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TVTV: Video Revolutionaries

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TVTV: Video Revolutionaries

TV-14201883 min.IMDb8.0/10

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Featuring Bill Murray, Hunter S. Thompson, Steven Spielberg, Lynn Swann, Goldie Hawn, Abbie Hoffman, Lily Tomlin and more, "TVTV: Video Revolutionaries" is a new documentary about Top Value Television (TVTV), a band of merry video makers who, from 1972 to 1977, took the then brand-new portable video camera and journeyed out to document the world. In those days, there were only three TV networks, using giant studio cameras, and no one had ever seen a portable camera stuck in their face. Because the technology was so new, there were no rules about how to use it or what to make. So the new video journalists used it to make format-bending satirical shows about whatever interested them -- from the 1972 Republican Convention to an expose of a 15-year-old guru called "Lord of the Universe" to capturing the Steelers and Cowboys partying hard the night before Super Bowl X. Directed by TVTV alum Paul Goldsmith, the film is like opening a treasure chest into the 1970s, filled with cultural and po

TV-14201883 min.
IMDb8.0/10
Director
Paul Goldsmith
Stars
Bill Murray, Steven Spielberg, Goldie Hawn, Bob Dylan, Lily Tomlin, Jim Belushi
Genres
Documentary