Media

Thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s.

The Archive has collected hundreds of in-depth video interviews with television legends and pioneers. These television history interviews can be browsed by person, show, topic or profession.

British Broadcasting Corporation content, including short clips on current events, documentaries, and 360° Video.

The site offers access to over 70 years of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation programming. Supported and funded by the Canadian Culture Online program (Department of Canadian Heritage), it contains thousands of historic radio and television clips as well as full-length programming featuring notable personalities such as Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Malcolm X, Woody Allen, and Glenn Gould.

Cinecraft is a sponsored film production company founded in 1939 which specializes in commercial productions for business, industry, trade organizations, government agencies and social service organizations. This collection, maintained by Hagley Library, includes motion pictures, still images, scripts and related production documents from the company's founding into the early 1980s, with the bulk covering the 1950s to the 1970s.

Originally acquired by the University of Texas as a donation by Mike Wallace in the early 1960’s, this collection contains 16mm kinescope film recordings of over 60 interviews. Now keyword searchable, this rich-media database will be continually updated and enhanced.

This site, managed by Fandango and hosted via YouTube, indexes licensed movie clips that can be viewed, shared via social networking sites, and embedded into web content.

The purpose of the MIA is to offer permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The site includes texts, audio, moving images, software, as well as archived web pages. Of particular interest to film researchers is the Prelinger Archives, which feature educational / ephemeral films from earlier eras that often provide a unique window to the viewpoints and common attitudes of their time.

This is a unique web resource for users interested in capturing early sound bites from radio shows in the 1940s through the 1960s. It is dubbed as a source “for the history of nostalgic and old time radio series and news.”