THE 90’s: Episodes 208

Streaming June 25th: Episode 208 – 215

Episode 208: Relationships, Sexuality, And Some Revolutionary Ideas (12am, 8am, 4pm CDT)

Episode 208 of the award-winning TV series The 90’s. This episode is called “Relationships, Sexuality, And Some Revolutionary Ideas” and features the following segments:

01:00 Cold opening with Walter Teague.

02:27 “My Dad, Bob” by Vicki Polon. Polon interviews her newly-single 81-year-old father who is getting into the dating game. He has already placed a personal ad and has formed a steady relationship with a 30ish young woman. “The best advice I can give any man is stay single and raise your children the same way.”

05:03 “Finding Our Way” by Nick Kaufman Productions. Twelve heterosexual, bisexual, and gay men between the ages of 27 and 71 retreat for the weekend to talk about their sexuality in a therapy-like setting. The men are suprisingly candid and emotional about sex: “I feel the closest to someone when I’m making love to them…I like getting to know someone’s psyche, emotions.” “I like the smell, taste and messiness of sex.” “I’d like to have a woman without being judged by her, even though I have a preference for men.” “I’d like to have sex and not worry about dying.”

09:57 “Horse Breeding” by Joe Cummings and Ricki Katz. Joe Cummings visits the Garden Prairie Horse farm and learns about breeding horses. He closes the program this summary: “So that’s how horses do it. That’s the whole secret. They don’t know each other too well, they know each other from around the stables and out here in the field, but uh, they just got together and did their thing. And they’ll know in 48 hours if it took, and if it didn’t, then Little Petal and Flying Rich get together again. And they do what folks do…they make it!”

13:21 “The Romance of Reorganization” by Alison Morse. An animated sperm ballet.

15:04 “Sexual Roulette” by Samuel Warren Joseph. A melodrama about AIDS made during the time when AIDS was still seen as a gay disease and there was no real treatment. The message is that infidelity is now a deadly game.

32:37 An excerpt from “A Trip to Moscow” by Skip Blumberg. In this segment we’re on the plane to Moscow. We see passports, customs and we meet a Yugoslavian TV producer who complains about the “bureaucratical behavior” in her country. “Although the Iron Curtain is coming down it’ll take time for the ordinary person to feel the difference.”

39:59 “Revolutionary Music from Tigray” by Eddie Becker. While Becker was visiting Ethopia to document famine, the country was in flux as rebel groups fought the military government for control of the country. Becker shoots a band of rebels singing war songs, lead by a young boy with a machine gun. The lyrics are translated later in the program.

43:47 “Homes For Sale” by Anne Lewis and Appalshop. When the mining company that owned the town of Trammel, VA, decided to let go of its holdings in auction, the residents were faced with the risk of losing all of their homes. This tape documents the auction of the houses and the work of the town to buy as many homes back as possible.

50:15 “Cars and Owners” by Chip Lord. Phil Garner shows us his “Nauti-mobile,” a 1968 Buick that has been altered to function as both boat and car.

52:05 “Dan Quayle: Golf Your Way to the Top” by Gross National Product.

52:48 “Earth Day Nun” by Dee Dee Halleck. At 1990 Earth Day celebrations in San Diego, a black nun expresses frustration that activists are ignoring domestic issues. “We’ve freed Mandela, we’ve helped Nicaraguans… can we get down to racism now?”

53:42 More from “Revolutionary Music from Tigray.” We see the performance a second time with the lyrics translated. “Be the first to fight in the front line…Unite… Be courageous, the struggle continues…”

55:04 Joe Cummings reads from The 90’s mail bag over end credits.

58:10 promo.

Main Credits:

executive producer, Tom Weinberg; producer, Joel Cohen; chief bureaucrat, John Schwartz; editors, Mirko Popadic and John Grod; outreach producer, DeeDee Halleck; “Weekend in Moscow” by Skip Blumberg; “Tigray Musicians,” Boomerang,” and “Walter Teague” by Eddie Becker; “Homes for Sale by Anne Johnson” by appalshop; 90’s correspondents, Nancy Cain, Esti Marpet and Starr Sutherland; “Golf Your Way to the Top” by Gross National Product; “Earth Day Nun” by DeeDee Halleck; associate producers Joe Angio and Ricki Katz; production administrator, Linda Schulman; business affairs, Eric Kramer; network builder, Jonathan Cohen; video production, Pat Creadon and Jim Morrissette; Voice of THE 90’s, Ricki Katz and Joe Cummings; Faces of THE 90’s, Kristin Graziano and Jesse Weinberg; special thanks, Herb Channick, Phil Garner, Kenny Reff and John Simmons

Additional Credits:

paintbox, Rich DuCasse; major collaborator, Scott Jacobs; titles & effects created at Independent Programming Associates; opening sequence produced by John Anderson; opening film sequence by Tom Finerty; original music by The Cleaning Ladys; for KBDI, director of programming and production, Diane Markrow; post-production facilities, The Center for New Television, Chicago; funded in part by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Instructional Telecommunications Foundation, Inc.; copyright 1990 The Center for New Television

Episode 209: Kids, Schools, And Learning (1am, 9am, 5pm CDT)

Episode 209 of the award-winning TV series The 90’s. This episode is called “Kids, Schools, And Learning” and features the following segments:

01:53 “Plamondon School” by Kathie Robertson. On Chicago’s West Side, principal Guadalupe Hamersma talks about the troubles facing low income urban schools. “It’s a mistake excusing ignorance because of poverty. I really feel that if you have high expectations and find ways to help kids meet those expectations, kids will achieve.” She also feels that these kids should not be concentrated in poor schools but instead should be integrated into schools in wealthier communities. “I feel it’s important for kids have to get out of their neighborhood because the resources are so limited.”

10:07 “Sebastian & Molly” by Dee Dee Halleck. Two kids sing parodies of children’s songs that have been altered to feature the demise of teachers. Sebastian sings: “On top of the chalkboard, all covered with blood, I shot my poor teacher with a .44 slug…” Molly adds a tune dedicated to her teacher Miss Owens: “Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream, throw your teacher off the boat and listen to her scream!”

12:18 “Apple Juice” by John Bruce. A glimpse at New York City youth skateboard culture.

