Surveying the First Decade: Volume 2

08:27:11 | 4 DVDs

Collection: Curated Compilations, DVD Box Sets, Early Video Art

Tags: Activism, Documentary, Image Processing, Video History

This comprehensive package on the history of experimental and independent video is an essential tool for teachers, libraries, and researchers. Volumes 1 and 2 include over 16 hours of historic video on eight thematically curated programs, exploring conceptual, performance-based, image-processed, feminist, documentary and grassroots community-based genres.

Volume 2 includes:

Program 5: Performance of Video-Imaging Tools

Calligrams, Steina and Woody Vasulka, 1970, 04:00 (excerpted from 12:00)
Illuminatin' Sweeney, Skip Sweeney, 1975, 05:00, (excerpted from 28:38)
Video Weavings, Stephen Beck, 1976, 04:06 (excerpted from 28:00)
Five-minute Romp through the IP, Dan Sandin, 1973, 06:34
Triangle in Front of Square in Front of Circle in Front of Triangle, Dan Sandin, 1973, 01:40
Video-Taping, Ernest Gusella, 1974, 02:41
Exquisite Corpse, Ernest Gusella, 1978, 08:23
Einstine, Eric Siegel, 1968, 05:22
General Motors, Phil Morton, 1976, 10:25 (excerpted from 1:00:00)
Merce by Merce by Paik, Nam June Paik, 1978, 27:27
Crossings and Meetings, Ed Emshwiller, 1974, 04:04 (excerpted from 27:33)
Complex Wave Forms, Ralph Hocking, 1977, 04:11 (excerpted from 05:00)
Pictures of the Lost, Barbara Buckner, 1978, 08:04 (excerpted from 23:00)
Video Locomotion (man performing forward hand leap), Peer Bode, 1978, 04:56
Music on Triggering Surfaces, Peer Bode, 1978, 03:06
C-Trend, Woody Vasulka, 1974, 07:19 (excerpted from 09:00)
Switch! Monitor! Drift!, Steina Vasulka, 1976, 03:48

Program 6: Decentralized Communications Projects

Mayday Realtime, David Cort and Curtis Ratcliff, 1971, 10:27 (excerpted from 1:00:00)
People's Video Theater (Women's Liberation March NYC, Gay Pride March NYC, Young Lords Occupy Manhattan Church, Native American Action at Plymouth Rock), People's Video Theatre (Elliot Glass and Ken Marsh), 1970-72, 28:22 (excerpts)
Participation, Steina and Woody Vasulka, 1969-71, 04:37 (excerpted from 30:00)
First Transmission of ACTV, George Stoney and Austin Community Television (ACTV), 1972, 04:31 (excerpted from 8:00)
Jonesboro Storytelling Festival: Kathryn Windham Telling Ghost Stories (The Jumbo Light), Broadside TV , 1974, 05:22
The Politics of Intimacy, Julie Gustafson, 1974, 09:26 (excerpted from 52:20)
Attica Interviews, Portable Channel, 1971, 08:44 (excerpted from 30:00)
Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison, People's Communications Network, 1973, 17:41 (excerpted from 1:03:00)
The Laughing Alligator, Juan Downey, 1979, 26:30

Program 7: Critiques of Art and Media as Commodity and Spectacle

Eternal Frame, Ant Farm and T.R.Uthco, 1976, 22:19
Television Delivers People, Richard Serra and Carlotta Fay Schoolman, 1973, 05:55
The Business of Local News, University Community Video--Minneapolis, 1974, 16:57 (excerpted from 25:00)
Proto Media Primer, Paul Ryan and Raindance Corporation, 1970, 14:42
About Media, Anthony Ramos, 1977, 15:36 (excerpted from 26:00)
Fifty Wonderful Years, Optic Nerve, 1973, 25:59
Technology /Transformation: Wonder Woman, Dara Birnbaum, 1978, 05:25

Program 8: Independents Address TV Audiences

Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life, Downtown Community TV (DCTV), 1977, 57:00
The Ruling Classroom, Peter Bull and Alex Gibney , 1979-80, 57:38
Four More Years, Top Value Television (TVTV), 1972, 1:00:15

