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 ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION  ARTS 
              GRANTS IN TELEVISION/VIDEO/FILM
 
 
 
 
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            | 1965 |  |   
            | Educational Broadcasting Corporation, 
              New York City.  Toward the costs of further developing its programs. | $ 500,000 |   
            | Opera Group, Boston. Toward the 
              creative costs of television production of an opera, in collaboration 
              with WGBH   and National Educational Television. | $ 15,000 |   
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            | 1966 |  |   
            | Educational Broadcasting Corporation, 
              New York City.  Toward the cost of producing an educational 
              series of television programs on Shakespearean drama. | $ 172,000 |   
            | Stan VanDerBeek, filmmaker, Colorado. | $ 14,500 |   
            | Stan Brakhage, filmmaker, Colorado. | $ 14,400 |   
            | Tony Conrad, filmmaker, New York 
              City. | $ 14,400 |   
            | Sheldon Renan, New York City.  
              To enable him to complete a study of the independent American filmmaker. | $ 2,270 |   
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            | 1967 |  |   
            | WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston.  
              Toward the costs of an experimental workshop on television program 
              concepts and production techniques for cultural programming | $ 275,000 |   
            | Bay Area Educational Television Association, 
              San Francisco.  Toward the costs of an experimental workshop 
              on cultural programming. | $ 150,000 |   
            | State University of New York at Stony 
              Brook, New York.  To enable Nam June Paik to serve as a consultant 
              in communications research in the Instructional Resources Center 
              of the university. | $ 13,750 |   
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            | 1968 |  |   
            | National Educational Television and 
              Radio Center, New York City.  Toward the costs of producing 
              a series of programs on regional theater in the United States | $ 200,000 |   
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            | 1969 |  |   
            | University of Alaska.  To enable 
              Dr. Charles Northrip to continue his work on behalf of the Alaska 
              Educational/Public Broadcasting Commission toward the development 
              of educational television in Alaska. | $ 24,645 |   
            | WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston.  
              Toward the costs of artists-in-residence at the Project for New 
              Television. | $ 300,000 |   
            | Duke University, Durham, NC.  
              Toward the costs of filming a series, "Dance as an Art Form," by 
              the Murray Louis Dance Company. | $ 25,000 |   
            | Connecticut College, NewLondon, 
              CT.  To enable Ward Cannel to continue exploration of the possibility 
              of creating video essays on the nature and image of man. | $ 15,000 |   
            | Film Society of Lincoln Center, New 
              York City.  Toward the costs of experimental programs in film education 
              in the schools and for the encouragement of cooperative programs 
              in all aspects of film on the part of various municipal film programs. | $ 15,000 |   
            | Richard Schickel, New York City. 
              To work on a biography of American film pioneer D.W. Griffith. | $ 7,215 |   
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            | 1971 |  |   
            | Bay Area Educational Television Association, 
              San Francisco.  For use by the National Center for Experiments 
              in Television toward the costs of developing a program to train 
              professionally oriented students in the creative and artistic uses 
              of television at selective university experimental centers, for 
              a four-year period. | $ 300,000 |   
            | Educational Broadcasting Corporation, 
              New York City. For use by the National Educational Television 
              (NET) and WNET/Thirteen toward the costs of establishing an experimental 
              television laboratory workshop. | $ 150,000 |   
            | Regional Plan Association, New 
              York City.  Toward the costs of planning and initiating the proposed 
              television town meetings, "Choices For '76." | $ 25,000 |   
            | New School for Social Research, New York City.  Toward 
                the costs of establishing, in conjunction with Global Village, 
                an experimental video workshop.                                
               | $ 14,500 |   
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            |  1972  |  |   
            | Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City.  
                For use by WNET/Thirteen toward the costs of the second phase 
                of development of its Experimental Television Laboratory, for 
                two years.  | $ 400,000 |   
            | University of Florida.  Toward the completion of Radha, 
                a film of Ruth St.Denis's dance work.                             
                                                                                        
