Drinking & Smoking
Steve Estes
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Not offered: what its record states (its uploader's public-domain mark, or a licence not shown to be its rights holder's) leaves its US term to decide, and it is dated 1977; under US law a work of that year is free only on facts the site does not hold for it (its US renewal records, or its own country's term on 1 January 1996 for a work published abroad), and otherwise its US term runs to the end of 2072. Unclear is not offered. Open it at the Internet Archive.
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About
"Drinking & Smoking": This was shot by Steve Estes using a Portapak, reel-to-reel black & white. That was available thanks to UMBC, where Steve was a student. Steve uses a close shot to document his drinking a bottle of whisky in 17:30, smoking throughout. I think this is potentially a 'classic' of video art. Drinking & smoking were very prevalent activities amongst creative people in Baltimore when I lived there. Smoking was so prevalent at the time this video was made in 1977 that if I went to a party I was often the ONLY person there NOT smoking. As such, there's a minimalist poignancy to this as a document of what many people were doing to their bodies on a regular basis. Keep in mind that this video was shot on tape in 1977 & then transferred to VHS by me no later than 1986. While it shows some minor degradation it's not nearly as bad as tape's bad reputation might suggest. How many people have computer files that they can still play from even 20 years ago? - September 12, 2017 notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
Human-made No record of this work says a model made it. What this means.
- Archive
- Internet Archive, in The VHS Vault
- Licence or status
- CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, as the Internet Archive states it.
- Credit
- Steve Estes
- Language
- English
- Who can watch
- The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed
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