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Wanted: Alternatives (1975)

Homemade TV: “Wanted: Alternatives” (1975)

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Presentation of two videos and discussion with the videographers: “I Have Relations”, which confronts feelings about placing a grandmother in a nursing home; and “I Can’t Get There from Here”, a documentation of the difficulties a wheelchair-bound person has getting around downtown.

Organization: Portable Channel

Producers: John Camelie, Margaret Putnam, and Jean Vlamnyck

EIAJ 1/2” Open Reel; B&W; Sound; 28:42

From the VSW Film/Video collection. All rights reserved.

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