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History
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Hallmark Hall of Fame: The First Fifty Years 
 This site celebrates television broadcasts sponsored by Hallmark from 1951 through 2001. It features an introductory essay, timeline, and synopses of programs (browsable by title or by decade) such as for the memorable live premiere in 1951 of "Amahl and the Night Visitors" and the 1953 production of "Hamlet," which "marked the first presentation of a Shakespearean play on U.S. network television." From the UCLA Film and Television Archive. http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/hallmark/ Topics: Television Last updated Mar 15, 2007 How Reality TV Shocked the World
As "a TV channel in the Netherlands ... [was set] to broadcast a programme where a terminally ill woman [would] pick someone to receive her kidneys," this May 2007 article discussed a number of other reality television shows "that hit headlines." Often these shows were in the news because portions of the shows were a hoax, as the "Big Donor Show" was later learned to be. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6700327.stm Topics: Television Last updated Jun 7, 2007 MZTV Museum of Television
Website for this Canadian museum started by collector Moses Znaimer (MZ) devoted to the history of television, with an emphasis on television technology before World War II. The site features online exhibits of quotes about television, a timeline with images of artifacts, background about television pioneers (such as John Logie Baird and Philo Farnsworth), discussion of television and the 1939 New York World's Fair, and a 3-D interactive historical television set gallery. http://www.mztv.com/ Topics: Television Last updated Jan 23, 2008 Sydenham Town: John Logie Baird: TV Inventor
This website describes the work of John Logie Baird, an inventor of television who "helped the BBC begin the first public television service in 1932" and who "moved to Crescent Wood Road on Sydenham Hill and established the world's first major TV Studio and Broadcasting Complex at the Crystal Palace." Includes photos and links to articles about Baird and his work. From the community website for Sydenham Town, the SE26 district of London. http://www.sydenham.org.uk/john_logie_baird.html Topics: Notable People, Technology, Television Last updated Jan 15, 2008 The UCLA Film and Television Archive Collections
This overview of the film, television, news, and audio collections at the University of California, Los Angeles, Film and Television Archive features brief background about topics such as animation, Cecil B. DeMille, Film Noir, the Pre-Code era, Jean Renoir, "soundies" ("considered the precursors to music videos"), television commercials, and Hearst Metrotone newsreels. Also includes a link to a database of the collection. http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/collections/collections.html Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Libraries & Archives by Type, Television Last updated Mar 15, 2007 |
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