
Hands Across the Border
Hands Across The Border was a seven city slow scan collaboration. With participation from Paul Wong, Sharon Levett & Daryl Lacey, Video Inn, Vancouver;Randall Lyon & Gus Nelson, Televista Projects, Memphis; Sharon Grace, Video Free America, Berkeley Art Museum, U.C.; Peggy Cady, Bill Bartlett, Chas Leckie. Open Space, Victoria; Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal & Willoughby Sharp, General Idea, Toronto; Liza Bear & Robin Winters, Center for New Art Activities, NY.; et al. Slow-scan television equipment used a computerised memory to sample a picture from a television camera every few seconds, “freeze” it and send it down a telephone line as an audio signal. The machines could only be used between two points at a time. At the receiving end, the signal was decoded and slowly scanned out a still frame on a television monitor.
- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
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- Language
- EN
Release dates
CanadaCA
- Theatrical1 Jan 1978
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- When was Hands Across the Border released?
- Hands Across the Border was released on 1 January 1978.
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- Who directed Hands Across the Border?
- Hands Across the Border (1978) was directed by Paul Wong.












