User:Tanawat2002/List of international TV footage yet to be found


 * There is almost no footage from the 1930s-1940s, and also little footage of experimental TV.
 * Zimbabwe (only footage of pre-2000s TV are 2 videos of Rhodesia-era TV: some news footage from 1984 and TV DX footage from 1991)
 * Timor-Leste (very little footage found, both before and after independence. There is also no footage of TVRI Dili)
 * Small Caribbean Islands (there is way more footage out there than found. The Lesser Antilles have no old TV footage whatsoever besides Barbados and A&B)
 * Small Oceania Islands (a lot of missing stuff, with a few stuff being found. Worth noting that Guam had TV months before Australia)
 * Mozambique (almost no footage in the communist era, also not much footage before 2000)
 * Mauritania (the only pre-2000 footage that's online is a news intro)
 * Guinea (ditto)
 * San Marino (ditto)
 * Maldives (very little footage found)
 * Malawi (was probably never looked into)
 * Madagascar (most footage before the 1990s)
 * Macau (could use more TV archiving)
 * Vatican City (could use more footage archiving)
 * Gambia (no footage before the mid-2000s)
 * Equatorial Guinea (only old footage that exists is of a TV DX)
 * Republic of the Congo (for a long while there was no footage before 2000, but now a TV ident and news intro from 1966 has been uploaded, which is still the only one)
 * Belize (same as the Republic of Congo, it was believed there were no archives before 2000, but now footage for Channel 5 news exists from 1991, but there is still little footage)
 * Cabo Verde (hardly any footage)
 * Bhutan (not a lot of footage found)
 * Andorra (ditto)
 * Guinea-Bissau (almost no footage before 2010s)
 * Liechtenstein (there is no footage before 2000, 1FLTV has no uploaded archives)
 * Sierra Leone (no footage before 2010s)
 * Seychelles (very little footage found before mid 2000s)
 * São Tome and Princípe (very little footage found, only footage before 2010s is an experimential TV ident from 1985)
 * Rwanda (only traces of pre-2000 footage is a cheap news intro)
 * Namibia (almost no footage of TV before the 2000s, both when it just gained independence and when NBC was SWAUK SWABC)
 * Mauritius (only some footage before 2000)
 * Haiti (all periods of time, especially before the 2010s)
 * Eritrea (probably was a local station before independence. Only a limited number of footage exists, no footage of a sign on or closedown)
 * Botswana (very little footage found)
 * Yemen (both the north and south, which hardly have footage)
 * Tanzania (only ITV Tanzania has footage before 2000. The other TV stations has no footage before the 2000s. The only existing Zanzibar TV footage are some music videos)
 * Suriname (almost no footage exists before 2000)
 * Papua New Guinea (barely any footage before the 2010s)
 * Guyana (only a compilation of commercials exists as pre-2000 footage)
 * Comoros (little pre-2010 footage found)
 * Burkina Faso (only 90s news footage is up online, no footage beyond that, and there is no footage of Volta Vision)
 * Somalia (hardly any footage before its civil war in 1991)
 * Senegal (turnout of old TV footage is lower than expected)
 * Liberia (all periods of time, only pre-2000 footage that exists are of a comedy and a station ID)
 * North Korea (all periods of time, there no footage in the 1960s-1970s)
 * Gabon (the only old TV footage that exists are some TV DX footage  and a news report from 1982, aside from that, none.)