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Vasulkas Inc Calligrams (Excerpt) 1970 \| 12:00 Calligrams is one of the Vasulkas' earliest experiments with altering the analog video image. An image is rescanned from the monitor "to capture and preserve the violated state of the standard television signal." The "violations" include... Collection: Single Titles Tags:	Skip Sweeney Illuminatin'... 1975 \| 28:38 Skip Sweeney was an early and proficient experimenter with video feedback. A feedback loop is produced by pointing a camera at the monitor to which it is cabled. Infinite patterns and variations of feedback can be derived from manipulating the... Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: image processing, video history
Stephen Beck Video Weavings (Excerpt) 1976 \| 28:00 Inspired by the analogy between weaving (vertical warp threads traversed by horizontal weft threads) and the construction of the television image (vertical and horizontal scans of an electron gun), Stephen Beck built the Video Weaver in 1974, and... Collection: Single Titles Tags: image processing	Dan Sandin Five-minute Romp... 1973 \| 06:34 In 1973, Dan Sandin designed and built a comprehensive video instrument for artists, the Image Processor (IP), a modular, patch programmable, analog computer optimized for the manipulation of gray level information of multiple video inputs.... Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: chicago art, film or videomaking, image processing, video history
Dan Sandin Triangle in Front of... 1973 \| 01:40 In this elegant demonstration, Sandin explains the mistake of using common language concepts and spatial relations to describe what actually can happen on the video screen. The images generated in the tape act according to specific parameters set... Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags:	Ernest Gusella Video-Taping 1974 \| 02:41 Gusella's title creates a pun on the term video "tape" by using a split screen in which one half is the electronic negative of the other. Gusella set up a glass sheet and suspended it from light poles. The glass was covered with black or white... Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: image processing
Ernest Gusella Exquisite Corpse 1978 \| 08:23 The "exquisite corpse" named in the title of this piece refers to a favorite game of the Surrealists, played by passing a folded sheet of paper among a group; each person draws one section of a body on the folded segment without looking at the... Collection: Single Titles Tags:	Eric Siegel Einstine 1968 \| 05:22 Eric Siegel, a child prodigy in electronics, built his first TV set out of scrap parts at the age of 14. He developed his first video synthesizer, the Processing Chrominance Synthesizer, in 1968-69; it was used to generate the installation ... Collection: Single Titles Tags:
Phil Morton General Motors (Excerpt) 1976 \| 1:00:00 A response to the inability of his local General Motors dealer to fix Morton's 1974 Chevy van to his satisfaction, this tape blends experimental image-processing techniques with documentation of the faulty vehicle. Morton states that he is upset... Collection: Single Titles Tags: image processing	Nam June Paik Merce by Merce by Paik 1978 \| 27:27 Merce by Merce by Paik is a two-part tribute to choreographer Merce Cunningham and artist Marcel Duchamp. The first section, “Blue Studio: Five Segments,” is an innovative work of video-dance produced by Merce Cunningham and videomaker... Collection: Single Titles Tags: body, dance, documentation, image processing, performance, portrait, tv production
Ed Emshwiller Crossings and Meetings... 1974 \| 27:33 Crossings and Meetings explores the image and sound of a walking man, expanding a simple image into increasingly complex permutations and arriving at what Emshwiller calls a "visual fugue" in time and space. Emshwiller uses various... Collection: Single Titles Tags:	Ralph Hocking Complex Wave Forms... 1977 \| 05:00 Produced without camera input, this intense electronic landscape transports the viewer into a world that is an abstract study in machine-generated imagery. Produced at the Experimental Television Center. Collection: Single Titles Tags:
Barbara Buckner Pictures of the Lost 1978 \| 23:00 Composed in 22 movements that introduce a series of silent, haunting, other-worldly landscapes, Pictures of the Lost hovers between figuration and abstraction, and reveals Buckner's sustained interest in spirituality. Produced at the... Collection: Single Titles Tags:	Peer Bode Video Locomotion (man... 1978 \| 04:56 In this homage to photographer Edward Muybridge, a photo grid of a walking man is resituated in video space. Movement is created by detuning the video synchronization (time base) signal, producing horizontal and vertical drifts that expose the... Collection: Single Titles Tags: film or videomaking, photography
Peer Bode Music on Triggering... 1978 \| 03:06 In Music on Triggering Surfaces, Bode constructs an interface between audio and video systems. The luminance information (voltage) from the visual images traversed by the black dot is routed to an oscillator to produce the audio signal,... Collection: Single Titles Tags:	Woody Vasulka C-Trend (Excerpt) 1974 \| 09:00 In C-Trend, one of Woody Vasulka's "dialogues with tools," the video raster, or monitor screen, is controlled by the Rutt-Etra Scan Processor, a scan deflection tool designed by Steve Rutt and Bill Etra in 1973. The camera image being... Collection: Single Titles Tags:
Steina Vasulka Switch! Monitor! Drift! 1976 \| 03:48 Switch! Monitor! Drift! is one of a series of "machine visions" constructed by Steina in the '70s. In this documentation of a studio landscape, two cameras' signals are combined through a luminance keyer. One camera is mounted on a... Collection: Single Titles Tags:	David Cort + 1 other Mayday Realtime 1971 \| 59:45 Shot over one day, this program records the events and protests in Washington DC on May Day, 1971. This was the day when one of the most disruptive actions of the Vietnam War era occurred in Washington, DC, when thousands of anti-war activists... Collection: Videofreex Archive, Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: activism, city, documentation, film or videomaking, history
