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A recent retro film night and discussion on 1970s childcare activism in London and NYC was both inspiring and frustrating. How much has really changed? Karen Hart reports
An exhibition revisiting a radically different, democratic approach to programming in the 1970s prompts Andrew Dolan to consider whether another BBC is still imaginable today
Because of that tape. all because it was caught on camera. it was on the news around the world. and when the police were acquitted, lajust exploded in riots and for, like, several days, it was like a huge reality show. it was like the world had gone sort of television. and you had the same thing with oj, when he fled down the freeway from — well, pursued by cameras and helicopters and everything. that was another kind of weirdly, mmm, life as a reality show, i suppose. and after rodney king's beating, you gave out cameras to people in south central la. mmm. was that transforming the way — ...
But to be honest, it was — that idea came from the bbc, the bbc community programme unit. jeremy gibson and robin gutch was doing a series that was very successful in the uk called video diaries and people would be given a video camera and tell their story, and when the la riots happened, and because they had happened because of this tape, this rodney king tape, randy and i thought, "well, what if we did a kind of mass "video diary exercise, where we gave cameras "to lots of different people in la to tell their stories?" so, really, it was an idea that began with it — and that actually run...
But to be honest, it was, that idea came from the bbc. the bbc community programme unit. jeremy gibson was doing a series that was very successful in the uk called video diaries. and people would be given a video camera and tell their story. and when the la riots happened, and because they had happened because of this tape, this rodney king tape, randy and i thought, well, what if we did a kind of mass video diary exercise, where we gave cameras to lots of different people in la to tell their stories? so it really was an idea that began with it. and that actually run on the bbc. it was called ...