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The World's Largest TV Studio [raw footage tape 025]

Raw footage from The World’s Largest TV Studio at the 1972 Democratic National Convention. National Women's Political Caucus press conference with Bella Abzug, Sissy Farenthold, Betty Friedan, and Gloria Steinem; and interviews with Florynce Kennedy and Margaret Sloan-Hunter

This tape consists of approximately thirty-three minutes of raw footage from the TVTV shooting of The World’s Largest TV Studio (1972) at the 1972 Democratic National Convention.

The National Women’s Political Caucus met during the 1972 Democratic National Convention and held a press conference that included Bella Abzug, Sissy Farenthold, Betty Friedan, and Gloria Steinem. After the press conference, TVTV interviewed intersectional activists Florynce Kennedy and Margaret Sloan-Hunter who discussed the challenges facing Black lesbian feminists at a moment when second-wave feminism tended to exclude the experiences of African American women and homophobia was commonplace (at the Democratic Convention that very week, the Democratic Party Platform Committee rejected a plank that would have recognized LGBT civil rights).

Margaret Sloan-Hunter: “Living the Black female experience is not an easy thing, you know. For me, my involvment in the women’s movement follows out of my involvement in the Black movement, except now I’m addressing myself to the needs of the majority of the Black nation, which are Black women.”


Here is the original TVTV tape log prepared for editing The World’s Largest TV Studio :