Ken Marsh + 1 other People's Video... 1971 \| 28:22 Contains excerpts from: Women's Liberation March NYC, Gay Pride March NYC, Young Lords Occupy Manhattan Church, Native American Action at Plymouth Rock Collection: Single Titles Tags:	Vasulkas Inc Participation 1969 \| 30:00 Shortly after they arrived in the United States from Prague in 1965, Steina and Woody Vasulka began documenting New York City's underground theater and music scenes with a portapak. Steina has remarked that she learned the craft of camerawork as... Collection: Single Titles Tags: interview
George Stoney First Transmission of... 1972 \| 08:00 This video documents the first cablecast of Austin Community Television (ACTV) in which George Stoney and a group of University of Texas students assembled playback equipment on a hilltop at the cable system's head-end. The head-end is the site... Collection: Single Titles Tags:	Broadside TV Jonesboro Storytelling... 1974 \| 05:22 This tape features Kathryn Windham, a noted children's author and librarian from Selma, Alabama, relating a ghost story about "The Jumbo Light" at the 1974 Jonesboro Storytelling Festival. This front porch gathering is typical of the casual... Collection: Single Titles Tags:
Julie Gustafson The Politics of Intimacy 1974 \| 52:20 The setting for The Politics of Intimacy recalls the widespread consciousness-raising (CR) groups in the late '60s and early '70s inspired by the emerging feminist movement. CR groups provided a forum to openly and collectively validate... Collection: Single Titles Tags: documentary, feminism, gender, sexuality	Portable Channel Attica Interviews... 1971 \| 30:00 Portable Channel, a community documentary group in Rochester, New York, was one of the first small format video centers to have an ongoing relationship with a PBS affiliate (WXXI). Portapakers interviewed Sinclair Scott, a member of the... Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, crime or violence, interview, prison, race
People's... Queen Mother Moore... 1973 \| 1:03:00 Two years after the riots and deaths at Attica, New York, a community day was organized at Greenhaven, a federal prison in Connecticut. Think Tank, a prisoners' group, coordinated efforts with African-American community members outside the prison... Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: documentation, politics, race, video history	Juan Downey The Laughing Alligator 1979 \| 26:30 The personal odyssey recorded in The Laughing Alligator combines methods of anthropological research with diaristic essay, mixing objective and subjective vision. Recorded while Downey and his family were living among the Yanomami people... Collection: Single Titles Tags: diary, documentary, expedition/travel, family, film or videomaking, indigenous, mental landscape, religion/spirituality, ritual
Ant Farm + 1 other The Eternal Frame 1976 \| 22:19 Irreverent yet poignant, The Eternal Frame is a re-enactment of the assassination of John F. Kennedy as seen in the famous Zapruder film. This home movie was immediately confiscated by the FBI yet found its way into the visual... Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: activism, history, media analysis, performance, politics, video history	Richard Serra Television Delivers... 1973 \| 05:55 Television Delivers People is a seminal work in the now well-established critique of popular media as an instrument of social control that asserts itself subtly on the populace through “entertainments,” for the benefit of those in power—... Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: advertisement(s), media analysis, television, video history
University Community... The Business of Local... 1974 \| 25:00 Showcasing local documentaries made on 1/2" equipment, Changing Channels was a weekly alternative video magazine produced by University Community Video (UCV) and aired on public television station KCTA, Minneapolis. In The Business... Collection: Single Titles Tags: television, tv production	Paul Ryan + 1 other Proto Media Primer 1970 \| 14:42 As one of the early media collectives, Raindance Corporation celebrated an eclectic use of the portapak by taping everything from man-in-the-street interviews to concerts and demonstrations. Intended to serve as a cultural data bank, their media... Collection: Single Titles Tags:
Anthony Ramos About Media 1977 \| 26:00 Anthony Ramos' astute deconstruction of television news focuses on his part in the media coverage of President Jimmy Carter's 1977 declaration of amnesty for Vietnam draft evaders. Ramos, who had served an 18-month prison sentence for draft... Collection: Single Titles Tags: history, journalism, media analysis, politics, prison, television, tv production, war	Optic Nerve Fifty Wonderful Years 1973 \| 25:59 Fifty Wonderful Years provides a behind-the-scenes look at the 1973 Miss California Pageant. In the early '70s beauty pageants across the country came under fire from feminists who targeted them as spectacles that exploited women.... Collection: Single Titles Tags:
Dara Birnbaum ... 1978 \| 05:45 A stutter-step progression of "extended moments" unmasks the technological "miracle" of Wonder Woman's transformation, playing psychological transformation off of television product. Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: feminism, media analysis, television, video history	Downtown Community TV Healthcare: Your Money... 1978 \| 57:00 A classic exposé on the disparity of health care services for the rich and poor in America, this incisive investigative report exemplifies the advocacy journalism of the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV). The tape was produced by Jon... Collection: Single Titles Tags:
Peter Bull + 1 other The Ruling Classroom 1979 \| 57:38 The Ruling Classroom documents a social studies experiment played out by seventh graders in Mill Valley, California. The students reorganized their classroom as an imaginary country until the principal staged a coup and brought the... Collection: Single Titles Tags: documentary	TVTV Four More Years 1972 \| 1:00:00 TVTV's inside view of the 1972 Republican National Convention made broadcast history. While network cameras focused on the orchestrated renomination of Richard Nixon, TVTV's rag-tag army of guerrilla television activists turned their cameras on... Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: documentary, history, media analysis, politics, video history

