This, then, is the brilliance of publicly-funded television: Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) produced a documentary of the train ride from Bergen, on the west coast of Norway, to Oslo, to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the Bergensbanen. But rather than an overview of the route, they showed the whole thing—the entire seven plus hour journey.
This, too, then, is the brilliance of publicly-funded television: more than a million Norwegians watched it.
Or maybe this, then, is the brilliance of publicly-funded television: NRK has released the footage they took from the front of the train to the public under a Creative Commons license.
Now we want to give the material to our viewers, the whole thing, for download.
The documentary had picture-in-picture clips with videos about Bergensbanen, a reporter interviewing people on the train, music and two cameras pointing to the sides of the train. Because of rights, we had to remove the music and many videoclips, so we decided to make a clean frontcamera version for this download.
The footage is a real gift and an example of a public institution serving the public.
(Via Boing Boing, via Espen Andersen)
(Image courtesy of abbilder via a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License.)