A cold and rainy day, and not much moving — I went hunting Donna the Buffalo and stumbled into this site: The Internet Archive. As I view the site they have cataloged 114,000 movies, 44,000 live concerts, 222,000 audio recordings and 306,000 texts. From their about page:
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections.
From here I discovered other archive projects: The Red Hot Jazz Archive — A history of Jazz before 1930. Vintage ToonCast — Playing public domain vintage cartoons and high quality short films. I’m sure there are scores more, and I invited you to add your archive finds in a comment.