18:54 Leon Lederman commentary by Ricki Katz. Lederman, a Nobel Prize winning physicist, speaks about the poor state of education in America. “In the ’60s we were making the best cars, the best machines, and then all of a sudden we weren’t anymore. School systems around the world were get ting better than us. Something happened to this country in the late ’60s to do with the Vietnam War. It created a malaise in our students, it created a dropout mentality. I don’t think you can blame it on one thing, but that was a sort of milestone, one from which we have never recovered. Our text books were watered down, we neglected our teachers’ salaries. Right now we’re spending more per capita per year than any other country – $380 billion a year on higher and lower education. We have to turn the education system around, but we have to ‘leverage’ money very carefully in order to fix it.”

21:40 “Hard Times in Our Country: The Schools” by Anne Johnson/Appalshop. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared an all out war on poverty and promised increased support to schools in rural areas. Today rural Appalachian schools are being forced to close and children are being bussed to urban schools. Rural residents speak of how this is changing their communities. “When schools leave the community, people leave too. Urban governments are telling rural educators how to educate.” Ron Eller comments: “We are creating two-tiered society: one with the skills and opportunities to succeed, and the other with little hope for employment and little control over their lives.”

29:24 Bill Ayers commentary by Jim Morrissette. Ayers, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and former member of the radical group The Weather Underground, speaks about education. “In many ways schools are very effective. They function as large sorting machines, sorting kids out along class, racial and gender lines. We complain but we never fix them. I want them to not train people to fit into hierarchies, I want them to train students to participate fully in a democratic society.”

31:18 “Harbor College” by Nancy Cain. In Los Angeles, Cain visits a “college” for grade school kids that teaches stock market history, finance and business.

34:50 Murray Bookchin commentary by Luana Plunkett. Writer / activist Bookchin speaks about the misconceptions people have about education. “Education today is confusing the accumulation of information and data with the pursuit of wisdom. We are not becoming wiser, we are learning a lot of data that has no meaning, no relevance. Education should provoke, should stimulate the student to thinking. What we call education to day is, in my opinion, nonsense!”

36:21 “Education President” by Gross National Product. This satire pokes fun at President George H.W. Bush, the self-acclaimed “education President.” Bush reads the story of “The Emperor’s New Missile Defense System.”

40:32 Bill Ayers commentary continued. “Most teachers teach for the right reasons – they’re altruistic, optimistic and they love kids, or they love the world, they love art, mathematics, or music enough that they want to share this with kids. Their motivation is transformation. But they go to colleges of education where they effectively ignore that or beat it out of them. So they become involved in structures which reward obedience, conformity and being a clerk. School systems are becoming enormous bureaucracies toppling under their own weight.”

42:37 Dr. Dennis Littky commentary by Richard Watrous. Littky, an author and education reformer, speaks about the keys to success in education. “The same characteristics that make a business successful make a school successful. The same traits that make a good leader in business make a good leader in education. I think sometimes people think of a school as this soft place and IBM as this hard place. It all comes down to respect – respect for teachers, respect for students. This does not mean being nice to them, it means giving them the power to be.”

44:13 “William Wilson” by WTTW. Wilson, a music teacher at Hubbard High School in Chicago, won a Golden Apple Award for excellence in teaching. His philosophy: “I never accept the word can’t. I say ‘erase that ‘T”.” His students report on Wilson’s unique teaching style. “He treats everyone like his own child. So we have three parents: mother, father, and Mr. Wilson.”

47:18 “Public Education: It’s a Bull Market” by Hobart Swan. This tape traces the history of business involvement in education. In April 1990, the California State Assembly made a historic recommendation allowing Channel One, a commercial news station, to broadcast in public school classrooms. If this recommendation becomes law, commercials for candy bars and potato chips will become part of daily curriculum. However, this may not necessarily be a new thing. Public school children have always watched industrial films produced by private companies. In years past, children learned about electricity from electrical companies, ecology from lumber companies, and nutrition from sugar companies.

53:50 “Gravity” by David Wechter & Michael Nankin. A comedic spoof of educational films that claims scientists have found out that gravity is running out. “We all must do our part to conserve gravity.”

55:54 More from Leon Lederman. “TV is a tremendous force. It could do a lot of things. The typical scientist is portrayed as a weirdo stroking a cat and talking with an accent. TV owes an obligation both to entertain and to teach. We need he roes in science, we need good role models so kids can say this is not a nerd operation.”

57:05 End Credits.

58:55 :30 promo.

Main Credits:

executive producer, Tom Weinberg; producer, Joel Cohen; chief bureaucrat, John Schwartz; editor, John Grod; outreach producer, DeeDee Halleck; “L.A. Kids’ College (Hi-8 mm)” by Nancy Cain; “Hard Times in the Country: The Schools (3/4″) By Anne Johnson” by Appalshop; 90’s correspondents, Eddie Becker, Skip Blumberg, Esti Galili Marpet, Phil Morton and Starr Sutherland; “Plamondon School (Hi-8)” by Kathie Robertson; “sebastian & Molly (Hi-8)” by DeeDee Halleck; “Applejuice (Super-8 Film)” by John Bruce; “Dr. Leon Lederman (Hi-8)” by Ricki Katz; “Dr. Bill Ayers (Hi-8)” by Jim Morrissette; “Murray Bookchin (VHS)” by Luana Plunkett; “Education President (3/4″)” by Gross National Product; “William Wilson (3/4″)” by WTTW / Chicago; “Dr. Dennis Littky (VHS)” by Richard Watrous; “Public Education: It’s a Bull Market (S-VHS)” by Hobart Swan; “Gravoty (16mm FILM)” by David Wechter & Michael Nankin; “Closing Credits (S-VHS)” by TWTV; associate producers Joe Angio and Ricki Katz; 90’s West, Nancy Cain, Chief, and Judith Binder; production administrator, Linda Schulman; business affairs, Eric Kramer; network builder, Jonathan Cohen; production assistants, Pat Creadon and Brian Strause; production interns, Carolyn Faber and Chuck Kesl; Voice of THE 90’s, Ricki Katz; Faces of THE 90’s, Kristin Graziano and Jesse Weinberg; special thanks, Foundation for Excellence in Teaching, Mary Meyer School and Lewis Freedman

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Episode 210: Love and Caring, Children of War (2am, 10am, 6pm CDT)

Episode 210 of the award-winning TV series The 90’s. This episode is called “Love and Caring, Children of War” and features the following segments:

2:08 “Children of War” by Wendy Appel, Alan Barker, & Dana Gluckstein. Students from war-torn countries gather at Beverly Hills High School and tearfully describe the situation in their native countries. A student from Lebanon recalls, “My country has been at a war for 15 years. There is no water, no gas, no electricity and no place to go.” A student from Iran tells how she lost her grandfather and her best friend in a bombing attack. A South African student refuses to be photographed or identified because she claims it is dangerous for her to complain about her country. “It’s not my fault I’m black, I didn’t choose to be black.”

