Creative Archive

By Thomas Henwood · August 22, 2005 ·

Finally the BBC has got its act together, and has put something in the creative archive. The creative archive was started about a year ago but has, until now, had very little, poorly grouped material in it. Now they have added nearly 100 new video clips, for you to watch or use, for free.
The idea of the creative archive, is to provide BBC materials (video, music, resources) for free, using the Creative Commons agreement. This basically means that, you can have the materials, providing that you adhere to the agreement this is really good, because the agreement is not too restricting, and it is a great chance to get some great BBC footage. All you need to do to use the archive is to create a BBCi account and then, you can access any of the footage in the archive. However, be warned, it is not all useful, seeing as, for example, all there is for the 1960’s is “Waterskiing in the sixties”, which might not be all that useful for everyone.