Special Features from the MPT Exhibition

Made Possible by Viewers Like You: Maryland Public Television Turns 50 exhibit banner

Behind the Scenes

Camera operator standing behind a camera.

Three technicians sitting behind a control board.

Two technicians adjusting camera rigging.

Director sitting in a director's chair behind lighting equipment.

A woman sitting in front of recording controls.

Filming two men pulling a canon on wheels.

Recording of an indoor event with an audience.

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Behind the Scenes Photographs

“Maryland Public Television is important because public television is important...In Maryland we set out to do it right, and I hope we did.”

— Dr. Rick Breitenfeld, Founding Executive Director, 2018

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Every year, Special Collections & University Archives staff work together to create relevant and interesting exhibition on topics that are of interest to the University, the community, and to scholars.

“Made Possible by Viewers Like You: Maryland Public Television Turns 50” celebrates the 50th anniversary of Maryland Public Television (formerly the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting), which occurred in 2019. This website showcases the best of the gallery exhibit on display in the Maryland Room Gallery at Hornbake Library between September 2019 and July 2020.

Exhibition Curator: Laura Schnitker
Graduate Assistant: Kimmi Ramnine
Graphic Designer: Jennifer Paul

With help from: Laura Cleary, and staff from Digital Conversion and Media Reformatting, Preservation and Conservation, Maryland Public Television, Special Collections and University Archives, EPI Colorspace, and our community members.

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Hornbake Library is located on University of Maryland’s College Park campus. This library is home to Special Collections & University Archives, the Maryland Room and Exhibition Gallery.