10:01 “Little Space Man” by Stuart Ellis. Animation.

12:30 More from “Children of War.” Students discuss how they can bring about peace and the importance of education to prevent future wars. A Latino student describes his fight for equal education in a U.S. high school where the attitude is “You’re not gonna make it, so why try?”

16:48 “Why There Is Misery” by Nancy Cain. Tara Proctor, a young girl, tells a fable. An old woman called Auntie Misery is harassed by a gang of rowdy boys who throw rocks and sticks and smash her beloved pear tree. One day, the woman generously offers shelter to a stranger who in exchange grants her a wish – whoever touches her pear tree gets stuck and can’t come back down. The boys come back, get stuck and promise never to bother the old woman again. Sometime later a dark stranger comes to call. It is Death. In a desperate attempt to escape him, the old woman asks him to fetch a pear for her. He gets stuck in the tree and the world becomes overpopulated and miserable because everyone is immortal. Although Auntie Misery eventually let death out of the tree, she was granted immortality, and it is because of her that misery lives on in the world today.

22:26 “Tarayana” by Stuart Ellis. Animation.

24:42 “Love Tapes in Santa Barbara” by Wendy Clarke. Clark set up a booth where people could discuss love in front of a video camera. This clip involves a couple who discuss how ridiculously happy they are with each other. “If you’re in love you just know how the other person hangs the toilet paper.”

28:29 “Weird Amsterdam” by Charles Gatewood. A comedic monologue about the culture of Amsterdam. Followed by a more documentary-styled segment shot in a public square in Amsterdam where druggies and freaks congregate. A woman with a nose-ring, black leather, and bare breasts exclaims, “I don’t know what it would take to be weird here.”

38:01 More from “Love Tapes from Santa Barbara.” A man enters the booth and defines love as described in the Bible: “Love is patient, love is kind…”

41:21 “Guerilla Poetry” by Nancy Cain. Homeless poets from Skid Row in Los Angeles convene to perform their work.

47:45 “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Nancy Cain. Tara Proctor sings the Billy Joel song.

48:26 More from “Love Tapes from Santa Barbara.” A young woman describes the “closest she’s come to love,” the love between friends having a wild experience on an island. They ran naked through the woods and chased each other with a bottle of whipped cream.

51:42 “Nose Hair” by Stuart Ellis. Animation.

51:49 Paul Krassner commentary by Nancy Cain. Krassner gets a massage and tells how he trained himself to “laugh at pain” while visiting the Kyopis Indians in Ecuador.

55:15 “Five Guys Named Moe” by Charles Gatewood. In Amsterdam, marionettes perform in a five piece jazz band.

56:15 End credits.

58:36 :30 promo.

Main Credits:

executive producer, Tom Weinberg; producer, Joel Cohen; program producer, Nancy Cain; chief bureaucrat, John Schwartz; editor, John Grod; outreach producer, DeeDee Halleck; “Why There is Misery,” “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” “It’s Torture, But It Works,” and “Homeless Writers Coalition, Guerrila Poetry Event, part of Pipeline’s Visions Project, Participants: Hyesuk, Clyde Casey, Dino, Southern Comfort, K. O., Russ Garner and Alexander Anderson” by Nancy Cain; 90’s correspondents, Appalshop, Eddie Becker, Skip Blumberg, Esti Marpet and Starr Sutherland; “Children of War” by Wendy Apple, Alan Barker & Dana Gluckstein; “Little Space Man” by Stuart Ellis, Music by Fred Parotaud; Tarayana by Stuart Ellis, Music by Anna Homles, Music Produced by Ethan James; Nose Hair by Stuart Ellis; Love Tapes in Santa Barbara by Wendy Clarke; “Weird Amsterdam, Five Guys Named Moe” by Charles Gatewood; associate producers Joe Angio and Ricki Katz; production administrator, Linda Schulman; business affairs, Eric Kramer; network builder, Jonathan Cohen; video production, Pat Creadon and Jim Morrissette; production assitance, Natalie Frutig

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Episode 211: Everyday Addictions: Alcohol and Nicotine (3am, 11am, 7pm CDT)

Episode 211 of the award-winning TV series The 90’s. This episode is called “Everyday Addictions: Alcohol and Nicotine” and features the following segments:

2:02 “California Highway Patrol” by Nancy Cain. We follow a Sgt. Gordon J. Graham on his traffic rounds. He explains the dangers of drinking and driving and shows us how to spot a drunk driver.

7:19 “Drunk Driving Stories” by Nancy Cain. John, a former alcoholic, describes the reckless behavior he engaged in while drunk.

10:37 “Hollywood Handshake: OK Bubbye” by Bianca Miller. A music video.

13:12 Alison Dunn commentary by Kathie Robertson. Dunn, an addiction counselor, informs us about the types of addiction. “There are two distinct kinds of addiction – substance addiction, such as addiction to caffeine, nicotine etc, and process addiction, which is an addiction to gambling or sex or relationships, etc. Addiction is a spiritual disease, it removes us from ourselves and causes us to feel powerless, it causes us to be out of touch with ourselves and what our life is really about.”

14:58 Tony Schwartz commentary by Skip Blumberg. Schwartz, a media activist, shares the philosophy behind some of his anti-smoking commercials. According to him, the most effective means for personal change is shame, and the key to successful radio and TV campaigns is to harness this shame.

22:37 Rev. Calvin O. Butts commentary by Skip Blumberg. Rev. Butts, an anti-cigarette activist, talks about his efforts to pressure tobacco giants to stop advertising. “The sale of tobacco and alcohol diametrically opposes life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Smoking kills!”

26:40 Australian anti-smoking commercial.

27:08 Vintage Muriel cigar commercial.

27:30 Nazareth’s Storefront Smoke Lounge, Beverly Hills, CA by Jay April. A group of cigar smoking men rail against antismoking propaganda. “Where can a man smoke a cigar these days?” They reminisce about the elegant cigar smokers of old like Orson Wells, George Burns, Winston Churchill, etc. “It’s sad today, the public is learning that smoking is terrible for them. It’s a knee-jerk reaction. It’s just like Prohibition!”

