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James Charles Kaelin, Jr. is the pioneer of historical multimedia on the internet. Recovering from crippling case of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome that disabled him for a decade, Jim Kaelin began to make historical sound files for his own amusement, to share with others on the net and to give what little he could back to society in 1995, when he discovered that there were so few online. He became thereby the most archived sound digitizer on the internet, beginning when he created NASA's online Apollo 11 sound site, a collection which was quickly "mirrored" by over 100 websites worldwide within weeks of its release. Encouraged by this, in March 1996 he created the EarthStation1! website as a means by which to resume his duties as a contributing member of society. It immediately became the first and foremost historical sound & image archive on the internet, featuring his original audio, video and image digitations. Based on the website's success, he took the courage of his convictions, volunteered off of disability and made the operation of EarthStation1 his chosen profession.
In June of 2001, he found that his website's contents were appearing on cd-roms for sale on eBay and elsewhere without either his knowledge or permission. He decided he could do a better job of it, so in July 2001 he began producing and publishing his own digitations made from his awesome audio/visual library through his EarthStation1.com Multimedia website. It became an even more succesful enterterprise than the original website, and helped secure J. C. Kaelin's reputation as a businessman, digital editor and media archivist.
In September 2008, that successful concern evolved into MediaOutlet.com, a comprehensive media production and publishing company still owned and operated by J. C. Kaelin.
Especially created to meet the needs of students and teachers worldwide, MediaOutlet.com and its constituent websites have gained approval for teaching history and media studies by various American state, British, French and Singapore governments, as well as by museums, libraries, archives & hundreds of prestigous schools K-12, college, university & post-graduate worldwide since 1996. Much of its constituent material had never been made available to the public before they were created for and published by J. C. Kaelin. Literally hundreds of subjects are covered by the MediaOutlet.com catalog, including General History, World War I, World War II, TV/Movie/Radio Broadcasting History, Documentaries, Movies, Music, Teleplays, Modern and Ancient Drama, Black/Ethnic/Civil Rights, Government, Business, Space Flight, The Cold War and much more. In many institutions of learning throughout the US - and indeed in some countries the entire nation's educational curriculum - center around materials produced by J. C. Kaelin for EarthStation1 and its heir MediaOutlet.com.
Of these, many believe it's the World War II materials that are the "crown jewels" of J. C.'s digitations, many of which adorn such documentary classics as the landmark epic TV documentary series THE WAR directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick and distributed by Florentine Films, the PBS documentary series HISTORY DETECTIVES, the History Channel's WWII IN HD and more besides. With thousands of sound, still and moving image documents from both sides of that great conflict, it's become by merit of the love & effort that went into it one of the foremost Second World War media publishing sites on the internet.
The historical multimedia productions produced by J. C. Kaelin have been created, remastered and enhanced to provide the highest quality digitations possible. Great care has been taken to obtain the highest quality original media possible from museums, archives, libraries and private collections worldwide. Many hours have been spent on some single files, while others have taken weeks or even months to create. The especial results of these efforts have been the development of a number of digitizing processes - audio, video and imaging - which produce media of superior resolution than those made using traditional methods.
"I thank you for your interest in me and in MediaOutlet.com. It's a pleasure and a privilige both to help "keep the faith" by creating and maintaining a true historical account of the sound and image history of man. Thank you for your support in that great work!
In Good Fellowship,
J. C. Kaelin
Proprietor, MediaOutlet.com."
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