LInks to other TV camera sites and Museums
Outside Broadcast sites |
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www.mcr21.org.uk | The restoration of the 1963 BBC Outside Broadcast van MCR21 |
Television Outside Broadcast History in the UK from 1937 |
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Broadcast Television Technology Trust (BTTT) | A Charitable Trust formed to preserve all aspects of television and associated technologies, documentation and memories |
Television Museum Sites |
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Broadcast Cameras | Stefan Schröder's site specializing in ENG cameras, very nice photographs. |
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. |
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 |
Museo della Radio e della Televisone (Rai)
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Rai, Italian state Broadcasters Museum website and at the Rai production Centre, Turin. Open, subect to restrictions, free admission. (website in Italian) |
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. |
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Museum of the History of Science, Oxford | Pictures of the Marconi MkII Image Orthicon
Camera. Home of the Marconi Archive & more. UK |
Museo de la Imagen (no website?? found) | A small museum on the outskirts of Santiago de Cuba. It has several vintage broadcast cameras on display including a Soviet KT-87, a Dumont, an NEC, and an EMI 203. There is a "Remote Truck" (OB van) parked outside. Open to the public, Cuba. |
National Media Museum | New name for the National Museum of Film Photography
and Television, Bradford, UK. Open to the public. |
RTP Virtual Museum |
Radio E Televisao de Portugal. A Physical Museum open to the public to visit. There is a large and extensive collection to view on line, Very good site! Mostly in Engish. |
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 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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Cameras Broadcast, Thomson | A good site featuring Thomson and CSF cameras from
the collection of Bernard Tichit. In French. |
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 |
Dauberich's Flicker Albums Stephen Schröder |
A large number of excellent photographs of "classic" ENG type cameras, Sony, Panasonic, Hitachi, Ikegami & others. |
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 |
Television Forums |
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VideoKarma | Useful forum with world coverage, use:- "Television Broadcast Gear" section for cameras. |
Broadcast Equipment Discussion Zone |
BATC forum site, recommended. Global coverage for Amateur Television with dedicated broadcast page.
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Television Camera Manufacturers |
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Ampex | The current site for Ampex, Good History section on VTRs |
Television Technology & Data Sites |
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Test cards and aspect ratios (lost Link) |
Alan Pemberton's excellent technical descriptions
of test card features. Extensive site with much technical information. |
Quantel Digital Fact Book (lost Link) | A really useful anthology of technical terms with
explanations relating to the digital TV world. It is a PDF with 206
pages. |
The well respected IBA technical reviews can be downloaded from the NTL pension association site. |
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EBU monitor evaluation guide. tech3320 | Version 4.1 Published Sept. 2019 |
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