Sioux Sundance
Rosebud Reservation SD / Wounded Knee 1972 / Crow Dog Old Medicine Man /
Leonard Crow Dog (Son) and Russell Means / Reel 1 and Reel 2 / also may have a still photo of me
taping it. Transferred from 1/2″ open reel.
Rosebud Reservation SD / Wounded Knee 1972 / Crow Dog Old Medicine Man /
Leonard Crow Dog (Son) and Russell Means / Reel 1 and Reel 2 / also may have a still photo of me
taping it. Transferred from 1/2″ open reel.
TVTV’s satirical Super Vision recreates pivitol moments in the history of television, and stars comedy legends Harold Ramis and John Belushi very early in their careers.
On Christmas Eve in the Chelsea Hotel, social and political activist Abbie Hoffman prepares homemade gefilte fish from a family recipe. At the time, Hoffman had gone underground.
00:02 Color bars. 00:57 Camera opens on a TV program by TVTV. Two men argue about societal problems in a scripted show. The conversation moves to the use of marijuana and other recreational drugs. 9:30 The two men walk out of the house together. 9:50 Cut to shaky footage of two people from TVTV speaking about the program. They sit and watch some news footage. Difficult to hear all audio, and the camera remains focused on the two people. 13:12 […]
“The Pop Video Test” was a joint effort between Scott Jacobs and Tom Weinberg of the Chicago Editing Center, and the Video Group of the Bell and Howell Corporation. This cooperative effort between the independent video community and a corporate video distributor was intended to test the viability of the home video market. The videomakers assembled ten hours of video pieces meant as an alternative to available pre-recorded programming (ie Hollywood movies). Fifty VCR owners in the Chicago area agreed to examine and review the tapes. Test viewers then received the programming two hours at a time, in groupings labeled Video Art, Documentary, Entertainment, and Potpourri.
Members of the Videofreex convene in Woodstock, NY to celebrate the release of Parry Teasdale’s book “Videofreex: America’s First Pirate TV Station & The Catskills Collective That Turned It On.”