Archiving TV… the old fashion way
May 7th, 02008 by Alexander Rose 
This is a wonderful find by “America Found: A Snapshot History” blog. It is someone’s snap shots they took of their TV as one of the Apollo missions took place. There is something quaint and lovely about taking pictures of your television to document an important moment. Pre VCR, pre DVD, pre TiVo but still captures the essence of the broadcast.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Wow, brilliant. And such great on-screen graphics!
I remember taking photos of high-scoring Atari games on my friend’s TV. In theory, you could send in the photos and Atari would send you a patch or some other kind of prize for your high score. I think the photos were always way too blurry to make out the numerical score on the screen, so we never got anything. Bah.
May 7th, 2008 at 10:04 am
The interesting thing to me is that these photos make it seem much more real than what I have seen of the actual footage.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:21 am
Lo-fi is *real*-fi! (or something)… :)
May 11th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
I seem to remember a news report from several months ago that NASA has a lot of “old” videotape from around the time of the Gemini missions that they cannot play because they no longer have working machines for the format. I may have some details wrong, but the concept is close.