33:00 More from Tony Schwartz. We watch one of Schwartz’ commercials and hear his opinion on the legality of smoking. “Cigarettes shouldn’t be outlawed. A lot of people are addicted and need to smoke, and they should smoke in the privacy of their own home or outdoors. Your right to smoke ends when it affects my nose, my heart, my lungs.”

34:49 “California Highway Patrol” continued. Sgt. Graham pulls over another suspected drunk who turns out to be simply a bad driver driving a group home from church.

36:21 “Do You Like What You’re Driving?” by KDN Videoworks. In Detroit, the lottery advertises by enticing folks to buy tickets to upgrade what they drive. We meet interview obsessive lottery players and store clerks who have sold winning tickets.

39:36 “Opium in Thailand” by Bart Friedman & Charles Gatewood. We go to an opium field and learn how it is harvested and consumed.

42:58 “Rumba” by Charles Wiener. A spoof where people testify to their Rumba addiction.

47:57 “California Highway Patrol” continued. Sgt. Graham follows a car that is breaking excessively and changing lanes unnecessarily. Not a drunk driver, however, just a nervous girl. “Girls very rarely drink and drive…they don’t have anything to prove.”

49:35 “Drunk Driving Stories” continued. A young woman named Allison relates the drunk driving incident that finally convinced her she was an alcoholic.

51:45 “California Highway Patrol” continued. Sgt. Graham apologizes for not catching a drunk driver yet. He pulls over another weaving car and finds his drunk. We witness the sobriety tests and the arrest.

53:03 Excerpt from “George Talking Straight “by Marian Marzynski. Documentary about an amiable small-town drunk.

54:45 More from Tony Schwartz. Schwartz tells us about a particularly controversial radio spot which he recently created to warn against drunk driving. The spot graphically describes a body being crushed in a car crash in order to scare the listener. “Your front bumper and grille is smashed. Your body hurtles forward at twenty times the force of gravity. Your knee joints snap. You are impaled on the steering shaft. The jagged steel punctures your lung and inter-costal arteries. Your head smashes into the windshield. Blood spurts from your lungs. You are now dead. Please don’t wait for your luck to run out – don’t drink and drive.”

56:24 Vintage beer and cigarette commercials under credits.

58:50 :30 promo.

Main Credits:

executive producer, Tom Weinberg; producer, Joel Cohen; chief bureaucrat, John Schwartz; editor, John Grod; outreach producer, DeeDee Halleck; “California Highway Patrol” and “Drunk Driving Stories” by Nancy Cain: “Tony Schwartz” and “Rev. Calvin Butts” by Skip Blumberg; “Nazareth Smoke Lounge” by Jay April; 90’s correspondents, Eddie Becker, Esti Galili Marpet, Phil Morton, Starr Sutherland and Appalshop; “Alison Dunn” by Kathie Robertson; “Do You Like What You’re Driving” by Bill Kubota & Doug Susalla; “George Talking Straight” by Marian Marzynski; smoking statistics from Barron’s, a publication of Dow Jones & Company; associate producers Joe Angio and Ricki Katz; 90’s West, Nancy Cain, Chief, and Judith Binder; production administrator, Linda Schulman; business affairs, Eric Kramer; network builder, Jonathan Cohen; production assistants, Pat Creadon and Brian Strause; production interns, Carolyn Faber and Chuck Kesl; Voice of THE 90’s, Ricki Katz; Faces of THE 90’s, Kristin Graziano and Jesse Weinberg; special thanks, California Highway Patrol and Abyssinian Baptist Church

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Episode 212: An Impressionistic View Of Life In Japan (4am, 12pm, 8pm CDT)

Episode 212 of the award-winning TV series The 90’s. This episode is called “An Impressionistic View Of Life In Japan” and features the following segments:

2:23 “Trip to Japan” by Jane Aaron. Aaron takes us to see Japan.

5:07 Japanese commercials.

7:36 Jon Woronoff commentary by Eddie Becker. Woronoff, an author and businessman, talks about foreigners’ misconceptions about Japan. “The reason foreigners are fooled about Japan is because there are two levels of perception in Japan. One is called “tatumai” and it means “illusion,” or what one likes to consider things being. The other is called “honei” and it means “truth,” or the way things actually are in practice. When the Japanese speak to foreigners they speak “tatamai” – they say that things look better than they really are, that everything in Japan is harmonious, tranquil and peaceful. When they speak to Japanese, they speak “honei” – that is, they speak the truth and this is the way it is in their written articles and in the television media.”

10:50 “The Zenshuji Zendeko Drummers” by Nancy Cain. A team of Japanese boys play drums in Los Angeles.

11:13 “Japanese-American Internment.” A look back at the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Featuring a vintage propaganda film starring Ronald Reagan and later footage of him offering reparations to the victims of internment. Frank Emi remembers this dark period of American history. “Our Civil Rights were stripped away even though Naval Intelligence and FBI had completely cleared Japanese-Americans of any espionage.” He remembers that even liberal politicians like Earl Warren jumped on the bandwagon. “Reagan’s pardon took over 40 years…it took too long!”

16:19 “The Zenshuji Zendeko Drummers “by Nancy Cain.

16:54 Japanese commercials.

17:38 “Yen For Baseball “by John Antonelli and Will Parrinello. Docmentary about newly formed Japanese baseball teams. American managers and umpires comment on Japanese ball-playing style while Japanese fans name their favorite players. An American accouncer comments, “They’re so kind and courteous. They don’t want to embarrass anyone, if we win, let’s win 2-1, it’s okay to tie the game.”

23:18 “Trip to Japan “by Jane Aaron. In Hiroshima, Aaron searches for a Western-style toilet.

23:47 Japanese commercials.

25:44 Paul Igasaki commentary by Eddie Becker. Igasaki warns of a resurgence of anti-Japanese prejudice or “Japan bashing” in the United States.

27:44 May 1990 commercial by the Tri-State Pontiac Dealers Association urging Americans not to buy Japanese cars.

28:15 Paul Igasaki commentary by Eddie Becker. Igasaki shows us examples of anti-Japanese imagery in American advertising.

29:42 Oklahoma commercial. Businessmen from Chickasha, OK, advertise free land to Japanese businessmen to move an industry to their town.

30:32 Jon Woronoff continues to dispel myths about Japan. “Not all Japanese companies offer lifetime employment, only the large Japanese companies don’t lay off workers. Small companies, on the other hand, have to fire massive numbers of people.”

