it wasn't polite, but it was to the point.
Idea good, choice of site bad! #
Posted Tuesday 25th December 2007 13:44 GMT
Yes, a sensible idea that one of the few remaining monarchies in the world should wish to keep pace with modern technology. However it would have been so much better to have established a UK web-site to communicate whatever Her Majesty, or the Royal Press Office wishes to say, rather than using this ridiculous jokey thing that is generally used by youngsters and often for very "doubtful" material !
One wonders whether HM could possibly approve of this. More could be said of course, but the damage is done now.
Re: What a great idea! #
Posted Tuesday 25th December 2007 16:44 GMT
In France, INA is offering online the TV news from their archives (http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/?vue=jn). Currently, 1976 to 2005 have been digitalized, and some older broadcasts (news and others, http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/?vue=corpuse) of special interest are as early as 1927.
Her Majesty's Youtube Channel #
Posted Wednesday 26th December 2007 03:43 GMT
I bet she had to ask her grandkids how to upload it! ;-)
RE: ' comments disabled ' #
Posted Wednesday 26th December 2007 21:38 GMT
"Must be scared"
Yes, that must be it.
Thin end of the wedge #
Posted Thursday 27th December 2007 16:49 GMT
While all the historical footage is extremely interesting this site along with direct addresses should not be welcomed because in a democratic the "powers that be" should never have unmediated access to the public. This site and all of its kind are unavoidably propaganda.
@Charlie #
Posted Friday 28th December 2007 12:18 GMT
" the "powers that be" should never have unmediated access to the public"
I can think of lots of people who would just love that but that theory always ends up the same way - established church, NEDC, Partnerships - when you force communication into approved channels the bodies concerned become part of the organisation and lose their value as civic groups. And if you don't have approved channels you just end up with self-selecting elites mediating the communication - media barons, political parties, trade unions, religious organisations, wikipedia.
Anyway - Mondeo man destroyed civic society in the UK in 1987 - there is currently a vacancy for a coherent political theory of capitalist democracies for c21.
@Colin Millar #
Posted Friday 28th December 2007 23:16 GMT
The Mark 1 Mondeo first came out in 1993.
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