NYE On VHS: Through the Lens of CCTV’s Community Media Archive
Producer
Description
Take a walk down NYE memory lane with CCTV archival footage of New Year’s past on view in a multi-TV installation in the lobby of City Hall. Relive years of circus acts, song and dance, drums and dragons with parade from 1984, community performances through the 80’s and 90’s, and the Millenium celebration of 1999-2000! See the streets of Burlington through the ages via the lens of CCTV founder, ubiquitous media maker, and meticulous archivist, Nat Ayer as well as other community media makers. Pennington Production’s, Myles David Jewell presents a multi-TV installation of VHS archival recordings in collaboration with CCTV archivist Jordan Mitchell, CCTV Director of Projects Meghan O’Rourke, and CCTV technical magician, Luna Zeitlyn. Explore your community media archive through interviews with founders Lauren-Glenn Davitian and Nat Ayer. Take a virtual tour of the archives and learn how you can not only watch TV but make TV!Programs in this Series
First Night Parade
shot by Nat Ayer
12/31/1984
Tape #35 (R8)
First Night Performances, Face Painting, Parade, Fireworks
shot by Nat Ayer
12/31/1986
Tape #151 & 298
Spencer Lewis and Uman Performance
12/31/1989
Tape #747
Storytelling, Music, Drumming, Ballet
12/31/1991
Tape #1302 & 1303
Class Act, Press Conference (excerpts)
11/25/1996
Tape #3190
Millennium Sculpture, Puppets, Performances, Horse Rides, Drumming
12/31/1999
Tape #4192 & 4275
Character Sketch of Nat Ayer and the Archive
12/31/2022
Featuring Lauren-Glenn Davitian, Jordan Mitchell and others
Excerpts from CCTV Remembers Nat Ayer (1949-2022)
Community Membres Interact with Archive
City Hall Lobby
Burlington, Vermont
12/31/2022
Featured Story
CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives
CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!