Pixels Past is a video game design and development firm created to provide the gaming industry with innovative products and the necessary tools to build games for classic video game systems.
dead link: http://www.pixelspast.com/
This hobbiest has recreated a mechanical television (a moving light is rapidly turned on and off by radio signal to create an image), put a pair of eye holes in for stereoscopic images, added spinning RGB filters to add color, and built a mechanical camera too.
dead link: http://www.radiocraft.co.uk/3dcolour.htm
From the Columbia Journalism Review, a guide to media ownership.
dead link: http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/index.asp
Someday this may become a source for open licensed images, but for now it is just a plan to create such a site.
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