LInks to other TV camera sites and Museums
Television Museum Sites |
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| Canada Science and Technology Museum | It is a physical museum that you can visit. Located
at 1867 St Laurent Blvd, Ottawa, Ontario K1G 5A3, CANADA |
| CBC Museum, Canada. | Located at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre, 250 Front St. W. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Admission free. (in 2008) |
| Chalk Hills Media Broadcast Museum | An extensive site with many pictures of cameras
and early OB trucks. Located in Kilgore Texas, USA |
| Deutsches Fernsehmuseum Wiesbaden | A very extensive virtual museum site. They are
a small German non profit organisation to keep the knowledge, the
science and the hardware of the past 50 years (and longer) of German
and international TV history. |
| Farnsworth TV & Pioneer Museum | It is a physical museum that you can visit. Rigby,
Idaho, USA. Tues to Sun. Admission free (2009) Closed 2010 and collection sold off. |
| Farvis TV-Museum Pfungstadt | This Group operates a website and a physical TV
museum in Pfungstadt, Germany, detailing "Fernseh GmbH"
in Darmstadt |
| Labguy's World | The History of Video Tape Recorders before
Betamax and VHS |
| Museum of Broadcast Technology | The Museum of Broadcast Technology located in Woonsocket,
Rhode Island, USA and is dedicated to the restoration of early TV
cameras, videotape systems and related technologies. |
| Museum of the History of Science, Oxford | Pictures of the Marconi MkII Image Orthicon
Camera. Home of the Marconi Archive & more. UK |
| National Media Museum | New name for the National Museum of Film Photography
and Television, Bradford, UK. Open to the public. |
| Southwest
Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation |
It is a physical museum that you can visit. Very
large site with section on broadcasting. domestic and industrial cameras.
USA |
| Television History - The first 75 years | One of the greatest 20th century inventions. Learn
about the history of TV-set design, development and marketing. |
| The Broadcast Camera Museum (currently off line) | The Broadcast Camera Museum Dedicated to Fernseh
and Philips cameras. Holland. |
| The Early Television Foundation and Museum | Large and detailed site from the earliest days
of Television. The Early Television Museum is located at 5396 Franklin Street in Hilliard, Ohio, USA |
| The Pavek Museum of Broadcasting | It is a physical museum that you can visit. Minnesota,
USA. Extensive website. |
| The RCA Equipment Archive | Extensive site with cameras, telecine, video recorders |
Television Camera Collections |
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| 40 ans de Cameras Broadcast, Thomson | A good site featuring Thomson and CSF cameras from
the collection of Bernard Tichit. In French and English. |
| Eyes of a Generation | Bobby Ellerbee's web site dedicated to the collection,
restoration, and preservation of classic broadcast television equipment. |
| Chuck Pharis Camera collection | A very extensive and well known site |
| Golden Age TV | Golden age TV recreations, a range of vintage cameras
for hire. |
| Marcel's TV Museum | Extensive website with domestic TV, Video Recorders
and Broadcast Cameras. Holland. |
| Museum of early consumer electronics | The rewindmuseum.com has a large collection of
video recorders and cameras from educational and domestic use. |
| "Old VCRs" Video Equipment Collection | Paul Seeley's New Zealand site, mainly VCRs, but
a good number of more recent TV cameras featured. |
| Vintage TV Cameras | Australian site featuring RCA, Pye, EMI and Marconi
by James |
| Zdenek Houska camera collection | A nice site featuring 2 Czech cameras and a Marconi
MkVII, many photographs of cameras and other items. Written in Czechoslovakian. |
Television Forums |
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| VideoKarma | Useful forum with world coverage, use:- "Television Broadcast Gear" section for cameras. |
Television Camera Manufacturers |
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| Ampex | The current site for Ampex, Good History section on VTRs |
Television Technology Sites |
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| Test cards and aspect ratios | Alan Pemberton's excellent technical descriptions
of test card features. Extensive site with much technical information. |
| Quantel Digital Fact Book | A really useful anthology of technical terms with
explanations relating to the digital TV world. It is a PDF with 206
pages. |
General Television Sites |
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| On The Air, The vintage technology centre | Steve Harris's excellent site for Vintage Radio,
Television and Audio. |
| Radio and TV Broadcasting Resources | A timeline list of dates and links to further
broadcasting resorces. |
| Terra
Media and Chronomedia |
Very detailed site with a vast amount of TV and
Film dates and personalities. |
| Tech Ops History in stories and pictures | A large site with personal reminisces, pictures
and history of broadcasting. |
| An incomplete history of London's television studios | An extensive website with history, plans and photographs
of past TV studios. |
| TV Ark Links | Comprehensive selection of TV related links. |
| Television Camera tubes | Almost All Digital site's Camera tube collection. |
| Old BBC Radio Broadcasting, equipment and memories | On these pages are pictures of old BBC radio equipment and memories from the people who built, maintained and used it.
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Dutch Omroepfoto pages with behind the scenes crew pictures + vintage pictures
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The Dutch Omroepfoto (broadcasting) site is a photo site which has broadcast crew photos from past to present and there are a number of vintage photos of early cameras mixed in with them. Just keep scrolling down. |
Recordings about Television |
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| A link to YouTube and Link 125 pictures | Paul Daniels makes a Link 125 disappear! |
| A link to YouTube & Philips LDK13 camera | ITV Magpie programme EMI 2001 at start LDK13 at 1m52s in. |
| "The Cambridge Story" | A Pye industrial television promotion film. |
| "An Eye to the Future" | A Pye broadcast television promotion film. |
The British Amateur TV Club |
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| Main Index | Transmitting, receiving, studio and camera subjects. |
| The Forum | A brand new area for keeping up to date! |
| The Streamer (batc.tv) | Live streams of ATV and archive (ATV) footage |