The concept: a nonprofit archive saving the programs, the people who made them and the stories behind them, open to researchers, teachers and anyone curious.
Visit the collectionEvery item gets a record anyone can search.
Example records, invented for this concept.
The archive keeps three things together.
Tape and film copied before they fail, with captions and a searchable record.
Recorded interviews with the camera operators, engineers, writers and presenters who made it.
Essays, exhibits and lesson plans that put each program in its time.
Families, local stations and collectors can offer recordings. The archive checks the rights, copies the tape and returns the original.
A .org for a public archive of what we watched. The domain is for sale.
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