Five Year Diary, Reel 38: Watching Music Television (April 6–May 18, 1984) / 1984

Radio and Television / 1940

Vocational guidance film showing the radio industry as it existed in 1940, along with potential occupations at every level. Introduces the new industry of television, emphasizing its need for specially skilled workers. The film features imagery the electronics used in the pre-World War II era.

Tubes - Live at German Television: The Musikladen Concert 1981 / 2016

For the first time on DVD. The fantastic concert of The Tubes presenting their album Completion Backward Principle in the studios of Radio Bremen, Germany in 1981. The concert was completely filmed and shows Fee Waybill, Roger Steen, Bill Spooner, Rick Anderson, Vince Welnick, Michael Cotton and Prairie Prince in top form. A rousing show with many scenes and dancers.

Starfest: The Stars Salute Public Television 1983 /

Filmed in 1983 at Las Vegas's Tropicana Hotel and hosted by Diahann Carroll and Richard Kiley, this variety special features a star-studded cast. Performers include Kiley, who sings his show-stopping rendition of "The Impossible Dream," and Tony Award winner Patti LuPone, who belts out "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina." Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Roberta Peters, impressionist Rich Little and mime duo Shields & Yarnell also make appearances.

Television Assassination / 1975

TELEVISION ASSASSINATION is one of two major works that Bruce Conner began in the days immediately following the Kennedy assassination and the artist's own thirtieth birthday, in the fall of 1963. While REPORT utilized montage and a strongly articulated structure to analyze the forces at work in the killing of a President (including our own complicity), TELEVISION ASSASSINATION is a complex, synthesizing work that weaves together fragments from the flux and flow of that history as it was in the process of being constructed and displayed daily to a nation of spectators. A monument to the enduring potency of the Kennedy myth and to the marketers who created it, the installation brings Conner's critique full-circle into the very medium that formalized it. In so doing, the work seems to suggest that the final resting place for the slain President was neither Brookline nor Arlington National Cemetery, but rather in the box, on the tube, held suspended forever on the television screen.

Locos por la televisión / 1958

Nightclub owners try to scrape up enough money to sponsor a variety show on TV to publicize their artists and their venue.

Snowing Animated Television /

A retro Christmas TV electronic.

Du cinéma à la télévision, propos d'un passeur Serge Daney / 1993

Serge Daney (1944-1992) expressed himself strongly about the world, using the tools of a "Barthes cinema lover in early retirement" as he used to call himself. Co-writer of the book "Devant la recrudescence des vols de sacs à main", Pilippe Roger has filmed Serge Daney confronting him with four major stages in the evolution of cinema : by screening extracts from films by Chaplin, Stevens, Eustache and Truffaut, adding rhythm into this vivid and intelligent, strict but piercing documentary. Serge Daney takes risks : he rushes forward, plying between ethic and aestheticism, destruction and salvation, past and present, Europe and America, fantasy and reality, cinema and psycho-analysis, literary and technical languages, watching and showing. There's enough material here to reconsider the video.

From the Village to TV / 1953

A young man goes to the capital to prove himself as an opera singer, after being rejected he must find other means to achieve fame

Madness: Live - Goodbye Television Centre / 2013

As the BBC makes its exit from the iconic west London site of Television Centre, BBC Four presents a special night of celebration of the building and its 53-year history. To kick start proceedings, the nation's favourite nutty boys and national treasures Madness take to the stage at the front of BBC Television Centre to perform an hour-long concert in front of an assembled audience nine days before TV Centre closes its doors. To help launch this celebration of over 50 years of programme-making at TVC Madness treat us to new material and classics alike, such as One Step Beyond, I Never Knew Your Name, Baggy Trousers and Our House.

Tomorrow Television / 1945

A short documentary detailing the development of television as well as describing promises regarding its presence in postwar America.

Brand New You: Makeover Television and the American Dream /

What do popular television makeover programs like What Not to Wear, The Biggest Loser, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and The Swan tell us about how to look and feel? What do they tell us about what a good life looks like in contemporary America? This new film based on Katherine Sender's book The Makeover explores these questions against the backdrop of American ideals of self-invention and upward mobility. Asking what it means to be an authentic self in an increasingly mediated world -- to be both ordinary and special, to be happy with who we are while always wanting something better -- Brand New You shows how the interventions featured in makeover shows, from weight loss to cosmetic surgery, reproduce conventional norms of physical attractiveness and success.

Cette télévision est la vôtre / 1997

Over a period of several months, director and writer Mariana Otero has been looking through the uncompromising lens of her camera at the realities of life behind the scenes at a commercial TV station: the Portuguese channel SIC.

L'ultima utopia: la televisione secondo Rossellini / 2005

All' inizio degli anni 60, Roberto Rossellini si allontana dell' industria cinematografica "classica" per un ambizioso programma di realizzazioni di televisione. Il regista vuole offrire ai suoi contemporani i mezzi per ripensare il mondo, la loro condizione, la loro storia. Estratti, interviste radiofoniche e racconti di prossimi collaboratori illustranno come la televisione vista da Rossellini è stata la continuazione del lavoro iniziato con Roma città aperta.

Scrappy's Television / 1934

By converting a radio, Scrappy has a new invention, a TV set that he shares with his friends as they change channels watching various shows until they land on an exciting boxing match.

Richard Thompson: Goodbye Television Centre / 2013

Filmed before a small studio audience in the bare style of some of the previous BBC music shows on which Thompson has appeared, this concert celebrates Thompson and a tradition of popular music performance from TV Centre.

Wonderful World of Disney 40 Years of Television Magic / 1994

Michael Eisner opens our look at some of the Greatest Disney Moments in Television History. We star by going back to the simple days, when television had only 3 channels and it was in black and white, and Sunday Night meant Disney. Kirstie Alley is our host for our trip down memory lane. The all-star cast includes, Debbie Allen, Bobby Burgess, Margaret Cho, Roy Disney, George Forman, Tom hanks, Hugh Hefner, John Hench, Billy Joel, Elton John, Ollie Johnston and Ward Kimball.

Kubasa in a Glass: The Strange World of the Winnipeg Television Commercial (1975-1993) / 2006

A found footage video essay tracing Winnipeg's civic pathologies, aesthetic fabulations and exquisite strangeness through the prism of its own low-budget, lo-fi TV advertising produced between 1975 and 1992.

Götterkinder - Eine ergötzliche Television aus vergangener Zeit / 1965

Los televisionudos / 1957

Mexican feature film