VIDEO-MAKERS' GROUPS BULLETIN FOR FILM AND %MBED INFORMATION Broadside TV Aprogramgram which uses video as a living newsletter for Vol. 1, No.3 June 1974 the communication of regional information and experience in the Appa- lachian Mountains has been developed by Ted Carpenter in Johnson City, Tennessee, Editors : Ca!!ie Any U' HoUis Melton; zubdido r Antho5gy Film Archives with support from the Appalachian Regional Commis- sion and the Alternate Media Center of N .Y .U . This program uses Y2 " Portapak equipment to establish a regional dialogue for the solving of community problems, needs. etc . "We assume that people in the reg- ion have a readyvitalaccess to experience, language and ideas when it comes to Oak own interasts . We assume, too, that they are willing to Thnpurpose ufthis bulletin istasave dminfonnation needs ufindependent sham this experience through tape with someone like themselves . film- ondvideo-makers undtheir users We ffilm . Thebulletin i organized around five never tape anyone who has not viewed a tape of someone aspects dvideo : else first. It Him-and video-making ; distribution ; exhibition is always clear that, if someone makes a tape, it too will and i circulate to oth- study; mndpreservation . Your suggestions undcomments er interested persons in the mountains . Anyone who will bowelcomed . makes a tape also sees it played back and has a chance to evaluate and criticize his own This program has expanded in several directions since its inception, and now forms a regional video network in cooperation with four cable sys- tems, reaching FILM AND VIDE 0 -- MAKING fourteen cities and towns in Tennessee and Southwest Virginia . In exchange for partial support, Broadside TV provides four to six hours of public access CATV programming weekly . Public fac- FILM -MAKING GROUPS ilities and studios exist in three cities . Broadside provides video tapes and materials for use in public schools and is developing a resource of 0 Qa* Labor (located i tapes on regional materials available for Appalachian universities and colleges; MeAco City) no a complete 16mm, super 8 and video production center it serves as well as a video clearinghouse for the region, with facilities for dubbing, ^^~~~~'~='"'"' Labor storage, editing, processing, and distribution with- operates a weekly film production course in conjunction with n the area . A distribution service, called VideoMaker, has been created Cemanahuac I to make the Appalachian tapes available for purchase ar exchange . A catalogue of these studies institute . In addition, tutorial programs can be arranged tapes, as well as the lists of tapes for public schools with and college, are Grupo Cine Labor by interested parties . City, available 4orn Broadside TV, 204 E. Watauga, Johnson Tenn . 37061 . (615) 926-2401 . Ted Carpenter, Director . Fi!mwomonufBoston, formed nnMarch B' !974 ' is initiating twoplans "-A of action : clearinghouse ofinformation toprovide access tnem- VIDEO-MAKING IN EUROPE ployment andfree-lance opportunities inuUfio!dofurwmmoninthocom- munity . -Aprogram t increase recognition ofthocontributions past Videonakers travelling in Europe this summer should make note of and present made bywomen tothuadvancement the following addresses : ofthofilm undvideo 'ART/TAPESis arts, beginning with oFestival ofWomen's Films from uUover thocoun Italy : Maria Gloria BicooohiwhUer ovhoa>an cen- try ." Fi!mwomon has been organized tinder thoauspices uftho Uni' ter,, producing and distributing videotapes by individual artists . (Sony vomity Film Study Center. Formore information contact : Gioo!m Hou!x!' % Vch black and White, and cohr) The tapes am, with few excep- Fi!mwumonnfBoston, 8ux276 ' Cambridge, Mass. 03!38. (6!7)353'7G!2. tions, unlimited . Those limited are authorized by the artist with a signed and numbered certificate. In addition to videotapes we Sydney FUmmokom'CnOpom%PO Box 217 Kings Cm NA.W . also hoe Mms Gulaer 8 and 16mm), slides, books and records and 2011, Australia . .....we have over twenty screenings per week (at Film- the distribution of some works not produced by us ... ART/TAPES Peters is public all makers' Cinema, located at St. Lan, Darlinghurst, N.S.W .), open to the at times, the object being to encourage those as though less than half of these are devoted to New Cinema . Our concern outside to participate much as possible . In addition there are org- is to provide an international context (historical and contemporary) for anized projection evenings, concerts, performances and soma graphic our work, and while we are devoted to helping Australian film-makers, displays. Public response to date has been remarkable. The internal uu, m/mmzommounmomoommmoouup'wkekmAustm!ianorfor- suticture of ART/TAPES is made of five energetic young