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This listing of local area museums of interest to film / audio / television engineers is in development. Please contact the webmaster if you know of additional museums accessible from Rochester-Buffalo-Syracuse, that should be added to the list. Check the museum websites for opening hours as some of these museums are open only limited dates and hours. ........................................................................................................................................................... Antique Wireless Association - Radio Communications MuseumVillage Green, Rts. 5 & 20, Bloomfield NY (about 20 miles south of Rochester).Open most Saturday and Sunday afternoons in the summer months only. See website: http://www.antiquewireless.org/museum/museum.htm In addition to its extensive collection of radio, telegraph and cell-phone technology, the AWA museum contains working examples of 1920s mechanical television equipment, a collection of early television pick-up tubes including iconoscopes, orthicons, vidicons, etc., and examples of early (1940s) wire- and magnetic tape sound recorders.
........................................................................................................................................................... Case Research Lab Museum203 Genesee St, Auburn NY (near Syracuse, NY) Open Tuesday - Sunday, noon - 5:00 pm. Closed on major holidays and the month of January. See website: http://cayuganet.org/cayugamuseum/researchlab.htm This is the building in which Theodore Case and Earl I. Sponable developed early sound-on-film systems including the AEOlight tube for exposing a variable-density sound track in a motion picture camera and the Thalofide photocell for reproducing the optical sound track in the projector. ........................................................................................................................................................... George Eastman House900 East Avenue, Rochester NY 14607 Open every day except Mondays, Thanksgiving and Christmas. See website: http://www.eastmanhouse.org/inc/visit/hours_and_info.php Motion Picture Department: http://eastmanhouse.org/inc/collections/motion_picture.php George Eastman House has an extensive collection of motion picture technology in addition to its collection of still photographs and cameras. A repertory program of screenings of classic- and current films is presented nightly in the Dryden Theatre, recently upgraded with new Kinoton projectors and digital sound systems. Occasionally classic silent movies are presented, with a piano accompaniment.
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