Vasulkas Inc Calligrams (Excerpt) 1970 \| 12:00 Calligrams is one of the Vasulkas' earliest experiments with altering the analog video image. An image is rescanned from the monitor "to capture and preserve the violated state of the standard television signal." The "violations" include... Collection: Single Titles Tags:	Skip Sweeney Illuminatin'... 1975 \| 28:38 Skip Sweeney was an early and proficient experimenter with video feedback. A feedback loop is produced by pointing a camera at the monitor to which it is cabled. Infinite patterns and variations of feedback can be derived from manipulating the... Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: image processing, video history
Stephen Beck Video Weavings (Excerpt) 1976 \| 28:00 Inspired by the analogy between weaving (vertical warp threads traversed by horizontal weft threads) and the construction of the television image (vertical and horizontal scans of an electron gun), Stephen Beck built the Video Weaver in 1974, and... Collection: Single Titles Tags: image processing	Dan Sandin Five-minute Romp... 1973 \| 06:34 In 1973, Dan Sandin designed and built a comprehensive video instrument for artists, the Image Processor (IP), a modular, patch programmable, analog computer optimized for the manipulation of gray level information of multiple video inputs.... Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: chicago art, film or videomaking, image processing, video history
Dan Sandin Triangle in Front of... 1973 \| 01:40 In this elegant demonstration, Sandin explains the mistake of using common language concepts and spatial relations to describe what actually can happen on the video screen. The images generated in the tape act according to specific parameters set... Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags:	Ernest Gusella Video-Taping 1974 \| 02:41 Gusella's title creates a pun on the term video "tape" by using a split screen in which one half is the electronic negative of the other. Gusella set up a glass sheet and suspended it from light poles. The glass was covered with black or white... Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: image processing
Ernest Gusella Exquisite Corpse 1978 \| 08:23 The "exquisite corpse" named in the title of this piece refers to a favorite game of the Surrealists, played by passing a folded sheet of paper among a group; each person draws one section of a body on the folded segment without looking at the... Collection: Single Titles Tags:	Eric Siegel Einstine 1968 \| 05:22 Eric Siegel, a child prodigy in electronics, built his first TV set out of scrap parts at the age of 14. He developed his first video synthesizer, the Processing Chrominance Synthesizer, in 1968-69; it was used to generate the installation ... Collection: Single Titles Tags:
Phil Morton General Motors (Excerpt) 1976 \| 1:00:00 A response to the inability of his local General Motors dealer to fix Morton's 1974 Chevy van to his satisfaction, this tape blends experimental image-processing techniques with documentation of the faulty vehicle. Morton states that he is upset... Collection: Single Titles Tags: image processing	Nam June Paik Merce by Merce by Paik 1978 \| 27:27 Merce by Merce by Paik is a two-part tribute to choreographer Merce Cunningham and artist Marcel Duchamp. The first section, “Blue Studio: Five Segments,” is an innovative work of video-dance produced by Merce Cunningham and videomaker... Collection: Single Titles Tags: body, dance, documentation, image processing, performance, portrait, tv production
Ed Emshwiller Crossings and Meetings... 1974 \| 27:33 Crossings and Meetings explores the image and sound of a walking man, expanding a simple image into increasingly complex permutations and arriving at what Emshwiller calls a "visual fugue" in time and space. Emshwiller uses various... Collection: Single Titles Tags:	Ralph Hocking Complex Wave Forms... 1977 \| 05:00 Produced without camera input, this intense electronic landscape transports the viewer into a world that is an abstract study in machine-generated imagery. Produced at the Experimental Television Center. Collection: Single Titles Tags:
