149 families' home movies are archived on Open Memory Box, a massive archive of 415 hours of footage from the former East German, shot from 1947-1990. The video is indexed and searchable by 2700 search-terms, and makes for fascinating browsing as well. (via Kottke)
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Nov 27, 2019
Open Memory Box: hundreds of hours of East German home movies, 1947-1990
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