This page is a growing aggregate to help fans and researchers find rare information and audio/video on the web. For questions about these resources, or to give a suggestion please email: archivebuilder@gmail.com
One of the web’s largest collections of advertising images, from both Great Britain and America. Features many ads geared featuring children and children’s products.
Cartoon Research: www.cartoonresearch.com
Home of the animation history research of author Jerry Beck and colleagues. Serves as a resource site and daily commentary blog. Great site for information about nationally and international animated television series with some video clips not to be seen anywhere else.
Chicago Film Archives. www.chicagofilmarchives.org
This site features a growing collection of television programs, motion pictures and home movies, mostly, but not entirely related to Chicago, Illinois. Features the rarely seen series "Off to Adventure" (1957), and "Raymond Massey Reads the Bible".
General Media Research Collections Sites:
Internet Archive: www.archive.org
A tremendous online library with thousands of vintage newsreels, television & radio programs, classroom films, digitized books and articles, all of which are downloadable or can be temporarily checked out online. Features several downloadable public domain television series. Includes commercials from Duke University’s "AdViews" Advertising collection.
Digital Public Library of America: dp.la
Massive entry site to digital collections from hundreds of digital collections from around the country. Provides access to some film, television, photo collections of many local television programs and a variety of collections about entertainers and broadcasters.
A tremendous online library with thousands of vintage newsreels, television & radio programs, classroom films, digitized books and articles, all of which are downloadable or can be temporarily checked out online. Features several downloadable public domain television series. Includes commercials from Duke University’s "AdViews" Advertising collection.
Digital Public Library of America: dp.la
Massive entry site to digital collections from hundreds of digital collections from around the country. Provides access to some film, television, photo collections of many local television programs and a variety of collections about entertainers and broadcasters.
Library of Congress: loc.gov
The Library of Congress has several films, images, and texts that can be viewed online. Highlights for children's media include lost silent films, themed online exhibits, and public domain texts.
Online Audio-Video Libraries & Museums
Advertising Archives. www.advertisingarchives.co.ukOne of the web’s largest collections of advertising images, from both Great Britain and America. Features many ads geared featuring children and children’s products.
Cartoon Research: www.cartoonresearch.com
Home of the animation history research of author Jerry Beck and colleagues. Serves as a resource site and daily commentary blog. Great site for information about nationally and international animated television series with some video clips not to be seen anywhere else.
Chicago Film Archives. www.chicagofilmarchives.org
This site features a growing collection of television programs, motion pictures and home movies, mostly, but not entirely related to Chicago, Illinois. Features the rarely seen series "Off to Adventure" (1957), and "Raymond Massey Reads the Bible".
NEW!!! Ira H. Gallen Collection, Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archives. https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/jw828040s
Over 250 films from the film collection of Ira H. Gallen, the legendary film and TV historian and founder of TV Days (also see TV Days on this list).
The University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC): https://mirc.sc.edu/
Among the hundreds of gems are many outtakes from the Fox Movietone Collection. Includes behind-the-scenes footage of "The Children’s Hour" radio series.
Museum of Broadcast Communications: Chicago, Illinois. www.museum.tv
This prestigious museum in Chicago, features an online archive (offline since 2013 only to reemerge in 2016 with growing content), with rare children’s television and radio programs, free with registration.
National Film Preservation Board: http://www.filmpreservation.org/
Features watchable short films recently rediscovered from international film archives. Clips available include an episode of the silent McDougall Alley Kids series and an early comedy with Bobby Connelly and Ada Utley, perhaps cinema's first Black child star. As of 2017 some of these shorts are now available on the Internet Archive.
National Information Center for Educational Media. www.nicem.com One of the oldest on-going sources for educational media.
Old Time Radio Researchers (OTRR) Library. www.ottr.org/library The internet’s largest online collection of radio programs from the early days of broadcasting. Quality varies from file to file; mostly 24 to 64 htz, 2.5 to 30MB size files. Includes legendary programs like The Lone Ranger, Let’s Pretend, Adventures of Superman, and Little Orphan Annie. Many programs also have pages uploaded onto the Internet Archive.
The Paley Center For Media (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio) www.paleycenter.org
PBS: Pioneers of Television: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/pioneers-of-television/
The accompanying website to the PBS documentary series. Features photos, interview clips, and complete episodes.
