University of Washington Media Center audiovisual collection, approximately 1971-2005
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Collector
- University of Washington. Libraries. Media Center
- Title
- University of Washington Media Center audiovisual collection
- Dates
- approximately 1971-2005 (inclusive)19712005
- Quantity
- 108 moving image and audio materials: 1 DVD, 3 video reels (1/2"), 3 Betacam SP tapes, 3 VHS tapes, 4 audiocassettes, 5 Mini DV, 89 U-matic tapes (3/4")
- Collection Number
- PH1481
- Summary
- Audiovisual material originally held by the University of Washington Libraries Media Center, including lectures, printmaking classes and demonstrations, "Early Seattle" documentary, and a small selection of KCTS television programs.
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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The original materials are not accessible due to preservation concerns. Some originals have been transferred to digital format (those with a VC number) and can be viewed onsite in the Special Collections Reading Room. A large portion of the original materials are in poor condition and require further restoration. For all others, arrangements can be made to view the films by contacting the Visual Materials Curator.
Access to items 106, 107, and 108 are restricted due to HIPAA protections.
- Languages
- English and Japanese
Historical Note
Established in 1974 in Odegaard Library on the University of Washington campus, the Libraries Media Center served as the main service point for the University of Washington Libraries' curricular-based audio and video collections. Odegaard Library opened in 1972 and was renovated in 2012-2013, at which point the Media Center was moved to Suzzallo Library. In 2016, the Media Center was closed and media access was turned over to general circulation.
Content Description
The videotapes from the University of Washington Media Center include programs documenting classes and techniques from the University of Washington Art Department. The bulk of these art videos focus on printmaking and were often presented or demonstrated by Bill Ritchie, art professor at the University of Washington. The printmaking videos also feature demonstrations by and conversations with Akira Kurosaki, Greg Both, Ed Praczukowski, Dwight Coburn, Norie Sato, Ed Marquand, and the composer John Cage. Videos on dance, music, and video art are featured as well including recordings of various lecture series, with lecturers such as Anthony Pagden, James Head, and Sherry Turkle. The collection also includes the recorded portions of the From Vision to Transformation Conference, a University of Washington Libraries conference on digital scholarship. The material produced through the University of Washington includes UWTV documentary programming, with pieces on Japanese internment, logging, and sheepherding. Television and radio programs, largely from Washington State networks, are included as well, with subjects ranging from censorship, medicine, libraries, the University of Washington, and a program featuring Advertising Age's best television commercials from 1985.
Use of the Collection
Return to TopAdministrative Information
Arrangement
Arranged in 6 series.
- Art Instruction and Presentation
- Best TV Commercials of the Year 1985
- Books and Libraries
- Classified Critical, KING TV Series
- History and Humanities
- Science
Detailed Description of the Collection
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Art Instruction and Presentation
These items include educational demonstrations, lectures on art, filmed performances, and experimental video art.
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Calligraphy
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Description: Calligraphy #1, Kane Hall1 videocassette (20 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: November 19, 1976Container: Box 1, Item 1 -
Description: Calligraphy Exhibit #2, Meany Hall
A group of people take turns creating Japanese characters on large papers, elevated on a large platform in the center of a room. The calligraphers are surrounded by a group of people watching the events.
Original:1 videocassette (23 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: November 19, 1976Container: Viewcopy VC679, Item 2 -
Description: Calligraphy #3, Center of Asian Arts
A group of people, sitting on a mat in the center of a room, takes turns creating Japanese characters on large paper. The calligraphers are surrounded by a group of people watching the events.
Original:1 videocassette (23 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: November 20, 1976Container: Viewcopy VC679, Item 3 -
Description: Calligraphy #4, Center of Asian Arts
An interview with two calligraphers takes place in Japanese. A group of people are videotaped as they pose for a group picture with Japanese being spoken in the background. A woman interviews a man, in English, about Japanese calligraphy which he refers to as a “spiritual practice.” The speaking man describes the importance of genealogy in calligraphy masters, as well as a broader discussion of calligraphy traditions, styles, and dialects in Japanese culture.
Original:1 videocassette (23 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: November 20, 1976Container: Viewcopy VC679, Item 4
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Experimental Video Art
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Description: Bill Viola at the University of Washington 19821 videocassette (46 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1982?Container: Box 1, Item 5 -
Description: Compilation of experimental video by Bill Ritchie1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Experimental videography on a New York City public access channel. Includes the short film Sleep.
Written on videotape box: Report '74 (Sleep by Bill Ritchie).
Condition Note:Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1974?Container: Box 1, Item 6 -
Description: Compilation of works in video improvisation1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1978?Container: Box 1, Item 7 -
Experimental Video and Choreography by Cynthia Bradshaw
These items are four pieces collected on a single tape.
Written on the videotape box: Bradshaw: Video Choreography.
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Description: Studio Improvisation
Dancers transition from couple, to trio, to single dancer. Videography focuses on superimposition and stylized transitions.
Credits:Videotape: Cynthia Bradshaw ; Dancers: Robert Davidson, Jacques Duringer, Kris Wheeler ; Technical Crew: Bill Ritchie, Randy Katz, Terry Morgan, Greg Arnold.
Original:1 videocassette (7 min.) : sound, black and white ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: Spring 1978Container: Viewcopy VC680, Item 8a -
Description: Sack Lunch or Bring Your Own
A man dressed as Superman interacts with various women, with sequences constantly superimposed, with some layers being filled in with color.
Credits:Choreography and Videotape: Cynthia Bradshaw ; Music: Eric Satie ; Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Kathy Davidson, Laura Drawbaugh, Barbara Hiebert, Jennifer Heilmann, John Palameteer ; Technical Crew: Greg Arnold, Randy Katz, Bill Ritchie.
Original:1 videocassette (7 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: Spring 1978Container: Viewcopy VC680, Item 8b -
Description: Crutch Dance
Slow dance with a man moving through crutches, superimposed over himself. Other techniques include slow motion photography and video delay.
Original:1 videocassette (7 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: Spring 1978Container: Viewcopy VC680, Item 8c -
Description: Untitled, experimental dance
A person moves under a bedsheet with color distortion overlaid onto the image.
Original:1 videocassette (1 min.) : sound, black and white ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: Spring 1978Container: Viewcopy VC680, Item 8d
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Description: Ed Praczukowski: Corner of My Universe1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: January 1980Container: Viewcopy VC103, Item 9
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Music and Dance
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Description: Demonstration of the Buchta Synthesizer1 videoreel (25 min.) ; 1/2" Open ReelCondition Note:
Unwatchable.
Dates: April 2, 1976Container: Box 1, Item 10 -
Description: Instruction in dance preparation
Narration over dancers stretching and dancing in a white room. Narrator explains the basics of what goes into preparing to dance, and provides some tips for particular stretches. Focus on bodily awareness and openness. The dancers continue to stretch and free form dance without narration, accompanied by movement.
