A cable program produced by Nancy Cain, Judith Binder, and friends in L.A. in the mid-90s. This episode features segments about gun violence, homelessness and youth culture in Los Angeles, as well as environmentalist protests at the Los Angeles Auto Show.
0:12Copy video clip URL CamNet title card. Two women and a man are seated at a dining room table with various pistols placed on it. The man is talking to the women about self defense.
1:34Copy video clip URL One of the women, Kim, talks about how four men robbed and assaulted her and the other woman, Carol, one night after dinner. The assailants stole their car and tried to get Kim to ride along with them, but she refused and then was hit in the face with a gun. Kim remarks how her front tooth was knocked out, and then she ran and screamed for help. Both of the women took off and managed to climb a nearby fence to escape.
5:28Copy video clip URL The man seated at the table begins to talk about gun safety and the inner workings of the guns he has gathered on the table. It cuts to all three of them standing, and the man continues to talk about the guns and conceal carrying them.
6:55Copy video clip URL The man goes through a hypothetical situation with Carol where she would need to pull a gun on someone. “Don’t go for speed, go for technique,” the man says.
7:39Copy video clip URL Another woman comes into frame and shows off a .357 Magnum. She talks about how beautiful the gun is to her.
8:12Copy video clip URL Another demonstration for Carol where the man talks about when to pull the trigger in a dangerous scenario. Carol points the unloaded gun at the man several times. He tells her not to let people get close, as “the gun is a liability” at that point, and talks about the tactics people use to slow down your reaction time when you have a gun pointed at them.
9:36Copy video clip URL Cut to all four of them at the Beverly Hills Gun Club, firing the pistols in an indoor range. The videographer asks Kim and Carol about their mixed feelings about all this while the women shoot at targets. The man reviews the targets with them and comments on their good accuracy.
12:31Copy video clip URL Short interstitial with the CamNet logo featuring footage of some kind of an outdoor banquet shot at a low frame rate.
13:34Copy video clip URL “CamNet returns in a moment” interstitial featuring a kid with a toy gun climbing a tree.
13:42Copy video clip URL Ad for Pic Productions, a California-based video editing and videotape service.
14:42Copy video clip URL Interstitial about advertising on CamNet, featuring an old man riding an exercise bike telling the audience to “follow the golden rule.”
15:13Copy video clip URL Another advertising interstitial where children at a playground talk about how much they dislike current TV commercials.
15:44Copy video clip URL Cut to the kid climbing the tree earlier sitting on grass, as the videographer asks him questions about toy guns. He pulls out a yellow squirt gun from his pocket, and talks about other toy guns he wants. The videographer asks him what he likes about playing with toy guns and he empathetically says “I like to die.”
16:58Copy video clip URL Cut to the videographer interviewing two men on the street in front of a mural about their feelings on gun violence in Los Angeles.
17:51Copy video clip URL The two men are being interviewed in front of the same mural later in the evening. One of them talks about how gun violence affects the neighborhoods where he and his family live, and the other man talks about how the lack of decent public education in Los Angeles leads to gun violence among youths. The two men seem hopeless for the future but talk about how they refuse to give up.
20:58Copy video clip URL Short interstitial with the CamNet logo featuring black and white footage of a man at nighttime talking about how he thinks gang members should start an “information revolution” by buying video cameras instead of guns.
21:38Copy video clip URL “CamNet returns in a moment” interstitial featuring another kid with a toy gun in a tree.
21:42Copy video clip URL Ad for Act Electronics selling satellite radios.
22:11Copy video clip URL Snappily edited promo made by the Rainforest Action Network raising awareness to end rainforest destruction.
22:43Copy video clip URL Ad featuring Paul Krassner where he promotes a collection of unpublished Lenny Bruce writings and the latest issue of his magazine The Realist for sale.
23:23Copy video clip URL Short interstitial with the CamNet logo featuring a street performer playing percussion instruments.
23:41Copy video clip URL Cut to an older woman walking past a mural in a parking lot, where she talks to the camera about how she thinks graffiti is a valid response by the youth to materialism. She talks about the benefits of a community integrating this youth culture rather than criminalizing it.
