Television: An Undergraduate Research Guide : Organizations
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National Organizations
- Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS)5220 Lankershim Blvd.
North Hollywood, CA 91601
Telephone: (818) 754-2800 - National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS)1697 Broadway, Suite #404
New York, NY 10019
Telephone: (212) 586-8424
Fax: (212) 246-8129 - The Paley Center for Media25 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
Telephone: (212) 621-6600
465 North Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Telephone: (310) 786-1000
Local Archives
Wisconsin Historical Society
816 State Street, Madison
- NBC CollectionSelected papers of the National Broadcasting Company, Inc., dating from 1921-1969, are housed on campus at the Wisconsin Historical Society. A link to an online register is located in this holdings record.
- Edwin H. Newman CollectionPapers of an author and NBC news commentator and drama critic, comprised of fan mail, annotated playbills and programs, television scripts, and transcripts from 1944-1978.
- Pat Weaver PapersPapers of television executive, media consultant, and entrepreneur Sylvester L. (“Pat”) Weaver, Jr., documenting his professional career, beginning with his employment as an advertising executive at Young & Rubicam and his subsequent years at NBC.
Local Archives, cont.
Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research
Department of Communication Arts / Wisconsin Historical Society
816 State Street, Madison
The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR) is the home of one of the oldest and most extensive collections of print, audio/visual, and graphic materials relating to film, theater, radio and television in the United States.
- Radio and Television CollectionsRadio and television production from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s is best represented in the WCFTR collection, but significant holdings in more contemporary media can be found here too.
- The Ed Sullivan ShowIn the early 1970s, Ed Sullivan donated his papers to WCFTR. The images included here were from his donation and include publicity stills of famous performers, backstage snapshots, and production stills.
National Archives
- Library of American BroadcastingHolding a wide-ranging collection of audio and video recordings, books, pamphlets, periodicals, personal collections, oral histories, photographs, scripts and vertical files, this collection is devoted exclusively to the history of broadcasting.
- Library of Congress · Motion Picture and Television Reading RoomIn 1942, recognizing the importance of motion pictures and the need to preserve them as a historical record, the Library began the collection of the films themselves. From 1949 on these included films made for television. Today the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS) has responsibility for the acquisition, cataloging and preservation of the motion picture and television collections.
- The Museum of Broadcast CommunicationsThe mission of the museum is to collect, preserve, and present historic and contemporary radio and television content as well as educate, inform, and entertain the public through its archives, public programs, screenings, exhibits, publications and online access to its resources.
- The Paley Center for MediaThe Paley Center's permanent media collection contains nearly 150,000 television and radio programs and advertisements. The online database offers synopses, along with production credits for the programs.
- Peabody Awards CollectionThis collection at the University of Georgia holds over 90,000 radio and television titles. It reflects the best in American broadcasting history, with titles from news, documentary, entertainment, educational, children's, and public service programming.
- UCLA Film & Television ArchiveWith over 300,000 films and television programs, and 27 million feet of newsreel footage, the UCLA Film and Television Archive is the world's largest university-held collection of motion pictures and broadcast programming.
- Vanderbilt Television News ArchiveOne of the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. VTNA has been recording, preserving and providing access to television news broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968.