Public Access: A Captivating Look at the Radical Roots of Public Television
In 1971, a media experiment was born: public access television for New York City. If you had any idea whatsoever, your chances were pretty high to be slotted into the programming schedule with essentially zero quality standards applied. David Shadrack Smith's kaleidoscopic and deeply moving documentaryPublic Access is a wildly impressive archival project that curates a wide breadth of footage from a period of public television that was especially radical in its application of free speech. Though the system still exists, it was in its nascent days that the staff of Cable Television Public Access Channel C and their hordes of creators revolutionized our understanding of how media is created and consumed.
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