31:05 In a clip from Japanese TV (NHK), a Japanese manager counsels a worker out of his job.

32:07 Ralph Nader commentary by Eddie Becker. Nader decries the failure of American capitalism. “In 1980, the top executives of Fortune 300 companies were earning forty-five times what entry level employees were earning. Today it’s ninety times as much. In Japan, the head of Toyota earns eight times what an assembly plant worker earns. We’ve had a massive failure of our managerial class here in the U.S.”

32:38 Images from Japanese automated assembly lines.

33:04 Japanese commercials.

35:14 “Fertility Festival” by John Durbin and Jason Simas. Documentary about an annual Japanese festival celebrating male fertility.

37:05 Japanese cooking show featuring fresh mushrooms.

38:15 Japanese commercials.

38:45 Music video for the song “Sushi Baby” by Bianca Miller.

40:00 Japanese girl eats in some sort of a petting zoo.

40:15 Japanese commercials.

40:43 “Doug Michels on Japanese TV.” Michels is seen on Japanese TV talking about his projects such as Cadillac Ranch, an art piece done by The Ant Farm, and Bluestar, a futuristic think tank in space, and a proposal for a 50’s-style theme park, Cadillac Fin, in Japan.

44:59 “Toothman,” a Japanese cartoon.

46:50 Japanese commercials.

49:29 “Trip to Japan” by Jane Aaron. Public transportation.

49:50 More Jon Woronoff commentary. “The worst New York subway situation is nothing compared to Japan. In Japan , the subways are filled to four or five times capacity. They actually have “pushers” – people who push passengers into the trains. It’s mind-boggling. Japanese people travel this way day in and day out. Americans couldn’t stand it. They would get claustrophobic.”

50:56 Japanese commercials.

51:54 “Trip to Japan – Peace Park in Hiroshima” by Jane Aaron. Over visuals of Hiroshima’s Memorial Park, Harry S. Truman’s voice explains the dropping of the Atom bomb. “I never had any qualms about it. I wanted to end the war in victory with the least possible loss of U.S. lives. The bomb was just another piece of artillery, and as Napoleon once said, ‘The Lord is on the side with the heaviest artillery.'” Truman’s nonchalance is contrasted heavily with the testimonial of a Japanese woman describing the death of their countrymen from radiation poisoning.

54:49 Ronald Reagan acts in more U.S. government industrial films.

55:47 “The Zenshuji Zendeko Drummers” by Nancy Cain plays under credits.

Main Credits:

executive producer, Tom Weinberg; producer, Joel Cohen; chief bureaucrat, John Schwartz; editor, John Grod; outreach producer, DeeDee Halleck; “Zenshuji Zendeko Drummers” and “Frank Emi” by Nancy Cain; “Jon Woronoff,” Paul Igasaki” and “Ralph Nader” by Eddie Becker; 90’s correspondents, Jay April, Skip Blumberg, Esti Galili Marpet, Phil Morton, Starr Sutherland and Appalshop; “Trip to Japan” by Jane aaron; “Inuyama Fertility Festival” by John Durbin & Jason Simas; associate producers Joe Angio and Ricki Katz; 90’s West, Nancy Cain, Chief, Judith Binder and Jody Proctor; resident journalist, Gary Covino; production administrator, Linda Schulman; business affairs, Eric Kramer; network builder, Jonathan Cohen; production assistants Pat Creadon; chief critic, Brian Strause; production interns, Carolyn Faber; Voice of THE 90’s, Ricki Katz; Faces of THE 90’s, Kristin Graziano and Jesse Weinberg

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Episode 213: Fun and Games (5am, 1pm, 9pm CDT)

Episode 213 of the award-winning TV series The 90’s. This episode is called “Fun and Games” and features the following segments:

0:08 Kit Sibert commentary by Nancy Cain. Sibert, a social worker, has this to say about personal fulfillment. “Everybody has a sense of humor, but it’s infinitely varied and what you do for fun is infinitely varied. What’s the common denominator? It has something to do with what’s liberated inside.”

1:20 “Spare Time” by Alix Litwack. Documentary extolling the virtues of bowling. Ray Bluth, Hall of Famer, explains, “It allows people to do something together. You can be old or young, an executive or an ordinary guy. Bowling lets you forget your problems.” We visit Epiphany Lanes, in the basement of a church in St. Louis, where some old-timers extol the virtues of the game. “People who don’t bowl don’t know what they’re missing. I wouldn’t miss my bowling night unless there were a death in the family or one of my kids got married. Thank God I’m still alive and able to bowl!!”

6:13 “Mountain Biker “by Nancy Cain. On Piuma Road in Malibu, California, Greg Hodal pedals uphill. “I’m just trying to do as well as I can each time and go as fast I can.”

6:53 “Fiesta de San Fermin” by Esti Galili Marpet. In July, 1990, at Fiesta de San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain we share the excitement surrounding the annual Running of the Bulls. There ‘s singing and dancing in the streets and we end with a bullfight.

10:30 More from Kit Sibert. Sibert says that movement and exercise are fundamental to letting go of anger (which is the first step to having fun).

11:43 “Midnight Basketball League” by Pat Creadon. At the Henry Horner Homes in Chicago’s West Side, African American youths play basketball every Tuesday and Thursday at midnight. Vincent Lane, Director of the Chicago Housing Authority, explains that this activity is successful because the “kids are in the gym and off the streets.”

18:29 “The Fun Zone” by Ken Brown. Stop motion animation and images of Coney Island amusement park.

19:13 “Electronic Cafe” by Wendy Appel and Alan Barker. In Santa Monica, California, Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz have developed a model for a community level teleconferencing center, using inexpensive videophone technology. It’s an immediate and informal method for people around the world to learn about each other’s culture. They connect with people from Nicaragua and Russia. “These electronic meetings are bringing as much excitement today as the black and white Sony Portapak brought to independent television in the late ’60s.”

25:07 “Busia and Cioc” by Valjean McLenighan. A clip from a video shot in 1970 with a black and white Portapack. An 80-year-old Polish immigrant shares her disappointment with America: “I was a slave in Poland and I heard America was a free country. I worked terrible hard here for nothing and was treated like dirt.”

25:40 More from Kit Sibert. Kit Sibert talks about how she personally has fun. “When I’m with somebody and laughing, I’m having fun. But I resist having fun. I love going to the beach and body surfing but I never want to go. And yet when I get there and start doing it it’s always fun.”

