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Television Archive Links

Alexandra Palace Television Society
The website of the Alexandra Palace Society. Includes information on the restoration of the Desmond Campbell collection of early TV photographs

Archive Pictures
Archive pictures rescued from a bin at BBC Television Centre

BBC Centre History
Unofficial history of BBC Television Centre

BBC History
Official information on BBC history, research and collections

BBC Motion Gallery
The BBC's agent for licensing all footage from its vast archive, CBS News Archive, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), NHK and China Central Television. With over 50,000 clips online for customers to search and download. 

BBC Technical Archive
Historic technical documents from BBC

BritFilms
A website with a comprehensive catalogue of British films, directors and information about training.

British Pathe
British Pathe entire 3,500 hour film archive online which covers news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970.

British Universities Film and Video Council
Website for British Universities Film and Video Council, useful online database of moving images, as well as special collections and off-air recording

BIRTH Television Website
A comprehensive archive built up by five major European television archives

Chuck Pharis
History of TV and Radio by US Video Control Engineer Chuck Pharis with links to museums and image archive 

Dave's Television Collection
Pictures of a private collection of early and classic Tv’s and related material

DCinema Today
3D Digital Cinema Technology

Early Television Foundation
Website of Early Television Foundation and Museum in Ohio

Envisioning the Audience: perceptions of early German television's audiences, 1935-1944
Early history of early German Television by William Uricchio

Focal International
Federation of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries

History of American Broadcasting
Chronology of US TV history

History of Colour Television
US website for history of early colour TV, articles and images

International Federation of Television Archives
Information on international projects and professional standards

ITN Source
Featuring over 800,000 hours of iconic film and inspiring stock footage captured over three centuries.

Kenjiro Takayanagi
Website for Kenjiro Takayanagi, the father of Japanese TV

Missing Episodes Forum
Searching for the lost heritage of British TV

National Film and Television Archive
The British Film Institute is responsible for the UK's National Film and Television Archive including footage,  libraries of books, films, videos, stills and posters. 

Screen Online
The BFI’s encyclopedia of British Film and TV

Scottish Screen Archive
The archive locates, preserves and provide access to moving images reflecting Scottish culture and history. In addition the Archive collects written and photographic materials relating to the development of cinema exhibition and film production in Scotland since the 1890s.  

Television History - The First 75 years
The first 75 years of TV set design, development and marketing, includes images of TV’s and facts about them

Terramedia
Includes Chronomedia, a detailed chronology of media history year by year, also other media documents, statistics and references

The Mausoleum Club 
Lively TV forum with contributions from many industry personnel

The Museum of Broadcast Communications
Full text of Encyclopedia of TV for American TV history on museum of Broadcast Communications site

The Showcase
A multimedia website of radio programmes, sound recordings, TV, film and video, internet projects and learning materials from the community media sector. 

The Valve Page
TV chronology and TV manufacturers list. Also pictures of TV’s and Radios, articles about TV equipment and restoration of vintage sets

The World's Earliest Television Recordings
Don McLean’s website documenting the restoration project he completed in 2004 on Baird’s 1927-35 30 line recordings

Vintage Television Index
Good pictorial record of vintage TV’s with brief history of each set


 




 





 

















 


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