Camnet: New Hour ’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."

0:12Copy video clip URL Footage of the CamNet videographer bungee jumping.

0:35Copy video clip URL Cut-in of the CamNet logo, with TV static in the background and a voice saying “CamNet. The Camcorder Network.” (This happens many times during the broadcast so any subsequent appearance will be tagged as “CamNet logo.”)

0:38Copy video clip URL Shot of the exterior of a train station in Kobe, Japan, in the aftermath of an earthquake.

0:53Copy video clip URL Interior footage of the train station, where people are clustered trying to find out if trains are running that day. The operators tell them no. Cut to people using the phones outside, and footage of an outdoor clock, which stopped when the earthquake hit.

1:37Copy video clip URL A man is interviewed by the videographer, David McLane, about the earthquake and tells the story of a survivor who lost his mother. The man breaks down crying at the end of the story.

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3:01Copy video clip URL Footage from the streets of New York City, where cops are standing in between two groups of protestors yelling at each other.

4:00Copy video clip URL The videographer, Skip Blumberg, interviews one of the policemen as the two walk by the protestors, who seem to be in support of labor rights.

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4:44Copy video clip URL Videographer Judith Binder is being driven by the “Nude Handyman,” a Los Angeles man who runs a service cleaning women’s houses naked.

5:05Copy video clip URL The handyman shows up to a client’s house and proceeds to get nude. He fixes the caulking around the kitchen sink and a faucet while the women watch.

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6:35Copy video clip URL Videographer Barbara Brownell follows a woman through a church parking lot where she has her van parked. She lives in the van with her kids, and has lived in it since she lost her job and her house.

7:26Copy video clip URL The woman shows off the interior off the van and talks about her philosophy when it comes to owning objects: “If I can’t fit it in my van, I don’t need it.” She talks about the benefits of van living, and says that her kids like it.

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9:02Copy video clip URL Videographer John Hunt interviews the author Henry Miller, dated 1976. Miller talks about the hospitality of the French compared to the harsh treatment he received when panhandling in NYC. He tells a story about the incident that made him quit panhandling, where a rich man threw a bunch of coins at him in the rain without even looking his way.

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11:30Copy video clip URL Videographer Nancy Cain interviews people outside a Los Angeles courthouse on “Medical Marijuana Day.” People hold up a sign that says “Stop putting sick people in jail.” A local activist, Lynette Shaw, talks about how she is lobbying for a California medical marijuana initiative.

12:43Copy video clip URL One of the patients with sickle cell anemia smokes marijuana in front of the camera. She talks about its benefits and how she never inhales it all while a speaker talks in the background. She reveals her own bag of weed, which she calls “top indica bud,” and passes it out to people.

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14:47Copy video clip URL Videographer Eddie Becker films the inside of a U.S. Mint facility, where money is being printed. Various shots show off the machines in action.

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17:33Copy video clip URL Becker interviews a man on the steps of the Mint headquarters in Washington, D.C., who was one of the men watching behind the class. The man says he doesn’t think he could ever spend as much money as he saw printed. The man is revealed to be a freemason, and Becker jokingly asks him questions about the secretive nature of freemasonry. The man gives as straightforward answers as possible, and then walks off with his fellow freemasons.

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23:28Copy video clip URL Videographer Justine films Los Angeles artist Jemela Mwelu deliver a comedic monologue about oral sex.

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24:26Copy video clip URL Videographer Wendy Apple films a pastor and a man in a pink sweater jokes amongst themselves and then speak in tongues.

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26:43Copy video clip URL Videographer Rich Kane films a pro-choice rally in Washington, D.C., where a group of men in drag called the “Church Ladies for Choice” sing about how Jesus only loves “white male fetus.”

27:29Copy video clip URL A pastor is trying to argue with people at the rally who are chanting loudly over him. He gives up and walks away.

28:07Copy video clip URL Cut back to the “Church Ladies for Choice,” who are now singing about “psycho Christians blocking healthcare.” A fellow pro-choice protestor tries to tell the crowd gathered they need to be more militarized in their picketing.

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29:14Copy video clip URL Footage of the 1992 Democratic National Convention.

29:32Copy video clip URL Videographer Dave Channon films correspondent Beth Lapides about her time at the convention. She talks about how alienated she feels among the celebration and how the food is bad. She is enjoying seeing what is happening and wants to have hope for a future Bill Clinton presidency, but she isn’t sure.

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31:31Copy video clip URL Videographer Jay April takes us behind the scenes of the show “American Gladiators.” He interviews one of the female “gladiators,” who talks about the selection process for the show and how they are all elite athletes. A small fight breaks out between a producer and a contestant.

33:01Copy video clip URL Cain films Jody Proctor at a Los Angeles dump. He surveys the dump and points out a bulldozer. He is picking various ephemera up off the ground and commenting on it: “Everything you need is here.”

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35:17Copy video clip URL Kane films a group of people gathered outside the oldest McDonald’s location who are trying to stop it from being demolished. The crowd is chanting, holding signs and getting cars passing by to honk.

36:42Copy video clip URL Two of the ladies gathered talk about how angry they are at McDonald’s corporate. Kane asks them why they are gathered, and the older lady talks about how she used to hang out there as a teenager and it is her history. The younger lady mentions she had her first ever cheeseburger there. A man waiting in his car at a red light tries to heckle them talking about how the prices at McDonald’s are too high now.

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39:15Copy video clip URL Videographer Joanie Yoshiwara interviews a group of rappers from southeast Washington, D.C. They all freestyle for the camera.

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42:06Copy video clip URL Footage from a Hare Krishna parade in Venice Beach, where a fundamentalist Christian group has gathered to protest the parade and yell at them.

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42:47Copy video clip URL Brownell interviews an eight-year-old girl named Katie Wilkins about what makes her sad, what scares her, what she would want to change in the world, if she wants to be an adult and if she would rather be born a boy or a girl.

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45:29Copy video clip URL Videographer Peter Apanel films the Pasadena Japanese Garden. A woman is talking in the background while trying to feed a koi fish. The CamNet logo plays over the sound of the garden.

46:13Copy video clip URL Cain and Binder are driving to the Watts Tower Arts Center to put on a workshop for local youth. They split the kids up into teams, each with a video camera, and let them go off and film whatever they find for a set amount of time. One of the groups interviews a truck delivery driver who tells the kids to stay in school lest they end up working a dead-end job like him.

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49:51Copy video clip URL Videographer Esti Marpet films a woman busking at the Christopher St-Sheridan Sq New York City subway stop. She plays a cover of “Bartender’s Blues” by George Jones as a man sings and claps along with her. New Yorkers walk past her to catch the train, and once she is finished the videographer interviews her about her life while she packs up and counts her money. The man singing and clapping gets hostile when the camera is pointed at him.

54:52Copy video clip URL The CamNet credits roll over footage of the subway station.