Thinking about politics, but waxing nostalgic for the good old days of movie stars and snappy jingles? Surf over to Hulu.com’s new gallery of Historic Campaign Ads [1]. These are from iCue [2], which bills itself [3] as “A fun, innovative learning environment built around the video from the NBC News Archives [4]“.
And what would a political video blog post be without a political video? If you don’t see the video below, you can click through to view the I Like Ike ad from 1954 [5] I chose for your viewing pleasure.
This is a great example of finding new audiences for material from archives. In this case, I had to dig for a while to discover that these were from the NBC News Archives. The Hulu iCue [6] network/studio home page doesn’t really tell me anything – but you can imagine using a page like this to supply more information if you wanted to stress the archival origin of a set of videos.
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