Richard Brick and Geri Ashur collection, 1968-2014, bulk 1975-2005

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Series VIII: Audio-Visual, 1970-2014

Series consists of films, sound, and video recordings of productions that Richard Brick and Geri Ashur worked on during their career, dating from 1970 to 2014. The bulk of the audiovisual recordings in the collection are on film reels and sound reels, other formats include videotapes, VHS, DVDs, BetaMax, and external hard drive.


Geri Ashur, 1974-2012



Box 26 Third World News Reel: Janie's Janie, 2012 February 7, 1 videocassettes (Betamax)

24:28. Media type: Sony BCT-D32 32 Minute Digital Betacam Video Cassette.



Box 30 State Street, A Celebration, directed by Peter Schlaifer, 1968, 1 film reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.

Item is a duplicate and was not digitized.



Box 26 Geri Ashur and Linda Feferman, Reel 1 of 3, 1974 March 5, 1 Reels

Original. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 Geri Ashur and Linda Feferman, Reel 2 of 3, 1974 March 5, 1 Reels

Original. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 Geri Ashur and Linda Feferman, Reel 3 of 3, 1974 March 5, 1 Reels

Original. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 Protools Session, Elizabeth Cotten, undated, 1 DVDs

Media type: DVD-R.


Box 26 Elizabeth Cotton, Sound Roll 1 and Geri Ashur Camera Roll 1, 1977 September 12, 1 Reels

Taj Majals opening 5 mins. S.F. Gassers. 8DB ref tone. Sync takes 1+2. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 Elizabeth Cotton, Sound Roll 2 and Geri Ashur Camera Roll 2, 1977 September 12, 1 Reels

S.F. Gassers. 8DB ref tone. Sync takes 3-7. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.



Box 39 Libba Cotten, by Geri Ashur, 1976 January 27, 2 film reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel. 3 of 4. Rolls 21-22



Box 36 Taj Mahal introducing Elizabeth Cotten Film, by Geri Ashur, undated, 2 film reels

Vinegar syndrome. Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.



Box 31 Me and Stella, produced and directed by Geri Ashur, undated, 1 film reels

Item missing 2022.

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.



Box 39 Me and Stella, 1979 April 25, 2 film reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel. Also with slip marked 1985 November 24. Color Neg. + track



Box 38 Me and Stella, A film about Elizabeth Cotten, undated, 1 film reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.



Box 34 Me and Stella, undated, 2 Reels

Media type: Videocassette.



Box 28 Me and Stella, 1981 January 22, 1 film reels

Content Summary: Phoenix, 1/4" Master, no sync 15 ips. Media type: magnetic film reel.



Box 29 When Women Kill, July 26, 1 Reels

Joseph Feury Productions, directed by Lee Grant, edited by Geri Ashur. Media type: Videocassette.



Box 33 From the Life of the Marionettes, undated, 3 film reels

These are short batches of English-language titles and credits shot for the Ingmar Bergman film "From the Life of the Marionettes".

Edited by Geri Ashur. Media type: 35mm magnetic film reel, with loose film cut


Richard Brick, 1970-2014



Box 26 Richard Brick's Obsession: Columbia University 1989, 2014 April 03, 1 DVDs

Master (Bump-up from VHS format). TRT: 50 sec. DVD-R. Duart Film and Video, Inc. Media type: DVD-R.


Box 26 Richard Brick's Obsession: Columbia University 1989, undated, 1 videocassettes (Betamax)

TRT: 0:52. 525i 29.97. NTSC. Media type: Sony BCT-D6 Six Minute Digital Betacam Video Cassette.


Box 26 Dancin', 1978, 1 film reels

Media type: Super 16mm.


Box 26 Pippin, 1977, 4 film reels

Media type: Super 16mm.

Some items were not digitized: Duplicates.


Box 26 2X Pippin/1X Dancing, 2009 April 15, 1 videocassettes (Betamax)

16mm color prints. Length: 1:00 each. The Brick Company Inc. Film Transfer. Media type: Sony BCT-D6 Six Minute Digital Betacam Video Cassette.


Box 26 2X Pippin/1X Dancing, 2009 April 16, 1 videocassettes (Betamax)

16mm color prints. Length: 1:00 each. The Brick Company Inc. DVNR. Media type: Maxell Digital Betacam Video Cassette.


Box 26 Pippin (2x), Dancing (1x), 2009 April 22, 1 videocassettes (Betamax)

MTI Dustbusted version. TRT 1:00 each. NDF TC/LTC/VITC/NTSC. Media type: Maxell Digital Betacam Video Cassette.


