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Old video is hard to find (musings from Route 66)

Today is the last day of the Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association 30th annual conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I presented a paper on the problems inherent in finding and viewing old television programs for study. That’s a problem I ran into when researching this book. First, there’s the issue of the great volume of TV shows produced in the U.S. – that requires the time and talent of lots of people processing old tapes and kinescopes to make them available to the public. There’s also the problem of rights and ownership and all of that. And with cooking shows in particular, back in the days of the appliance or utility company-sponsored programs hosted by home economists, nobody ever thought such shows would be worth saving. They were seen as ephemeral. Who’d have though someone would actually want to watch them fifty years down the road? I did find some at great archives and libraries like the UCLA Film and TV Archive and the Paley Center for Media and the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, but they are rare indeed. Let’s hope that today’s programs will be available for future scholars and everybody else. By now we should know that there’s value in everything that anyone puts in the time and effort to produce.

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