The University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC): https://mirc.sc.edu/
Among the hundreds of gems are many outtakes from the Fox Movietone Collection. Includes behind-the-scenes footage of "The Children’s Hour" radio series.
Museum of Broadcast Communications: Chicago, Illinois. www.museum.tv
This prestigious museum in Chicago, features an online archive (offline since 2013 only to reemerge in 2016 with growing content), with rare children’s television and radio programs, free with registration.
National Film Preservation Board: http://www.filmpreservation.org/
Features watchable short films recently rediscovered from international film archives. Clips available include an episode of the silent McDougall Alley Kids series and an early comedy with Bobby Connelly and Ada Utley, perhaps cinema's first Black child star. As of 2017 some of these shorts are now available on the Internet Archive.
National Information Center for Educational Media. www.nicem.com One of the oldest on-going sources for educational media.
Old Time Radio Researchers (OTRR) Library. www.ottr.org/library The internet’s largest online collection of radio programs from the early days of broadcasting. Quality varies from file to file; mostly 24 to 64 htz, 2.5 to 30MB size files. Includes legendary programs like The Lone Ranger, Let’s Pretend, Adventures of Superman, and Little Orphan Annie. Many programs also have pages uploaded onto the Internet Archive.
The Paley Center For Media (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio) www.paleycenter.org
PBS: Pioneers of Television: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/pioneers-of-television/
The accompanying website to the PBS documentary series. Features photos, interview clips, and complete episodes.
RadioGOLDIndex: https://radiogoldin.library.umkc.edu/
"The Definitive Database of Old Time Radio Programs". Scope and content increase often and is a great site to research radio (and TV) performers.
Radio Spirits: www.radiospirits.com
A leader in high-quality retail old-time radio collections, as well as the owner of many master recordings. Their website features a well-written daily blog on OTR personalities, movies, and programs.
Not nearly as many juvenile programs available in recent years as in the past (only The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, Chandu the Magician, Challenge of the Yukon and Superman) but new collections featuring some of these characters include previously unavailable broadcasts. Many out of print collections with Lets Pretend, Meet Corliss Archer, and other shows are available through Amazon and eBay.
TV Ark – Children’s Television: www.2.tv-ark.org.uk/childrens/index.html Details and scenes of opening/closings of British children’s show going back to 1949.
TV Days: www.tvdays.com. Ira Gallen’s official website. Gallen saved many kinescope recordings of golden age television classics. Many uploads and DVD collections circulating the internet are copied from his DVD collections. Extensive information on the Rootie Kazootie program.
TV Party: www.tvparty.com Billy Ingram’s fun, colorful online site devoted to television history and popular culture. Includes many pages on local and nationally known children’s programs.
Radio Spirits: www.radiospirits.com
A leader in high-quality retail old-time radio collections, as well as the owner of many master recordings. Their website features a well-written daily blog on OTR personalities, movies, and programs.
Not nearly as many juvenile programs available in recent years as in the past (only The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, Chandu the Magician, Challenge of the Yukon and Superman) but new collections featuring some of these characters include previously unavailable broadcasts. Many out of print collections with Lets Pretend, Meet Corliss Archer, and other shows are available through Amazon and eBay.
TV Ark – Children’s Television: www.2.tv-ark.org.uk/childrens/index.html Details and scenes of opening/closings of British children’s show going back to 1949.
TV Days: www.tvdays.com. Ira Gallen’s official website. Gallen saved many kinescope recordings of golden age television classics. Many uploads and DVD collections circulating the internet are copied from his DVD collections. Extensive information on the Rootie Kazootie program.
TV Party: www.tvparty.com Billy Ingram’s fun, colorful online site devoted to television history and popular culture. Includes many pages on local and nationally known children’s programs.
Digital Periodical Collections
World Radio History (formerly American Radio History): www.americanradiohistory.com Hundreds of text searchable magazines, newsletters, and journals from every decade of broadcasting history.
Chronicling America: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/. The Library of Congress' collection of digital newspapers, with newspapers as late as 1963. Very searchable source for film reviews, ads, comic pages, articles, and early children's features.