28:45 “Maxwell Street Market” by Joe Angio. A short portrait of the Chicago institution with music and dancing on a Sunday in June 1990.

29:22 “Mountain Biker “by Nancy Cain. Greg Hodal is riding his bike and huffing and puffing: “This is exciting time – under sixteen minutes to Twin Poles.”

29:45 “Mountain Man” by Phil Morton. Paul Boruff denies that he ‘s a real “Mountain Man.” “There are very few people who honestly deserve the title of ‘Mountain Man.'” Boruff claims he’s “just a “performer,” then demonstrates loading gun powder in his gun, and sings “I Call The Wind Mariah.”

32:01 “Baseball City” by Nancy Cain. In Agoura Hills, California, Jody Procter practices in a batting cage and talks about the American obsession with baseball. “Baseball is a secular religion. Three million people a year go to see the Dodgers play at Dodger Stadium. I like the whole thing about baseball. It locks me up to a thing that goes deep in my life. It summarizes everything I feel about security.”

38:25 “Elephant Games” by Skip Blumberg. Elephants perform tricks in Surin, Thailand.

43:11 “World Cup Fans” by Luca Celada. A glimpse of Italian-style soccer at the World Cup in 1990.

44:14 American children play soccer, while their parents encourage them from offscreen.

44:32 Bill Wade, an ex-NFL quarterback, comments on how soccer will overtake other sports in terms of popularity. He thinks that it is “dangerous” that soccer will overtake American football: “…football is important to [the USA]…way beyond what most people think.”

45:03 “Boomerang” by Eddie Becker. Becker runs in to a man tossing around a boomerang in a park in Washington, D.C.

46:51 “Democratic Nominee Board Game” by Gross National Product. A satirical look at the search for a Democratic Presidential candidate.

47:54 More from Kit Silbert. Kit Silbert offers more advice about fun: “To lie on the couch and read is relaxing, but it’s not fun. It’s a cerebral experience. Fun has to be sensual.”

48:34 “The King and Di” by Judith Binder. A woman ordered a sex toy on a lark and talks about her experience with this sex substitute. “It’s the secret to abstinence and total happiness. The only problem is that it could become addiction and the sad part is that you can’t hug anybody afterwards and you can’t give love.”

53:30 Sweet Honey in the Rock performs “Seven Day Kiss” on stage by Michelle Parkerson. From “Gotta Make this Journey.”

56:17 “Mountain Biker” (under credits). Our biker coasts downhill and talks to his bike, “Well you won the race, eh big boy?” Also with audio of Joe Cummings reading letters to The 90’s.

58:55 End of tape.

Main Credits:

executive producer, Tom Weinberg; producer, Joel Cohen; chief bureaucrat, John Schwartz; editor, John Grod; outreach producer, DeeDee Halleck; “Mountain Biker,” “Kit Sibert,” and “Baseball City” by Nancy Cain; “Boomerang” by Eddie Becker; “Elephant Games” by Skip Blumberg; “Fiesta de San Fermin” by Esti Galili Marpet; 90’s correspondents, Jay April, Starr Sutherland and Appalshop; “Midnight Basketball” by Pat Creadon; “Maxwell Street” by Joe angio; “World Cup Fans” by Luca Celada; “Sweet Honey in the Rock from: Gotta Make this Journey” produced by Michelle Parkerson; associate producers Joe Angio and Ricki Katz; 90’s West, Nancy Cain, Chief, Judith Binder and Jody Proctor; production administrator, Linda Schulman; business affairs, Eric Kramer; network builder, Jonathan Cohen; production assistant Pat Creadon; chief critic, Brian Strause; production intern, Carolyn Faber; video production, Media Process Group and Chip Lord; Voice of THE 90’s, Joe Cummings; Faces of THE 90’s, Kristin Graziano and Jesse Weinberg; special thanks, Bob Vasilopoulos, Norm Potash and Sam Silberman

Additional Credits:

Episode 214: The Environment and Our Oceans (6am, 2pm, 10pm CDT)

Episode 214 of the award-winning TV series The 90’s. This episode is called “The Environment and Our Oceans” and features the following segments:

0:50 “Advice Ladies” by Skip Blumberg. A trio of women sit out on the streets of New York City dispensing free advice. “Ecology: I think it’s the big issue for the 90’s. People are really concerned with the environment because it’s starting to affect us personally.”

01:36 “Malibu Surfers” by James Mulryan. Glenn Henning, a surfer, talks about the polluted and disease-riddled ocean as he floats on his board, waiting for the next wave. “We’re actually seeing the very first stages of the Greenhouse Effect, the very first stages of long-term pollution starting to effect the health of people who are supposed to be healthy. Surfers in Malibu are actually coming down with diseases that doctors are unable to diagnose. Everybody’s causing the pollution and everyone’s going to have to figure out what they personally are going to do about it.”

04:44 “Redwood Forest” by Jay April. Jay April visits Redwood Country and encounters different opinions on the timber industry’s notion of progress. Earth First has been protesting the rapid pace at which the timer industry has deforested the region and call for a policy of “sustained yield.” One environmentalist notes that the forest has already been reduced to 4% of its original splendor: “Some of us question if Redwoods as an ecosystem can survive at all.” An argument ensues between lumber workers and a lone protester. One worker claims that cutting down trees is like harvesting a garden.

13:00 “Uncle Sam Falls” by Bill Stamets. A humorous clip where a mannequin dressed as Uncle Sam topples over and people scramble to right him.

13:35 “Base Jumping “by Kerry Appel. A rare breed of adventure seekers are caught in action as they illegally jump off a building and a radio tower with the help of a parachute. Voice-over: “I think these guys do it for their own reasons and don’t feel compelled to ask permission or explain their actions.”

16:17 “Balbina: Mark of Destruction” by TV dos Trabalhadores. Set in Manaus, Brazil at the heart of the Amazon, the video opens with a montage depicting the poverty, destruction, and pain that has plagued the region. The people of Manaus are suffering the consequences of their designation as a tax-free zone. Originally conceived as a means to attract industry and create jobs, the tax-free policy has been an advantage only for big business. As industry expanded it became necessary to use alternate sources of energy, leading to the damming of a tributary of the Amazon River. Massive pollution followed, ravaging the ecosystem and destroying the lives of those people who depended on the river for their existence.

