A new documentary profiles the late 1960s/early 1970s work of the Videofreex, a collective of journalists, filmmakers and actors based in New York. Unlike today's iPhones (which fit in your pocket and shoot HD-broadcast quality video), the Videofreex used large, cumbersome reel-to-reel video machines (known as EIAJ format), which were black-and-white, low resolution, cost thousands of dollars, and were obviously far less technologically advanced than what we have today. Plus, EIAJ could only make calls within your area code (kidding).
Here's an older documentary of their work:
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