Channel 40
Milton Keynes's community cable-TV station — Channel 40 — broke new ground in the latter half of the 1970s as, effectively, the YouTube of its day in that it facilitated the creation of video programming by members of the local community. With low cost, portable video (the Sony 1/2″ Video Rover — or Portapak) starting to become available, coupled with frame-accurate Sony 3/4″ U-Matic video-cassette editing now possible, Channel 40 proved that citizen’s television was possible.
Unfortunately, its finite funding came to an end and the project closed on 31st July 1979.
Channel 40 Shooting
Document
1976
-1979
Things that Mother Never Told Us
Video
1977
An Elastoplast Tin of Diamonds
Video
1979
Esther's Farm
Video
1977
Channel 40 Shooting 2
Document
1976
-1979
How to Run a Meeting
Video
1978
Shooting: Things That Mother Never Told Us
Document
1977
Editing for Things that Mother Never Told Us
Document
1970
Carry Gorney
Interview
2016