Research Catalog

Title

Video 50 [submasters] [videorecording] / Film & Video Collectif zeigt in Koproduction mit dem ZDF das kleine Fernsehspiel ; [Regie] von Robert Wilson ; Produktion, Robert Boner und Caroline Arrighi.

Publication

[1978]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wilson, Robert, 1941-
• Childs, Lucinda
• Chemin, Philippe
• Condominas, Laura Duke
• Aragon, 1897-1982
• Pesle, Benedicte
• Guy, Michel
• Lloyd, Alan Huber, 1943-1986
• Berta, Renato.
• Boner, Robert
• Arrighi, Caroline
• Tavernier, Elisabeth.
• Jager, Gilbert.
• Grellet, Michel
• Urtado, Marc
• Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.
• Redaktion "Das Kleine Fernsehspiel."
• Institut national de l'audiovisuel (France)
• Centre Georges Pompidou.

Description

11 videodiscs (DVD) (ca. 513 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

• "With television we always have a choice...Video 50 is structured for viewing choice. It can be broken up into very short sequences, 30 seconds each, and the individual segments can be rearranged for viewing in different orders." -- About Video 50, by Robert Wilson.
• Disc 8 begins with Robert Wilson's voice announcing "Video 50, Pilot Project, January 26, 1978, Paris." Wilson's voiceover announces various Episodes shown. Disc 10, labeled ABC News sub-master, may contain an excerpt version.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation.

Series Statement

Robert Wilson Audio/Visual Collection

Subjects

• Video art
• Television

Genre/Form

Television.

Note

• Donor's inventory numbers: Uncoded 50A, Uncoded 50B, Uncoded 50D, Uncoded 50E, Uncoded 50F, Uncoded 50G, Uncoded 50H, Uncoded 50I, Uncoded 50K, Uncoded 50L, Uncoded 51, Uncoded 82, V50 11, Uncoded 100.
• Title and credits from German titled version. See NCOX 3049 for a recording of this version.
• The music from Einstein on the Beach at the beginning of Disc 7 appears to be unrelated to the source recording.
• Sources used for content description and dates: Byrd Hoffman Foundation records, source recording labels, robertwilson.com, and newmedia-art.org.

Access (note)

• Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

• Musik, Alan Lloyd ; Licht, Renato Berta ; gedreht in den Studios Institut National de L'Audiovisuel und Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris ; Dekors, Elisabeth Tavernier ; Kostüme, Christiane Lambert ; Ton, Gilbert Jager ; Kamera, Michel Grellet ; Schnitt, Marc Urtado ; Redaktion, Maya Faber-Jansen und Eckart Stein.

Performer (note)

• Lucinda Childs, Philippe Chemin, Laura Condominas, Robert Wilson.

Event (note)

• Videorecorded at Centre Georges Pompidou, probably between January and July, 1978.

Language (note)

• Off-camera and non-performance related dialogue in English and French.

Contents

Disc 1. (53 min.) -- Disc 2. (46 min.) -- Disc 3. (66 min.) -- Disc 4. (35 min.) -- Disc 5. (64 min.) -- Disc 6. (60 min.) -- Disc 7. (67 min.) -- Disc 8. (10 min.) -- Disc 9. (63 min.) -- Disc 10. (12 min.) -- Disc 11. (37 min.)

Call Number

NCOX 3050

OCLC

NYPG05-F11071

Title

Video 50 [submasters] [videorecording] / Film & Video Collectif zeigt in Koproduction mit dem ZDF das kleine Fernsehspiel ; [Regie] von Robert Wilson ; Produktion, Robert Boner und Caroline Arrighi.

Imprint

[1978]

Country of Producing Entity

[Switzerland] ; Germany.

Series

Robert Wilson Audio/Visual Collection

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

Musik, Alan Lloyd ; Licht, Renato Berta ; gedreht in den Studios Institut National de L'Audiovisuel und Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris ; Dekors, Elisabeth Tavernier ; Kostüme, Christiane Lambert ; Ton, Gilbert Jager ; Kamera, Michel Grellet ; Schnitt, Marc Urtado ; Redaktion, Maya Faber-Jansen und Eckart Stein.

Cast

Lucinda Childs, Philippe Chemin, Laura Condominas, Robert Wilson.

Performer

Es wirkten mit Liba Rossi, Philippe Silvain, Pere Jean-Pierre, Patrice Lerident und Hélène, Michel [Guy], Berthe, Antoine, Benedicte [Pesle], Syril, [Louis] Aragon u.v.a.

Event

Videorecorded at Centre Georges Pompidou, probably between January and July, 1978.

Language

Off-camera and non-performance related dialogue in English and French.

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Added Author

Wilson, Robert, 1941- director.

Wilson, Robert, 1941- actor.

Childs, Lucinda, actor.

Chemin, Philippe, actor.

Condominas, Laura Duke, actor.

Aragon, 1897-1982, actor.

Pesle, Benedicte, actor.

Guy, Michel, actor.

Lloyd, Alan Huber, 1943-1986, composer (expression)

Berta, Renato.

Boner, Robert, production.

Arrighi, Caroline, production.

Tavernier, Elisabeth.

Jager, Gilbert.

Grellet, Michel, camera.

Urtado, Marc, editor of moving image work.

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.

Redaktion "Das Kleine Fernsehspiel."

Institut national de l'audiovisuel (France)

Centre Georges Pompidou.

Research Call Number

NCOX 3050