Credits:Choreographer: Lynda Davis ; Music: Ray Brooks ; Dancers: Linda Ann Chiaverine, Jack Clark, Lynda Davis, Allison Diftler ; Consultant: Nancy Smith Fichter ; Costumer: Abby Lillethun.
Written on videotape box: Dance Exp: De-1 Pre. To Dance.
Original:1 videocassette (16 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1984?Container: Viewcopy VC681, Item 11 -
Description: Martha Graham Dance Company Part II, performance of Appalachian Spring
Martha Graham discusses the preparation of this dance, focusing on Aaron Copland’s score and the importance of minimalism in Isamu Noguchi’s set design. The story of the dance revolves around a newlywed couple, a small town’s pastor who proclaims the potential evils of love, and the townspeople who follow him.
Credits:Producer: Emile Ardolino ; Director: Merrill Brockway ; Choreographer: Martha Graham ; Presenter: Gregory Peck ; Conductor: Robert Irving ; Set Design: Isamu Noguchi ; Costumes: Halston, Martha Graham: Edythe Gilfond.
Original:1 videocassette (41 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1976?Container: Viewcopy VC682, Item 12 -
Description: Pacific Northwest Ballet Performances from the 1980 Season1 videocassette (57 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Written on tape box: Pacific Northwest Ballet Excerpts from 1980 Season KCTS 9.
Condition Note:Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1980Container: Box 1, Item 13
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Printmaking
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Description: Art and music of John Dowell, Jr.1 videocassette (57 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1979?Container: Box 1, Item 14 -
Description: C. T. Chew: Cyanotype1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1981?Container: Box 1, Item 15 -
Description: Ed Marquand: It's Your Portfolio1 videocassette (59 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: December 15, 1985Container: Box 1, Item 16 -
Description: John Cage at Crown Point Press1 videocassette (44 min.) : sound, black and white ; 3/4" U-matic
John Cage is interviewed by phone about his Crown Point project.
Condition Note:Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1982?Container: Box 1, Item 17 -
Description: Students Can Manage & D. G. Smith at Olympic Press, Inc.1 videocassette (25 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1982?Container: Box 2, Item 18 -
Description: Timothy Barrett: Finishing Paper by Nagashizuki Methods1 videocassette (10 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1978?Container: Box 2, Item 19 -
Bill Ritchie Printmaking
These items include demonstrations by Bill Ritchie as well as by other artists with Ritchie acting as a commentator or host.
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Description: Acid Room Practices for Etching1 videocassette (17 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1979?Container: Box 2, Item 20 -
Description: Barry Moser: A Workshop in Wood Engraving1 videocassette (56 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1982?Container: Box 2, Item 21 -
Description: Beginning Aluminum Plate Lithography1 videocassette (49 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1971?Container: Box 2, Item 22 -
Description: Claire Van Vliet: Relief Etching
Clare Van Vliet gives a presentation to a class lead by Bill Ritchie. She begins by describing various book pressing types and general approaches to the process of bookmaking. She discusses other elements of book design, such as business choices, the role of the senses in book designs, and the theory versus practice in education. Van Vliet explains the choices and work that went into her design of the book The Dream of a Dirty Woman. Van Vliet’s discussion is interspersed with an ongoing demonstration of relief etching and printmaking.
Credits:Editor: Bill Ritchie.
Condition Note:The first minute of the viewing copy includes some distortion and picture issues but the rest of the item plays normally.
Original:1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1982?Container: Viewcopy VC683, Item 23 -
Description: Cyanotypes: 1981
Video filmed at Bush School. Bill Ritchie lectures on his interest in combining New York and Tokyo printmaking influences, and the role of the combination and mysticism in Northwestern arts. Ritchie switches to commentating over tapes of his art making process in University of Washington classrooms, in which he covers printmaking’s connection to other art forms, inspiration he drew from aerial views of an airplane submerged in a lake in Nevada, and the process of creating art from this experience as well as by paying homage to The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai.
Original:1 videocassette (39 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1981?Container: Viewcopy VC684, Item 24 -
Description: Dan Smith Makes Ink (2nd Ed)1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Bill Ritchie interviews Dan Smith about his own ink making process.
Condition Note:Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1978?Container: Box 2, Item 25 -
Description: Ed Marquand: Making Slides of Your Graphics
Ed Marquand provides instruction on how to best photograph and make slides of two-dimensional art to be used in portfolios. Marquand delves into necessary equipment, lighting set-ups, the use of a light meter, and the framing of the art piece, all in high detail..
Credits:Producers: Bill Ritchie, Norie Sato.
Condition Note:The tape became unwatchable during the digitization process, but approximately forty minutes have been digitized. Requires restoration
Original:1 videocassette (55 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1982?Container: Viewcopy VC685, Item 26 -
Description: Editioning a Lithograph1 videocassette (28 min.) : sound, black and white ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1973?Container: Box 2, Item 27 -
Description: Greg Both: The Screen for Screen Printing1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1981?Container: Box 2, Item 28 -
Description: How Serigraphy Was Invented
The video is a narrative silent film about Carl Serifeldter, a stamp collector who invented the serigraph. It depicts Serifeldter being rejected from a print shop for having high debts and having his screen door knocked off in his home, inspiring him to use the screen to make prints.
Credits:Characterization: Genie Carter, Carl Chew, Carolyn Law, Ries Niemi, Norie Sato ; Cinematography: Ken Levine ; Director & Producer: Bill Ritchie.
Original:1 videocassette (6 min.) : sound, black and white ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1979?Container: Viewcopy VC686, Item 29 -
Description: Inks in a Printmaking Workshop1 videocassette (19 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Discussion of ink crafting for beginners, with a focus on etiquette and usage.
Condition Note:Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1979?Container: Box 2, Item 30 -
Description: Intaglio Printmaking: Beveling Plate
Tape begins partway through a lecture by Bill Ritchie as he gives information on the Intaglio Press and its effects on embossing and beveling. Ritchie discusses how to bevel a print through different methods, providing a demonstration of creating a bevel with a file and showing diagrams of other methods.
Credits:Director: Jim Settlewier ; Audio & Lighting: Wes Price.
Written on tape box: Beveling Plate (for Intaglio Printmaking).
Original:1 videocassette (19 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1979?Container: Viewcopy VC687, Item 31 -
Description: Intaglio Printmaking: Cutting Metal Plate1 videocassette (29 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Breakdown of how to cut metal for printing, includes a filmed tutorial.
Written on tape box: Cutting Metal Plate (for Intaglio Printmaking).
Dates: 1979?Container: Box 2, Item 32 -
Description: Intaglio Printmaking: Platemaking1 videocassette (43 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1971?Container: Box 2, Item 33 -
Description: The Intaglio Press
Tape begins with images from a book depicting different types of Intaglio presses. Bill Ritchie provides a basic definition for an Intaglio press as one that has rollers on its top and bottom, then describes the differences between a few types in a classroom, running through their individual parts. Ritchie goes over safety protocols for using printing presses, as well as the importance and types of printing blankets used in the printing process. Ritchie details the cleaning procedure for Intaglio presses.
