Film
Hands Across the Border
1978
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Overview
Hands Across The Border was a seven city slow scan collaboration. With participation from Paul Wong, Sharon Levett & Daryl Lacey, Video Inn, Vancouver;Randall Lyon & Gus Nelson, Televista Projects, Memphis; Sharon Grace, Video Free America, Berkeley Art Museum, U.C.; Peggy Cady, Bill Bartlett, Chas Leckie. Open Space, Victoria; Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal & Willoughby Sharp, General Idea, Toronto; Liza Bear & Robin Winters, Center for New Art Activities, NY.; et al. Slow-scan television equipment used a computerised memory to sample a picture from a television camera every few seconds, “freeze” it and send it down a telephone line as an audio signal. The machines could only be used between two points at a time. At the receiving end, the signal was decoded and slowly scanned out a still frame on a television monitor.
Crew
- Paul WongDirector
- Sharon LevettDirector
- Daryl LaceyDirector
- Randall LyonDirector
- Gus NelsonDirector
- Sharon GraceDirector
- Peggy CadyDirector
- Bill BartlettDirector
- Chas LeckieDirector
- Felix PartzDirector
Details
- Release date
- January 1, 1978
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
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