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The Independent Producer, Public Television, and New Video Technologies

Date
1979

On December 10-12, 1979 at one of John Reilly's conferences, "The Independent Producer, Public Television, and New Video Technologies", held at The Walnut Street Theatre, a regional media center in Philadelphia,

Brian O'Doherty, Director of the Media Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts, announced that funds were being directed to regional organizations such as the Alabama Filmmakers Coop and the South West Alternate Media Project, to be distributed to independent makers in those areas.

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"The Independent Producer, Public Television, and New Video Technologies." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/independent-producer-public-television-and-new-video-technologies.

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On December 10-12, 1979, at John Reilly's conference The Independent Producer, Public Television, and New Video Technologies held at The Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Brian O'Doherty, Director of the Media Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts, announced that funds were being directed to regional organizations. He named the Alabama Filmmakers Coop and the South West Alternate Media Project as examples; the funds were to be distributed to independent makers in those areas.

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