Summary

04:34 Show id with Joe Cummings. 04:46 Marc Canter from Macromind Inc. discusses the future of computer technology and makes some predictions for that technology in the 1990's. His predictions include how computer technology will change the entertainment industry (streaming TV shows as an example), and the merger between video games and other forms of entertainment. 15:50 ""Brazilian TV"" by Wendy Appel and Alan Barker. Brazilian actress Christine Nazareth gives us the inside scoop on Brazilian TV: the stars, the most popular programs, and the politics. 20:14 ""Ian Mitroff."" Professor/author Ian Mitroff talks about TV: ""TV has become a self-sealing universe... a culture. There's too much garbage on TV but you can't turn it off... how do you turn off a culture?"" 25:23 1989 CLIO Award-Winning Commercial. A PSA that urges people to watch television ""sensibly."" 26:21 Maureen Moore, an advertising executive, talks about TV advertising: ""The commercial industry is moving away from salesmanship to entertainment... we have to make people want to watch commercials..."" 27:43 1989 CLIO Award-Winning Commercial for Nike shoes. 40:39 ""Microphone Technique"" by Richard D. Rosen. A humorous look at a seasoned TV reporter's relationship with his microphone. ""He knows it's a valuable prop... an implement of journalistic power..."" 43:19 ""Attack of the Flying Logos"" by Gregory MacNicol. A parody of television's overuse of its ""bells and whistles."" It will ""dazzle, blind and astound you with millions and millions of pixels..."" 48:32 Albert Einstein graphic gives statistics on home video viewing in the '80s. 49:01 Kim Long, a forecaster, is concerned with the recent popularity of camcorders, citing the fact that a Denver man was arrested for taking pictures up women's dresses. ""You wonder how much of this is going on and when it will stop."" 49:53 ""Motor Sports Unlimited: Part 127."" A clip from an actual cable TV program featuring scantily-clad shapely women interviewing fully clad men about their radio-controlled miniature racing boats. 50:53 ""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."" 51:46 ""Deep Dish TV"" by Dee Dee Halleck. While preparing a pie, Halleck states that public access TV is a real way to exercise our First Amendment rights. 52:29 More from Marc Canter. More prophetic words on the future of TV and how it will change because of computer and digital technology. 53:30 1989 CLIO Award-Winning Commercial for the Tate Gallery in Liverpool, G.B. 56:19 Tom Palazzolo, a Chicago-based filmmaker, believes that ""video is ugly... the color is flat. Film is better."" He smashes some TVs.