DMOZ - Links to museum and TV history sites on the web.
See also Yahoo Directory.
Academy of TV Arts & Sciences - The official website
to the Academy of TV Arts & Sciences Web Site. It features the
Primetime Emmy Awards and TV Hall of Fame.
British Film Institute - The BFI National Library provides access to a large
collection of documentation and information on film and
television. As a major national research collection, the main
priority is to provide comprehensive coverage of British film
and television, but the collection itself is international in
scope.
Cars of the Stars - The online portal to the
world famous museum of vehicles from film and television. Opened to the public in May
1989, the museum features such famous vehicles as the James
Bond Cars, the Munstermobile, the Batmobile, Herbie the Love
Bug, Kitt the Knight Rider and the A-Team Van. The museum is
located at Royal Oak Garage, Standish Street, in the center of the beautiful Lakeland town
of Keswick in Great Britain. Across the pond in America,
The Peterson Automotive Museum at 6060 Wilshire
Boulevard in Los Angeles, California offers an American
museum. The three-level, 300,000-square foot building is chock
full of gorgeous, glittering dream cars from every era and
social strata. including such TV cars as Fred Flintstones "Flintmobile"
and the "General Lee"from the popular TV show THE
DUKES OF HAZZARD.
CreatAbiliTOYS! - Online since May 20th, 1996, this
museum of advertising icons has more than 650 images of
advertising dolls and artifacts (Jolly Green Giant, Tony the
Tiger, California Raisins, etc). In addition, there are nearly
700 individual documents within the site. Visitors can either
take a leisurely browse through the museum, visiting each wall
of exhibits as if in the real Museum, or the option of quickly
locating a toy using an online search engine is available. The
Toy Index search engine helps you find any of the hundreds of
advertising artifacts item in the database.
The Early Television Foundation - Dedicated to the
preservation and restoration of television receiving and
camera equipment from the early days of television.
Famous Locations - 1000's of Famous Locations
across the world 1000's of movies and movie stars - past and
present. An incredible fun-packed research experience for everyone
including ; movie fans, tourists, students of geography and
modern history.
FootnoteTV - This site analyzes the issues and events
that inspire popular television shows like The West Wing,
Law & Order, South Park and Saturday Night Live and
reports on the issues they raise each week. Created by Stephen
Lee, a former Chicago reporter turned lawyer, Lee declares "I
created FootnoteTV because (a) a lot of my friends and family
always had questions about what they were seeing on
television, and (b) I believe Internet journalism should be
more than a faster wire service and should explore
alternatives to complement the breaking-news model."
FootnoteTV is part of his larger site, Newsaic.
History of American Broadcasting - Created by Jeff
Miller, this website contains links to hundreds of topics
relating to Broadcast industry in America including AM, FM and
TV Broadcasting.
The Lawrence Welk Museum - Dedicated to that "Wunnerful"
musician and band leader who hosted THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW
from 1955-1982.
Movieland Wax Museum - The largest wax museum in the
United States, the Movieland Wax Museum gives the public a
chance to walk within inches of realistic wax figures of
famous Hollywood stars including the likenesses of such TV
greats as Tom Selleck, Michael Landon, Carol Burnett, the
entire cast of Star Trek, Don Knotts, Michael J. Fox,
Chuck Norris, Roseanne Barr, George Burns, Lucille Ball,
Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, and Arnold the Pig. The museum is
located at 7711 Beach Boulevard in Buena Park, California. A
similar but smaller wax museum is the
Hollywood Wax Museum located at 6767 Hollywood Boulevard,
Hollywood, CA.
Museum of Broadcast Communications - One of only two broadcast museums in
America, the MBC opened to the public on June 13, 1987, after
five years of development, led by Chicago broadcaster Bruce
DuMont. It is located in the Chicago
Cultural Center on Michigan Avenue at Washington Street since
the summer of 1992. Their extensive public archives collection
houses more than 70,000 radio and television programs and
commercials. Called a "truly a world-class institution" by
Leonard Maltin of Entertainment Tonight, the MBC offers
state-of-the-art studios, spacious screening suites, special
galleries and the museum's own gift shop. In 2004 the museum
located to a new building at State and Kinzie in Chicago's
River North.