Credits:Director: Jim Settlemier ; Audio and Lighting: Wes Price ; Cameras: Pat Winters, Chris Topping, Michael Dodge.
Original:1 videocassette (29 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1979?Container: Viewcopy VC688, Item 34 -
Description: Laurence Baker: Papermaking
Bill Ritchie narrates the video and acts as videographer for the papermaking process at Laurence Barker’s studio in California. Ritchie follows Barker’s collaboration with Jacki Parry, a Scottish artist, who wants to make custom shaped paper. The papermaking process includes choosing rags to be shredded and treated with chemicals to create pulp and the shaping of the paper by hand. Parry returns to Scotland and is filmed receiving the paper by mail after it dried in Barker’s studio.
Credits:Producer & Videotape: Bill Ritchie.
Original:1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1984?Container: Viewcopy VC689, Item 35 -
Description: Leather Roller for Lithography1 videocassette (20 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1978?Container: Box 3, Item 36 -
Description: Making a Screen for Screen Printing1 videocassette (56 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1980?Container: Box 3, Item 37 -
Description: Making Inks for Printmaking
Bill Ritchie with his students at Daniel Smith Inc., where Deborah Barrows and Chris Horten run through the process of making large batches of ink and speak to the differences in doing it by hand in small batches. The ink making process includes running the viscous ink through large rollers, mixing machines, and testing processes.
Credits:Producer: Bill Ritchie ; Video and Audio: Kim Argimson, Scott Creighton, Carolyn Gates, Virginia Lynn.
Original:1 videocassette (22 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: August 1984Container: Viewcopy VC690, Item 38 -
Description: Mats for Graphics
Bill Ritchie goes over various methods of matting prints and graphics, demonstrating a simple method of estimated measuring of the size of the whole mat and its cut out frame, as well as a more exact method that provides a similar book shaped mat with a hole cut for the image.
Credits:Video recording: Norie Sato.
Written on tape box: Mats for Graphics Duplicate from the Unedited Submaster.
Condition Note:The videotaping quality is spotty, with dark lighting near the beginning and the image becoming obscured in the middle.
Original:1 videocassette (21 min.) : sound, black and white ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1973Container: Viewcopy VC691, Item 39 -
Description: Nancy Mee: Matting Graphic Art1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1979?Container: Box 3, Item 40 -
Description: Norie Sato: Nihon/Chine Colle printing process
Bill Ritchie and Norie Sato explain the process and origin of Chine Colle as a form of printmaking and collage, and describe its differences from other printmaking techniques. Ritchie speaks to Sato’s background and attendance to the University of Washington. Sato describes the lamination process that is key to Chine Colle and provides an in-depth demonstration of how to make the laminate. Sato incorporates watercolor into the print paper and also discusses the way her method and choices are unique. Ritchie and Sato examine existing prints made through Chine Colle and describe possible methods in making them.
Credits:Producer: Bill Ritchie ; Director: George Diedrich ; Audio & Lighting: Wes Price.
Original:1 videocassette (58 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1979?Container: Viewcopy VC692, Item 41 -
Description: Papers for Printmaking1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Filmed at Daniel Smith Inc., Seattle.
Condition Note:Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1984?Container: Box 3, Item 42 -
Description: Processing Aluminum Plate Lithographs (ProSol 54)
Bill Ritchie uses a crayon drawing to go through a step-by-step demonstration of aluminum plate lithography. He explains the chemicals used, safety concerns, potential pitfalls overall and particularly in the water processing stage, and the importance of extensive wiping and solution processing.
Credits:Videographer: Dennis Evans.
Original:1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, black and white ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1973Container: Viewcopy VC693, Item 43 -
Description: Registration of a Printing Plate
Bill Ritchie defines the registration of a print as making sure everything is in the right place at the right time. Ritchie lines up the paper, etching, and mats all on the press, focusing on the “T” registration method, which involves a high amount of planning and measuring.
Credits:Director: Jim Settlemier ; Audio & Lighting: Wes Price.
Original:1 videocassette (21 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: August 1979Container: Viewcopy VC694, Item 44 -
Description: Speak Out with Bill Ritchie1 videocassette (29 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: January 30, 1980Container: Box 3, Item 45 -
Description: Suzanne Ferris: Printmaking and Book Design
Suzanne Ferris describes the media used and methods employed by artists in creating specialty books. Ferris walks through types of non-traditional book printing, such as broadside books and chapbooks. Ferris discusses types of paper, ways of binding books, and forms of illustration and printing. Artists discussed include Bill Stafford, Joan Stone, and David Ferry.
Condition Note:Approximately the first minute of the viewing copy is shaky but the image becomes more stable after that.
Original:1 videocassette (33 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: March 6, 1980Container: Viewcopy VC695, Item 46 -
Description: Timothy Barrett: Finishing Paper by Nagashi & Bill Ritchie: How I Printed "My Father's Farm from the Moon"1 videocassette (55 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1976-1978Container: Box 3, Item 47 -
Description: Tom Blue: Framing Graphic Art, Part I1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1978?Container: Box 3, Item 48 -
Description: Tom Blue: Framing Graphic Art, Part II1 videocassette (39 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Written on videotape box: Frame Shop Equipment (Framing Graphic Art, Part II, with Tom Blue)
Condition Note:Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1979?Container: Box 3, Item 49 -
Description: Two Screen Printing Workshops: 1970-19841 videocassette (29 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1970-1984Container: Box 3, Item 50 -
Description: UW Printmaking Program: 1974-84
Bill Ritchie sits in front of a TV and comments on various topics from videos of the Unviersity of Washington printmaking programs over the ten-year period between 1974 and 1984, often reflecting on the evolution of the program. Ritchie examines the role of video in classes and its impact on art more broadly. The videos also include local Seattle television broadcasts that depict Ritchie’s students or others involved in the printmaking scene. Includes a clip from Kurosaki Prints Again!. This piece was made to inspire and inform students considering joining the printmaking program.
Credits:Presenter: Bill Ritchie
Original:1 videocassette (36 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: circa 1984Container: Viewcopy VC696, Item 51 -
Description: UW rare book collection, books as art
Sandra Kroupa, book art librarian for the University of Washington, gives a presentation on books as art, hosted by Bill Ritchie, focusing on the role of printing in the creation of these books and their illustrations. Ritchie and Kroupa discuss artistic intent, graphic arts, and the potential effect of computers on the future of bookmaking. The artist Mare Blocker discusses the creation of some of her pieces. In a separate interview Ritchie interviews artists Kennith Evans and Keith Beckley about their book, The Seminary. The books Kroupa presents include: Circus Maximus, by Mare Blocker ; Triangle Boy, by Sandy Liedford ; Stroke Order, by Sandra Butler ; Thank You Call Again, by Ken Mikolowski ; Norma Street, by Debora Gregor ; Mother and Daughter by the Sea, by Mary Oppen ; Home Sweet Home, by Donald Hopkins ; Centerfold, by Jeffery Bishops ; Of Gravity and Grace, by Claire Van Vliet ; Alba, by Joan Stone ; Lilac Wind Roses, by WR Johnson ; Spaghettiana by Susan Kronfield.
