LEADER 00000ngmaa2200409Ka 4500 001 438125354 003 OCoLC 005 20090923111944.0 007 vr bzahou 008 090923s1970 xxu060 vleng d 035 (PFA-FILM)18303 040 CUY|beng|cCUY 245 04 [The Philo T. Farnsworth Video Obelisk.|nTrack 2, Part 2] |h[videorecording] /|cElectric Eye ; produced by Skip Sweeney. 257 United States. 260 United States :|b[Video Free America],|c[1970]. 300 1 videoreel of 1 (60:00 min.) :|bsd., b&w ;|c1/2 in. 500 Original 1/2" open reel box label: Obelisk 2nd Track II. Original reel label: 2nd Track Obelisk, 2nd half show. 500 No title or credits on video; title taken from label on viewing copy. 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only.|5CUY. 506 PFA 0550-01-13785. 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: excerpt from an unidentified western movie; Morgan Hill, California 4th of July parade; off-air tape of Richard Nixon giving sppech on Viet Nam and the war, Interim report on southeast Asia; outdoor concert featuring the band, Capt. Trucker and a political skit about air pollution given by students from San Jose State University. 541 0 PFA 0550-01-13785. D0395 650 0 Video art. 655 7 Personal/independent works.|2mim 655 7 Television.|2mim 700 1 Sweeney, Skip,|edirection,|eproduction. 700 1 Nixon, Richard M.|q(Richard Milhous),|d1913-1994.|tSpeech. 710 2 Electric Eye. 710 2 Video Free America. 941 0 PFA 0550-01-13785. D0395 donation 2000 946 PFA 0550-01-13785. INV record created 2009/06/25 by pjs; MIN record created 2009/09/23 by sw. 948 PFA 0550-01-13785. Restricted: Archival. Not for research or exhibition. 956 pfsw 956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load 957 OCLC xref loaded 20140309 994 C0|bCUY