Camnet: Promo ’95
A cable program produced by Nancy Cain, Judith Binder, and friends in L.A. in the mid-90s. This episode features short clips from the segments “After the Quake,” “Street Beat,” “The Nude Handyman,” “Modern Living,” “Henry Miller at Home: 1976,” “Medical Marijuana Day,” “The Money Factory,” “The Mason,” “Buzzing the Clubs: Jemela Mwelu,” “Tongues,” “Church Ladies for Choice,” “Unofficial Coverage of the 1992 Elections,” “American Gladiators – Behind the Scenes,” “At the Dump with Jody Proctor,” “Save Our McDonald’s,” “Poor Excuses,” “Katie Wilkins,” “Japanese Garden,” “CamNet Video Workshop” and “Christopher Street Station.”
Former President Jimmy Carter celebrated his 91st birthday on October 1, 2015. Many say that he has been the most effective ex-President in history. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his Carter Center activities worldwide. Despite his brain tumors, Carter still teaches Sunday school in Georgia and is active in Habitat for Humanity. Habitat for Humanity started in 1976 and has built more than a million houses all over the world for more than five million people. […]
There are two sections of note in this footage. First some footage of a TV being changed through several different channels at the time of the Gulf War and second a performer on the Venice Beach Boardwalk. The rest of the video is the filmmaker chatting with friends around Los Angeles on Super Bowl Sunday.
This video shows an interview with Tom Reveille, operator of the pirate FM radio station Radio Free Venice in Venice Beach, CA. He is an advocate for “grass-roots radio,” and is purportedly in a prolonged legal battle with the FCC on the constitutionality of their operation.
This video shows a cabaret act by Holly Woodlawn in Los Angeles. The filmmaker, Judith Binder, also spends the time before the show talking to people in the audience, focusing in particular on a group of trans women and drag queens.
This is a video detailing the election campaign of Martin Gutierrez-Ruiz who was running for the 14th district councilman of Los Angeles.