Fulton History: www.fultonhistory.com Possibly the world’s largest independently created newspaper database, created by Tom Trynski, a retired New York postal worker. Over 55 million searchable newspapers, and growing, mostly from New York, plus some Philadelphia papers. The "Brooklyn Daily Eagle" is searchable from another website in higher quality.
Excellent source for news articles and schedules for New York area TV and radio schedules. Easiest available source for articles on the rarest children’s series like Ozmoe, Stories From the Book, and The Ghost Rider (WCAU, 1951).
Excellent source for news articles and schedules for New York area TV and radio schedules. Easiest available source for articles on the rarest children’s series like Ozmoe, Stories From the Book, and The Ghost Rider (WCAU, 1951).
Google Newspapers: https://news.google.com/newspapers
Many have already forgotten that Google was once actively digitizing microfilmed newspapers. Many papers on their site are not available in Newspapers.com or other newspapers digital collections.
Historic African-American Newspapers Available Online: LibGuide from Marist College by Elizabeth Clarke.
Historically Black newspapers are also great sources of information on classic kids radio and tv programs, especially for programs from Chicago, New York, and other cities where children of color could visit or participate in broadcasts.
Historically Black newspapers are also great sources of information on classic kids radio and tv programs, especially for programs from Chicago, New York, and other cities where children of color could visit or participate in broadcasts.
Margaret Herrick Digital Collections: https://digitalcollections.oscars.org/digital/
Multiple movie, film, TV and radio resources from the library of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. The Casting Directories section is a favorite for finding rare images of child stars of film, screen, and California radio stations.
Media History Library: www.mediahistorylibrary.org
A joint digital library collection of film, television and radio periodicals from The Library of Congress and The University of Wisconsin. Cinema, television, radio, Hollywood, home movie, and educational media magazines.
Magazine pages can be downloaded as JPEG images, whole volumes as PDFs. Great site for colorful cover images, photo spreads of cinema personalities, rarely seen texts and images of radio programs, lost films, and forgotten personalities.“Broadcasting” magazine is also accessible from American Radio History.
A joint digital library collection of film, television and radio periodicals from The Library of Congress and The University of Wisconsin. Cinema, television, radio, Hollywood, home movie, and educational media magazines.
Magazine pages can be downloaded as JPEG images, whole volumes as PDFs. Great site for colorful cover images, photo spreads of cinema personalities, rarely seen texts and images of radio programs, lost films, and forgotten personalities.“Broadcasting” magazine is also accessible from American Radio History.
Old-Time Radio Researchers Group (OTRR): www.otrr.org The OTRR group pages include a section on OTR fan magazines from the 1960s to the present and another section for vintage radio and television magazines like Radio Guide, Radio & Television Mirror. Downloadable as PDFs.
Wishbook Web: www.wishbookweb.com Scores of vintage Christmas catalogs from Sears, Montgomery Ward, and many more retailers. Great site to search for vintage toys and costumes based on radio, film, and television characters.
Media History Learning Resources
Telecommunications Technology 101: Phone, Radio, and Television - A one page history and resource for histories and milestones on the development of modern communication technology. A special thanks to Chloe Pederson for sharing this resource: https://voicenation.com/resources/telecommunications-technology-101-phone-radio-and-television/
"History of the Car Radio" - By Carly Hallman. https://www.titlemax.com/articles/the-history-of-the-car-radio/ Fascinating page article from TitleMax with a pre-history and decade by decade development of the car radio. Special thanks to Stacey Martin and Nicole for sharing this resource.
NEW!! - OOMA - Telecommunications History: Broadcasting. By Diane Balogh. A helpful overview on the history of communications with many supportive links. A very special thanks to Eric and Annie Pruitt for sharing this resource with the CMA blog. https://www.ooma.com/blog/telecommunications-history-broadcasting/
Regional Broadcast Histories
Top View Sight-Seeing: New York Broadcasting History: https://www.topviewnyc.com/packages/new-york-s-broadcasting-history
A timeline of key broadcasting moments related to New York History from 1912 - 2008.
Broadcasting in Chicago [Rich Samuels]: www.richsamuels.com. A longtime favorite resource on Chicago series like "Ding Dong School", "Super Circus", and rarities like "Uncle Ned's Squadron".
NEW! Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia: https://www.broadcastpioneers.com/
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