Barbara Buckner Pictures of the Lost 1978 \| 23:00 Composed in 22 movements that introduce a series of silent, haunting, other-worldly landscapes, Pictures of the Lost hovers between figuration and abstraction, and reveals Buckner's sustained interest in spirituality. Produced at the... Collection: Single Titles Tags:	Peer Bode Video Locomotion (man... 1978 \| 04:56 In this homage to photographer Edward Muybridge, a photo grid of a walking man is resituated in video space. Movement is created by detuning the video synchronization (time base) signal, producing horizontal and vertical drifts that expose the... Collection: Single Titles Tags: film or videomaking, photography
Peer Bode Music on Triggering... 1978 \| 03:06 In Music on Triggering Surfaces, Bode constructs an interface between audio and video systems. The luminance information (voltage) from the visual images traversed by the black dot is routed to an oscillator to produce the audio signal,... Collection: Single Titles Tags:	Woody Vasulka C-Trend (Excerpt) 1974 \| 09:00 In C-Trend, one of Woody Vasulka's "dialogues with tools," the video raster, or monitor screen, is controlled by the Rutt-Etra Scan Processor, a scan deflection tool designed by Steve Rutt and Bill Etra in 1973. The camera image being... Collection: Single Titles Tags:
Steina Vasulka Switch! Monitor! Drift! 1976 \| 03:48 Switch! Monitor! Drift! is one of a series of "machine visions" constructed by Steina in the '70s. In this documentation of a studio landscape, two cameras' signals are combined through a luminance keyer. One camera is mounted on a... Collection: Single Titles Tags:	David Cort + 1 other Mayday Realtime 1971 \| 59:45 Shot over one day, this program records the events and protests in Washington DC on May Day, 1971. This was the day when one of the most disruptive actions of the Vietnam War era occurred in Washington, DC, when thousands of anti-war activists... Collection: Videofreex Archive, Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: activism, city, documentation, film or videomaking, history
Ken Marsh + 1 other People's Video... 1971 \| 28:22 Contains excerpts from: Women's Liberation March NYC, Gay Pride March NYC, Young Lords Occupy Manhattan Church, Native American Action at Plymouth Rock Collection: Single Titles Tags:	Vasulkas Inc Participation 1969 \| 30:00 Shortly after they arrived in the United States from Prague in 1965, Steina and Woody Vasulka began documenting New York City's underground theater and music scenes with a portapak. Steina has remarked that she learned the craft of camerawork as... Collection: Single Titles Tags: interview
George Stoney First Transmission of... 1972 \| 08:00 This video documents the first cablecast of Austin Community Television (ACTV) in which George Stoney and a group of University of Texas students assembled playback equipment on a hilltop at the cable system's head-end. The head-end is the site... Collection: Single Titles Tags:	Broadside TV Jonesboro Storytelling... 1974 \| 05:22 This tape features Kathryn Windham, a noted children's author and librarian from Selma, Alabama, relating a ghost story about "The Jumbo Light" at the 1974 Jonesboro Storytelling Festival. This front porch gathering is typical of the casual... Collection: Single Titles Tags:
Julie Gustafson The Politics of Intimacy 1974 \| 52:20 The setting for The Politics of Intimacy recalls the widespread consciousness-raising (CR) groups in the late '60s and early '70s inspired by the emerging feminist movement. CR groups provided a forum to openly and collectively validate... Collection: Single Titles Tags: documentary, feminism, gender, sexuality	Portable Channel Attica Interviews... 1971 \| 30:00 Portable Channel, a community documentary group in Rochester, New York, was one of the first small format video centers to have an ongoing relationship with a PBS affiliate (WXXI). Portapakers interviewed Sinclair Scott, a member of the... Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, crime or violence, interview, prison, race
