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[Report on Merce Cunningham and Life Forms]
- Title
- [Report on Merce Cunningham and Life Forms] [videorecording] / [presented by] WABC-TV.
- Publication
- 1992.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Use in library | *MGZIDVD 5-482 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham archive.
- Description
- 1 videodisc (NTSC) (3 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
- Series Statement
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
- Uniform Title
- ABC world news tonight (Television program)
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Television.
- Video.
- Note
- Title from original container.
- Event (note)
- Telecast on WABC-TV, May 1992.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-482
- Title
- [Report on Merce Cunningham and Life Forms] [videorecording] / [presented by] WABC-TV.
- Imprint
- 1992.
- Country of Producing Entity
- U.S.
- Series
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
- Event
- Telecast on WABC-TV, May 1992.
- Summary
- This brief report on Merce Cunningham's use of Life Forms software was broadcast on ABC World news tonight. The report includes an explanation of Life Forms, a three-dimensional human animation system, with footage of Cunningham using the software and rehearsing dancers in his company. The segment also explores the possibility of using the software to create computer generated actors, with comments from Cole Larson and director Robert Wise.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
- Local Subject
- Life Forms (Computer program)Computers -- Dance applications.
- Added Author
- Cunningham, Merce.Wise, Robert, 1914-2005, interviewee.WABC-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
- Added Title
- ABC world news tonight (Television program)
- Found In:
- Merce Cunningham archive.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-482