With the National Conventions just around the corner, it might be time to take a trip down memory lane… In 1972, San Francisco-based radical television collective TVTV (Top Value Television) made Four More Years, the first independently produced videotape ever broadcast on television. TVTV’s coverage of the Nixon nomination is a groundbreaking challenge to commercially produced news: rather than watching the scripted, variety-show nomination spectacle, the TVTV reporters trawl the convention floor with their lightweight Porta Pak cameras. They get candid interviews with celebrity newsmen Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite, follow protesters on their pickets, get up close with Tricia Nixon, and are nearly thrown out of the convention. The entire documentary is on Media Burn, an exceptional web-archive of radical video from the early days of public access television.

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