Hands Across the Border

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TitleHands Across the Border
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Release dateJan 1, 1978
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DirectorPaul Wong , Sharon Levett , Daryl Lacey , Randall Lyon , Gus Nelson , Sharon Grace , Peggy Cady , Bill Bartlett , Chas Leckie , Felix Partz , Jorge Zontal , Willoughby Sharp , Liza Bear , Robin Winters
Production countryCanada, United States of America
Production companiesVideo Inn Vancouver, Televista Projects, Video Free America, Open Space Films, General Idea, Center for New Art Activities

Hands Across The Border was a seven city slow scan collaboration. With participation from Paul Wong, Sharon Levett & Daryl Lacey, Video Inn, Vancouver;Randall Lyon & Gus Nelson, Televista Projects, Memphis; Sharon Grace, Video Free America, Berkeley Art Museum, U.C.; Peggy Cady, Bill Bartlett, Chas Leckie. Open Space, Victoria; Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal & Willoughby Sharp, General Idea, Toronto; Liza Bear & Robin Winters, Center for New Art Activities, NY.; et al. Slow-scan television equipment used a computerised memory to sample a picture from a television camera every few seconds, “freeze” it and send it down a telephone line as an audio signal. The machines could only be used between two points at a time. At the receiving end, the signal was decoded and slowly scanned out a still frame on a television monitor.

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