Writing on Media
Essays and Articles, most from 2016–2020
Television, a Technical Miracle.
- The Dawn of Rural and Small Market TV (1947–55)
- It could have happened a generation earlier: Thirties Alternative to TV History
- Video Tape Recording: technology that changed TV forever, eventually even reaching into most homes in the electrified world, and its much heralded but stillborn art movement. (1955–85)
- TV's Color Wars, 1946,'49,'51 and '53
- Color Television and Christmastime (1960–65)
- Cable and Home Satellite (1970–90)
- High Definition TV (1980–2010)
- Surveillance Television, TV's Dystopian Fantasy and Reality
- Face-to-Face Television (1925–2020)
TV Programs
- Syndication and Reruns (1949–89)
- PBS (1955–1990)
- Spy Shows of the '60s (1964–73)
- A Distant Mirror: 1970–72 in Film and TV
- 1978, A Carter-Era Odyssey: Battlestar Galactica
Films and Film History
- Silent Cinema, A Different World (1915–29)
- Bios of Directors Walsh, Capra and Huston (1915–75)
- It's Raining at the Movies
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1969: This Never Happened to the Other Fellow
- Film Projectionist, 1975: An epic summer rainstorm
- Star Wars (1977): The Power of Editing
- Studio Scandals, 1977–83
- Quiz Show (1994) at 25: The Fifties on Trial
- Miramax: How Did They Do It?
- Primer on Digital Cinema for a general readership (2016)
- 8mm Home Movies, 1932-1982
- Futurama, the Ride 1939/40–1964/65
- Doing Sound for Films
- The Bel-Air Circuit
- Andrzej Wajda 1926-2016 (PDF)
