Anxious to document a unique moment of history, the BFI has announced details of a “rapid response” plan to collect in its archive the best of those videos.
Will Massa, a contemporary curator at the BFI, said it had been collecting online video for a number of years but the coronavirus crisis and lockdown had brought about a “tidal wave” of important new content.
The adaptation of Pete Seeger’s Where Have All the Flowers Gone brought a tear to his eye, he said.
Massa said he was confident future generations would look back and be struck by the sheer talent of people under lockdown.