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  The Pentagon War in Bosnia

  Peoples Video Theater/Survival Arts Media, Politics, War and Peace

  Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. From the box: “What is behind the largest U.S. military operation in Europe since WWI? Combat the growing war propaganda with a powerful expose of the role of the Pentagon and NATO. This video provides a historical view and a political analysis of why working and poor people should oppose a new U.S. military expansion. It is based on a the first in a series of national campus teach-ins on Bosnia held in NYC in October 1995.”

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  Two On Two: Cable TV, Puerto Rico

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Latinx, Outside Agitators, Politics

  Footage taped off TV of the program “Two on Two,” featuring reports on cable tv and on Puerto Rico. Followed by other off air footage related to the Chicago blizzard of 1979.

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  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.

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  [The 90’s raw: Tom McKean]

  American Way, Outside Agitators, Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N Roll, THE 90's

  Raw tape for the award-winning TV series The 90’s. Tom McKean, radio and television broadcaster and former drug addict, talks about his experiences getting off drugs and his mission to educate others. The second part of the tape follows McKean broadcasting in the radio studio.

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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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  [Abbie Hoffman raw #2]

  Chicago, Outside Agitators

  This tape features the second part of an interview with activist Abbie Hoffman at the Chicago Amphitheater on the 20th anniversary of 1968 Democratic National Convention. In the tape, Hoffman briefly talks about his book “Steal This Urine Test.” Timecode onscreen.

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  [The 90’s raw: Tony Schwartz #2]

  GDDF, NHPRC-2, Outside Agitators, Skip Blumberg, THE 90's, Tom Weinberg

  Raw footage shot for the award-winning series The 90’s. This tape features an interview with anti-cigarette activist Tony Schwartz.

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  Image Union, episode 1222

  Andrew Jones, Image Union, International, War and Peace

  Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. In December 1989, videomaker Andrew Jones was in Panama, working on a documentary about President Manuel Noriega. On the eve of the interview, the U.S. invaded Panama amid rising tensions between the two countries. The United States had been claiming the Noriega was a drug trafficker and dangerous to America. Jones spends time with the everyday Panamanians as well as Panamanian government officials, and as a result, becomes increasingly suspicious of the portrayal of the invasion by the U.S. government and media. The documentary includes powerful on the ground footage during the U.S. attack.