Howdy!
My buddy and I--the two US Army veterans behind The Cold War Year By Year on YouTube, just launched something new, and I wanted to share it with this crowd first. For record, I was D2/84.
Every episode we make starts the same way: digging through archive after archive for the right footage. Different websites, different search boxes, different rules. After years of doing it the hard way, we built the tool we wished we'd had. It's called ReelQuery, and we made it ourselves.
ReelQuery searches many of the world's major film and video archives at once, with one search box and one set of results. It's not just for Cold War material. If it was filmed and an archive kept it, you can look for it:
- Space race and NASA mission footage
- Wartime newsreels and military film
- Historic news broadcasts
- Art, artists, and cultural films
- Music, performances, and concerts
- Everyday life, cities, and vanished places
What it does:
- Ranks results for relevance (what you meant, not just keyword matches)
- Lets you sort by time frame
- Takes you from search to the original source download in a couple of clicks
It's currently free to use and supported by donations. One caveat: ReelQuery is a search tool, not a rights database, so always verify usage rights with the original source before you publish or reuse anything.
It just launched, so there are rough edges. If you try it, I'd like to hear what works, what doesn't, and what you searched for. If you've got a piece of old footage you've never been able to track down, give it a shot and tell me whether it turned up.
Site: https://reelquery.com
Watch The Cold War Year By Year: http://www.youtube.com/@ColdWarYearByYear
Donations (completely optional): https://reelquery.com/donate/
Thanks for taking a look, and thanks to everyone here who's watched and commented on our episodes.
My buddy and I--the two US Army veterans behind The Cold War Year By Year on YouTube, just launched something new, and I wanted to share it with this crowd first. For record, I was D2/84.
Every episode we make starts the same way: digging through archive after archive for the right footage. Different websites, different search boxes, different rules. After years of doing it the hard way, we built the tool we wished we'd had. It's called ReelQuery, and we made it ourselves.
ReelQuery searches many of the world's major film and video archives at once, with one search box and one set of results. It's not just for Cold War material. If it was filmed and an archive kept it, you can look for it:
- Space race and NASA mission footage
- Wartime newsreels and military film
- Historic news broadcasts
- Art, artists, and cultural films
- Music, performances, and concerts
- Everyday life, cities, and vanished places
What it does:
- Ranks results for relevance (what you meant, not just keyword matches)
- Lets you sort by time frame
- Takes you from search to the original source download in a couple of clicks
It's currently free to use and supported by donations. One caveat: ReelQuery is a search tool, not a rights database, so always verify usage rights with the original source before you publish or reuse anything.
It just launched, so there are rough edges. If you try it, I'd like to hear what works, what doesn't, and what you searched for. If you've got a piece of old footage you've never been able to track down, give it a shot and tell me whether it turned up.
Site: https://reelquery.com
Watch The Cold War Year By Year: http://www.youtube.com/@ColdWarYearByYear
Donations (completely optional): https://reelquery.com/donate/
Thanks for taking a look, and thanks to everyone here who's watched and commented on our episodes.