by Sweeney, Skip; Electric Eye; Video Free America
VHS / 1970
Title[The Philo T. Farnsworth Video Obelisk--outtakes?]
Item typeVHS
Author(s)Sweeney, Skip
ImprintUnited States [Video Free America], 1970
LanguageEnglish
URLLink to original record
Notes
  • Original 1/2" open reel box label: 2nd half Obelisk & Electric Ire Morph.
  • Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only. CBPF.
  • PFA 0550-01-13788. Restricted: Archival. Not for research or exhibition.
Physical description1 videoreel of 1 (60:00 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.

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Date text: 
1970
Author: 
Sweeney, Skip
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[Video Free America]
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LEADER 00000ngmaa2200397Ka 4500 001 656577918 003 OCoLC 005 20100818104958.0 007 vr bbzhou 008 100818s1970 xxu060 vleng d 035 (PFA-FILM)19919 040 CUY|beng|cCUY 245 04 [The Philo T. Farnsworth Video Obelisk--outtakes?] |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: 2nd half Obelisk & Electric Ire Morph. 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only.|5CBPF. 506 PFA 0550-01-13788. 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 appears to be outtakes from the Obelisk piece, contains the following segments: some poor quality images; television feedback; fake Nixon interview; man in lounge chair drinking and watching old movies on television. 541 0 PFA 0550-01-13788. D0395 650 0 Video art. 655 7 Personal/independent works.|2mim 655 7 Television.|2mim 655 7 Outtakes.|2mim 700 1 Sweeney, Skip,|edirection,|eproduction. 710 2 Electric Eye. 710 2 Video Free America. 941 0 PFA 0550-01-13788. D0395 donation 2000 946 PFA 0550-01-13788. INV record created 2009/06/25 by pjs; MIN record created 2010/08/17 by sw. 948 PFA 0550-01-13788. Restricted: Archival. Not for research or exhibition. 956 pfsw 956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load 957 OCLC xref loaded 20140309 994 C0|bCUY