MZTV~Museum of Television

This is a unique and wonderful website with everything you could ever want to know about the television. Did you know that according to the MZTV website that there are more TV’s than indoor toilets, roughly one set for every four to five people that live on the planet. This website focuses on the importance of the receivers themselves,  “charting the history of the small screen.” Like we discussed in class, Moses Znaimer (the chairman/ executive producer of MZTV Museum of Television) mentions how television were symbols of wealth and status in the 1950s, and how the 60s and 70s considered televisions to be household commodities.  The website also talks about TV’s first star Felix the Cat. One of the most useful tools on the site is the Pioneers of Television, where you can learn about Paul Nipkow the first man accredited with the concept of the television, to Philo Farnsworth who demonstrated the first all electronic system of television in 1927. But my favorite aspect of the website is the ‘Television in Quotes’ section, here are some I found moving…

“Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.”

Camille Paglia- Author/ Critic/ Educator

“Anyone afraid of what television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world” 

            Clive James- Author

“The potential audience of television in its ultimate development may reasonably be expected to be limited only by the population of the Earth itself”

David Sarnoff Chairman, Radio Corp. of America (RCA)

“Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely goverened by what people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want”

                        Clive Barnes- Critic, New York Times