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  [Rocking the Boat raw: Bughouse Square #2]

  Chicago, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Studs Terkel

  This is a continuation of footage from Bughouse Square in August of 1998. Studs Terkel speaks to the crowd about Bughouse Square, specifically its history and what it represents to the people of the city of Chicago.

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  Edge, pilot

  Outside Agitators, Performance

  Pilot for a program called “Edge.” This show focuses on politically controversial artists, including Andrew Dice Clay, Lorna Simpson, Dread Scott Tyler, Karen Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes, and Tim Miller.

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  [The 90’s: Robert Demella]

  American Way, Outside Agitators, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Cab driver Robert Demella tells us a series of stories, zipping from one topic to another. The camera mostly focuses on Demella but there are some shots of the New York streets.

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  [None of the Above raw #41]

  American Way, None of the Above, Outside Agitators, Politics

  Raw footage for “None of the Above,” a documentary about non-voters in the 1996 presidential election. Interview with Molly Ivins, political columnist for the Fort Worth Star Telegram.

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  [The 90’s raw: Gil Scott-Heron]

  American Way, Black, Communities, Outside Agitators, Skip Blumberg

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Skip Blumberg talks with poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron in Harlem about race and racism. “What I meant by the phrase ‘the revolution will not be televised’ was, the first revolution takes place in your mind. …It’s not something you can catch on film. …It’ll just be something that you see and you just realize, ‘Hey, I’m on the wrong page.'”

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  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.

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  [Rocking the Boat raw: Bughouse Square #3]

  Chicago, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Studs Terkel

  This is a continuation of footage from Bughouse Square in August 1998. Studs Terkel spoke a little earlier in the day and is not included on this tape.

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  [Greetings From Lanesville excerpt] – State of the Movement – Oo oooh: Bart’s ‘Deep Throat’ Dream – [TVTV clips]

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Outside Agitators, TVTV

  0:00 Black, static. 0:32 Flying Saucer clip from “Greetings from Lanesville” by the Videofreex.  This segment features Tom Weinberg and Skip Blumberg playing flying saucer inspectors.  This is a different edit from the version on the full “Greetings From Lanesville” tape.  The Lanesville TV Show was broadcast out of the Catskills of New York in the 1970s. 7:55 End. Static. 8:22 “In Black and White. Report. State of the Movement.” by Nancy Cain. Cain takes us to the Little Miss […]