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"TV VAULT" Welcome. No need for a combination to this "vault". This site contains a collection of what many consider historic television graphics. It is unfortunate that the preservation of these memories has not been a high priority in most corners of the television industry. Because these types of elements are not "revenue generating", many have been ignored, ill-preserved or even thrown out by the American television networks - ABC, CBS, NBC and others. Our mission is to locate, restore and preserve as many historic American television graphics as possible. At present, this website is simply a "cut and paste" of what was formerly the "TV_Vault", assembled from my personal collection as well as with the help and contributions of members of various YAHOO groups. More information on these groups later. Hopefully you will be able to overlook the very crude "design" of this website at present. It was thrown together in literally under one hour simply to get it online. This is a spare time personal hobby and will take some time to develop. Please bear with us. -Jay Cordova, 12-27-04 (jay@americantelevisionpreservation.com)
Posted 6-12-04 From Billy Ingram of TVParty (www.tvparty.com). From rare tape "30 years of ABC". Mediocre 16mm transfers but very watchable. Tape goes all the way back to late 50's, but only posting a few snippets from late 60's early 70's here. More to come. ABC Wide World of Sports classic promo
ABC Wide World of Sports Wide
World of Sports - decent quality audio - clean (no sponsor v/o)
Posted 5-28-04 From the 1" Protection Master Tapes of Bill Feigenbaum. This was cutting edge state-of-the-art work during this period. Bill produced this work at NYIT and was the only person on the east coast at this time doing this high-end work. It's amazing stuff. It's also nice to hear the excellent audio quality from the broadcast tapes. These files have been processed and encoded to display 30 full frames per second with no interlace artifacts. Enjoy. And thank you
Bill Feigenbaum for sharing this historic work. CBS Sports Sunday - early eighties; ditto CBS National Football League Open 1982 CBS NFL Today Open 1982 (check out the old music) CBS NFL Today Open 1983 (with new groovy music)
Posted 4-3-04 A few 1966-68 NBC
promo snippets from Bill
Feigenbaum NBC tapes. Bill was Art Director at NBC at this time and
these are his personal transfers from 16mm. No time to put together more
than this right now, but I've got tons of fall promos ("NBC Week")
from I believe all three years touting each season's new shows. Very interesting
to watch, although I don't remember any of this stuff myself. Posted 12-6-03 1991 Headline News Open Theme (audio wav file) 1991
Headline News Bump - audio wav file. Bill "Troll" Tullis
voice-over. Troll was also the voice for "TBS Newswatch" intro
and ending. Troll sounded good, a distinctive voice, but he only did very
few voice overs - Newswatch and Headline News are the only two I can think
of during a 25 year period. Troll got me my job at TBS at age 20 while
a student at Georgia Tech. We're both from Valdosta, Georgia. Cinemax Coming up (sometime in the eighties - VHS off-air) CBS Sports 80s Football Open. Poor quality. VHS off air. Mary Tyler Moore CBS Promos 1970. From DVD "The Making of MTM Show" edited by Ko Maruyama; produced by Matt Asner (married to Jules, the lucky guy). Ko said that Matt had interesting stories of growing up with the show and cast. Movie Channel Feature Presentations - eighties, off-air VHS Jay's 1980's Demo (lower quality mpeg - ancient history 18MB) Jay's 1990's Demo (semi-ancient history mpeg 23MB) One day
I'll edit a demo with the last 6 years of my work. Just can't seem to
find the time, though. Contributions from library of Jermaine Schex Links for Gareth Price for International Collection 1984
CNN PrimeNews open (Grid version) 1990
CNN PrimeNews open (Video/marble matrix version) Note: I also produced a 1987 PrimeNews open I called the "arctic" version. I'll post that at a later time. Must recover that from the original 1" master. More
to come. I've got tons of my work from CNN and TBS in original form and
well presereved in ziplog bags!. Hopefully you'll enjoy the original masters,
although I'll admit they're not quite the same as seeing the nostalgic
on-air versions with voice-over, etc. More (some may be inactive) CBS_Late_Night 80s - from Pacific Data Images, Glenn Entis animator (mpeg 1.63MB) CBS Tuesday Movie 80s - from Pacific Data Images - Glenn Entis animator (mpeg 2.3MB) NBC Movie Filmstrips 80s - from Pacific Data Images (mpeg 2.7MB) NBC Movie Stripes 80s - from Pacific Data Images (mpeg 2.6MB) Astroboy Open (anyone remember this?) Mannix - Open, from first season - from 16MM transfer on VHS Mannix - Open, bump, close from last season (the best open IMO) See Kris Trexler's
excellent website containing historic network material and information: HBO HBO CLASSIC OPEN - 11.4MB mpeg-1, high quality and data rate (from Jermains Schex!!!)
Hey - an actual new posting 8-23-05 CBS Movie Open Theme "So Old, So Young" - 48KHz mp3 - recorded 1971 |