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Early Portable Video

Author
Sherry Miller Hocking
Publisher
Experimental Television Center
Place
Owego, New York
Type
Manuscript, text or essay
ETC archive
ETC2392
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Sherry Miller Hocking. Early Portable Video. Experimental Television Center. 1992.

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