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Scanned film and broadcasting trade magazines going back to 1904, searchable in full text. The industry writing about itself, live.
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Media History Digital Library sits in Lost Media under Retro, and we have it filed as rabbit hole — clear your evening. we warned you. It reads as brainy.
Lost media wikis, obsolete format museums and archives of things that were never meant to outlive their broadcast.
Decades of adverts preserved exactly as broadcast, including the jingles you will regret having remembered.
An audio museum of sounds made by objects that no longer exist — dial tones, shutter clicks, the whirr of a rewinding tape.
US government training films liberated from federal vaults. Sincere, badly acted, and occasionally about surviving a nuclear attack.
The looser, stranger sibling of the main lost media wiki, with more speculation and considerably more unresolved threads.
The Internet Archive's full film and video collection — public domain features, home movies, government reels and stranger things.
Every format anybody ever stored anything on, documented with photographs and the dates it lived between. Far more than you expect.
Radio drama, comedy and serials from before television took over, in quantities that would take several lifetimes to finish.
Thousands of American industrial, educational and advertising films, all public domain and all quietly extraordinary.