Four More Years

Top Value Television (TVTV) was an adhoc group of "video freaks," mediamakers, artists and activists, assembled to counterbalance mainstream coverage of the 1972 election campaigns. Armed with press credentials and 1/2" reel-to-reel video equipment, they invaded the floor of the 30th Republican National Convention, coming away with Four More Years (61:28 mins), an irreverent, alternative take on the American political process. With a crew of 19, TVTV infiltrated the delegate caucuses, Young Republican rallies, antiwar demonstrations and cocktail parties. They even secured unguarded cameos from Julie Nixon, Dan Rather, Roger Mudd, Henry Kissinger, and Walter Cronkite. Using fitful segues and iconclastic wit, TVTV added a fresh journalistic perspective to the first 1/2" videodoc ever broadcast. --Steve Seid

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