Sep 6, 2010 13:01 GMT  ·  By

YouTube's Life in a Day project is moving forward and many of the user videos submitted for the project are now available in an online gallery. YouTube says that 80,000 videos have been submitted and many of them are now public with more coming.

"On July 24, people around the world made history by capturing glimpses of their lives on camera and submitting the videos to Life in a Day, an experiment to create a documentary about a single day on Earth," Nate Weinstein, in Entertainment Marketing at YouTube, wrote.

"In total, 80,000 videos were submitted from 197 countries, making this the world's largest user-generated film. Now, you can explore many of these videos in the gallery on the Life in a Day channel," he announced.

The videos are now available over at YouTube's Life in a Day channel. Since the sheer number of videos makes it nearly impossible to watch all of them, or even a significant part, you can browse the videos based on several criteria.

You can sort the videos by location, time of day, the mood and so on. You can also check out where most of the videos come from, by country, overall or at any point during the day.

The upcoming Life in a Day film aims to show how people around the world lived on July 24th, 2010, as seen through the eyes, or rather the cameras of the submitters.

The director, Kevin Macdonald, and his team are still reviewing some of the submissions so some videos are going to be added later. As the project gets underway, the YouTube channel will also serve as a tool to keep people up to date on the progress.

The 80,000 videos have to be converted into a normal length feature film, a daunting task to say the least. And all the editing has to be done in the next three months or so, as the film is set to premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in January.