Ex-Soviet Films and Photos on the Web

Carol Reed writes \”Newsday.com has an article on a Texas business man who is arranging to have the films and photos from several ex-Soviet Archives cataloged and put up on the Web.
It looks like a very interesting project. It\’s still a work in progress, but the archives in Russia have a nearly complete collection of newsreels from 1919-1985, and the earliest film is of the coronation of Czar Nicholas II in 1896. Here\’s a link to the archives web page — the link at the end of the Newsday.com story is somewhat messed up.\”