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  Harriet – King Cotton – Pelicans

  Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video

  This tape consists of three short videos: “Harriet” by Nancy Cain, and “King Cotton” and “Pelicans” by Rita Ogden.

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  Tuli’s Montreal Revolt

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

  This tape features footage from a performance and rehearsal of Tuli Kupferberg’s Revolting Theatre. The performance footage was videotaped at McGill University in Montreal on March 5, 1971, while the rehearsal excerpts were taped throughout late 1969 and early 1970. The cast was Kupferberg; his best friend and collaborator, the late Lannes Kenfield (Aka “Lanny”); Tuli’s first son, Joey Sacks; Liz Reisner; Kupferberg’s wife Sylvia Topp; and Sandra Mobray Clarke, aka “Sandy Nisson.”

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  Mental Patients Resistance

  Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Roots of Video

  A documentary about a group of formerly hospitalized patients on a quest to change inhumane practices at psychiatric institutions. Includes “man on the street” interviews that are revealing about changing attitudes towards mental illness during the 1970s, including the influence of R.D. Laing.

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  Ballad of A.J. Weberman

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

  Writer, Bob Dylan enthusiast, and coiner of the term “Dylanology,” A.J. Weberman sorts through Dylan’s garbage outside of his New York apartment in order to explain his methods of gathering and interpreting Dylan data. Bookended by David Peel & The Lower East Side playing “The Ballad of A.J. Weberman.”

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  Aunt Cordi

  American Way, Black, Communities, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video

  This tape features an interview with an elderly African-American woman referred to as Aunt Cordi. Cordi talks about her experience working as a midwife in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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  Women in the Arts

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

  This tape features footage of a meeting of a collective representing the first female-owned art gallery in Chicago. The Artist’s Residence of Chicago is a group comprised of all female artists with the goal of highlighting women’s art in a male dominated field.

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  7 1/2 LBS/Second – Tooth Stories – BiCentennial Quiz

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video

  This tape features three short pieces created by Nick Despota in Chicago in the mid seventies.

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  Cape May Composite

  Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Roots of Video

  This tape contains two pieces on the town of Cape May, New Jersey that focus on the environmental and political problems within the town.