Credits:Producer: Bill Ritchie.
Written on videotape box: Artists' Bookworks.
Original:1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1985?Container: Viewcopy VC690, Item 52 -
Bill Ritchie and Akira Kurosaki
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Description: Kurosaki on Baren Making & The Kurosaki Gift1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1978?Container: Box 4, Item 53 -
Description: Kurosaki Prints!, Kurosaki and rainbow printing
Akira Kurosaki explains a type of printing commonly referred to as “rainbow printing” with the help of Izumi Kuroiwa and Bill Ritchie. Kurosaki walks through the stages of this printing method, explaining the woodworking process, the actual printing process, and the importance of the absorption of ink into the paper. Detailed explanation of custom ink and tools is given, with some tools being made from shark skin and horsehair. Kurosaki and Kuroiwa analyze completed prints and explain the artistic process of making them.
Credits:Producer: Bill Ritchie ; Video Director: Gary McFarland ; Camera & Sound: Moe Herman, Anne Middleton, Wes Price, Jim Settlemier.
Original:1 videocassette (54 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1978?Container: Viewcopy VC698, Item 54 -
Description: Kurosaki: Woodcut Tools and Woodcutting1 videocassette (48 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1980?Container: Box 4, Item 55
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Bill Ritchie and Dwight Coburn
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Description: Aluminum Plate Lithography1 videocassette (56 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1981?Container: Box 4, Item 56 -
Description: Shellac Reversal in Lithography
Bill Ritchie introduces a mnemonic device for the steps used in shellac reversal of a print, in which the black sections become white, and the white become black. Dwight Coburn, assisted by Satoru Itazu, demonstrates the process of creating the reverse, with Ritchie helping to define the areas of reversal and make artistic decisions on the end product by gumming the parts not to be reversed. The safety procedures necessary in interacting with many of the chemicals used in this process are highlighted.
Credits:Videotape: Bill Ritchie ; Titles & Effects: Steve Deibert, Jerry Morin, Jim Pease.
Original:1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1984?Container: Viewcopy VC699, Item 57
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Best TV Commercials of the Year 1985
This is a series presented by Advertising Age, which compiles the best commercials across categories and assigns a winner within each one.
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Description: Advertising Age: Best TV Commercials of the Year, Part 1
Fred Danzig presents a taped special about the best television commercials from the year 1985. The top commercials from various categories are shown, including one chosen as "Best in Category." The categories on this tape include: Food, Automotive, Beer & Wine, Health and Beauty, Soft Drinks, and Apparel & Accessories.
Credits:Presenter and Editor: Fred Danzig.
Original:1 videocassette (49 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1986Container: Viewcopy VC700, Item 58 -
Description: Advertising Age: Best TV Commercials of the Year, Part 2
Fred Danzig presents a taped special about the best television commercials from the year 1985. The top commercials from various categories are shown, including one chosen as "Best in Category." The categories on this tape include: CPU & Communications, Financial Services, Service, Leisure & Entertainment, Fast Food & Restaurants, Retailers, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Grocery Products, Continuing Campaigns, and PSAs.
Credits:Presenter and Editor: Fred Danzig.
Original:1 videocassette (55 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1986Container: Viewcopy VC700, Item 59
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Books and Libraries
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Description: American Psychological Association: How to Use Psychological Abstracts
Explanation of how to use psychological abstracts to find information, with a focus on the services provided by the American Psychological Association, including their English language and translation services. The presenter discusses how to use cataloging information to narrow down sources in three steps, working with the APA thesaurus, then index, and finally with abstracts.
Original:1 videocassette (12 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1988?Container: Viewcopy VC701, Item 60 -
Description: Easy YA Booktalking: Cable TV Outreach Project1 videocassette (26 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: between 1971 and 1990Container: Box 4, Item 61 -
Description: Nicholson Baker on KUOW discussing his book, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Steve Scher introduces Nicholson Baker and sets up a conversation about the destruction of old books and newspapers, based on Baker’s book, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. A local Washington news broadcast precedes the bulk of the Baker interview and includes coverage on the Jeff Bezos stock controversy and a dinner between Senators Hilary Clinton and Maria Cantwell. Baker refers to his book as a “chronicle of a major mistake,” explaining the issues with relying on microfilm and digitization while destroying or selling the original pieces. He laments the loss of old card catalogs as he finds value in determining what was once in a collection. Baker also speaks to the use of government money for book preservation and the spotty history of book preservation.
Original:1 audiocassette (60 min.) : sound ; audiocassette
Dates: April 25, 2001Container: Viewcopy VC702, Item 62 -
Description: The Patriot Act and Library Records, KUOW coverage
The broadcast begins with local and national news, including Donalds Rumsfeld’s visit to Baghdad, the rejection of a peace treaty by the leader of Hamas, and George W. Bush’s speech announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq scheduled for the next day. Megan Suky introduces two guests, Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Deputy Director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, and Charles Mandigo, head of the FBI’s Seattle Office. Caldwell-Stone explains the history between the United States government and libraries and past attempts to access patron records and her current concern with the opaque process for obtaining records under the Patriot Act and its application to United States citizens. Mandigo responds to Caldwell-Stone, and gives a detailed breakdown of the bureaucratic process necessary to access these records. Caldwell-Stone takes issue with the inability to refuse a warrant or release any information about a search before or after the fact. An extended portion of the broadcast is dedicated to arguing about whether books records are or should be protected by the first amendment or not. People call in, with one referring to NPR’s CEO a “CIA propagandist” while criticizing the current “elicit and unelected government regime.” A caller discusses various FBI information leaks and negative behavior at length. Mandigo claims that the Patriot Act is an update to existing government protocol. The broadcast ends with a test of the emergency broadcast system and news coverage on the impact of SARS on Canada.
Condition Note:This recording was made from a radio broadcast and split over two audio cassettes with some overlap between the two. One box was labeled: NPR 4-30-03 Patriot Act Last 1/2 Hour; the other box was unlabeled.
Original:2 audiocassettes (60 min.) : sound ; audiocassette
Dates: April 30, 2003Container: Viewcopy VC703, Item 63 -
Description: Picture Books: Elements of Illustration and Design with Betsy Hearne
Begins with Betsy Hearne explaining her neutral approach to book review and how it impacts evaluation. Hearne compares two editions of The Easter Bunny that Overslept (written by Priscilla & Otto Friedrich ; illustrated by Donald Saafand), explaining how a later edition's illustrations are superior to those of its earlier counterpart. Hearne examines Like Jake and Me (written by Mavis Jukes ; illustrations by Lloyd Bloomfor) for its verbal and storytelling strength.
Credits:Presenter: Betsy Hearne, PhD ; Editor: Charlie Langrall ; Music: Doug Lofstrom.
