LEADER 00000ngmaa2200409Ka 4500 001 646045818 003 OCoLC 005 20100706103842.0 007 vr czahou 008 100706s1970 xxu060 vleng d 035 (PFA-FILM)19675 040 CUY|beng|cCUY 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 videoreel of 1 (60:00 min.) :|bsd., b&w ;|c1/2 in. 500 No title or credits on video; title taken from label on viewing copy. 500 Original 1/2" open reel box label: Obelisk Track II Part 1. Original reel label: Obelisk 2nd track, tape 1. Note inside container: Leroy's CV attempts. 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only.|5CBPF. 506 PFA 0550-01-13754. 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. 541 0 PFA 0550-01-13754. D0395 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 0550-01-13754. D0395 donation 2000 946 PFA 0550-01-13754. INV record created 2009/06/08 by pjs; MIN record created 2010/07/02 by sw. 948 PFA 0550-01-13754. Restricted: Archival. Not for research or exhibition. 956 pfsw 956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load 957 OCLC xref loaded 20140309 994 C0|bCUY