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Yesterday's Tomorrow Today!

The Whelk — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:18:45 -0800

The BBC broadcasted the science and technology showcase show Tomorrow's World (titles on piano) on 7 July 1965 on BBC1, it ran for 38 years until it was cancelled at the beginning of 2003. Unlike the boosterism of US science programs, Tomorrow's World was more famous for it's live stunts and wry outlook ( James Burke experiences the "convenient" office of the future and the future of home gardening and crushing ennui). The BBC has an archive of episodes and clips for UK visitors, everyone else will have to be content with clips concerning Home Computers, New Banking, Nellie The School Computer, The Elliot Light Pen, Mobile Phones, and Moog Synthesizers.

New! And Improved! Buy Now! Half off! Limited time offer! Fortified with 11 vitamins and minerals!

loquacious — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:38:53 -0800

Melt your brain into goo on an overdose of crass 80s consumerism and TV without the TV shows at 80sCommercialVault. Superbowl 19 commercials. Commercials from Jaws. Saturday morning commercials. Daytime / evening commercials. GYOB editorial commentary: Links are more or less random. Contained in the archives are gems and stinkers from all over the US. There's also quite a few 70s and 90s commercial in the archives, as well as news broadcasts and other arcana from the era. Chances are good you'll may find a sequence of commercials you may even remember watching at the time of broadcast. Many/most of the sequences are dated and annotated and searchable if you're looking for a particular commercial or date or TV station. I find this fascinating because it's many things. History. The state of the art of analog video production and optical effects. The shift into digital motion graphics and effects. The awesome 80s clothes. Products or companies long dead that you've forgotten about. And a masochistic sense of Gen X nostalgia. It's also nice to be able to look back and see how ridiculous these look out of context. In hindsight it's much easier to see the manipulation going on, and I found it illuminating.

What if you could watch every channel on 9/11?

jscott — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:28:25 -0800

See history roll over the world. Today, the Internet Archive has released to the world an archive of all news programs on nearly every major television channel from 9/11/2001 to 9/16/2001. This exhibit, called Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive provides a grid navigation system of these many hours of footage from dozens of worldwide news programs and gives us a comprehensive overview of television's reaction to 9/11, on 9/11.

Australia’s audiovisual heritage online

tellurian — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:17:01 -0800

australianscreen launched today. You can view clips from Australian feature films, documentaries, TV programs, shorts, home movies, newsreels, advertisements, other historical footage, and sponsored films produced over the last 100 years, with curators’ notes and other information about each title. [via Margaret and David]

We hope, very shortly, to release a mouse in the elephant's cage.

WolfDaddy — Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:06:55 -0800

If you're a fan of the works of J. Michael Straczynski (especially Babylon 5, and let me take this moment to give massive props to The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5, the second website I ever visited (after searching Yahoo! for "Babylon 5")), then you probably already know that he has long been an advocate of online communication as a means of both promotion of his work and communication with the fans of said work. JMSnews.com has an archive of all his postings going back eleven and a half years, a neat accomplishment by ephemeral Internet standards, and it's fascinating reading that gives you a nice portrait of a guy with a story to tell, and his journey to get it told. If you're a geek for "the business" that is Hollywood, this is for you.

BFI presents screenonline

jacknose — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 09:41:59 -0800

BFI presents screenonline | The British Film Institute announces the launch of screenonline: "This new site features an unrivalled collection of archive film and television footage from the bfi National Film and Television Archive.... [It] is the first time the bfi has given the public access online to its comprehensive collection of film and television material, giving teachers, students and film enthusiasts an exceptional opportunity to investigate British history, culture and society through cinema. "

Well, this won't last long.

luke — Mon, 28 Feb 2000 14:30:29 -0800

Well, this won't last long. It appears to be streaming video of every single Simpsons episode. Ay, carumba!