FILMTIThis Is a Television Receiver1976

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Name: This Is a Television Receiver
Released: 1976
Duration: 8 min

8m runtime

19768m

film with a runtime of 8 minutes, released in 1976. Presented in English.

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Runtime8m

Minutes8

One SittingYes

With Break20m

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Commissioned by BBC TV as the unannounced opening piece for their Arena video art programme, March 1976. Programme produced by Mark Kidel, conceived by Anna Ridley and presented by David Hall. 'Richard Baker [the well known newsreader] describes the essential paradoxes of the real and imagined functions of the TV set on which he appears. The second shot is taken optically off a monitor, the third copied from the second, and so on, until there is a complete degeneration of both sound and image, removing the newsreader from his position of authority...' - Tamara Krikorian, Art Monthly, February 1984.

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Runtime8m

Can Finish TonightYes

One SittingYes

With Break20m

Movie Facts

Release Year1976

Runtime8m

LanguageEnglish

DirectorDavid Hall

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