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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/08/2026

🕳️ What happens when an entire TV network nearly disappears from history? The DuMont Network pioneered television with firsts that shaped the medium, yet much of its legacy is gone forever. 📺 📚 Read for free or purchase in print: archive.org/details/vani... 🧵

Teal graphic for the Vanishing Culture series asking "How much of America's early television history is gone for good?" and quoting Taylor Cole Miller, Media Historian, with the quote "Television culture is inextricably linked with American culture, but most early television is lost forever, a vanishing era of our culture with few traces."

Orange graphic quoting Taylor Cole Miller, Media Historian, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the quote "DuMont's television archive was intentionally destroyed as a result of the negotiations of a sale in the 1970s...dumped in the Upper New York Bay. Very neat. No problem."

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/08/2026

Taylor Cole Miller explores what vanished with DuMont, and why preserving television history matters. 🗄️ #Books #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive

Light green-gray graphic quoting Taylor Cole Miller, Media Historian, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the quote "But while its kinescopes may have submitted to a watery grave, the efforts of open-access archives like the Internet Archive...offer glimmers of hope."

Book cover titled “Vanishing Culture” on a teal background. Pixel-art style graphics show a VHS tape, open book, film reel, chain link, and vinyl record dissolving into digital fragments. At the bottom, a cursor icon points to the word “SAVE,” alongside an archive-style building icon, evoking digital preservation.

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Adam Hyman @adamhy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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Some items from Dumont are in the collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. I’ve gotten a screener from one variety show. But so much early TV is lost, Dumont, lical shows, other networks…

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