Video Work: Documentation of "Opening Day at La MaMa" airing on NET Playhouse (1969)
Audio/Visual
This digitized version of two VHS tapes contains a 1969 episode of NET Playhouse on La MaMa. The main part of the program is a repeat of the earlier episode, "3 From La MaMa" (or "La MaMa Playwrights"), which presented Jean-Claude van Itallie's Pavane, Sam Shepard's Fourteen Hundred Thousand, and Paul Foster's The Recluse in special television stagings by Tom O'Horgan and Don Hallock. The added material is documentation shot by NET of the April 2, 1969 opening of La MaMa's theater at 74A East 4th Street, and interviews on that day with Ellen Stewart, Paul Foster, and Jean-Claude van Itallie. Stewart discusses the history of La MaMa, and the specific challenges still ahead on that day, between shooting the interview and hopefully opening a show that evening.
This video has been digitized and is available for viewing upon request.
This video has been digitized and is available for viewing upon request.
NET Playhouse screenshot
1966
Date created: 1969
Date created: 1969
English
OBJ.1969.0527
VHS, Mp4
Fuji and Ampex VHS tape
2 videocassettes
1 digital file
1 digital file
Ellen Stewart (depicts), Robert Patrick (depicts), Tom O'Horgan (director), Sam Shepard (playwright), Jean-Claude van Itallie (playwright)
In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
© 1966 National Educational Television and Radio Center. All Rights Reserved.
Copyrighted
Copyright filing #V3444D927 shows that the rights to the 1966/67 episode underlying this episode were transferred to Broadway Theatre Archive, Inc. in 1999. The rights to this version, and to distribute all of the underlying elements (performances, dialogue, etc.) are not clear to me. - MHG