BBC's Tokyo video clips: 'Rip it. Mix it. Share it.'

[Taro Toporific]

If you live in the UK ( ) the BBC has released a heap of their stock video under a free Creative Archive Licence.
BCC says, "Rip it. Mix it. Share it."

Tokyo Skyline
Clip Description
A high angle shot of Tokyo buildings, with clouds in the background and traffic on the motorway. The scene changes to a very hazy, long shot of Tokyo skyscrapers, with the sun trying to come through the grey clouds and a pink-tinged [Dioxin-laden] sky...

[emperor]

not the most exciting of clips, i almost went to sleep watching the corner of the sumitomo building...

why do most of the first and last half of the clips consist of credits??

regardless, i may find somewhere to use these in a dvd im throwing together from living in japan - have about 15 minidv tapes full of footage.

Im finding iMovie (HD) extremely easy to work with, but my ibook dosent have a dvd burner - is it straight forward to transfer what i want to burn to my pc desktop - from what i can see the project file that is saved isnt compatible with xp software..?

[jim katta]

Maybe my tech lameless is because I just woke up, but I tried viewing a clip and got shut down with a message saying I was not in the UK and couldn't download any clips. How did you guys get around this?

[emperor]

...a message saying I was not in the UK and couldn't download any clips. How did you guys get around this?

It accepted me & I guess I should be offended cause im in Ireland...

was reading a story on population change in britain

British Isles means England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

- its only British people that include Ireland as part of the British Isles - Irish people would never phrase it that way.
and British TV presenters will always claim Irish actors and singers as being British: Samuel L Jackson had a funny response to an interviewers question about 'their homegrown talent':

In a British program about Samuel L Jackson and Colin Farrell's lastest movie SWAT presented by British presenter, Kate Thornton, the following exchange occured:

* Thornton: What was it like working with Colin (Farrell), cos he
o is just so hot in the U.K. right now?
* Jackson: He's pretty hot in the U.S. too.
* Thornton: Yeah, but he is one of our own.
* Jackson: Isn't he from Ireland?
* Thornton: Yeah, but we can claim him cos Ireland is beside us.
* Jackson: You see that's your problem right there. You British keep claiming people that don't belong to you. We had that problem here in America too, it was called slavery.

try using a proxy/ virtual-browser:
eg. http://urbanlegend.f2o.org/portfolio/vb

[mr. sparkle]

Maybe my tech lameless is because I just woke up, but I tried viewing a clip and got shut down with a message saying I was not in the UK and couldn't download any clips. How did you guys get around this?

I could not DL it either Jim. I guess the U.K. thinks that all islands belong to her.