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  Our Day In NYC

  Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video, Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N Roll, Skip Blumberg

  This tape features footage of a day in New York City in 1973 shot by Videofreex members Skip Blumberg with David Cort.

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  Continued to Death – [Mayor Bilandic at senior center]

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Roots of Video

  A short documentary about Organization of the Northeast (O.N.E.), a community group fighting Chicago’s housing court to keep affordable housing in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood, which was facing rapid gentrification. The piece is followed by raw footage of Mayor Michael Bilandic addressing a group of senior citizens about the energy concerns of the city of Chicago.

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  On the Brink of Victory – [ONE interview]

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Roots of Video

  This tape describes the successful tactics employed by the Organization of the Northeast (ONE) and a Land Use Action group fighting for down-zoning laws in the Uptown/Edgewater neighborhoods of Chicago. It is followed by raw footage of an interview with Mary Gerharty and other representatives from ONE.

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  [Abandoned Buildings in Uptown]

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Roots of Video

  This tape documents abandoned buildings in Chicago’s Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods and discusses the dangers associated with them. Roberta Westmore of One Land Use Action, a subsidiary of the Organization of the Northeast, leads the camera through the various violations at several buildings. This is followed by raw footage of a city hearing on mortgage redlining by local banks in Uptown, and then footage of a tenants meeting.

• TVTV Super Bowl X memo

  Guerrilla TV, Sports

  Memo by John Walsh about coverage of Super Bowl X by TVTV. Walsh talks about typical journalistic coverage, what to expect, advertising, the major network coverage, and the schedule.

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  Aspects of Demise: The Whole Earth Demise Party

  Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Roots of Video, Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N Roll

  This video documents the Whole Earth Catalog Demise Party held at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Creator Stewart Brand organized the event to debate the best use of the twenty thousand dollars profit held by Whole Earth. Various individuals lobby for serious and satirical causes, including Paul Krassner. Followed by a segment with Brand on the Dick Cavett Show.

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  Sam’s Cafe: A Media Inversion

  Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Performance, Roots of Video

  This tape documents the activities of and media response to the Sam’s Cafe Three (David Schier, Marc Keyser, and Terri Keyser), a group that created several dramatic publicity stunts in order to demonstrate that the new way of protesting effectively should be by utilizing the media itself. The group sent out fake utility collection notices to 20,000 people in the Bay area with the return address of a local TV station and also sent excrement to local news media offices. Sam’s Cafe member Marc Keyser explains, “This is a work of art and it’s a sample of the inversion of mass media. Now this has begun and it stopped. Next time when the inversion of mass media begins, it will not stop.” It is an exciting and humorous look at a moment in time when the one-way flow of information through television was under heavy critique and the new technologies of portable video cameras and cable television seemed to offer an alternative.

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  Fifty Wonderful Years

  American Way, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video

  A behind the scenes look at the 1973 Miss California Pageant and the state of the feminist movement. By the early 1970s, pageants had become a target of feminists and the organizers and contestants found themselves facing protests and scrutiny from the media. Optic Nerve presents both sides neutrally, allowing the clueless pageant community to make the feminists’ case for them.