Footage of historical media events includes excerpts from broadcasts of the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 and Orson Welles’s radio broadcast of
War of the Worlds in 1938.
Explore media development through clips illustrating media trends as they occurred including the advent of television as explained by David Sarnoff and Vladimir Zworkin and the launching of the first U.S. satellite into orbit.
Media criticism clips include pieces from Media Education Foundation films and independent critics covering a range of topics from news consolidation and copyright issues to an imagined future of the Internet.