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Direct Video: Electronic Artform for Color Television

Author
Stephen Beck
Publication
National Center for Experiments in Television Reports 3
Publisher
National Center for Experiments in Television (NCET)
Date
n.d.
Place
San Francisco, California
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ETC0152

Abstract

National Center for Experiments in Television (NCET) reports, no date; notes from Kaplan to NCET staff concerning the integration of television displays into museum exhibition architectural space

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Stephen Beck. Direct Video: Electronic Artform for Color Television. National Center for Experiments in Television Reports 3. National Center for Experiments in Television (NCET). n.d.

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ETC0152

National Center for Experiments in Television (NCET) reports, no date; notes from Kaplan to NCET staff concerning the integration of television displays into museum exhibition architectural space

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