24:40 “Todd Alcott” by Skip Blumberg. 90’s regular, Todd Alcott rants: “You know what they’re talking about now? – the Greenhouse Effect. They’ll be growing peaches in Siberia, here we’ll be roasting weenies on the car hoods… So I’m gonna destroy the world if I put Right Guard under my arm pits. Believe me. God help us if I didn’t…Here’s what I’m saying, five years ago these scientists were telling us about the Ice Age… okay, where’s the ice? Wasn’t here when I woke up. Hope it doesn’t wreck my car… Maybe this Greenhouse-ozone thing is keeping away the ice. Greenhouse. Ice Age. Which do you want? Me? I look better in summer clothes.”

26:28 “Santa Monica” James Mulryan. John Young, a long time surfer and cancer victim from Santa Monica, reads a sign on the beach that warns of potential contamination. Drain pipes spit sewage out in the ocean near favorite surfing spots. “Every major city street in Los Angeles dead ends in Santa Monica. I would think every major drain also dead ends in Santa Monica… The man in East L.A. changing his oil and thinking ‘it’s cool, I’ll just dump it down this storm drain’… He doesn’t realize that in a week we’re out here sucking it up… We’ve had lifeguards on this beach die from the contamination… This is Santa Monica, welcome to it, and be ready to read our sign.”

30:51 “‘Clean Dan’ Grandusky” by Jimmy Sternfield. A builder from Denver, Colorado voices his concerns about environmental change, likening the current situation to a global war. “The significant problem with the urban landscape is our cars, our highways. World War III is being waged right now. We are the last generation who can save the planet.”

32:36 “Control Emissions” by Paul Tassie. A PSA in which a dog rebels against a car’s excessive exhaust by clogging up the muffler with a potato, causing the car to shoot into the air. “Control emissions, won’t you? Thanks,” says the dog.

33:34 “Zeke’s Heap” by Jay April. Segment about a communal compost heap run by Tim Dundon, aka “Zeke the Sheik.” The county health department is trying to force the removal of the giant compost pile, claiming it is a public nuisance. The people in the town organize a protest to save the heap.

31:51 “One Man’s Trash” by Dee Dee Halleck. Two little girls sing “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”

38:29 “Steve Brill: The Wild Man” by Esti Marpet. In Central Park, New York City, the “wild man” conducts tours pointing out edible plants and teaching about conservation. In 1981, when he was leading tours in New York’s parks, he was arrested and charged with criminal mischief for picking plants. After that, he made a deal with the city and now he’s an official Park Department employee. His advice: “Enjoy this planet, it’s yours to partake of, it’s yours to protect.”

45:02 “North Pacific Driftnet Expedition” by Greenpeace. Ben Deeble, a Greenpeace representative, discusses the ecological devastation caused by driftnet fishing. Each year nets kill 1,000,000 sea birds and 120,000 dolphins, not to mention just about everything else that gets in the nets’ path. However, legislation is currently pending to limit this type of activity. One bill proposes to prohibit the nets altogether, while “The Tuna Labeling Act” would force tuna caught by the nets to be labeled as “dolphin unsafe.”

46:36 “Diving Fundamentals” by Jonathan Giles. Artistically manipulated video showing the wrong ways to dive.

47:16 “Anthony Kiedis” by James Mulryan. Anthony Kiedis, lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, visits the beach: “When the UFO’s come down they see our oceans and they say, ‘Look at all these creatures’… and everyone’s hugging each other and swimming through this liquid space atmosphere and they’re having a good time. And the people get to go swimming and surfing and sail boating and its just beautiful out here and the idea that some guy in a office is sitting behind his desk saying, ‘How can I make a few million dollars… Well maybe if I cut the cost and pollute a little more’… I don’t want my kids to come out of the water and get into some sort of detoxification booth, because it takes all the fun out of it.” He then raps the tune “Green Heaven” (The smile of a dolphin is a built feature/They move in schools/But everyone’s a teacher…)

50:18 “Popeye “by Eddie Becker. At the Earth Day celebrations in Washington, D.C., Popeye joins the ecology movement. “I’m Popeye the sailor man, I recycle my spinach can… Anyone who pollutes the air, earth, or ocean is nothing more than a criminal!”

50:51 Excerpt from “Garbage Mountain” by Nancy Cain. In Los Angeles, California, Jody Procter takes us on a tour of a garbage dump and shares his reverence for what is found there.

55:33 “Four on the Floor” by Sandy Smolen. A classical music quartet plays while cars are crushed at a junkyard.

58:16 Promo for The 90’s.

Main Credits:

executive producer, Tom Weinberg; producer, Joel Cohen; chief bureaucrat, John Schwartz; editor, John Grod; outreach producer, DeeDee Halleck; “Redwood Forest” and “Zeke’s Heap” by Jay April; “Popeye” by Eddie Becker; “Wildman” by Esti Galili Marpet; “L.A. Dump” by Nancy Cain; 90’s correspondents, appalshop, Starr Sutherland and Skip Blumberg; “Malibu Surfers,” “Santa Monica,” and “Anthony Kiedis” by Jim Mulryan; “Uncle Sam Falls” by Bill Stamets; “‘Clean’ Dan” by Jimmy Sternfield; “Control Emissions” by Paul Tassie; “One Man’s Trash” by DeeDee Halleck, with Molly Kovel and Chandeen Wardell; “Four on the Floor” by Sandy Smolen; 90’s West, Nancy Cain, Chief, Judith Binder and Jody Proctor; production administrator, Linda Schulman; business affairs, Eric Kramer; network builder, Jonathan Cohen; production assistants Pat Creadon, Brian Strause and Melissa Sterne; special thanks, Karen Ranucci and Karen Hirsch; Voices of THE 90’s, Joe Cummings and Tony Judge

Additional Credits:

Episode 215: The Video Revolution (7am, 3pm, 11pm CDT)

Episode 215 of the award-winning TV series The 90’s. This episode is called “The Video Revolution” and features the following segments:

90’s Cold Opening featuring an excerpt from the 1972 video “Four More Years” by TVTV. In this clip Walter Cronkite is being interviewed. Cronkite: “Introspection is not good for a journalist. I’ll tell you that you’d be much better off if you didn’t pay any attention to it at all.”