Original:1 videocassette (25 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1986?Container: Viewcopy VC704, Item 64 -
Book Preservation
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Description: Enemies of Books
Narration over various library scenes covers problems faced in book preservation. Focuses on personal and environmental issues that can lead to book degradation over visual examples, including the crumbling of an old book.
Credits:Writer, Producer, & Narrator: Diana Vincent-Daviss ; Editor & Director: Dan Cahill.
Original:1 videocassette (15 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1981Container: Viewcopy VC705, Item 65 -
Description: Library and Archival Disasters: Preparedness and Recovery
Narration discusses examples of various disasters, the responses to them, and their impact on books. Resources for book repair and a guide to both pre- and post-disaster action are shown. A major focus of the discussion is the freezing of books, going over both the protocol and benefits.
Credits:Writer: Richard F. Young, David J. Tinsley.
Original:1 videocassette (21 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1986Container: Viewcopy VC706, Item 66
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Censorship
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Description: Censorship of conservative viewpoints by libraries, presented on KOMO
The host, Ken Schram, leads a discussion between Cal Thomas, Vice-President of Communications for the Moral Majority, and Judith Krug, Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association. Thomas is concerned with libraries across the nation not carrying books representing conservative viewpoints and claims this lack of representation is deliberate censorship. Krug provides evidence of attempts to publish books and problems with the publishing channels used by conservative outlets. Audience members ask questions from a variety of positions. Librarians in the audience include Florence McMullin of King County Libraries and Larry Rumley, Book Editor for the Seattle Times.
Written on tape box: Town meeting: Christian Censorship: Seattle, Komo TV4, 1983
Condition Note:The tape became unwatchable partway through the digitization process, but approximately forty minutes have been digitized. Requires restoration.
Original:1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: May 10, 1980Container: Viewcopy VC707, Item 67 -
Description: The Phil Donahue Show: High School Book Banning
This videotape contains an episode of The Phil Donahue Show, interviewing various people involved in the School Board of Island Trees book banning controversy. The show includes a list of the books banned for being “objectionable, vulgar, anti-Christian, anti-American, and just plain filthy,” which includes: Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut ; The Fixer by Bernard Melamund ; The Naked Ape, by Desmond Morris ; Down these Mean Streets, by Piri Thomas ; Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous ; Soul on Ice, by Eldridge Cleaver ; A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich, by Alice Childress ; A Reader for Writers, edited by Jerome Archer ; Best Short Stories by Negro Writers, by Langston Hughes. Vice President of the schoolboard, Frank Martin, explains why he stands by removing the books from the school library and states that he cannot discuss much of the questionable content due to television content standards, but does claim The Naked Ape includes normal and abnormal sexual behavior, and that Soul on Ice includes troubling language, ideas, and intentions. Donahue talks to Steven Pico, who took a case against the book banning to federal court. Donahue asks Martin whether he supports premarital sex, or if he thinks a book could debate the merits of socialism and capitalism. Richard Emery, lawyer for the New York Civil Liberties Union, and George Lipp, lawyer representing the school board, are introduced and interviewed. Lipp argues the school has a duty to “indoctrinate” students with community values, which in this case are “conservative.” Various members of the audience address questions and opinions to those involved in the case, with one woman mentioning Judy Blum’s Forever as a reason to support book banning.
Credits:Executive Producer: Richard Mincer ; Producer: Patricia McMillen ; Director: Ron Weiner.
Original:1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1982?Container: Viewcopy VC708, Item 68
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University of Washington Libraries
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Description: Views of Odegaard library
Images of library employees; 3/4" U-Matic tapes and vinyl in the Media Center; students studying, working, and sleeping in Odegaard Library.
Condition Note:Recorded over a recording of the From Vision to Transformation conference (Item 76).
Written on DV box: From Vision to Trans. 3/11/03 AM Plenary Sess.
Original:1 videocassette (4 min.) : sound, color ; Mini DV
Dates: 2003?Container: Viewcopy VC709, Item 69 -
Description: Career Opportunities in Special Libraries
Nancy Gershenfeld, University of Washington iSchool librarian, provides a basic breakdown of what a special librarian is and how the field is growing along with technology. Cindy Romaine, Nike Design librarian, describes the philosophy of Nike's library and collections of technology, architectural materials, art, and sports pieces. Joel Summerlin, Corbis photo archivist, describes their digital cataloging process. Caroline Marr, Museum of History & Industry special collections librarian, discusses cataloging information, types of materials and the ephemera held by museum. Sandy Macomber, Oregonian Newspaper librarian, describes the collection's split between Oregonian materials and reference materials for journalists and speaks to the role of technology in her library. Becky Withinton, Sound Transit librarian, provides a breakdown of government and transportation collections. Nancy Gershenfield, provides conclusion.
Credits:Videography: Ron Cooper ; Producer: Monica McQueen.
Original:1 videocassette (24 min.) : sound, color ; VHS
Dates: 2002?Container: Viewcopy VC710, Item 70 -
Description: Clifford Lynch Lecture at University of Washington
A presentation given during the Spark Session lecture series, featuring Clifford Lynch, introduced by Paul Constantine. Clifford Lynch speaks to digitization methods and usages in library systems.
Original: 1 DVD (60 min.) : sound ; DVD
Dates: February 14, 2005Container: Viewcopy VC711, Item 71 -
UW Libraries Conference: From Vision to Transformation
UW Libraries conference dedicated to using a Mellon Fellowship for digital culture and scholarship.
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Description: Opening Session
Director Lizabeth Wilson introduces the conference and works to set context for their goals of understanding how digital scholarship would impact the people present. Paul Constantine leads a presentation on survey results from participants in the conference on topics ranging from their current and future use of digital scholarship to the perceived impact and inter-institution work that would come about from the Mellon grant. A presentation is given on "Elements of Cool," looking at cyber-culture and cyber-studies. An associate working with the Internet Archive explains their mission and methods.
Written on DV Box: From Vision to Transformation March 9, 2003- Opening Session
Condition Note:The beginning of the tape was recorded over with a portion of the film Old Gringo.
Original:1 videocassette (53 min.) : sound, color ; Mini DV
Dates: March 9, 2003Container: Viewcopy VC712, Item 72 -
Description: Morning Plenary Session, March 10
Director Lizabeth Wilson explains the amenities of the hotel and the broad background of people at the conference. Paul Constantine leads a discussion between groups who met earlier to discuss obstacles for the libraries in adopting new technologies. Participants discuss questions of software interfacing, interconnections between libraries, the future of digital scholarship, questions of digital security, and digital collaboration methods.
Written on DV box: From Vision to Trans. 3/10/03 AM Plenary Sess.
Original:1 videocassette (47 min.) : sound, color ; Mini DV
Dates: March 10, 2003Container: Viewcopy VC713, Item 73 -
Description: Afternoon Plenary Session, March 10
David Seaman, a member of the Digital Library Foundation, gives a presentation entitled Transformations in Librarianship and Scholarship, focusing on higher amounts of content optimized for digital discovery and consumption and the role of digital media in the studies of students at various levels of higher education. A professor of music and member of a digital scholarship group describes the digital landscape’s effect on music and art training.
