Title: People's Video Records
Inclusive Dates: 1974-1977

Creator:

• People's Video (Madison, Wis.)

Call Number: Mss 489

Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of People's Video, a communications service founded in 1972 to provide technical training and public access programming for cable television in Madison, Wisconsin, in order to promote community dialogue and social change. The collection is largely composed of correspondence and grant proposals and other than unprocessed tapes and films there is little production material, although the photographs do document some productions. Of note are files on People's Video's involvement in the leasing of the Madison cable franchise to Complete Channel Television. Files on several related media organizations include Capital Media Associates, Feminists Against Media Oppression, and the Feminists Video Collective. The last-named includes some correspondence with feminist filmmaker Pamela Allen. Materials also document the organization's relationship to funding agencies, VISTA, and the Campaign for Human Development.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00489

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People's Video was a collective in Madison, Wisconsin, which sought to use audio-visual media to promote community dialogue and social change. Although People's Video dated from informal gatherings in early 1972 to discuss media matters, incorporation did not take place until December 1973. Throughout four years of existence, activity primarily focused on two objectives: provision of public access programming and training of “communications advocates” for various organizations. Program production began in 1972 with the airing of the weekly Mondo Video on Viking Media Cable in Monona; later broadcasting switched to Madison's Complete Channel Television. Training programs were carried out by People's Video largely by means of funds granted under the Comprehensive Education and Training Act. Other financial support came from VISTA, which provided full-time community coordinators, and from video taping contracts. PV was also instrumental in the formation of the Madison Cable Television Advisory Council and the Madison Community Access Center, the staging of a Midwest Video Conference, and the leasing of Madison's cable franchise to Complete Channel Television.

The collection consists of material pertaining to People's Video and several related organizations: the Feminists Video Collective, Feminists Against Media Oppression, and Capital Media Associates.

The PEOPLE'S VIDEO RECORDS, which are arranged as one alphabetical subject file, primarily consist of funding proposals. Most interesting of these are the files on involvement with VISTA and unfunded proposals submitted to the Campaign for Human Development and Madison's Human Resources Task Force. With the exception of the audio and video tapes, which are unprocessed, production materials are quite limited. However, there are files of project proposals, a log, and equipment and editing forms. Even for Mondo Video, PV's longest-running program, the materials are only fragmentary. The general correspondence is also quite sparse, with exchanges with Complete Channel Television over various disagreements being of greatest interest.

Of the alphabetically-arranged RELATED ORGANIZATIONS series, files on FAMO and FVC, which were outgrowths of People's Video, are largest in size. These include correspondence with other feminist filmmakers and broadcasters such as Pamela Allen and reports and clippings pertaining to FAMO's media images survey project. Also of note are the files on Capital Media Associates, a company apparently formed by some PV members to provide videotapes of court proceedings.

Acquisition Information

Presented by People's Video and Glenn Silber, Madison, Wisconsin, 1977-1978. Accession Number: MCHC 77-143 and MCHC78-52

Processing Information

Processed by Carolyn Mattern, August, 1979.

	Series: People's Video
Box   1 Folder   1	Articles of Incorporation, 1973, 1975
Box   1 Folder   2	Contracts, 1973-1976
Box   1 Folder   3	Correspondence, 1972-1976
Box   1 Folder   4	Equipment and Editing Forms, undated
Box   1 Folder   5	Film Resources, undated
Box   1 Folder   6	Friends of People's Video, undated
	Funding Proposals
Box   1 Folder   7	American Revolutionary Bicentennial Commission, 1975
Box   1 Folder   8	Campaign for Human Development, 1976
Box   1 Folder   9	Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, 1974-1978
Box   1 Folder   10	Dane County: Neighborhood Youth Corps, 1974-1975
Box   1 Folder   11	Dane County: Work Experience Program, 1976
Box   1 Folder   12	ESEA: “Project East,” 1974, undated
Box   1 Folder   13	Madison: Cultural Affairs Commission, 1975
Box   1 Folder   14	Madison: Human Resources Task Force, 1974-1974
Box   1 Folder   15	Madison Public Library, 1975
Box   1 Folder   16	Madison South Side Oral History Project, undated
Box   1 Folder   17	Madison Sustaining Fund, 1976
Box   1 Folder   18	Miscellaneous Projects, undated
Box   1 Folder   19	UW-Whitewater: “Black Heritage” Project, 1975-1976
Box   1 Folder   20	Video Training, undated
Box   1 Folder   21	VISTA, 1974-1975
Box   1 Folder   22	WHA-TV, 1975
Box   1 Folder   23	Wisconsin Arts Board, undated
Box   1 Folder   24	Wisconsin Humanities Committee, circa 1976
Box   1 Folder   25	Goals, undated
Box   2 Folder   1	Madison Cable Ordinance, 1974-1975
Box   2 Folder   2	Midwest Video Community Conference, 1974
Box   2 Folder   3	Minutes, 1974-1976
Box   2 Folder   4	Miscellany, undated
Box   2 Folder   5	Personnel, undated
	Program Proposals
Box   2 Folder   6	Alcohol Abuse, undated
Box   2 Folder   7	Food in the U.S.A., undated
Box   2 Folder   8	Upheaval at Waupun, 1975
Box   2 Folder   9	Patient Rights, undated
	Programs
Box   2 Folder   10	Madison Bandstand, 1975
Box   2 Folder   11	Mondo Video, 1974
Box   2 Folder   12	Miscellaneous Programs, undated
Box   2 Folder   13	Project Log, undated
Box   2 Folder   14	Publicity, 1974-1975
Box   2 Folder   15	Vets' House, 1975-1976
	Series: Related Organizations	⇧
Box   2 Folder   16	Cable Research Group, 1974-1975
Box   2 Folder   17	Cable TV Advisory Council, 1974-1975
	Capital Media Associates
Box   2 Folder   18	Correspondence, 1975-1976
Box   2 Folder   19	Minutes, 1976
Box   2 Folder   20	Citizens Cable Council, 1972-1975
	Feminists Against Media Oppression
Box   3 Folder   1	Citizens Advisory Review Board, 1974-1975
Box   3 Folder   2	Correspondence, 1974-1975
Box   3 Folder   3	Media Images Survey Project, 1974-1975
Box   3 Folder   4	Proposals
Box   3 Folder   5	Publicity, 1974-1975
	Feminists Video Collective
Box   3 Folder   7	Correspondence and Notes, 1975
Box   3 Folder   8	Proposals, 1975
Box   3 Folder   9	Shot lists, undated
Box   3 Folder   10	Madison Access and Resource Community Center, undated
Box   3 Folder   11	Madison Community Access Center, 1974-1975
Box   3 Folder   12	Media Access Consulting Group, undated