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[The 90’s raw: Milly’s Orchid Show static camera #2]

Chicago, Performance, THE 90's

Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. A continuation of footage of a live performance of “Milly’s Orchid Show,” a variety show at the Park West in Chicago, starring Brigid Murphy. Murphy emcee’s the show in the character of Southern Belle Milly Mae Smithy for this live comedy / variety show. Murphy’s Milly Mae character introduces the members of the band, then introduces comedian Cheryl Trykv, who performs as a self-obsessed coffee shop dweller. Murphy returns to sing a song, then the show ends. Shot with a mostly static camera.
Tom Weinberg reads the Wall Street Journal – Bill Tabb reads U.S. News and World Report

CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Performance, Video Makers Choice

Two pieces by Paper Tiger Television: Tom Weinberg reads the Wall Street Journal (1982) and Bill Tabb reads U.S. News and World Report (1982).
Image Union, episode 0006

CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Image Processing, Image Union, Performance

For this episode, Image Union took an adventure trip into unexplored television territory. With home computer, video system and related technology as topics, the program went away from its original structure and produced a thirty-minute-clip that is repeated twice. Processed video is combined with real life acting television. Computer games take turns with shots in a Mexican landscape, studio production with graphic animations. They show the variety of art forms in television.
Image Union, episode 321

Chicago, Image Union, Performance, Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N Roll

An episode of the independent film and video showcase, Image Union, featuring Blue Monday by Spike Jones and Michael Prussian. Mark Naftalin (piano) and his band perform a jazz concert. Charles Houff, Dr. Wild Willie Moore and Frankie Lee are guest stars.
Danger Man

Performance

Documentary about successful folk/blues/bluegrass/rock musician David Bromberg’s final tour with his 11-piece band, which he broke up in order fulfill his dream of becoming a violinmaker. Most of the documentary is spent watching Bromberg and his band perform. There is some interview footage with Bromberg and his band members in between performances.
This Is A Test, Part II

CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Nancy Cain, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Performance, Studs Terkel, Video Makers Choice

Experimental program featuring the work of independent videomakers.
Media Burn by Ant Farm, 1975 edit

Ant Farm, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Outside Agitators, Performance, Viewers Choice

Original version of Ant Farm’s classic video art piece examining and satirizing the media, particularly the impact of television. On July 4, Independence Day, 1975, what a TV newscaster described as a “media circus” assembles at San Francisco’s Cow Palace Stadium. A pyramid of television sets are stacked, doused with kerosene, and set ablaze. Then a modified 1959 Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz, piloted by two drivers who are guided only by a video monitor between their bucket seats, smashes through the pyramid destroying the TV sets.

Preceding the event are clips from various TV news broadcasts that covered it (many of the TV reporters make the comment that they “didn’t get it”). The tape includes interviews with invited guests, a speech given by Doug Hall as President John F. Kennedy explaining the message of Media Burn, the dramatic unveiling of the Phantom Dream Car, several sequences of the car smashing through the TV sets, and its triumphant return from the end of the Cow Palace parking lot.
Image Union, episode 0001

Chicago, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Image Processing, Image Union, Performance, Viewers Choice

Hour long compilation episode of Image Union featuring “TV Magic Ballots” by Nate Herman and Warren Leming, “Assassins” with Joe Mantegna and Jack Wallace, “Chicago Blues” by Jim Passin and Nancy Grosse, work from Jane Veeder, excerpts from “Now We Live On Clifton” by Kartemquin Films, stopmotion animation, an interview by “My Sister’s Cutting Room” during a dog’s birthday party, and “The Bums” by Scott Jacobs and Valjean McLenighan 1976.

The second half of the episode features “Electronic Masks” by Barbara Sykes, an excerpt from “Paper Roses” by Maxi Cohen and Joel Gold, and “Television Delivers People” by Richard Serra and Carlota Fay Schoolman.