Written on DV box: From Vision to Trans. 3/10/03 PM Plenary Sess.
Original:1 videocassette (58 min.) : sound, color ; Mini DV
Dates: March 10, 2003Container: Viewcopy VC714, Item 74 -
Description: Morning Plenary Session, March 11
Paul Constantine introduces the presentation of three different models for digital scholarship on campus, the first with libraries as the central spaces for digital scholarship, the second in which repositories would be set up for interdisciplinary connection and data dumping, and the third that would aim to create a new discipline and institute dedicated to digital scholarship. A lengthy debate and conversation takes place over the three models offered, with particular issue taken with the third model. Lizabeth Wilson ends the conference by discussing the creation of a panel to follow through with the ideas presented at the conference.
Written on Mini DV box: From Vision to Transformation March 11, 2003 - Morning Plenary Session
Original:1 videocassette (53 min.) : sound, color ; Mini DV
Dates: March 11, 2003Container: Viewcopy VC715, Item 75 -
Description: Closing Session
Jim Williams introduces representatives from groups to discuss the steps to be taken after the conference. The ideas presented include creations of symposia across departments and campuses to discuss relationships with libraries, the creation of a digital concierge position and a physical center for digital media, and the importance of providing training for staff and students. The next steps are discussed and synthesized by the group. Director Lizbeth Wilson provides a final speech thanking people and speaking to success and her vision for next steps and the creation of an advisory groups.
Written on DV box: From Vision to Trans. 3/11/03 Plenary/Wrap-up.
Condition Note:The viewing copy of this session uses approximately the first four minutes of the VHS copy, which was recorded over on the Mini DV (Item 69). The rest of the tape is from the Mini DV master which has higher audio and video quality.
Original:1 videocassette (53 min.) : sound, color ; VHS
Dates: March 11, 2003Container: Viewcopy VC716, Item 76
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Classified Critical, KING TV Series
The series explores the state of national security at the end of 1979, examining how it affects domestic and foreign policy as well as how US culture is reflected in it.
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Description: Classified Critical Part 128:57 : Sound, Color ; 3/4" U-matic
Begins with the impact on childhood experience on future violent action. Importance of institutions, the military, and personal conflict resolution on US policy and safety. Numerous interviews with people on the street. Provides a history of the arms race. Montage of military images over “Political Science” by Randy Newman. Interview with Betty Robinson, an autoworker union lobbyist.
Credits:Producer: Anne Stadler ; Writer: Hal Calbom ; Reporter: Jean Enersen ; Cinematographer & Editor: Phil Davies ; Director: Matt Chan.
Original:1 videocassette (29 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: November 11, 1979Container: Viewcopy VC717, Item 77 -
Description: Classified Critical Part 2
Discussion of Soviet press and Cuban Missile Crisis. Interview with people from Leningrad. Zoya Zarubina, a USSR women’s expert, discusses Soviet social dynamics. Interview with Senator Frank Church. How the arms race affects Washington state, focusing on its economic impact.
Credits:Producer: Anne Stadler ; Writer: Hal Calbom ; Reporter: Jean Enersen ; Cinematographer & Editor: Phil Davies ; Director: Matt Chan.
Original:1 videocassette (29 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: November 18, 1979Container: Viewcopy VC717, Item 78 -
Description: Classified Critical Part 3
Begins with a discussion of the United States economy, inlcuding the ability for immigrants being given an opportunity to escape from their “poor reality.” TK Jones from Boeing analyzes the importance of chromium. International terrorism as an import from the third world. Germany and Japan’s economic success because of domestic focus versus the war focused economy of the US. Question of the impact of the arms race on domestic policy. Success of Boeing in the 1970s. Effect of oil prices on the third world.
Credits:Producer: Anne Stadler ; Writer: Hal Calbom ; Reporter: Jean Enersen ; Cinematographer & Editor: Phil Davies ; Director: Matt Chan.
Original:1 videocassette (29 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: November 25, 1979Container: Viewcopy VC717, Item 79 -
Description: Classified Critical Part 4
Examination of JFK’s words, “what you can do for your country” on the US since his death. Demonstrate the manipulation of political media and polling. Zoya Zarubina defends the USSR. Professor Herbert Ellison, of the University of Washington, examines differences in perceptions of the USSR in the US and the US in the USSR. Effect of The Pentagon Papers on citizenry’s perception of national security. Importance of activists in US politics. Question of individual versus national security and related “gamesmanship.” Ends with Imagine by John Lennon playing over patriotic images.
Credits:Producer: Anne Stadler ; Writer: Hal Calbom ; Reporter: Jean Enersen ; Cinematographer & Editor: Phil Davies ; Director: Matt Chan.
Original:1 videocassette (29 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: December 9, 1979Container: Viewcopy VC717, Item 80
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History and Humanities
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Description: Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael): The Role of the African Student in the Present Stage of the African Revolution Part I1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: May 9, 1980Container: Box 5, Item 81 -
Description: Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael): The Role of the African Student in the Present Stage of the African Revolution Part II1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: May 9, 1980Container: Box 5, Item 82 -
Description: Walking in a Sacred Manner: North American Indians and the Natural World
Dramatized reading of various commentaries provided by American Indians over approximately two-hundred years. The narration occurs over still photographs by Edward S. Curtis and nature videography, with various nature sounds in the background. Testimonials range in topic from the role of nature in American Indian culture to various religious beliefs and legends, to approaches to family, and the impact of the genocide performed by settlers on American Indian peoples.
Credits:Wildlife and Landscape Photographers: Tom McBride, Stephen Cross ; Commentary: John Kauffman ; Director & Producer: Stephen Cross.
The film credits the included testimonials by American Indians with the following statement: "The Commentary was selected from words spoken over the past two hundred years by North American Indians, including Black Elf, Brave Buffalo, Chief Flying Hawk, Chief Luther Standing Bear, Chief Red Jacket, Smohalla, Chief Seattle."
Original:1 videocassette (23 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1980?Container: Viewcopy VC718, Item 83 -
Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecturers in the Humanities
These items are two speeches made at the University of Washington as a part of a larger ongoing series of lectures put on by the Simpson Center for the Humanities.
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Description: Anthony Pagden: Venus Rising: The Uses of Tahiti in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination
Anthony Pagden explains that much of his interest lies in the fictionalized Tahiti created by European romanticization of the island. The first section of Pagden’s speech is dedicated to Louis-Antoine de Bougainville’s voyage to Tahiti, his claim of the island for France, and the Tahitian man, Ahutoru, that he brought back to France. Pagden discusses French high society’s reaction to Ahutoru, the contemporary explanations for why he could not learn English, and his appreciation for opera. Pagden briefly discusses James Cook’s voyage to Tahiti and the man that he brought back to England to similar societal reception. Pagden returns to Bougainville and his book, Le voyage autour du monde, which Pagden identifies as planting the seeds for the conceptualization of Tahiti as a utopia populated with “noble savages” that appealed to the European desire to both return to nature and experience the state of being of Classical societies. Pagden ends by discussing Denis Diderot’s response to Bougainville’s book, Supplément au voyage de Bougainville. Pagden examines Diderot’s particular interest with the sexual culture of Tahitian people, using their non-monogamous and sexually open culture to criticize Christian values and restrictions and to point to a fulfillment of a society dedicated to achieving human pleasure.
