Phil Morton (1945–2003) was an influential video artist and activist who founded the Video Area in 1970 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he taught from 1969 to 1981–82.
The Video Area that Morton founded was the first department in the United States to offer degrees in Video art. The Video Area eventually became the Video Department, which later became part of the Film, Video & New Media Department. Phil Morton also founded The Video Data Bank, one of the world's leading collections of Video art. The Video Data Bank was originally conceived of as a collection of shared resources for and projects by the students of the Video Area as well as an archive for documentation of the visiting artists and activities in the Video Area. Frequent visitors and collaborators in the Video Area during the 1970s included Steina and Woody Vasulka, Gene Youngblood, Dan Sandin, Timothy Leary, Barbara Buckner and many other active and founding members of the early Video art community. Morton introduced analog and digital computers into the curriculum of the Video Area and the School in the 1970s through the use of the Sandin Image Processor, a patch-programmable analog computer optimized for video processing and synthesis developed from 1971 - 1973, and The Bally Astrocade Arcade Video Game System, a programmable home video game console developed in 1974.
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Plot: Wayne Adams is murdered in a Barbary Coast saloon and gambling hall in San Francisoc in 1880, and his sister, Julie, enlists the aid of the district attorney, Michael Lodge, in gathering evidence in which to convict the owner of the gambling house of the crime. In order to do so, Julie poses as a dance-hall-girl, and soon finds herself in a dangerous situation.
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Plot: A mystery-comedy with multiple backgrounds set in a back-stage and penthouse backgrounds finds actress Rita Witherspoom mistakenly entering the apartment of Ricardo Souchet, a rich bachelor. He immediately suspects her of a murder that has just been committed in the apartment next to his. His prisoner for the night, she slips out at dawn, after two more murders have happened.
Keywords: 1930s, actress, archive-footage, argument, b-movie, bachelor, backstage, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, butler, cafePhil Morton (1945–2003) was an influential video artist and activist who founded the Video Area in 1970 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he taught from 1969 to 1981–82.
The Video Area that Morton founded was the first department in the United States to offer degrees in Video art. The Video Area eventually became the Video Department, which later became part of the Film, Video & New Media Department. Phil Morton also founded The Video Data Bank, one of the world's leading collections of Video art. The Video Data Bank was originally conceived of as a collection of shared resources for and projects by the students of the Video Area as well as an archive for documentation of the visiting artists and activities in the Video Area. Frequent visitors and collaborators in the Video Area during the 1970s included Steina and Woody Vasulka, Gene Youngblood, Dan Sandin, Timothy Leary, Barbara Buckner and many other active and founding members of the early Video art community. Morton introduced analog and digital computers into the curriculum of the Video Area and the School in the 1970s through the use of the Sandin Image Processor, a patch-programmable analog computer optimized for video processing and synthesis developed from 1971 - 1973, and The Bally Astrocade Arcade Video Game System, a programmable home video game console developed in 1974.
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