                                         | $ 15,000 |   
            | International Film Seminars, Vermont.  To enable Willard 
                Van Dyke to research and prepare for publication of a book on 
                the history of documentary film.                              
               | $ 4,000 |   
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            | 1973 |  |   
            | Global Village Resource Video Research 
              Center, New York City.Toward a training program to develop methods 
              of using portable television as a communications resource for developing 
              countries. | $ 25,000 |   
            | Film Art Fund, New 
                York City.  Toward the costs of a film research program and activities 
                of a national committee on media services.                         
                                                     | $ 25,000 |   
            | Electronic Arts Intermix, New York City.  Toward the costs 
                of the international seminar/conference, "Open Circuits," to explore 
                the cultural potential of television.          | $ 10,000 |   
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            | 1974 |  |   
            | Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City.  
                For use by WNET/Thirteen toward the costs of the Television Laboratory.      
                                                                             | $ 340,000 |   
            | WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston.  Toward the costs 
                of the WGBH New Television Workshop.                               
                                                                                        
                             | $ 250,000 |   
            | KQED, San Francisco.  For use by the National Center for 
                Experiments in Television toward the costs of further development 
                of workshops in experimental television at selected university 
                centers. | $ 100,000 |   
            | Bay Area Educational Television Association, San Francisco.  
                For use by the National Center for Experiments in Television for 
                the research phase of a humanities television project. | $ 51,000 |   
            | Connecticut College, New London, CT. For the American 
                Dance Festival's Dance Television Workshop.                               
                                            | $ 10,000 |   
            | Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY. Toward the costs 
                of "Video and the Museum," conference and exhibition.         
                                                                   | $ 5,000 |   
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            | 1975 |  |   
            | Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City.  
                Toward the costs of further development of the Television Laboratory 
                at WNET/Thirteen.                                 | $ 162,000 |   
            | WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston.  Toward the further 
                development of the WGBH New Television Workshop.                               
                                                                             | $ 140,000 |   
            | KQED, San Francisco.  For use by the National Center for 
                Experiments in Television for the second phase of a humanities 
                television project (jointly with the Humanities program). | $ 45,000 |   
            | Cable Arts Foundation, New York City.  Toward the costs 
                of a 10-city test project leading to a demonstration of ways in 
                which arts programming can be developed for cable television audiences. 
               | $ 32,826 |   
            | Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA.  To improve 
                and further develop an editing and post-production studio to serve 
                video and television artists in the Los Angeles area | $ 30,900 |   
            | Electronic Arts Intermix, New York City.  Toward the development 
                of the Artists' Videotape Resource Project.                                    
                                                                                        
               | $ 14,165 |   
            | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.  
                To enable video artist Ron Hays to be a fellow of the Center for 
                Advanced Visual Studies.                                      
               | $ 12,500 |   
            | Electronic Arts Intermix, New York City.  Toward the costs 
                of further developing its post-production editing facility and 
                for other assistance to video artists.                             
               | $ 10,000 |   
            | Raindance Foundation, New York City.  Toward the costs 
                of creative programming and for Volume III of Radical Software.        
                                                                                        | $ 7,400 |   
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            | 1976 |  |   
            | Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City- Toward 
                the costs of further development of the Television Laboratory 
                at WNET/Thirteen.                                  | $ 200,000 |   
            | WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston.  Toward the further 
                development of the WGBH New Television Workshop.                               
                                                                             | $ 182,000 |   
            | WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston. To enable video artists 
                to collaborate on the project "Collisions."                             
                                                                                        
                         | $ 35,000 |   
            | Don Forests, video artist, Kenmore, NY. To enable him to 
                develop cultural programming on foreign cultures for the Visa 
                series.                                                       
                             | $ 35,000 |   
            | Daniel Del Solar, Brooks Johnson, Judith Williams, San 
                Francisco. Toward the costs of a feasibility study of Bay Area 
                video needs.                                                     
                            | $ 30,000 |   
            | West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Authority, Charleston, 
                WV. To be used by WMUL toward the development of a pilot program 
                on the musical culture of the upper southeastern and mountain 
                states | $ 25,000 |   
            | Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri.  To support a video 
                curriculum development project.                                    
                                                                                        