Box 26 Jim Clifford, 1971 December 5, 1 Reels

Content Summary: Scratch track for "House Movie" (non-synchronous). Guitar: 6 strings. Several possibilities for movie. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 Van Dije's Barn, Tunbridge and Robert Mortier Vibrahard, 1973 August 11, 1 Reels

Richard Brick, recordist. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 "Kotch" and interviews, undated, 1 Reels

Content Summary: "Kotch" spots for ABC Pictures. Interviews recorded outside Radio City Music Hall by Richard Brick. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 Mirra's Dream, with Richard Brick, 1971 March 14, 1 Reels

Lady in red [and the wild bulls?]. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 Suzanne Opton-her flat, 1971 May, 1 Reels

Content Summary: Suzanne Opton-her flat; 408 Sanchez-San Francisco; "Notes on a Nagara IV lesson"; continued later with Suzanne while camping in Mendocino county on beach. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 Rubin at Rutgers, undated, 1 Reels

From Peter Davis' original. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 Koby-Campbell "Dybbuk" music, undated, 1 Reels

Content Summary: Several takes. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 Hoffman, Reel 1 of 2, undated, 1 Reels

Content Summary: A. Hoffman- radio interview: Columbia radio (comparison between importance of conspiracy trial and panthers trial); Comment on ransom-bail system, violence and its justification; The myth of the "innocent bystander"; Racism exposed blatancy in 90% black cook county jail. Transferred. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 Hoffman, Reel 2 of 2, undated, 1 Reels

Content Summary: 1. First five radio show Hoffman (role of television publicity, tree in Israel, Goldman raps with Abbe); 2. Last 10 min are interview with A. Hoffman (J. Hoffman a front man for the wasp elite? Judge handpicked by conspiracy); 3. Some [ameaf] sync (~3 min, "Jewdicial", Anti-semitic Jewish judge); Biblical reference to hair cutting in jail and selling conspiracy hair at fund raising dinners; Rosenberg's Jewish Judge's Rauffman [os] conspiracy's Jewish judge Hoffman. 2 and 3 transferred. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 Columbia University, Jerry Lefcourt, William Kunstler, Roll #1, 1970 May 5, 1 Reels

Content Summary: Jerry Lefcourt, William Kunstler; McMillan auditorium; 1. Kent State, 2. unknown, 3. third world; Conspiracy and the Dybbuk. Transferred. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 Kunstler, Roll #2, undated, 1 Reels

Transferred. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 #1 Kunstler, undated, 1 Reels

Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 #2 Panther Rally, tape reel #5, undated, 1 Reels

Content Summary: Afeni Shakor, big man len, weinglass. Transferred. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 #3 Panther Rally, 1970 April 4, 1 Reels

Transferred. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 #5 Question and answer, undated, 1 Reels

Content Summary: 1. niff about blowing up British courthouses in Palestine 20 years ago; 2. Niff about Melai 4, the system, the judicial system, people dying in streets. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 #7 Question and answer; Kunstler, undated, 1 Reels

Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.


Box 26 New American Cinema Showcase Trailer, 1981 June 11, 1 Reels

Stereo Sync, 60Hz, half track stereo. Media type: 15 ips magnetic recording tape.

Items were not digitized: Duplicate.



Box 29 New American Cinema Showcase Trailer, 1981 June 11, 1 film reels

Media type: magnetic film reel.



Box 27 Unidentified, Reel 1-12, undated, 12 Reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic recording tape.



Box 40 Unidentified, Reel 13, undated, 1 Reels

Vinegar syndrome. Media type: 16mm magnetic recording tape.



Box 27 Beep workshop: practice tape, 1st composition, 1974 May 24, 1 Reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic recording tape.



Box 26 Eric Weissberg: scratch track, 1971 December 24, 1 Reels

Content Summary: Eric Weissberg-Banjo; Scratch track for the House Construction Home Movie; Banjo music cutting room, recorded at 1003k-1600 B'way. Media type: 7 1/2 ips magnetic recording tape.



Box 27 Eric Weissberg for the House Construction Home Movie, Reel 1 of 3, undated, 1 Reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic recording tape.


Box 27 Eric Weissberg for the House Construction Home Movie, Reel 2 of 3, undated, 1 Reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic recording tape.


Box 27 Eric Weissberg for the House Construction Home Movie, Reel 3 of 3, undated, 1 Reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic recording tape.


Box 27 Sound reels 30, 31, 33 Audition Track, undated, 1 Reels

7.5 ips copy. Media type: 16mm magnetic recording tape.


Box 27 Mrs. Dorothea Strauss and Bruce Davidson, undated, 1 Reels

Content Summary: 1. Mrs. Dorothea Strauss, I.B. Singer's translator and the wife of his publisher (copy 3.75 ips tails out); 2. Bruce Davidson running through the script verbally-scene by scene account. Quality very poor, track 2 is slightly better. Media type: 16mm magnetic recording tape.


Box 27 Unidentified, Copy A-part-1, undated, 1 Reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic recording tape.


