„British Movietone is arguably the world’s greatest newsreel archive, spanning the period 1895 to 1986.“ heißt es im Willkommensvideo auf dem YouTube-Kanal „British Movietone“:
Discover British Movietone’s newsreel archive, which contains many of the world’s enduring images and is rich in coverage of news events, celebrities, sports, music, social history, science, lifestyle and quirky, via this channel.
British Movietone also offers a weekly series called ‚The Archivist Presents‘ where a treasure from the archive is shared by our archivist Jenny and ‘Movietone Moments’, a weekly selection of topical stories providing context to events in the news and marking anniversaries and birthdays.
Der „Schwesterkanal“ zu British Movietone ist „AP Archive“ mit Material der Associated Press.
(British Movietone wurde 2017 von AP übernommen, wie u.a. die Washington Times berichtete.)