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Very First Half-Inch Videotape Festival Ever, The; Video playback is explained to Russell Connor
Part of New Television Workshop.
This short excerpt from "The Very First Half-Inch Videotape Festival Ever" features the host, Russell Connor, asking a participant named Richard to demonstrate the playback facility of material that had been filmed just a few minutes earlier. Approximate date: 1970
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- Program
- Very First Half-Inch Videotape Festival Ever, The
- Title
Video playback is explained to Russell Connor
- Program Description
For this work video makers using the portapak were invited to bring their works into the WGBH studio, where the pieces were played back from and shot off of monitors. Host Russell Connors and others interviewed participants (including representatives of Top Value Television and a young Bill Viola) about their work. Television viewers were encouraged to call into the station with their comments and were given contact information for the participants. The work shown represents the explosion in the use of video after the invention of the portapak.
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Video equipment
- Interviews
- Connor, Russell
- Live television programs
- Video recordings
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Film and Television
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Very First Half-Inch Videotape Festival Ever, The; Video playback is explained to Russell Connor,” GBH Archives, accessed April 25, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_1D549C035A2641508EE09899361161CD.
- MLA: “Very First Half-Inch Videotape Festival Ever, The; Video playback is explained to Russell Connor.” GBH Archives. Web. April 25, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_1D549C035A2641508EE09899361161CD>.
- APA: Very First Half-Inch Videotape Festival Ever, The; Video playback is explained to Russell Connor. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_1D549C035A2641508EE09899361161CD