The Anne Frank House Joins YouTube With New Footage
A museum's newest treasure has become an international sensation thanks to the magic of Web 2.0. The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam has already strengthened its international profile in 2009 by sending a traveling exhibit called "Anne Frank - A History For Today" all around the world, from San Antonio to Soweto.
Last week, the museum—commemorating the teenage girl whose wartime diary chronicled her family's attempts to avoid the Nazis by hiding in the attic of an office building—took its subject to your home. Yes, you, sitting right there in front of that computer; the museum launched its own YouTube channel. The centerpiece is not a chat with Nelson Mandela or the testimony of diary finder Miep Gies, but instead a recently discovered bit of footage of Anne herself, the only such known moving image of her in the world.
Before you get too excited, be reminded that Anne was not the original Lonelygirl15: The 20-second clip comes from the documentation of a wedding next door to where Anne's family lived before they went into hiding. There's no sound, but for a good four seconds the camera catches Anne, then 13, on the second floor peeking out. Even as often as we've read her Diary and feel like we know the girl who helped put a human face on the atrocities of the Holocaust, watching this artifact out of time feels like seeing her anew. Perhaps it was seeing this footage that caused director David Mamet to abandon a planned adaptation of "The Diary Of Anne Frank" he was working on with Disney.
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· Film footage of Anne Frank posted on YouTube [Guardian]
· Visiting the Anne Frank House [Jaunted]
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