The thinker [videorecording] / writer-director-designer, Max Almy ; producer-animator, Teri Yarbrow ; [music by] Gregory Jones ; [edited by] Gary Brasher ; [computer animation by] Alison Connolly. [1989]

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The thinker [videorecording] / writer-director-designer, Max Almy ; producer-animator, Teri Yarbrow ; [music by] Gregory Jones ; [edited by] Gary Brasher ; [computer animation by] Alison Connolly. [1989]

The evolution of man from ape to yuppie is satirically visualized using 3-D animation, paint box images, and digital compositions while a narrator provides play-by-play commentary in the style of a sportscaster.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (7 min.) : ; 3/4 in. original.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8325059

Getty Research Institute

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Brasher, Gary,

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Long Beach museum of art

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The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) was among the first to focus on video as an artistic medium, spurring similar efforts throughout the United States. Beginning in 1974 the museum began collecting and exhibiting video art, later also actively encouraging the development of video art by co-producing projects and offering editing facilities to artists in its Video Annex. The museum's innovative approaches to the display of video art included several experiments with broadcast and cable television...

Jones, Gregory, 1955-2004

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Yarbrow, Teri

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Almy, Max, 1948-

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Connolly, Alison,

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