Archives

Archives are a way to preserve a collection of work that is hard to find and will be disappearing. Archives serve as a purpose to share with the world so they have access to disappearing works of art. Our idea of an archive is an archival collection of the theme music of shows that were popular in the 90’s.  They would be categorized by network then genre. The theme songs from shows on Fox, MTV, Nickelodeon, Cartoon-Network, Comedy Central, Disney, TV-Land, etc. would be gathered and categorized by the network they are aired on. The home-page of the archive will display the different networks, from there you would be able to click on a network which would take you a list of popular 90’s shows that aired on that station. After clicking on the show of your choice, you will be able to either listen to and download a downloadable audio file of the theme song. There will also be the video of the intro in which the theme song plays. For example, after clicking on MTV, you would see a list of shows that were on MTV in the 90’s. If you were to click on Beavis and Butthead you would then see the audio-file of the theme, which you could also download, and you would also see the video (via YouTube) of the opening sequence of Beavis and Butthead there as well, giving you the option to just listen to the song or to actually see the opening sequence that plays the song.

The reason why this archive can be an important one is because the loss of air time these shows have. More and more shows are being introduced into these networks and are drowning out the older classic TV shows that people still enjoy. Giving the chance to access the intro and theme music can let someone relive childhood memories of sitting down to watch their favorite TV show. This archive also serves as a purpose to demonstrate how TV programming has changed through the years.