Elliot Glass and Ken Marsh Video Collection
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Abstract
Elliot Glass and Ken Marsh are video producers and co-founders of the People's Video Theater. Marsh is the founder of Woodstock Community Video, Inc., and the Artists' TV Lab, and Glass is the founder of Crossroads Video. The Elliot Glass and Ken Marsh Video Collection contains video recordings created by the People's Video Theater, Woodstock Community Video, Inc., the Artists' TV Lab, and Crossroads Video, as well as video recording equipment used by those organizations, and individual art and written work created by Glass and Marsh. Material in the collection dates from 1970 to the mid-1980s, with the bulk of the material dating from 1970 to 1979.
Biographical Note
Elliot Glass and Ken Marsh are video producers and co-founders of the People's Video Theater. Marsh is the founder of Woodstock Community Video, Inc., and the Artists' TV Lab, and Glass is the founder of Crossroads Video. The People's Video Theater (PVT) was founded in 1970 in New York City and Glass and Marsh were active in the organization between 1970 and 1971. Marsh moved to Woodstock, New York and founded Woodstock Community Video in 1972 and the Artists' TV Lab in 1973. Marsh was active in both organizations until 1979. After his work with PVT, Glass became a Spanish language educator and founded Crossroads Video, a language learning production and distribution company. He is also the author of a number of Spanish language textbooks.
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Scope and Contents
The Elliot Glass and Ken Marsh Video Collection contains video recordings created by the People's Video Theater, Woodstock Community Video, Inc., the Artists' TV Lab, and Crossroads Video, as well as video recording equipment used by those organizations, and individual art and written work created by Glass and Marsh. Material in the collection dates from 1970 to the mid-1980s, with the bulk of the material dating from 1970 to 1979. The collection documents the work of Glass and Marsh as founders of the video journalism collective People's Video Theater (PVT), Marsh's work as founder of Woodstock Community Video, Inc. (WCV) and the Artists' TV Lab, and Glass's work as founder of Crossroads Video. Materials include master and production reel to reel video, videocassettes, and DVDs; Portapaks and accessories; newspaper and magazine clippings about PVT and WCV; grant applications; and books and articles related to the work of Glass and Marsh.
The material related to PVT includes roughly 50 original video recordings and 40 compilation recordings, grant applications, and clippings, dating from 1970 to 1971. The video recordings document the work of Glass and Marsh with the collective between 1970 and 1971, including the Women's Strike for Equality in New York, the first Gay Pride Parade, a Young Lords's protest occupation of a Manhattan church, and an action taken by Native Americans at Plymouth Rock on the 350th anniversary of the pilgrims's landing.
The material related to WCV includes roughly 250 master video recordings and 29 compilation video recordings, created between 1972 and 1979 by Marsh and other video artists in Woodstock, New York, including Gary Hill. Material from Artists' TV Lab consists of post-production video recordings left by artists in the studio between 1973 and 1978.
The collection also contains work created by Marsh and Glass apart from their collaborations. Marsh's works include multi-media and written works, including Weather Diary, a year long multimedia project, and two of his books on video production. Works by Glass include language and cultural videos produced by Crossroads Video, his language learning production and distribution company.
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Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Elliot Glass and Ken Marsh Video Collection; MSS 334; box number; folder number or item identifier; Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Elliot Glass and Ken Marsh, 2011. The accession number associated with this gift is 2012.334.
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Collection level description was written in April 2021.