Written on tape box: Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecturers in the Humanities Prof. Anthony Pagden-Spring 2000.
The tape was kept with a program from the lecture, which provides the rest of the lecture schedule, biographical information on Anthony Pagden, and the historical background of the Soloman Katz series.
Original:1 audiocassette (60 min.) : sound ; audiocassette
Dates: April 21, 2000Container: Viewcopy VC719, Item 84 -
Description: Lenn E. Goodman: Crosspollinations: Philosophically Fruitful Interactions between Jewish and Islamic Philosophy
A woman introduces the Solomon Katz lecture series and provides background on Katz himself before introducing Marshall Brown. Brown introduces Lenn Goodman, providing an extensive personal story about Goodman’s engagement to his first wife. Goodman sets out the basic premise of his presentation as examining early interactions between Arabic culture and the cultures of those conquered or neighbored by Arabic empires. Goodman points to the need to understand Arabic encounters with sciences, math, and philosophy. He examines the incorporation of ideas from Judaism, Christianity, and classic philosophy into Islam, and how the Islamic understanding of these ideas was useful and important to people outside of Islam. The first section of the speech focuses on disrupting the idea of the “ineffable” nature of religious experience and the way Islamic thinkers engaged with Moses and Aristotle to put words to godly encounters and the value of using these encounters to put forth holy laws. The second section focuses on the concept of knowing one’s self to know God, and traces the evolution of that idea through Islamic thought, as well as the importance of individuation of the soul to this concept. The third section examines the importance of identifying consequences to the actions of man and the role of both God and individuals in their moral fate.
Original:1 audiocassette (29 min.) : sound ; audiocassette
Dates: November 16, 1999Container: Viewcopy VC720, Item 85
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Northwest
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Description: Japan and the Northwest1 videocassette (29 min.) : Sound, Color ; 3/4" U-matic
Written on videotape box: Japan/Northwest KCTS 9.
Condition Note:Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1981?Container: Box 5, Item 86 -
Description: Skandia Midsommar Fest, Gig Harbor, WA
This video presents narration and interviews over images of Gig Harbor’s 1980 Midsommar Festival. Various people speak to the festival’s cultural importance, its tradition and history, and the creation of the green pole around which people dance. Depictions of traditional bands, food, and dances are included.
Credits:Producer: Carla Wulfsberg ; Editor: David MacDonald ; Interviews & Sound Editing: Carla Wulfsberg ; Voices: Dick Armstrong, Mary Mohler, Gordon Tacie, Bud Johnson, Carla Wulfsberg, Audun Tove ; Musicians: Trollvinden, Rolling Bay Fiddlers, John David Lamb, Audun Toven, De Danske Spillmaend, Skandia Spelmanslag ; Dance Groups: Nordiska Folkdancers, Danelag.
Original:1 videocassette (29 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: June 4, 1982Container: Viewcopy VC721, Item 87 -
Voices of Washington State
Each of these are episodes from Voices of Washington State, a series covering the history of Washington State. This series is comprised of four episodes spread over two videotapes.
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Description: Japanese Relocation during WWII
Discusses experiences of those interned and witnesses/friends to the interned, largely told through testimonials over photographs. A section is dedicated to President Sieg visiting a camp and delivering UW diplomas. Japanese soldiers in WWII. Some photographs provided by University of Washington collections.
Credits:Narrator, Writer, and Producer: Judith Espinola.
Original:1 videocassette (13 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1980?Container: Viewcopy VC722, Item 88a -
Description: Old Time Logging
Historical information on logging business in late 1800s, early 1900s, provided by ex-loggers. Examination of the impact of technology on logging.
Credits:Narrator: Denny Fleenor ; Writer and Producer: Judith Espinola.
Original:1 videocassette (13 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1980?Container: Viewcopy VC722, Item 88b -
Description: Horse Logging in Kittitas County1 videocassette (12 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1980?Container: Box 5, Item 89a -
Description: Sheepherding in Eastern Washington1 videocassette (12 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1980?Container: Box 5, Item 89b
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Seattle
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Description: Early Seattle History1 video reel ; 1/2" Open ReelCondition Note:
Unwatchable.
Dates: between 1971 and 1990Container: Box 5, Item 90 -
Description: Early Seattle History1 videocassette (47 min.) ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: between 1971 and 1990Container: Box 5, Item 91 -
Description: Seattle Later History1 video reel ; 1/2" Open ReelCondition Note:
Unwatchable.
Dates: between 1971 and 1990Container: Box 5, Item 92 -
Description: Seattle Later History1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, black and white ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: between 1971 and 1990Container: Box 5, Item 93
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University of Washington
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Description: Charles Edwin Odegaard 1911-1999, in memoriam
This is an in memorial tape, made with pictures of Charles Edwin Odegaard and his family members, with numerous songs playing in the background. Odegaard’s life in pictures is chronicled from childhood, college graduation, marriage, and presidency at the University of Washington, to his personal life as a grandfather.
Original:1 videocassette (20 min.) : sound, color ; VHS
Dates: 1999?Container: Viewcopy VC723, Item 94 -
Description: Jean Enersen's U.W. Special1 videocassette (20 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: between 1971 and 1990Container: Box 5, Item 95 -
Description: University of Washington: Commencement Marshals' Guide 1990
A video presentation meant to supplement the printed Commencement Marshal’s Guide for the University of Washington Graduation of 1990. Provides basic instruction of the role of the marshals and a rundown of the event as a whole.
Credits:Writer: Beverly Gessel ; Producer & Editor: John Givens.
Original:1 videocassette (9 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: May 28, 1990Container: Viewcopy VC724, Item 96 -
Description: William Gerberding discusses University of Washington budget cuts on the KING television program, On the Record1 videocassette (30 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
A panel discussion with WIlliam Gerberding, Jean Enersen, and two other people. The special begins with a discussion of budget cuts. Gerberding explains his pro-tax increase stance for the purposes of maintaining the high quality of University of Washington as an institution.
Written on tape box: "On The Record" Gerberding Speech.
Condition Note:The tape has low audio levels and major image problems, requires restoration
Dates: September 27, 1981Container: Box 6, Item 97
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Science
These items include television specials, lectures, and practical demonstrations pertaining to a variety of scientific fields.
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Description: Seymour Cray: Design of Large Computers1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, black and white ; 3/4" U-matic
An accompanying note mentions the rarity of Cray's public talks.
Condition Note:Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1974?Container: Box 6, Item 98 -
Jessie & John Danz Lecture Series
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Description: Daniel Dennett: Is Evolution an Algorithmic Process?