02:32 “Beat of an Urban Drum” by The Lies Brothers. Native Americans discuss the difficulty in maintaining their heritage and traditional ideals. “We’re individuals, and that’s what’s wrong with American society. You have to pretend. You have to be plastic. You have to be what someone wants you to be.” One man comments on the difficulty maintaining the heritage taught on the reservation upon entering the outside world – “You walk two paths. You get so you don’t trust people. You get so that you try to hide that you’re a Native American.” An anecdote: “I did see a white man when I was ten. I found him drifting on a beach. He said he hadn’t had anything to eat for a week. So I said, ‘There’s food all over, why don’t you eat?’ He said he didn’t know how to find it, so I made him a great meal from all over the forest. He gave me a ten dollar bill which I carried around for about three years, because I had no use for it”. Concluding poem, “Ruined”: “You have ruined me white man/You really don’t want me in your world and/You have made me unfit to live in the red man’s world.”

09:05 “Video is Television” by Antonio Muntadas. A cerebral piece that comments on television as an illusionary image. The statement is accomplished through close-up of the television’s screen, revealing the fragmented dots that make up the picture.

10:26 “New York Cabbie” by Skip Blumberg. Robert Demella, a NYC cab driver, rants about various subjects. On how to avoid getting scammed: “You don’t pick up drunks, teenagers or seedy types.” On TV: “Only good for news…I’d like to take a sledgehammer and smash the TV…The TV set is the downfall of Western Civilization…People don’t read anymore, people don’t talk anymore, people don’t think anymore…Our generation that grew up on TV is the STUPIDEST generation to come down the pike.”

12:21 Excerpt from “Did They Buy It? Nicaragua 1990 Election” by Committee for Labor Access. An excerpt from the documentary about the 1990 presidential elections in Nicaragua. It is unique because it focuses more on the foreign (i.e. U.S.) media coverage than on the events themselves. In this excerpt we watch reporter Ed Rabel of NBC News practice his lines. Rabel realizes the impact his coverage has: “The only thing any of us reporters has is his integrity and his accuracy which he brings to bear”… A journalist quotes Bernard Cohen: “The press doesn’t tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.” The piece ends with a portion of the broadcast seen on Nightly News.

17:00 More from “New York Cabbie.” Demella continues: “I hate sound bytes. I hate 30 second political commercials. It makes me want to take a sledgehammer to the people hoisting it on us…I can smell a fraud from a mile away. That’s my business…When I get a passenger and they’re just too friendly, I go, ‘You got any money?'”

18:35 “Taiwan Demonstration” by Green Team. Based on the premise that different ideologies produce different coverage of the same events, we look at two broadcasts concerning protests in Taipei. The Green Team’s coverage portrays the farmers and the students as the victims of police brutality, while the government controlled report suggest that the people “totally lost their heads” and were the instigators of the violence.

22:44 “Mountain Vision “by Susan Wehling. Anne Johnson, a TV producer from Appalshop in Kentucky, comments on the importance of television as a tool in representing people who are otherwise denied a voice. We see short clips of people featured on her show, from Minnie ‘s Gourd Museum to Everett Akers (“They have taken our rights. They have taken our freedom” — on strip mining in Kentucky). Johnson says that changing the way people perceive things is the root of societal change.

26:48 “Les Brown” by Kathie Robertson. Brown, a motivational speaker, comments on TV ‘s violent nature and its ability to desensitize people. He criticizes the media for emphasizing the negative and not being committed to positive change.

28:01 “Free Speech” by Skip Blumberg. On the streets of New York City, a spokesman attracts a crowd with his advice to blacks and Latinos to avoid assimilation and support only black and Latino businesses. A white policeman tries to disperse the crowd but is denounced: “The man has a right to voice his opinions, and we have a right to listen!”

33:45 “It’s Our Pleasure To Serve You” PSA by Laurie Anderson. Satirical look at nationalist songs in which Anderson analyzes the absurdity of the lyrics of our National Anthem as well as its “B-side,” “Yankee Doodle” — “truly a surrealist masterpiece… If you can understand this song you can understand anything that happens in the art world today.”

35:33 Electronic Visualization Lab Demo. A look at the visualization of mathematical objects through the aid of computers, with Dan Sandin. At the University of Illinois at Chicago they “explore logarithms so complicated that if computed on a standard PC your grandchildren would still be waiting to see the results.”

38:07 “Japanese TV Commercial.” A chorus of singers in outrageous costumes hail the praises of a Sony CD player.

38:36 “Cuba Vision” from the Cuban television show “When I Grow Up.” A child’s fantasy profession, in this case painting, is explored and glorified. Syrupy classical music sets the tone as a child is initiated into the world of house painters.

40:22 “ASTN Sales Meeting” A satellite-delivered series broadcast to car dealers across the country, complete with a news anchor and co-hosts, dealing with issues such as “how to conduct interpersonal relationships within a sale.”

41:01 Dee Davis commentary. “Maybe we could make television a little better if we thought of it not as a way to sell things, but as a way to change people’s lives, a way to give them new enthusiasm, a way to energize them, to cure the sick and make the lame walk.”

41:24 “Deep Dish TV” by Dee Dee Halleck. Halleck fixes a pie while discussing the importance of public access television in the exercising of First Amendment rights. “It’s participating actively in communications.”

42:00 “Taiwan TV” by Green TV. From the “Green TV” station in Taiwan, a covert broadcast operation. Students are shown tossing televisions in protest of the government takeover of the media. “TV media is the tool for the public. The government now controls the media. Today we break through this monopoly with practical action.”

Main Credits:

executive producer, Tom Weinberg; producer, Joel Cohen; chief bureaucrat, John Schwartz; editor, John Grod; outreach producer, DeeDee Halleck; “Robert Demella,” “Free Speech,” and “Todd Alcott” by Skip Blumberg; “Robert Demella” by Esti Galili Marpet; “Don Cherry” by Starr Sutherland; 90’s correspondents, Nancy Cain and Appalshop; “Beat of an Urban Drum” written and directed by Leonard A. Lies; line producer, Michael D. Lies; “Taiwan Demonstration” by Green Team; “Les Brown” by Kathie Robertson; “Panama Invasion” by Barbara Trent, The Empowerment Project; primary camera, Michael Dobo; primary editor, Gary Meyer; “Albert: Computer Animation” by Mark Stephen Pierce; 90’s West, Nancy Cain, Chief, Judith Binder and Jody Proctor; production administrator, Linda Schulman; business affairs, Eric Kramer; network builder, Jonathan Cohen; video production, Tom Vlodek, Pat Creadon; production assitants, Pat Creadon, Brian Strause and Melissa Sterne; special thanks, Shu Lea Cheang, Minday Faber and Robert Feder; Voices of THE 90’s, Tony Judge

Additional Credits:

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