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🕳️ What happens when an entire TV network nearly disappears from history? The DuMont Network pioneered television with firsts that shaped the medium, yet much of its legacy is gone forever. 📺 📚 Read for free or purchase in print: archive.org/details/vani... 🧵

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Internet Archive

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26 Aug

Taylor Cole Miller explores what vanished with DuMont, and why preserving television history matters. 🗄️ #Books #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive

Adam Hyman

@adamhy.bsky.social

29 Aug

Some items from Dumont are in the collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. I’ve gotten a screener from one variety show. But so much early TV is lost, Dumont, lical shows, other networks…

Paul Lee

@strivenword.com

26 Aug

It's strange how alien the analog era seems. I can imagine that the younger generation will quickly become more alienated from the old mass media culture than from, for example, historic pre-industrial society. It's easier to imagine having no real communications technology, I think.

Strangeite

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27 Aug