Kelly Hughes introduces Daniel Dennett, author of Darwin’s Dangerous Ideas, a philosophical examination of science. Dennett seeks to defend the idea of evolution as an ongoing algorithmic process, given that evolution is aa mechanical process tha functions like a generate and test algorithm. Dennett directly responds to criticism by SJ Gould by using example algorithms of increasing complication to account for interference by outside events on the process of evolution. He plays a video for the lecture hall that depicts research conducted by Alda Holland. Holland was able to produce evolutionary results in a virtual world using a computer to randomly creates code that influences shapes moving in this virtual space. Another video Dennet plays focuses on a robot connected to a camera tasked with identifying shapes, whose optics are controlled by code on a computer that changes over time in an evolutionary manner.
Credits:Director: Rich McAdams ; Cameras: Karen Cuthbert, Bob O'Hern, Ed Sponholz ; Audio: Cary Jordan, Marion Smith ; Graphics: Dale P. Hazapiz ; Open Graphics: April Ryan ; Open Editor: David Ris.
Original:1 videocassette (57 min.) : sound, color ; Betacam SP
Dates: November 19, 1998Container: Viewcopy VC725, Item 99 -
Description: James Head: Planetary Explorations: Perspectives On Earth
The lecture begins with Donald Brownlee introducing James Head, a geologist on the Apollo 13 mission. Head explains his presentation’s goal of understanding Earth’s geology through the geology of other planets in the solar system, starting with an early reference to Star Trek: The Next Generation. Head offers a brief overview of Earth’s geology, including plate tectonics and the creation of land masses, but also the impact of a shifting surface on the ability to study Earth's past. Head explains theories behind the creation of the moon as well as its craters’ impact on various cultures. He questions the reason behind the density of Mercury and its relation to the Sun. Head also examines the formation of lava flows on Mars, its early magnetic fields, the role of water on the surface, and possible plate tectonics. He ends by talking about the moons of Jupiter, focusing on the volcanic eruptions on Io and the seas of Europa.
Credits:Director: Jerry Wade ; Audio: Marion Smith ; Cameras: Ted Cutler, Celeste Glende, Patrick Payoyo ; Graphics: Dale P. Hazapis ; Open Graphics: April Ryan ; Open Editor: David Ris.
Original:1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color ; Betacam SP
Dates: February 22, 2000Container: Viewcopy VC726, Item 100 -
Description: Sherry Turkle: Relational Artifacts: From Virtual Pets to Digital Dolls
Barbara Warnick provides the introduction for Sherry Turkle, giving a brief overview of her background and current work. Turkle begins her presentation with a definition of subjective computing, which she defines as interactions with computers that change the humans engaged with them. She distinguishes this from instrumental computing, in which a computer performs a task for humans. Turkle examines the relevance of Freud in computing, and how computing has changed the interpretation of psychological terms for a younger generation. Turkle dedicates a large amount of time to the metaphor of “windows” in computing. She then plays a video of an upcoming toys: a computerized ball that moves itself and has an LED face and a robotic doll designed at MIT that reacts to various stimuli and displays simulated emotion. Turkle also includes video of an interview with Rodney Brooks who speaks to the effect of Hollywood on public perception of robotics. Turkle turns to focus on artificial intelligence possibilities, including the “Eliza effect,” in which people who know they are talking to an AI still emotionally respond to their conversation with it. Turkle ends by going into her work with children and computers, focusing on their reactions to Furby dolls and reading a number of quotes from children about what makes something alive.
Credits:Director: Rich McAdams ; Audio: Ted Cutler, Patrick Payoyo ; Cameras: Lannie Dexter, Bob O'Hern, Sean Taschner ; Graphics: Dale P. Hazapis ; Open Graphics: April Ryan ; Open Editor: David Ris.
Original:1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color ; Betacam SP
Dates: October 4, 1999Container: Viewcopy VC727, Item 101
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Medical: Hard Choices, PBS TV Series
These tapes are part of a series examining advances in medical science and the moral quandaries that they create.
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Description: #102 Genetic Screening1 videocassette (59 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1980?Container: Box 6, Item 102 -
Description: #103 Human Experiments
A man discusses his willingness to try an experimental heart surgery, an early version of using a balloon to unclog arteries that is depicted in detail while the man is alive, but the procedure ultimately does not work. Narration is interspersed throughout, raising moral questions about experimentation and ethics, particularly around a concern for mortality rates. A large portion is dedicated to Nazis and human experimentation. A history of the polio vaccine is provided. Robert Veach, of the Kennedy Center, speaks to medical experimentation. Mortimer Lipsett discusses experiments by the National Institute for Health and the death of a patient in a sleep study. The piece also questions the potentially coercive nature of experimentation as participants may be incentivized by economic needs, furthering their career, or by high trust in doctors pushing these experiments. The last section focuses on the ethics of experimentation on dying children, examining cases in which the procedure presents useful data but will not prevent the child’s death.
Credits:Writer, Producer, Director: Graham Chedd ; Host & Narrator: Willard Gaylin, M.D. ; Principal Scholars: George Annas, J.D., M.P.H., Gerald Dworkin, PhD, Joseph Fletcher, S.T.D., Samuel Gorovitz, PhD ; Photography: Peter Hoving ; Sound: Alex Washington ; Editor: David Berenson, Charles Scott ; Animation: Jed Schwartz.
Original:1 videocassette (59 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Dates: 1980?Container: Viewcopy VC728, Item 103 -
Description: #104 Behavior Control1 videocassette (59 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1980?Container: Box 6, Item 104 -
Description: #106 Doctor, I Want1 videocassette (59 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Dates: 1980?Container: Box 6, Item 105
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Psychology, Carl Whittaker
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Description: The Process of Family Therapy1 videocassette (55 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-maticCondition Note:
Unwatchable, requires restoration.
Access to the item is limited due to HIPPA protections.
Dates: 1979?Container: 6, Item 106 -
Description: Three Generational Family Consultation: Part I
The tape begins with following statement: "The material on this tape is for viewing by professional audiences." A family goes through extensive discussion of their experiences and relationships, talking to both Carl Whittaker and their family psychologist. They discuss corporal punishment, playing with explosives, differences in memories of youth, family cuddling, parental sexuality, and children with developmental delays.
Original:1 videocassette (59 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Access to the item is limited due to HIPPA protections.
Dates: 1980?Container: Viewcopy VC729, Item 107 -
Description: Three Generational Family Consultation: Part II
Carl Whittaker and the family therapist debrief about the session included item 107. They discuss the sex lives of the parents, art therapy, diabetes trauma, and familial psychotherapy. Whittaker discusses his method of activating pathology and his behavior as a “loving provocateur." He also comments on a family member's potential sexual performance and his own unconscious skill as a psychologist.
Original:1 videocassette (33 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4" U-matic
Access to the item is limited due to HIPPA protections.
Dates: 1980?Container: Viewcopy VC729, Item 108
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