…eland Indians hosted in Cleveland. The segment ends during the 4th inning. Score: White Sox 1, Indians 2. 01:28 Video cuts to black. 01:44 Video resumes. Clips from what appears to be a different match-up between the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians hosted in Cleveland. The White Sox score multiple runs. It is the top of the 3rd inning. Score: White Sox 4, Indians 1. 02:33 Video resumes. Clips from another game between the White Sox and In… Continue reading →
01:12 “Video Weavings” by S. Beck. This segment explores the analogy between weaving and the construction of a television image, featuring colorful and dynamic pattersn. 10:41 “Seven Second Interval” by Catherine DeJong, Richard Mandeberg, Kaja Overstreet. This segment feature silhouettes and outlines of people dancing. 22:46 “Cetacean” by Phil Morton, Chip Dodsworth, Barry Brosch. This segment simulates water… Continue reading →
01:30 Title slides mark the beginning of “Trilogy,” music by Keith Jarrett. Through the tape interference, a silhouetted visual plays. 04:15 “Trilogy” ends and “Weightless” begins. A similar silhouette visual accompanies it. 05:48 “Weightless” ends and “Rhythms” begins. Again, a similar visual plays. This visual incorporates more color than previous ones. 09:28 “Rhythms” ends, and a more elaborate title slide, for “Spiral 4 A.C.M.” plays. It not… Continue reading →
Chicago, Image Processing, Roots of Video
…t in which he works. He shows his studio, the image processor (a series of patch panels), an analog computer, a video tape recorder and a view out the window of a Chicago snowfall. 01:03 Sandin demonstrates the primitive workings of the image processor. He patches various signals from the camera input into the comparator and then to an output module. Switching to the processor, the image on screen turns contrast. He adjusts the gray level. He pro… Continue reading →
…ct!” 01:13 “Martha Dewing” by Skip Blumberg. Martha Dewing, editor of “Children’s Video Report,” cites some frightening statistics on the prevalence of TV in children’s lives. She says that parents don’t want their children to be exposed to violence on television, but it happens through ignorance. 02:33 Except from “Where the Wild Things Are” by The Maurice Sendak Library, C.C. Studios…. Continue reading →
Kartemquin Films, Roots of Video
00:00 A title card reads: Videoletters. Rochester Women’s Video Collective, Rochester, NY, May 15, 1975 CR. 00:14 Black. 00:26 Freeze frame on Rev. Merrill Bittner sitting in a house being interviewed. Audio only of Bittner in mid-sentence addressing a group, telling the story of a general convention that meets every three years. The Episcopal church had an opportunity to speak about freedom and liberation by addressing the issue of ordain… Continue reading →
“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…. Continue reading →
…chweickart’s reflections on the trip. Read by Peter Thomas. 17:13 Sneak preview for The Ballad of Captain Video by The Video Brothers. Color video. Experimental video piece that pays tribute to the old television character. 21:35 Yo Yo The Clone by Lillian and J.P. Somersaulter. Vibrant red and orange cartoon where a man onstage does various shocking yo-yo tricks. His alchemy backfires when the yo-yo creates a replica of himself. The audien… Continue reading →