Paley Center for Media - A nonprofit museum founded by
William S. Paley to collect and preserve television and radio
programs and to make them available to the public. The Paley
Center for Media, with locations in New York and Los Angeles,
leads the discussion about the cultural, creative, and social
significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for
the professional community and media-interested public Both
museums offer tours, exhibits, seminars, and access to viewing
stations where visitors can watch old TV series or listen to
vintage radio programs.
MZTV Museum of Television - Based in
Toronto, the MZTV's mission is to collect, preserve, and
exhibit the World’s most comprehensive collection of North
American television receivers, for the 50 year period from the
1920s to the 1970s.
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television -
Located at Bradford, West Yorkshire in Great Britain, the
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television attracts
approximately 750,000 visitors each year. Founded in 1983 the
NMPFT is part of the National Museum of Science and Industry.
The Museum's renowned collection includes more than three
million items of historical, social and cultural value. These
include three key 'firsts': the world's first negative, the
earliest television footage and what is regarded as the
world's first example of moving pictures –
Louis Le Prince's 1888 film of Leeds Bridge. Special
events bring you face-to-face with leading photographers,
stars and program makers, allowing visitors to ask the
questions you want answered. Three film festivals bring you
the very best in new and classic film.
Newseum - The Newseum is an interactive museum of
news. Having welcomed more than 2.25 million visitors in
nearly five years of operation the Newseum closed its
Arlington, Va., facility on March 3, 2002 while it prepares to
relocate to Washington, D.C. The new Newseum will be located
at the corner of Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., and Sixth Street, It
is scheduled to open in 2006. The Newseum's administrative
offices are located at 1101 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22209.
TV Anchors - This site provides the latest pictures of TV Anchors, TV Hosts, TV Newsreaders, TV Actresses, Weather Girls and TV Reporters.
TV Days (Classic Video Archives) - Web portal for the
New York based company Video Resources who for over twenty
years has been used by scholars, schools, universities, ad
agencies, film studios, feature film producers, directors,
music videos, documentary filmmakers, collectors, hobbyists,
toy companies, toy retailers, network and cable news, magazine
and variety shows worldwide. Video Resources New York houses
over 50,000 hours of television commercials, rare
one-of-a-kind television shows, industrials, sales films,
government movies, educational films, newsreels, cartoons,
silent and sound feature films and shorts, soundies, and home
movies, among other odd reels and short subjects.
TV History - The First 75 Years - Nifty collection
of TV history from the 1930s to the present. Site has great
photos of old TV sets, sample Network Ident photos and
year-by-year links to important facts, key dates, magazine
covers, early manuals, technical data, patent copies,
advertising of TV sets, TV related ephemera (paper
collectibles) and examples of the world's first television
sets, such as the Baird "Televisor", early Jenkins Mechanical
TV, the 1939 RCA TRK-12, or the first color TVs, up to and
including HDTV models.
UC Berkeley Media Resources Center - The Media
Resources Center (MRC) is the UC Berkeley Library's primary
collection of materials in electronic non-print (audio and
visual) formats. The collection includes dramatic
performances; literary adaptations; speeches; lectures and
events; primary source recordings, such as historic TV
commercials and newsreels; and documentaries, including one of
the strongest collections of works by independent film and
video makers in the US.
UCLA Film & Television Archive
- A unique resource for media study, the Archive constitutes
one of the largest collections of media materials in the
United States - second only to the Library of Congress in
Washington, D.C. - and the largest of any university in the
world. Its vaults hold more than 220,000 motion picture and
television titles and 27 million feet of newsreel footage. The
combined collections represent an all-encompassing
documentation of the 20th century. Check out the
Television Commercials page for a summary of their TV
commercials collection.
Walton Mountain Museum - Inspired by the family drama THE WALTONS/CBS/1972-81, the
Walton Mountain Museum is located in Schuyler, in the Piedmont
area of Virginia. Schuyler is a small mountain village of
approximately 400 people in the foothills of the Blue Ridge
Mountains. Founded in 1992, the museum is housed in the old
Schuyler Elementary School across the street from the boyhood
home of Earl Hamner. The museum is open daily from 10AM to 4PM
from the first Saturday in March through the last Sunday in
November with the exceptions of Easter, Thanksgiving, and the
second Saturday in October.
The World's Earliest Television Recordings...Restored
- "This is the primary research site on the earliest recordings of
television. From the dawn of our television
technology age comes the restored wonders of original
recordings made in the era of mechanically-scanned television!
Not until the computer era came on us could we study these
images. Now they can be seen in as close to their original
quality as the latest techniques can take us.