25:04Copy video clip URL Cut to the same woman, now with a young woman, as she talks to the camera about the first time she got shot at. The woman reveals herself to be a street muralist and talks about how she managed to designate the street block behind her as a peaceful zone for painting.
27:24Copy video clip URL The videographer interviews a man tagging the wall with the name Gloria.
27:55Copy video clip URL The man talks to the camera about how he notices that kids are moved when they see the names of all the deceased on the wall.
28:26Copy video clip URL The young woman is hanging over the shoulder of the older woman, and talks about her brother who was an “ex-gangbanger” but got out and plans to get married soon. She talks about how she believes art can save anyone.
29:32Copy video clip URL The older woman, who is named Helen, talks about what inspired her to get involved with young people. Her daughter’s best friend was shot and killed at a random convenience store, and this inspired Helen to find a transformative way to subject the youth to less violence.
31:39Copy video clip URL Short interstitial with the CamNet logo featuring ducks swimming on a river.
31:57Copy video clip URL Cut to a man playing guitar in front of the beach. The man plays quite intensely for about five minutes.
36:38Copy video clip URL The camera pans over a large peaceful environmental protest. A man who is being arrested is interviewed by a news channel.
37:24Copy video clip URL Cut to a wide shot of a factory as a semi truck passes by.
37:42Copy video clip URL “CamNet returns in a moment” interstitial featuring a man squeegeeing the window of a skyscraper.
37:49Copy video clip URL Repeated advertising interstitial featuring the old man on the exercise bike.
38:20Copy video clip URL Repeated advertising interstitial featuring the kids talking about commercials.
38:51Copy video clip URL The Rainforest Action Network promo is repeated.
39:21Copy video clip URL Footage of two people from ACT UP passing around pamphlets and condoms at a mall.
39:50Copy video clip URL Short interstitial with the CamNet logo featuring people walking along Venice Beach.
40:26Copy video clip URL The videographer interviews a homeless man who lives underneath Sunset Boulevard. “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac plays in the background. Another homeless man talks about how he thinks it might be too late to make any meaningful change for the homeless as the wealth disparity between the rich and the poor is getting too large. A third homeless man talks about his plan for a “recycling city.”
42:20Copy video clip URL The first homeless man does a knife swallowing trick for the camera. The videographer asks him about how he recycles everything, and he talks about the possessions he has gathered and how he gives them to other people in need sometimes.
44:11Copy video clip URL The third homeless man shows off the collection of things that the first man, named JC, has accumulated underground. It is stuff JC has found in dumpsters and on the street that he cleans up and resells.
45:44Copy video clip URL Cut to JC, who talks about how he transformed the underground space into his pseudo resale store.
46:41Copy video clip URL Short interstitial with the CamNet logo featuring a man at a garbage dump reading a poem off a piece of trash he picks off the ground.
47:46Copy video clip URL Footage of the Los Angeles Auto Show, where a group is gathering signatures for a petition to get Mitsubishi to stop logging in the rainforest.
48:37Copy video clip URL Some protestors from the group with the petition are seen talking to the cops, who try to tell them where they can and can’t protest.
49:23Copy video clip URL Footage from inside the auto show at the Mitsubishi booth. The videographer interviews two men sitting in the front of one of the display vehicles about their feelings on the protestors, and one of them (a representative for Mitsubishi) says they are targeting the wrong company. The videographer tries to ask follow-up questions but is rebuffed.
50:41Copy video clip URL Footage of a white truck driving down the highway. The camera follows the truck to the suburbs, where a man in a red hat gets out.
51:13Copy video clip URL Footage is interspersed of another man playing guitar by the beach and the man in the red hat moving a large television into the suburban home.
52:25Copy video clip URL The CamNet credits roll over footage of the first man playing guitar by the beach.
53:26Copy video clip URL “CamNet returns in a moment” interstitial featuring footage from outside a 7/11 playing classical music.
53:33Copy video clip URL Ad for Pic Productions is repeated.
54:34Copy video clip URL Ad for Act Electronics is repeated.
55:04Copy video clip URL The Rainforest Action Network promo is repeated once again.
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