 * Democratic Republic of the Congo (no footage of TV before 2005 when its current name was just formed. Some more *Tele Zaire footage being found would be nice)
 * Myanmar (most footage that was preserved in the 80s are just of music videos and commercials, and there is little footage from the 1990s)
 * Brunei (there's a good chunk of 80s TV footage, but there is barely any footage from the 90s)
 * Chad (almost no footage before mid-2000s)
 * Djibouti (ditto)
 * Cameroon (ditto)
 * Mali (ditto to a lesser extent)
 * Burundi (no footage before mid-2000s)
 * Central African Republic (ditto)
 * Nigeria (a lot of footage yet to be found, there is no footage during the time when NTA used to be a bunch of local stations, like when it was formed to be WNTV in 1957. Local TV on the other hand has little footage, same for the other national channels)
 * Togo and Benin (little pre-2000 TV footage found)
 * Angola (there's a good chunk of old TV footage found, but it would be nice to see a lot more)
 * Laos (there is no footage before 2000)
 * Uganda (ditto)
 * Ghana (pre-mid 2000s, most of what is online are its old TV shows, there has never been an upload of an old ID)
 * Zambia (some TV footage before the 2000s was found, but it should be looked into more)
 * Cambodia (there is almost no footage before the monarchy was restored in 1993, still most footage from the 90s is old TV programs and not IDs)
 * Lesotho and eSwatini (hardly any footage)
 * Libya (Gaddafi era, moreso before the 2000s)
 * Oman (besides its funky news intro, the turnout of old TV footage is low, mainly before the 90s)
 * Lebanon (due to civil war that ended in 1990, only a small amount of TV footage is found before then and there is no footage before 1980)
 * Monaco (more footage is out there than what is found, especially before 1980)
 * Malta (ditto, only footage before 1980 is a TV ident from the 60s)
 * Cyprus (very low turnout of footage before the 90s beside some news intros)
 * Qatar (ditto)
 * Kuwait (ditto)
 * Bahrain (ditto)
 * Jordan (1968-1980s)
 * Israel (almost no footage before the 1980s)
 * Tunisia (ditto)
 * Iraq (ditto)
 * Sri Lanka (not much footage before 1990)
 * United Arab Emirates (somewhat low turnout of old TV footage found, also low turnout of footage from the other emirates)
 * Morocco (barely any footage before the late-1980s)
 * Moldova (not so much old TV footage is out there, moreso of the USSR era)
 * New Zealand (not too much footage of NZBC is found, also local TV stations)
 * Syria (while some footage has been found, there's still more out there, mainly during the 20th century)
 * Algeria (more pre-80s footage would be nice, also almost no footage of colonial-era TV)
 * Bolivia (1969-1980s)
 * Iceland (almost no footage before the mid-1980s)
 * Hong Kong (almost no footage before the mid-1970s)
 * Cuba (mainly during pre-Castro TV, but also of the other channels like Tele Rebelde)
 * Ecuador (somewhat low turnout of old TV footage found)
 * Paraguay (ditto)
 * Panama (ditto)
 * Guatemala (ditto, also there is no footage of Canal 8 which shut down in 1961)
 * Dominican Republic (ditto to a greater extent, especially before the 1990s)
 * Nicaragua (ditto)
 * Costa Rica (ditto)
 * Honduras (ditto)
 * El Salvador (ditto)
 * Portugal (there is a lot of pre-1980 footage up, but there is still more to be found)
 * Uruguay (a lot of problems with TV archiving; there is almost no footage before the 1990s and very low turnout of local TV footage. Some TV channels even have no footage)
 * Central Asia (Kazakhstan has a lot of old TV footage found, but there's not so much before the 90s. The other 4 barely have footage before the 1990s)
 * Kenya (1962-1980s)
 * Iran (Pahlavi-era TV has very little footage, also not much footage during its war with Iraq)
 * Luxembourg (more pre-80s footage would be nice)
 * Afghanistan (before and during war with the USSR, also of the Northern Alliance TV)
 * Caucasia (while there is a lot of old footage found, the turnout is rather low for other channels. There is also not so much footage before the 1990s and almost no footage from the unrecognized states)
 * Bulgaria (more TV footage is out there than what is found, particularly before 2000)
 * Albania (little footage before 1990)
 * Belgium (German-speaking TV has no footage before the mid-2000s, also not a lot of footage in the 1950s-1960s)
