Video History Project

Tool Links

  • American Magic Lantern Theater

    America's only professional touring company re-creating Victorian magic-lantern shows.

  • American Photographic Historical Society

  • Ascii Art Gallery

    Showcase of computer keystroke art.

  • Atari Archives

  • Audio Playground

  • AudioVisualizers

    This site is intended to provide a comprehensive forum for video performance artists who run the gamut from high intensity rave video mixers, to experimental interactive installation artists, and other likeminded creative folks choosing video as a major focus of their art.

  • Dave Jones Design

    Dave Jones Design is a unique small business located in central New York state. They specialize in products and services for artists and museums involved in electronic art as well as certain products for multi-channel video that are useful in trade shows, store windows, kiosks, and other video installations.

  • Dave Sieg's Scanimate Files

    Historical information and photographs of the Scanimate system designed by Lee Harrison.

  • Dead Media Project

    Extensive links to sites concerning obsolete technology.

  • Early Television Foundation

    Dedicated to the preservation and restoration of television receiving and camera equipment from the early days of television. Extensive links to early tv sites, including mechanical tv.

  • Edison Motion Picture and Sound Recordings

    Information on Edison equipment.

  • Bill Etra

    one of the creators of the Rutt-Etra video synthesizer.

  • Experimental Musical Instruments

    If you have an interest in musical instruments, with an emphasis on the out-of-the-ordinary, this is the place.

  • Hugh LeCaine

    Canadian electronic music pioneer, designed over twenty analogue musical instruments.

  • Lab Guys World

    Comprehensive information about obsolete video equipment.

  • Magic Lantern Castle Museum

    The Magic Lantern is the earliest form of slide projector and became "the Father of motion pictures, and the Grandfather of television".

  • Moog Archives

    Comprehensive history of the company along with photos and descriptions of the tools.

  • Museum of Early Video Editing Equipment and Techniques

  • Quadruplex Park

    Most comprehensive descriptions with images of all early formats of video recording.

  • Rutt Video Interactive

    Rutt Video Interactive provides a range of production facilities, linear and non-linear, computer graphics and interactive multimedia applications authoring tools. RVI published InfoArt, an interactive CD-ROM art catalog highlighting the work of artists working in new media.

  • Siggraph

  • Synthmuseum.com

    vintage synthesizer information and resources.

  • Synth Site

    audio synthesizers.

  • Obsolete

    History, timelines, links.

  • VidiPax

    Articles and resources dedicated to the restoration and preservation of magnetic data, as well as information about the services offered by VidiPax.

  • Vintage Synth Explorer

    audio synthesizers.

  • Vintage Computer Festival

    The Vintage Computer Festival is an annual Silicon Valley event celebrating our computer heritage. Our mission is to encourage the preservation of obsolete computers and software, to promote interest in researching and documenting the history of the computer age...and to have fun playing with old iron.

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Summary

Directory of web resources for historical and experimental audiovisual technologies; entries include American Magic Lantern Theater (Victorian magic-lantern shows), Early Television Foundation (preservation and restoration of early television receiving and camera equipment), and Quadruplex Park (descriptions and images of early video recording formats). Other listings cover synthesizer history (Moog Archives, Synthmuseum), video-equipment preservation and editing (Lab Guys World, Museum of Early Video Editing Equipment and Techniques), interactive multimedia and authoring tools (Rutt Video Interactive, AudioVisualizers), and obsolete-media and magnetic-data preservation (Dead Media Project, Obsolete, VidiPax).

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Last modified 15 September 2026

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