In this footage from 1984, JoAnn Elam films a television playing the popular comedy National Lampoon’s Vacation (Harold Ramis, 1983) with Chevy Chase. The image alternates between normal and inverted, with Elam perhaps playing with familiarity of the images on TV. As other elements in this collection show, Elam was interested in popular representation of labor, gender, and race, and this footage might be connected to these issues.
84 TV
84 TV
Video:
Collection:
Elam Subseries I: Films
Date:
1984
Original Format:
8mm
Color:
Color
Sound:
Silent
Duration:
0h 4m 28s
Abstract:
In this footage from 1984, JoAnn Elam films a television playing the popular comedy National Lampoon's Vacation (Harold Ramis, 1983) with Chevy Chase. The image alternates between normal and inverted, with Elam perhaps playing with familiarity of the images on TV. As other elements in this collection show, Elam was interested in popular representation of labor, gender, and race, and this footage might be connected to these issues.
Genre:
Short
Subject(s):
Source:
http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/7828
Repository:
Chicago Film Archive