Alternative Views (1978)

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United States

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The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is a public access cable TV series that ran from 1978, airing news and interviews from a progressive point of view. Two hosts produced hundreds of hour long episodes with very little money and created a way to share the show across many cities.

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What happens

Alternative Views was one of the longest running public-access cable TV programs in the United States. Produced in Austin, Texas in 1978, it produced 563 hour-long programs featuring news, interviews and opinion pieces from a progressive political perspective. Show founders and on-air hosts, Douglas Kellner and Frank Morrow, produced the show on virtually no budget using facilities at Austin Community Television (ACTV) and the University of Texas at Austin. They also pioneered an innovative syndication system that placed the program in almost 80 television markets around the country. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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