Sykes 160 / Egpyt 2 of 5, 8/89 Egpyt (04, 05 & 06) / 1) Luxor, Egypt 8/8/89, street scene from hotel winslow / 2) Egypt 8/9/89, river slife, distance / 3) Dendera Temple & Temple of Abydos Egypt 8/9/89 / 4) Temple of Kom-Ombo Egypt 8/12/89
00:00 Footage continues from tape 15280: a street performance called No Traffic. Construction workers and passersby stare at the actors. The videographer asks a construction worker what he thinks of the performance. The man says he doesn’t know what’s happening. The videographer continues shooting b-roll of a guitarist, the actors, the onlookers. Erratic photography as he finds his shot. The tape rolls. 01:39 An older man smiles and waves from a…
On November 19, 1991, Henry “Tiny” Peco was shot and killed by LAPD in Imperial Courts Housing Project, Watts. Peco’s cousin Dewayne Holmes. In early December that year, Dewayne Holmes and his family organized the Henry Peco Justice Committee and hundreds took to the streets. 00:34 The program begins and Michael Zinzun introduces the topic, The Henry Peco Justice Committee. 01:24 The show takes a call from a listener. 03:10 Perry Crouch respond…
00:00 This tape begins with static and a blue screen. 00:22 “7 1/2 LBS/Second.” The videomakers interview a number of families in a park about their barbecuing habits. Each family lists the food they have brought to the barbecue, each family seemingly having brought more food than the last. The tape is fairly rough throughout this portion of the tape. 04:51 A woman sings about the prodigious amount of food her family has brought to t…