This tape features footage of the preparation for the opening of the Organic Theater’s “Warp” on Broadway at the Ambassador Theater. Writer Stuart Gordon, actor Cecil O’Neal, and writer Lenny Kleinfeld (who co-wrote the play under the pseudonym Bury St. Edmund) talk about the production and the process of transitioning it from Chicago to New York.
This tape features a documentary on the Everson Art Museum in Syracuse, New York. The videomakers speak with numerous attendees about their views and opinions the artwork in the museum, with an eye towards capturing how everyday people, including children, experience abstract art.
This tape is comprised of interviews with New York residents on the street in Greenwich Village. The subject matter varies from person to person but loosely focuses on the interviewees leaving messages for people in San Francisco. The tape captures a portrait of life in Greenwich Village in 1970.
An example of early cable casting in upstate New York, this tape provides glimpse at work and play in the rural town of Downsville.
Shot at a party sponsored by N.O.W. Conference on Sexuality in New York in June of 1973, numerous party goers talk about their sexual fantasies. Many are adorned in outlandish costumes that represent their fantasy, and they explain their reasons for choosing this particular fantasy or representation of fantasy.
A documentary following a group of actors as they perform a play about the perils of incarceration at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York.
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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.
A documentary about the day in 1958 when Art Kane, then an aspiring photographer and art director for Esquire magazine, arranged for a group photo (which was titled “A Great Day In Harlem”) of almost every prominent jazz musician in New York City to be taken in Harlem; among the many musicians are many jazz giants, including Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Charles Mingus, and Gene Krupa.