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Video Communication Unit Date: 07/20/76 | Running Time: 32 min. Add Video Communication Unit to playlist Nominate this video My Clip Video Editor Bookmark/episode description Save

A video document of the Ant Farm's tour of Australia. It begins with a strange video letter from Doug Michels and includes several appearances on Australian television shows, including some outrageous behavior. 0:00 Color bars. 0:45 "Dear Tom, This video letter is being transmitted to you today live from Honolulu, Hawaii. Ahloaha [sic] . Switch your TV to talking head. Score" 3:17 Doug Michels presses on TV screen trying to see Chicago and talk to Tom. Workers try to get teleportation chamber to work right. 5:00 Title: Interspecies Communication: Dolphin Embassy Press Conference. 6:16 Doug Michels and Doug Hurr hold a press conference about their plans for a dolphin embassy, using video feedback to develop a "soft edged" communication system with dolphins. 13:18 Please Stand by for World Television Part I: The Artistic Kangaroo (played by Curtis Schreier). 14:00 Keep Australia Beautiful commercial. 14:30 Australian newscaster gives report about Ant Farm in Australia. 14:50 Australian reporter talks about Ant Farm's philosophy, and is cut off. 15:21 Talk show host introduces Ant Farm to the show. He asks about Cadillac Ranch. 16:05 Doug Michels corrects the interviewer, saying that the events staged by Ant Farm are "Media Events," not "Happenings." 16:15 Doug Hurr member describes "surveillance pet." Curtis Schreier dressed as Kangaroo sits quietly. Doug Michels explains the meaning of the kangaroo, saying, "The image is the content, and "It's hard to tell when he does something." 17:49 Host signs off and kangaroo-member hops away. 18:32 Advertisement for Player's No.6 cigarettes. 19:30 "The Mike Walsh Show." He introduces Ant Farm guests. 20:39 Doug Michels shows hats designed by Ant Farm, made from petrochemical byproducts, so they continually change colors. 21:49 Schreier introduces technological pet, Ajax, and host signs off. 23:20 Commercial for Holeproof Underdaks. 23:47 "Eleven AM" show. Host introduces Ant Farm. Host is wearing one of the Ant Farm hats. 24:30 Michels and Hurr introduce the kangaroo, talk about "stacking the audience with 1000 laughing hyenas," show the children's toy Uncle Milton's Ant Farm. 26:02 Commercial for HMV. 26:46 Ant Farm presents "Ned Telly and the Golden Spanner," "the future primitive image outlaw" with a "golden spanner of deconstruction." A media event in one act. 27:45 Michels explains Ant Farm's reasons for "deconstructing" an important Australian Bridge. "It will be a great way for you Australians to ease in to the post-industrial era." 28:35 Michels says that future of energy based on nuclear power and other dangerous sources is "a laughing death mask." Ant Farm represents a philosophy of continuation of life on Earth in a better way. 29:23 Michels: "We're just artists. We're just artists reflecting our times." Bridge seems to fall. 29:48 "Time Magazine" commercial. Opinion poll on Carter's chances of beating Ford. 30:10 Doug Michels pressing up on screen trying to talk to Tom, saying "Aloha" a few more times. 31:26 End. Main Credits: produced by Doug Michels and Ant Farm Additional Credits: no related documents List of comments You need to be registered user to post comments. Please login or register. Click here to login Your Clips This feature is available only in Clipstream version.