From appearing on broadcast television decades ago to internet browsers today, The Faye Emerson Show and World of Giants demonstrate the potential of archives to inspire brilliant research decades beyond their initial runs.
This website presents items from the Faye Emerson and Ziv Television collections, including clips, sample episodes, and photographs, alongside introductions that offer users various entry points to appreciating the programs and understanding the historical conditions that produced them.
The site presents the results of a research project in the sequence through which it unfolded, from provenance to publication. Proceeding page by page will lead you through the experience of discovery, beginning with the incremental steps of a research process that came together over many years. Then, you will find features on two programs that demonstrate both the difficulty and the necessity of archiving, preserving, and widely sharing television history.