people, (two oign] hope that you can publish some more information oboutnuruot- technicians and three administrators) . " Contact : Maria Gloria Bicocchi, ixhiooinyuu Bulletin ondsuggest tofilm-makers that if they send uo ART/TAPES, 22 Via Ricasoli, 50129 Florence ; telephone : 283643 . prints oftheir films, wewill ensure that they omdistributed widely in East Germany : Karl Ruhrberg, Director, D .A .A Australia, shown inourcinema, undthat wmoanalso trytuarrange TV .D ., Steinplatz 2,1 Ber- sales, etc . furthem . lin 12, East Germany has helped video-makers, such as Nam June Palk . Rotterdam : The Also, wmwill help nnyfi!mmrvvhovisits here, undoowell Rotterdam Arts Foundation Video Group is well- mscreenings funded by the inourcinema, uonarrange screenings i ! Australian government and is interested in helping artists from dif- also arrange .muthem mgive lectures, ferent countries to realize their ideas in video . Production costs are two paid months notice to do this effectively ." for by the Foundation, which keeps all the master tapes which are made . Artists who have used . .e Sydney Coop publishes amonthly calendar mscreenings, umonth- the facilities so far include Dennis Oppen- heim, Terry Fox, and Peter Hutchinson ly nommottorundaooto!oguouffi!mxavai!ub!oformnt . Contact Felix Valk, Rutter- Rotterdam-2, Netherlands . SERVICES FOR FILM-MAKERS Henry Street Film Service A nun profit developing facility, Street Bruce i by the Henry Settlement Urban Life Center O Kurtz will buteaching Communications Workshop i with assistance from the New York State Council on the Arts, has Audio-Visual unomu!U-Mogiu ' ut HurtmiokCollege ioOnoonto .NY expanded itqprogram tn provide negative cutting services, instruction this summer, July !6toAugust 9. Forfurther information, contact D/. James Lawrence, inlGmmblack andwhite film developing, u uh/mbuying Associate Dean - Hurtwiok College, Onoooto' co-op where super 8film may bosecured ot the lowest cost available . New York 0D2U~ While most Henry Street Settlement programs umdirected toNmw ' John RoiUyxiU boteaching un intensive Video Workshop mLtho Now York City's lower East Side, the Film Service facilities amopen to School this summer, five days uweek forxixweeks starting June !0 aUNmmYork _State residents . Further information ondprices am Tu~ion : $G30plus n°x"u""+~or, u".~Q^~. m... v..1, hi v .uoo, /,, .`,LL' nnnn . $i58 lab fee . The New School, S8Wi!~hStreet,Street, Now Twenty York University School of the Arts Four Frames ' 12Chepstow Mansions, London W2 4XA,England ,Portable half-inch Videotape Workshop : Jackie Park, Red Burns, and staff, July 22-- August 30. Media Internship : !ming JaokiuPark, Fa!k ' Red Burns, July !9-Aug- VIDEO ust 30. Applied Media Production : Mark Chominhaw and Thomas Drysdale. National The Film Board of Canada writer An introductory course emphasizing the educational applications of ^Do you have avideo program we could include in our community 8mmfilm ondvideotape, July !-July !9. - oriented Video Theatre? TheNational Film Board AdantinRegion & Beginning Film Production : Hoig Manoogiun ' June !U-July !B. !nokingforin1rrmuinA programs ofa Oonem! nature and good technical quality The Advanced Film Production Workshop : Charles Mi!no' July 22 - forthm now August 30. Video Theatre tnbeopening shortly inHalifax . Initially, mmhope to compile u library Cinematographer's Workshop : Boda8utku June 0-June 28 . 3. mfthirty tapes. Later, plans include enlarging thn ' 8bmry, video The Film Director's Workshop : Peter G!uohannk,bly ! -July !8. muobunUeundpublishing catalogues . We have facilities fordubbing Forinformation ondapplication forms write 1o : NmwYork Univer- from amaster or'ifynuprefer, mmwill send mSony half- Office Ill inch sity School of the Arts, of Me Dean, Second Avenue, New !apmfardubbing by yow" Con{aot: Ms . Akiko Lumb, Nadonui Film Board Atlantic Region, 1572 York ' N .Y . !OOU3' orcall : (2!2) SS8-7GG3 . 8mninytonStreet, Halifax, Nova Scotia 03J1ZG,Canada . (9D2)43G'GOD9 . TELEVISION STATIONS ASSISTING ARTISTS IN VIDEO U0ET Catalyst 45324 ThoD#QQH Television Workshop . "NG8Hhmrecently created 1ak- . (513) 878 - 9171 "UNETis a video tape and information vdunwmrkohnp devoted, among other tbin, tuexploring nmmert- ptions from many different producers are u~an~ed ~~ loose istic forms and conceptsallin video. A major purpose of the work will be ` .' . categoriesne within the 'Catalog .' The Catalog to provide artigs from dictlines with an opportunity to propose, n/mgored unmagnetic tape !nowmrd'pmoossor ~.with individualized and if accepted, to realize on videotape new Weas for artistic and crew andcompletelyand uptodoe printouts oof ~e i~~ in each category tive communication which are specific to television ." Send completed available