                                         | $ 24,500 |   
            | Global Village Video Resource Center, Inc., New York City.Toward 
                the costs of the Ten Cities Public Television Workshop in videocassette 
                systems | $ 20,000 |   
            | Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City.  
                To enable Ed Emshwiller to be an artist-in-residence at the Television 
                Laboratory                                                       
               | $ 18,000 |   
            | Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City.  
                To enable Nam June Paik to be an artist-in-residence at the Television 
                Laboratory.                                                      
               | $ 17,000 |   
            | Film Art Fund, New York City. Toward the support of the 
                video program of Anthology Film Archives. | $ 16,000 |   
            | David Dowe, Jerry Hunt, Dallas. Toward the costs of developing 
                a Texas Experimental Television Network.                                 
                                                                                        
               | $ 14,000 |   
            | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Toward 
                the costs of expanding its film exhibition program to include 
                the works of video artists.               | $ 13,900 |   
            | Research Foundation of the State University of New York, Albany, 
                NY.  To undertake a feasibility study of the potential of the 
                state university system to produce creative programming for television 
                in the arts   | $ 11,500 |   
            | Cunningham Dance Foundation, New York City. Toward the 
                costs of a video dance project.                                    
                                                                                        
                                         | $ 10,000 |   
            | Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Toward the costs 
                of developing a Texas Experimental Television Network.         
                                                                                        
               | $ 6,000 |   
            | Stephen Beck, video artist, Berkeley, CA. To enable him 
                to acquire equipment to continue his work in video.                         
                                                                                        
               | $ 4,000 |   
            | Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, Solomon Islands.  
                For the documentation of the Cultural Workshop of Melanasia.        
                                                                                        | $ 3,000 |   
            | Bill Viola, video artist.  For the recording and documentation 
                ofthe Cultural Workshop of Melanasia.  | $ 850 |   
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            | 1977 |  |   
            | Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City.  
                For use by the Television Laboratory at WNET/Thirteen toward the 
                costs of two programs for the Visa series                        
                                                                 | $ 65,900 |   
            | Russell Connor, New York City. For the development of 
                two video projects for the Visa series.                               
                                                  | $ 35,000 |   
            | Bill Viola, video artist, New York City. For the development 
                of a video project for the Visa series.                                      
                                            | $ 35,000 |   
            | Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco.  Toward the costs 
                of a pilot program for independent video artists/producers in 
                the San Francisco Bay Area.                            | $ 35,000 |   
            | Cable Arts Foundation, New York City. Toward the costs 
                of developing an editing and post-production facility.             
                                                                                        
                             | $ 34,000 |   
            | Nam June Paik, video artist, New York City.                                
                                         | $ 27,000 |   
            | Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri. To support a Video 
                Curriculum Development Project.                                                  
                                                                                
                                                                 | $ 25,000 |   
            | Electronic Arts Intermix, New York City. Toward the costs 
                of further developing its post-production and editing facility.                   
                                                                                
                                 | $ 23,000 |   
            | Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Toward the costs 
                of expanding its video program.                                     
                                                                                
                                                                                
               | $ 20,000 |   
            | Washington Community Video Center, Washington, DC. For 
                Televisions magazine.                                              
                                                                                
                                                                                
                              | $ 18,000 |   
            | Cable Arts Foundation, New York City. Toward the costs 
                of final editing of Visa projects.                                        
                                                                                
                                                                                
               | $ 18,000 |   
            | Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City. For 
                use by the Television Laboratory for fellowship assistance for 
                a writer-in-residence.                                              
               | $ 18,000 |   
            | Doug Michels, video artist, San Francisco. Toward the 
                documentation of Ant Farm's Dolphin Embassy expedition.            
                                                                                
                                                                                
               | $ 15,000 |   
            | WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston. To enable Charles 
                Johnson to be an artist-in-residence at the Now Television Workshop.            
                                                                                
                                 | $ 15,000 |   
            | Robert and Ingrid Wiegand, video artists. For filming 
                family life and culture in India for the Visa series-                    
                                                                                
                                                                                
               | $ 13,500 |   
            | Mary Ellen Bute, filmmaker, New 
              York City. To enable her to work on a film project concerned with 
              Walt Whitman. | $ 10,000 |  |