Community Video Report (Summer 1973)

THE FOLLOWING TAPES WERE EITHER FINISHED BY MEMBERS OF OUR GROUP AT OUR PREVIOUS HOME, MADE RECENTLY AT THE STOREFRONT, OR ARE IN PROCESS. ALL TAPES ARE $25 FOR UP TO I5 MINUTES, AND $40 FOR UP TO A HALF-HOUR, TAPE INCLUDED. IF YOU SEND IN A BLANK TAPE, SUBTRACT $i5 FROM THESE FIGURES. TO ORDER, USE FORM ON PAGE 10. oldies ( This category of tapes includes those which were made by various WCVC staff members while we were still part of the Federal City College structure. This list includes only those which we feel are worth continuing to distribute) JOIN THE WAR ON RATS. Community staffers talk about fighting rodents in urban areas. Aimed at D.C. residents. 15 minutes. $25: MAYDAY CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: Narrative and context of the events around the Mayday demonstrations, edited and narrated by members of Mayday Tribe. (June 1971) 25 minutes. $40. NIXON EVICTION: AN ELECTION-YEAR STRATEGY. Tape made by members of People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice for use during pre-election organizing. Includes testimony from People’s Panel in Washington, Oct. 22-24, 1971, and footage of mass civil disobedience on Oct. 26. Shot by almost a dozen different video people. 30 min. $40. BOBBY SEALE. Interview with the former Chairman of the Black Panther Party during October 22, 1971 demonstrations. Tape was shown to assembled crowd because Seale was forced to leave town. He talks about community organizing, politics in the U.S., and the split in the Panther Party. Especially interesting now that Seale has become a mayoral candidate in Oakland. 30 min. $40. KATHLEEN CLEAVER. An interview shot Nov. 19, 1971, just after returning to U.S. from Algeria, discussing the needs for Revolutionary Peoples Communications Network as alternative to regular media. Also discusses the Panther Party split, Nixon’s visit to China. 28 min. $40. CARL McINTIRE MARCH. Tape made at a right-wing, pro-war rally in Washington the same Oct. weekend as the Nixon Eviction demonstrations. Includes interviews with many different types of people attracted to the fundamentalist event, including American Nazi stormtrooper. Co-produced by Mike Cottone & Toby Murphy, formally of Video Software. 30 min. $40. ANTI-NIXON FAMILY ASSISTENCE PLAN (FAP) HEARINGS. Shot under direction of the D.C. Coalition against FAP, edited by welfare mothers. The tape contains highlights of 2 days of hearings on proposed Nixon welfare plan, including expert testimony from TAPELOG TAPELOG § welfare recipients, health workers, labor leaders, nutritionalists. Originally intended to dramatize welfare recipients plight to legislators and others. 30 min. $40. HARRISBURG EIGHT. The defendants, their counsel, and the people of Harrisburg, Pa., talk about the conspiracy trial immediately before proceedings began which eventually resulted in acquittal on major charges for the Catholic activists. Tape was co-produced with Dispatch News Service International for the Harrisburg Defense Committee with the help of the defendants. Winter, 1972. 30min. $40. COMMUNITY AND THE SOCIAL USE OF TELEVISION. Edited tape from some dozen community seminars we gave during winter of 1971-72 about cable television in Washington, D.C. It is a sort of sequel to the Cable TV tpae, featuring feedback from the community. 30 min. $30. BLUES AND JAZZ. Tapes made at 5th annual Washington Blues Festival, including voices of East Harlem, BB King, Leon Thomas. Edwin Hawkins Sinaers in this edit. Summer 1971. 30 min. $40. LA EDUCATION ES GRATIS (EDUCATION IS FREE): This tape was produced by unemployed workers in Venezuala. It is a dramatized story about a man who loses his job in the city just a few days after his family arrives from the countryside, thus forcing him to send his son to shine shoes instead of going to school. Tape was directed, shot and performed by the workers to illustrate their feelings about so-called ‘‘free’’ education in Latin America. 30 min. $45 (portion goes to Venezuala). No English translation yet. CABLE TV? An introduction to the technology, history, potential and dangers of cable television as it comes itno urban America. Features many well-known cable personalities like Bill Wright, Charles Tate, Ted Ledbetter, Ralph Lee Smith, Tracy Westin. Made for organizing around cable in black communities. September, 197I. 30 min. $40.