Box 27 Unidentified, Copy A-part-2, undated, 1 Reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic recording tape.


Box 27 Life after Life, 1977 June 10, 1 Reels

Content Summary: Camera roll #9, sound roll #3, Lori Moore being interviewed (cassette made). Media type: 16mm magnetic recording tape.


Box 27 Life after Life, 1977 June 13, 1 Reels

Content Summary: Kathy Hayward, Camera Roll #38, 37; sound roll #9 takes 6 and 7 (cassette made). Media type: 16mm magnetic recording tape.



Box 28 The Repeater, 1971, 1 film reels

Media type: magnetic film reel.


Box 28 M. Riesman, Piano and AFI trailer for Independent Feature Project (IFP), 1981 June 10, 1 Reels

Media type: magnetic audio tape.


Box 28 Silo Cinema, Richard Brick, Consuelo Arosteoui, undated, 1 Reels

Identical program on track A and B. Media type: magnetic audio tape.



Box 29 Mahdekab, A Dance by Leslie Berg, Filmed at Bennington College, 1969 June 2, 1 film reels

Content Summary: Produced by Richard Brick, directed by Leslie Berg, edited by Norman Bloom, first camera by Richard Brick, second camera by Norman Bloom. Media type: magnetic film reel.



Box 37 Part of the Family, produced and directed by Paul Ronder, 1971, 3 film reels

Part 1-3. Include synopsis and credits. Vinegar syndrome



Box 34 Unidentified, undated, 1 videotapes

Media type: Videocassette.



Box 28 Last Stand Farmer by Richard Brick, 1975 March 12, 1 Reels

Content Summary: 1/4" protection copy sound track. Media type: magnetic audio tape. Portable hard drive uploaded. Please contact RBML for access.



Box 26 Last Stand Farmer WS, undated

Media type: External Hard Drive. 67.5 Gigabytes.


Box 26 Last Stand Farmer, 2006 June 08, 1 film reels

HD Film Transfer 1080 23.98PSF. Length: 25:31. LTC/VITC. Silo Cinema. Clone. Media type: Maxell D5C33M, XD 1/2" Digital.



Box 29 Last Stand Farmer, undated, 1 film reels

Content Summary: 25:00, Phoenix films. Media type: magnetic film reel.


Box 29 Last Stand Farmer, 2006 April 13, 1 film reels

Color internegative. Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.


Box 29 Last Stand Farmer, 1987 November 6, 2 film reels

16mm A/INEG and 16mm A/OPT TRK. Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.



Box 34 Last Stand Farmer, 1975, 6 videotapes

By Richard Brick. 25 minutes, also available in 16mm color/sound film. Copyright, Silo Cinema Inc. Media type: Videocassette.



Box 26 Last Stand Farmer, 1975, 1 DVDs



Box 29 Peter Jennings Reporting, The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy, 2003 November 20, 1 videotapes

Pulled up black version. Media type: Videocassette.



Box 40 Conspiracy and the Dybbuk, 1992 July, 2 film reels

Content Summary: Canyon Cinema. Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.

Items were not digitized: Duplicates.



Box 36 Conspiracy and the Dybbuk, 1986 June 11, 1 film reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.

Items were not digitized: Duplicates.


Box 36 Conspiracy and the Dybbuk, 1977 February 5, 1 film reels

16mm B/W. B/wind Original Rev. A and B RLS and B/wind positive trk. Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.


Box 36 Conspiracy and the Dybbuk, 1971 March 8, 1 film reels

Vinegar syndrome. 16mm B Positive. Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.

Items were not digitized: Duplicates.



Box 27 Visitor with God, take 1, 1980 April 28, 1 Reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic recording tape.



Box 28 Visits with God, 1980 April 28, 1 film reels

Media type: magnetic film reel.



Box 29 Visits with God: two first hand accounts of near death experiences, 1980, 1 videotapes

Media type: Videocassette.



Box 30 Visits with God, 1980 May 6, 2 film reels

16mm A: B Original Negative. Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.


Box 30 Visits with God, 1980 May 1, 1 film reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.

Items were not digitized: Picture element merged.



Box 31 Visits with God: two first hand accounts of near death experiences, undated, 1 film reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.


Box 31 Visits with God #1, undated, 1 film reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.


Box 31 Visits with God #3, undated, 1 film reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.


Box 31 Visits with God #5, undated, 1 film reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.



Box 33 Visits with God, 1980 May 21, 2 film reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel. CRI A wind track

Items were not digitized: Duplicates.



Box 28 House Construction Home Movie, undated, 1 film reels

Content Summary: 11:57, first and only cut on master. Media type: 1'' video


Box 28 State Street, A Celebration, directed by Peter Schlaifer, 1968, 1 film reels

Media type: magnetic film reel.



