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Building on the Past

2003 — 2:00 mins

Justin Cone won our Moving Images Contest with this clip,
created to demonstrate how CC works.

A high quality (640×480) version is available at the Internet Archive

Translations

To view subtitled versions, or to contribute a translation, visit the dotSub page for this video.

License

Building on the Past by Justin Cone is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. Please link to this page when providing attribution.