 * Ethiopia (only traces of footage before the 1990s are a TV ident and 2 music videos)
 * Egypt (low turnout of footage before the mid-1980s)
 * Argentina (low footage turnout before the 80s, also the more rural local TV)
 * Peru (ditto)
 * Chile (ditto)
 * Bangladesh (some footage exists before 2000, but not a whole lot)
 * Nepal (ditto)
 * Sudan (ditto)
 * Côte d'Ivoire (ditto. Worth mentioning that there is even a TV ident from 1963)
 * Pakistan (1960s-1970s, as well as other channels like STN)
 * Finland (not too much footage before the 1970s)
 * Vietnam (not a lot of TV footage before 1990, and very low turnout of local TV footage. South Vietnam has a lot of photo archives but only a few video archives)
 * Greece (low turnout of footage before the 80s, also not so much footage of local channels)
 * Venezuela (ditto)
 * Colombia (ditto)
 * Austria (ditto)
 * Czechia and Slovakia (Czechoslovakian TV before the 1980s)
 * Baltic countries (a lot of missing footage before the 2000s, including in Latvia where finding an ID is difficult)
 * Malaysia (low turnout of footage before the 1980s)
 * Singapore (ditto)
 * South Korea (ditto)
 * Saudi Arabia (ditto)
 * Switzerland (ditto, also not a lot of Romansh-speaking TV footage found)
 * Poland (almost no footage before the 70s, also very few IDs and graphics before the 1980s and local TV before the mid-1990s)
 * Mexico (very low turnout of educational and local TV footage, also obscure cable channels)
 * Sweden (missing a lot of footage before the 1980s, also public access TV)
 * Philippines (almost no footage in the 1960s, most footage in the 1970s are just commercials. Local TV has low turnout of footage)
 * Mongolia (some pre-2000 footage has been found, but not so much. Other channels like TV5 also have little old footage)
 * Germany (there's a good chunk of footage before 1980, but it would be nice to see a bit more and there is more local TV footage out there than found other than ARD)
 * Hungary (same as Germany, but there is less local TV found)
 * Norway (ditto, but nearly all of pre-1980 footage is TV programs, not idents)
 * South Africa (a suprising low amount of footage of the other TV channels before 2000)
 * Ireland (ditto)
 * Denmark (also lower than expected turnout of old TV footage but only in some fields)
 * Romania (not much footage of Cold War era and local TV exists)
 * France (mainly obscure TV channels)
 * Turkey (almost no footage before the mid-1970s, and also local TV. There is only 1 TV ident before the 1980s)
 * Ukraine (little amount of TV footage found before the 1990s, also local stations)
 * Belarus (ditto)
 * former Yugoslavia (there are a lot of archives up, but on some fields there's not much)
 * Spain (not too much local TV footage)
 * Italy (ditto)
 * Netherlands (ditto)
 * United Kingdom (aside from ITV, local TV before the 2000s wasn't so successful. Also the less known cable channels)
 * United States (across, mainly of rural areas TV as well as low powered stations and public access stations. Nearly all footage of NET-era public TV is programs, not sign-ons and closedowns)
 * Canada (ditto)
 * Australia (ditto)
 * Brazil (ditto to a lesser extent, also has not so much footage in the 1950s and early 1960s)
 * Japan (ditto to an even lesser extent)
 * China (across, mostly rural areas TV as there are over 4,000 local city stations. Also barely any footage before 1980)
 * India (also has little footage before 1980, and a lot of missing footage for local TV stations. This may be because Doordarshan did not broadcast nationwide until 1982)
 * Indonesia (ditto)
 * Thailand (ditto)
 * Russia (across, rural areas TV as every town has at least one TV station and it has the most TV stations in the world at 5,000. Also footage of national TV before the mid 70s)
 * Niger (only old footage is a TV-DX, aside from that, none)
 * South Sudan (due to ongoing civil war, there is almost no footage)
 * Palestine (not too much TV footage found)
 * Taiwan (not so much TV footage found, specifically of China Television and mostly before the 1990s)
 * Western Sahara (no footage prior to the start of regular television broadcasts in 2009)
 * Northern Cyprus (very little footage found. Worth noting that many Turkish TV channels broadcast here)
 * Transnistria (almost no footage found, and there is no footage of the 2 local TV stations)
 * Somaliland (there is no footage before the 2010s)