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Merce Cunningham Dance Company and Acme Dance Company clip on NBC Television news.

Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Company and Acme Dance Company clip on NBC Television news.
Publication
November 21, 1975.

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Cunningham, Merce
  • Howell, Chauncey
  • Acme Dance Company.
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
  • NBC Television Network, broadcaster.
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
Found In
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Description
1 streaming audio file (8 minutes) : digital, mono
Summary
  • (0:00-4:10) Cut 1: Unidentified NBC announcer introduces a segment on dance in New York; reporter Chauncey Howell introduces Merce Cunningham and his [Merce Cunningham Dance] Company while Cunningham's voice in rehearsal is audible in the background; Merce Cunningham gives a short statement on his choreography; Howell introduces Jamie Cunningham's Acme Dance Company; an excerpt of the song Big spender plays as Howell names the dancers onscreen and describes the storyline of the dance being shown.
  • (4:15-8:19) Cut 2: Exact copy of Cut 1.
Alternative Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
Subject
  • Cunningham, Merce > Interviews
  • Choreography
Genre/Form
  • Televised dance.
  • Television program clips.
Note
  • Title provided by cataloger based on audition and typed note on original container.
  • An audio cut of a short news clip about dance in New York, by news reporter Chauncey Howell, that features the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and the Acme Dance Company. Aired November 21, 1975 on NBC Television Network.
  • Typed note on original container: "Merce Cunningham Dance Company ; NBCTV (Sound) November 21, 1975 ; 2 Cuts: ; Speed 7 1/2".
  • Donor's inventory number: R078.
Access (note)
  • Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
Source (note)
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Call Number
*LT-7-A 2349
OCLC
880674431
Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Company and Acme Dance Company clip on NBC Television news.
Production
November 21, 1975.
Playing Time
000819
Type of Content
spoken word
Type of Medium
audio
Type of Carrier
audiotape reel
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
audio file
Event
Broadcast on NBCTV, New York, New York, 1975 November 21.
Original Version
Archival original: (1 audiotape reel (12 minutes) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, mono ; 5 in. rewound onto an archival 7 in. reel) in *LT-7-A 2349.
Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Local Note
Transferred from original open tape reel by the New York Public Library's Audio and Moving Image Preservation (PAMI) sound engineering staff at the Library for the Performing Arts on January 10, 2014. To create the streaming file, the sound engineers edited out the recording silences in the preservation file, thus the discrepancies in length between the preservation file and the streaming file.
Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
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Added Author
Cunningham, Merce, interviewee.
Howell, Chauncey, on-screen presenter.
Acme Dance Company.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
NBC Television Network, broadcaster.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
Added Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Research Call Number
*LT-7-A 2349
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