Media Studies

Images from over 7000 advertisements in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.

A digital collection of thousands of vintage television commercials from the 1950s to the 1980s.

A vast archive of public domain and ephemeral film and video, from 1950s television commercials to 2000s news broadcasts.

The Television Academy Foundation's collection of interviews with television figures from both in front of and behind the camera.

Currently preserves over 250,000 titles in film, video, audiotape, transcription disks, and other recording formats dating from the 1920s to the present.

A collection of over 350,000 films and television programs, over 100,000 News and Public Affairs (NAPA) programs, and over 2,000 radio programs.

Maintains over three hundred collections from outstanding playwrights, television and motion picture writers, producers, actors, designers, directors, and production companies. Materials preserved include: historical records and personal papers, twenty thousand motion pictures, television shows, and videotapes; two million still photographs and promotional graphics; and several thousand sound recordings. It is richest in records of the American film industry between 1930 and 1960, American popular theater in the 1940s and 1950s, and American television from the 1940s to the 1970s.