People's... Queen Mother Moore... 1973 \| 1:03:00 Two years after the riots and deaths at Attica, New York, a community day was organized at Greenhaven, a federal prison in Connecticut. Think Tank, a prisoners' group, coordinated efforts with African-American community members outside the prison... Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: documentation, politics, race, video history	Juan Downey The Laughing Alligator 1979 \| 26:30 The personal odyssey recorded in The Laughing Alligator combines methods of anthropological research with diaristic essay, mixing objective and subjective vision. Recorded while Downey and his family were living among the Yanomami people... Collection: Single Titles Tags: diary, documentary, expedition/travel, family, film or videomaking, indigenous, mental landscape, religion/spirituality, ritual
Ant Farm + 1 other The Eternal Frame 1976 \| 22:19 Irreverent yet poignant, The Eternal Frame is a re-enactment of the assassination of John F. Kennedy as seen in the famous Zapruder film. This home movie was immediately confiscated by the FBI yet found its way into the visual... Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: activism, history, media analysis, performance, politics, video history	Richard Serra Television Delivers... 1973 \| 05:55 Television Delivers People is a seminal work in the now well-established critique of popular media as an instrument of social control that asserts itself subtly on the populace through “entertainments,” for the benefit of those in power—... Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: advertisement(s), media analysis, television, video history
University Community... The Business of Local... 1974 \| 25:00 Showcasing local documentaries made on 1/2" equipment, Changing Channels was a weekly alternative video magazine produced by University Community Video (UCV) and aired on public television station KCTA, Minneapolis. In The Business... Collection: Single Titles Tags: television, tv production	Paul Ryan + 1 other Proto Media Primer 1970 \| 14:42 As one of the early media collectives, Raindance Corporation celebrated an eclectic use of the portapak by taping everything from man-in-the-street interviews to concerts and demonstrations. Intended to serve as a cultural data bank, their media... Collection: Single Titles Tags:
Anthony Ramos About Media 1977 \| 26:00 Anthony Ramos' astute deconstruction of television news focuses on his part in the media coverage of President Jimmy Carter's 1977 declaration of amnesty for Vietnam draft evaders. Ramos, who had served an 18-month prison sentence for draft... Collection: Single Titles Tags: history, journalism, media analysis, politics, prison, television, tv production, war	Optic Nerve Fifty Wonderful Years 1973 \| 25:59 Fifty Wonderful Years provides a behind-the-scenes look at the 1973 Miss California Pageant. In the early '70s beauty pageants across the country came under fire from feminists who targeted them as spectacles that exploited women.... Collection: Single Titles Tags:
Dara Birnbaum ... 1978 \| 05:45 A stutter-step progression of "extended moments" unmasks the technological "miracle" of Wonder Woman's transformation, playing psychological transformation off of television product. Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: feminism, media analysis, television, video history	Downtown Community TV Healthcare: Your Money... 1978 \| 57:00 A classic exposé on the disparity of health care services for the rich and poor in America, this incisive investigative report exemplifies the advocacy journalism of the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV). The tape was produced by Jon... Collection: Single Titles Tags:
Peter Bull + 1 other The Ruling Classroom 1979 \| 57:38 The Ruling Classroom documents a social studies experiment played out by seventh graders in Mill Valley, California. The students reorganized their classroom as an imaginary country until the principal staged a coup and brought the... Collection: Single Titles Tags: documentary	TVTV Four More Years 1972 \| 1:00:00 TVTV's inside view of the 1972 Republican National Convention made broadcast history. While network cameras focused on the orchestrated renomination of Richard Nixon, TVTV's rag-tag army of guerrilla television activists turned their cameras on... Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: documentary, history, media analysis, politics, video history

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