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Testing the Limits records

Title
Testing the Limits records, 1987-1995 (bulk 1988-1990).
Author
Testing the Limits (Firm).
Supplementary Content
Finding Aid

Details

Additional Authors
  • Bordowitz, Gregg.
  • Carlomusto, Jean.
  • Elgear, Sandra.
  • Hutt, Robyn.
  • Kipnis, Hilery Joy.
  • Meieran, David.
  • ACT UP New York (Organization).
  • People with AIDS Coalition.
Description
7 linear feet (16 boxes and 2197 videotapes).
Summary
The Testing the Limits records consist of both organizational records and video footage shot by the collective documenting all aspects of the struggle for health care and civil rights that faced people with AIDS.
Uniform Title
Question of Equality (Television program).
Subject
  • ACT UP New York (Organization)
  • Testing the Limits (Firm)
  • AIDS activists > United States
  • AIDS (Disease)
  • AIDS (Disease) > Treatment > Government policy > United States
  • AIDS (Disease) > Political aspects > United States
  • AIDS (Disease) in mass media
  • Gay activists > United States
  • Gay activists > United States > Interviews
  • Gay rights > United States
  • Homosexuality > Law and legislation
  • Lesbian activists > United States
Genre/Form
  • Interviews.
  • Photographs.
  • Documentry film
  • Video recordings.
Access (note)
  • Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref
Terms of Use (note)
  • No duplication can be made of videotapes without prior written consent from the videographers.
Biography (note)
  • Testing the Limits was a video collective formed in New York in 1987 to document AIDS activism.
Call Number
MssCol 3614
OCLC
253578332
Author
Testing the Limits (Firm).
Title
Testing the Limits records, 1987-1995 (bulk 1988-1990).
Access
Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref
Terms Of Use
No duplication can be made of videotapes without prior written consent from the videographers.
Biography
Testing the Limits was a video collective formed in New York in 1987 to document AIDS activism. The collective produced its seminal work Testing the Limits: NYC, in 1987 and a feature-length documentary, Voices from the Front, in 1991. The collective's final production was a four-part documentary, The Question of Equality, which chronicled the gay and lesbian struggle for civil rights.
Finding Aids
Finding aid available in repository and on internet: http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3614
Location of Other Archival Materials
Related collections include the AIDS Activist Videotape Collection, People With AIDS Coalition Records, ACT UP New York Records, and ACT UP Oral History Project Videotapes; Gay Men's Health Crisis records, Manuscripts and Archives Division; New York Public Library.
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Finding Aid
Occupation
Videographers.
Added Author
Bordowitz, Gregg.
Carlomusto, Jean.
Elgear, Sandra.
Hutt, Robyn.
Kipnis, Hilery Joy.
Meieran, David.
ACT UP New York (Organization).
People with AIDS Coalition.
Added Title
Question of Equality (Television program).
Research Call Number
MssCol 3614
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