News Summary

• The BFI has preserved around 430 online viral videos, including "Charlie Bit My Finger" The u.k. film body says that our culture is now in what it describes as a “third age” of the moving image, following cinema and television, shaped by the rise of online video.
• In just over three decades, the amount of video produced online has grown to such an extent that it now far exceeds the total output of film and television from the century before it.
• Among other materials preserved by the BFI is the “Trojan Room Coffee Pot,” an early example of livestreaming in which researchers at the University of Cambridge installed a camera pointed at a shared coffee pot.