LEADER 00000ngma 2200409Ka 4500 001 320247261 003 OCoLC 005 20090505125203.0 007 vf bjahou 008 090505s1970 xxu060 vleng d 035 (PFA-FILM)17896 035 (PFA-FILM)17890 035 (OCoLC)320247261 040 CUY|beng|cCUY 049 CUYF 099 0503-01-13527 245 04 [The Philo T. Farnsworth Video Obelisk.|nTrack 2, Part 1] |h[videorecording] /|cElectric Eye ; produced by Skip Sweeney. 257 United States 260 United States :|b[Video Free America],|c[1970]. 300 1 videocassette of 1 (60 min.) (Betacam SP NTSC) :|bsd., b&w ;|c1/2 in. 500 Cassette label: Obelisk, track II, part I. 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only.|5CUY. 506 PFA 0503-01-13528. Restricted: For PFA exhibition only. 506 PFA 0503-01-13527. Restricted: Archival. Not for research or exhibition. 520 "The physical form of the piece was in the shape of an obelisk. We had a rolling cart that had three shelves. On the bottom were two rows of two 8-inch monitors. The next shelf had a 21-inch monitor. On top of that was an 18-inch monitor, and on tope of that was an 11-inch monitor. The obelisk played two channels of video... So it was, at least in San Francisco and probably even in California, the first multimonitor, multitrack, videotape performance work." Skip Sweeney interview, California video: artists and histories. This tape, which was part of the obelisk piece, contains the following segments: jazz music accompanying television feedback in the form of zebra stripes; Morgan Hill, California 4th of July parade; what appears to be draft number drawing; television feedback; moon landing taped off-air; man sitting in a lounge chair watching old movies on TV; excerpt from the sci-fi movie The monolith monsters; television feedback. 538 Betacam SP NTSC. 590 PFA 0503-01-13528. |aCONDITION NOTE: Last checked: 2009/05 /04 major dropouts but stabilizes; serious dropout as video progresses; white outs where flash of white covers image. 590 PFA 0503-01-13527. |aCONDITION NOTE: Last checked: 2009/05 /04 major dropouts but stabilizes; serious dropout as video progresses; white outs where flash of white covers image. 650 0 Video art. 655 7 Personal/independent works.|2mim 655 7 Television.|2mim 700 1 Sweeney, Skip,|edirection,|eproduction. 710 2 Electric Eye. 710 2 Video Free America. 730 02 Monolith monsters--excerpt. 941 0 PFA 0503-01-13528. PFA Collection acquisition transferred by Vidipax from original 1/2" open reel 2006/01/25 941 0 PFA 0503-01-13527. PFA Collection acquisition transferred by Vidipax from original 1/2" open reel 2006/01/25 946 PFA 0503-01-13528. Record created 2009/05/05 by sw. 946 PFA 0503-01-13527. Record created 2009/05/04 by sw. 946 PFA 0503-01-13527. "Preservation master." 948 PFA 0503-01-13528. Restricted: For PFA exhibition only. 948 PFA 0503-01-13527. Restricted: Archival. Not for research or exhibition. 956 pfsw 956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load 957 OCLC xref loaded 20140309 994 02|bCUY