[SIGCIS-Members] Seeking visual resources for a TV show

[Jeffrey Yost]

Hi Christine,

The Charles Babbage Institute Archives might have some materials of
interest. The CBI Curator and Archivist is Amanda Wick, cc'd here. We have
over 150,000 photographs. A few thousand are available on UMedia (see link
below). As the disclaimer states, in some cases we do not necessarily have
copyright on images and that is the user's responsibility.  Our two large
corporate collections of Burroughs and Control Data, I would think in most
instances, the images could be used, as the companies likely held copyright
and they transferred these large collections to us. In other collections it
is less certain, the government ones are generally in the public domain. We
also have some video and film sources that might be of interest to you.  I
would also recommend checking with the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View, The Smithsonian NMAH & NASM, and the Silicon Valley Archives at
Stanford University Libraries.

CBI Archives (about the collections and link to University Libraries search
tool to search the collections) Browse the CBIA Collection Guides | CHARLES
BABBAGE INSTITUTE | College of Science and Engineering
<https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/browse-cbia-collection-guides>

UMedia CBI digitized photographs/images   UMedia
<https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/search?facets%5Bcontributing_organization_name_s%5D%5B%5D=University+of+Minnesota+Libraries%2C+Charles+Babbage+Institute.&facets%5Btypes%5D%5B%5D=Still+Image&q=cbi>
cbi
images

Best, Jeff
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*Research Professor, University of Minnesota*

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On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM christine mitchell via Members <
members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:

> Hi SIGCIS members,
>
> Long-time member, first time poster! I'm hoping to connect with
> librarians, archivists and/or collectors regarding public domain and low-
> or no-cost visual materials (clips/images) for a kids educational TV show
> I'm writing and producing.
>
> It's a magazine-style show for kids 8-12 for TVO (TV Ontario, Canada's
> public broadcaster). Each episode delves into some aspect of the digital
> technologies kids use every day – from data centers to undersea cables, to
> recommendation engines, genAI, computer vision, e-waste, etc. In each
> episode, kid hosts meet an expert to explore how these technologies
> function in a fun, accessible way. The goal is to encourage kids to get
> inquisitive about their digital tech and use it in informed ways.
>
> Several episodes will have a brief "Tech Tangent" segment covering a cool
> story from computer history. One on ELIZA, one on floppy disk storage and
> the "Save" icon. We're still in a pre-production phase, so other topics
> remain TBA.
>
> Our budget is limited and I anticipate that stock image libraries we have
> access to may not have sufficient or suitable imagery for the computer
> history segments.
>
> If anyone can point me to contacts or resources that would be helpful to
> the project, I'd be grateful for all ideas and replies – feel free to
> contact me off-list.
>
> Thanks so much!
> Christine
>
>
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