1990s
Anime cannot be told as a single history
A cautious reading of the available sources shows why debates about anime’s origins, its international circulation and the formation of its audiences should be kept distinct.
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1980s
Television is preserved beyond the screen
The RTVE Archive and the Museo RTVE project show why preserving television means caring for recordings, documents, equipment and the context that gives them meaning.
1950s
What Remained After the Broadcast
In post-war Spain, demonstrating television and preserving its images were different tasks. The 1948 trials and the use of film recording until 1956 offer a few traces, but cannot fully establish what was broadcast or what was lost.
1970s
Television is preserved too: tracing the TVE archive
Archives, historical studies and decade-by-decade retrospectives help reconstruct parts of Spanish television history, while also showing why it is important to distinguish surviving broadcasts from later accounts and documentary gaps.
1960s
Television is preserved too: what the TVE archive can tell us
The Televisión Española archive offers more than programmes to study: its media, equipment and documents show how television became technical and cultural memory, and why preservation requires context.
1960s
From the First Broadcasts to a Television Phenomenon: Spain, 1956–1964
Regular television broadcasting in Spain began in 1956, but its early history cannot be reduced to an opening date. The available sources show how the new medium gained public presence and how programmes, advertising and political context intersected in its first years.
2000s
From the Shared Screen to the Archive: Spanish Television from the 1970s to the 2000s
A source-based look at changes in Spanish television, from the medium’s milestones and expansion to the technical transformation of production and audiovisual preservation.
1970s
From the shared screen to the accessible archive: four decades of television in Spain
A cautious reading of Spanish television’s evolution from the 1970s to the 2000s, considering technical, cultural and archival changes without turning television memory into a chronology of nostalgia.
Before 1950
Before Videotape: How Television Was Recorded in Its Early Years
Early broadcasts and early television archives did not rely on videotape. The available documentation identifies motion-picture filming and film processing as the only way to record programmes until 1956, while Spanish demonstrations in 1948 anticipated the medium’s public arrival.
2000s
From the Home Screen to the Archive: Four Decades of Spanish Television
A cautious reading of Spanish television from the 1970s to the 2000s: the screen’s consolidation in domestic life, the technical importance of colour, and the contemporary change brought by consulting television heritage through digital archives.
Before 1950
Before Tape: How Early Television Was Preserved
Early regular broadcasts faced a fundamental problem: how to keep a programme designed to vanish once it had aired. The available evidence identifies motion-picture film as the only recording medium until 1956, making it possible to examine what that limitation meant for delayed transmission, archives and television memory.
1970s
The Archive as a Gateway to Spanish Television from 1970 to 2000
A cautious reading of Spanish television between the 1970s and the turn of the millennium: what accessible archives allow us to verify, which milestones the sources cite, and where this evidence reaches its limits.
