Hands Across the Border (movie)
- Production country: Canada, United States of America
- Producer: Liza Bear , Sharon Levett , Paul Wong , Peggy Cady , Robin Winters , Sharon Grace , Randall Lyon , Gus Nelson , Willoughby Sharp , Daryl Lacey , Jorge Zontal , Chas Leckie , Bill Bartlett , Felix Partz
- Production companies: Video Inn Vancouver, Televista Projects, Video Free America, Open Space Films, General Idea, Center for New Art Activities
- Release date: 1/1/1978
Movie description
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.