Box 31 House Construction Home Movie, black and white, 1974 October 9, 1 film reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.


Box 31 House Construction Home Movie, undated, 1 film reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.



Box 32 House Construction Home Movie, undated, 1 film reels

Content Summary: TM40-101, 11 minutes color. Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.


Box 32 House Construction Home Movie, undated, 1 film reels

Content Summary: TM40-102, 11 minutes color. Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.


Box 32 House Construction Home Movie, undated, 1 film reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.


Box 32 House Construction Home Movie, 1986 February, 1 film reels

Canyon Cinema. Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.


Box 32 House Construction Home Movie, 1987 October, 1 film reels

Canyon Cinema. Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.


Box 32 House Construction Home Movie, undated, 1 film reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.


Box 32 House Construction Home Movie, print copy for broadcast with "Marjorie's Quest", 1984 November 20 and 23, 1 film reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.



Box 36 House Construction Home Movie, 1972 April 19, 1 film reels

Heartbreak. 16mm PIC and TRK. Media type: 35mm magnetic film reel.

Items were not digitized: Duplicates.



Box 38 Conspiracy and the Dybbuk, undated, 1 film reels

1st answer print off interpositive. Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.



Box 34 House Construction Home Movie, undated, 3 videotapes

Length: 11:57. Media type: Videocassette.



Box 36 Fosse, Roll T-1, undated, 1 film reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.



Box 41 Kenneth, 2 of 2, 1975 February 11, 6 film reels

Horses in Snow (1 reel?). Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel. Vinegar Syndrome



Box 40 Footage shot for Last Stand Farmer, 1 of 2, January 19, 8 film reels

Media type: 16mm magnetic film reel.

Contain footage of killing and butchering pigs on a farm.


Box 40 Kenneth, 2 of 2, undated, 6 film reels

Media type: 16mm film reel.

The digital files were not kept because they are not relevant to the collection:

-15-minute excerpt of "Oliver!", the musical from 1968. Doesn't seem relevant to collection

-15-minute long JC Penney promotional film

-"The Dehumanizing City... and Hymie Schultz" (1967)

-a promotional film for a tennis tournament



Box 34 Camera Shy, 1986 November 19, 1 videotapes

Produced by Richard Brick. Directed by Mark Obenhaus. Written by David Feuer, MD. Length: 5:01. Media type: Videocassette.


Box 34 Camera Shy, 1986 November 21, 1 videotapes

Delivered to Saturday Night Live. Produced by Richard Brick. Directed by Mark Obenhaus. Written by David Feuer, MD. Length: 5:01. Media type: Videocassette.



Box 26 Camera Shy, 1986, 2009, 1 DVDs

Master. TRT: 5:11. Copyrighted by Obenhaus Films Inc. Media type: DVD-R.


Box 26 Camera Shy, 2009 February 12, 1 videocassettes (Betamax)

Bump-up from 3/4" format. Length: 4:59. NDFTC LTC/VITC, un-color corrected. Media type: Maxell Digital Betacam Video Cassette.


Box 26 Camera Shy, 2009 April 8, 1 videocassettes (Betamax)

Color corrected edit/master. Length: 5:11. NDFTC LTC/VITC. Silo Cinema. Media type: Maxell Digital Betacam Video Cassette.



Box 35 Folder 1-26 Texas Picture, record sheets for roll 1-26, 1983 September 26-December 10


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 1, Day 1-3, 1983 September 26-28, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 2, Day 4-6, 1983 September 29-October 1, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 3, Day 6-8, 1983 October 1-4, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 4, Day 8-11, 1983 October 4-7, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 5, Day 11-13, 1983 October 7-10, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 6, Day 13-16, 1983 October 10-13, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 7, Day 16-18, 1983 October 13-15, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 8, Day 19-21, 1983 October 17-19, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 9, Day 22-23, 1983 October 20-21, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 10, Day 24-26, 1983 October 22-25, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 11, Day 27-28, 1983 October 26-27, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 12, Day 29-30, 1983 October 28-29, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 13, Day 31-34, 1983 October 31-November 2, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 14, Day 34-36, 1983 November 3-5, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 15, Day 37-40, 1983 November 7-10, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 16, Day 41-44, 1983 November 11-15, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 17, Day 44-46, 1983 November 15-17, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 18, Day 46-49, 1983 November 17-21, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 19, Day 49-52, 1983 November 21-25, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 20, Day 52-54, 1983 November 25-28, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 21, Day 55-56, 1983 November 29-30, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 22, Day 57-59, 1983 December 1-3, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 23, Day 59-61, 1983 December 3-6, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 24, Day 62-63, 1983 December 7-8, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 25, Day 63-64, 1983 December 8-9, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.


Box 35 Texas Picture, Roll 26, Day 65, 1983 December 10, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Media type: Videocassette.