Google Adds Interviews to Its TV Archive

Google announced in their blog that they've added a bunch of interviews from the Archive of American Television -- over 450, as a matter of fact. You can get to 'em at http://video.google.com/.

There are 501 results here, with results on the first page including Andy Griffith, Julia Child, Phyllis Diller, Florence Henderson, and Joseph Barbera. Searching Google Video for "Academy of Television" "fred rogers" playable:true finds nine results -- nine parts of a Fred Rogers interview. (Mr. Rogers looks very natty in a bow tie.) The parts look like they're about 30 minutes each.

Sometimes the interviewers' questions are a little hard to hear -- for the videos I looked at it wasn't clear that they were miked. The interviews are very informal; Julia Child, in the interview I watched, spoke to someone off-camera, not the interviewer, as she answered a question about baking.

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