Fales Library and Special Collections Audio/Video Collection
Call Number
Date
Creator
Extent
Language of Materials
Arrangement
The collection is organized into four series by format and arranged alphabetically by title. The dates used are the items' copyright years.
Scope and Content
This collection contains primarily commerically released audio and video materials relating to the Fales Library and Special Collections.
Conditions Governing Access
Series I, II, and III are to researchers. Series IV: Film, is closed. Appointments are necessary for the use of manuscript and archival collections.
Conditions Governing Use
Collection use is subject to all copyright laws. Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Director of Fales Library and Special Collections. Please contact fales.library@nyu.edu. or call 212 998 2596.
Preferred Citation
Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date (if known); Fales Library and Special Collection Audio/Video Collection; MSS 306; box number; folder number; Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University Libraries.
Audiovisual Access Policies and Procedures
Access to audiovisual materials in this collection is available through digitized access copies. Researchers may view an item's original container, but the media themselves are not available for playback because of preservation concerns. Materials that have already been digitized are noted in the collection's finding aid and can be requested in our reading room.
About this Guide
Revisions to this Guide
Repository
Series I: Audio
Scope and Content
This series contains audio materials on audiocassette and CD including audiobooks, readings and interviews.
Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn: Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage, Volume 2, 2005
General
Vienna Chamber Orchestra
Sholom Secunda, songwriter
Alexander Olshanetsky, songwriter
Elli Jaffe, conductor
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD
Duration: 01:08:45
Ben Kinmont, "I need you," Audio from VHS, MP3 loop, 1992
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD-R, Duration: 4 hrs. 38 min.
Black House, 2001
General
Stephen King, author
Peter Straub, author
Frank Muller, narrator
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Audiocassette
Duration: [26:00:00]
Blues and Haikus, undated
General
Jack Kerouac, author
Al Cohn, artist
Zoot Sims, artist
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Sound Disc: Analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in.
Duration: unknown
Cruisin w/ Moxie, 2003
General
Eve Packer, artist
Noah Howard, songwriter and artist
Bobby Few, artist
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD
Duration: unknown
Dreamcatcher, 2001
General
Stephen King, author
Jeffrey DeMunn, narrator
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD
Duration: [23:00:00]
"El Muchacho"
Scope and Contents
Commercially produced CD.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD
Eleanor Roosevelt in Conversation with Ben Grauer, 1957
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Sound Disc: Analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in.
Duration: unknown
Fale[s] Bobst Library NUY [NYU], tape 1, 10-20-98
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Audiocassette
Duration: unknown
Fale[s] Bobst Library, tape 2, 10-20-98
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Audiocassette
Duration: unknown
Fales Library: Adrienne Rich/Atlas of the Known World, 4/29/91
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Audiocassette
Duration: unknown
Family Affairs, 1995
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD
Duration: unknown
Future of the Present: 1998-1999 Season, The, 2001
General
Franlin Furnace Archive, Inc., creator
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD
Duration: unknown
Get Back in the Gutter!, 2010
General
Zero Content, artist Fly, artist CRG, artist and songmastering
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD
Duration: unknown
Hortense Calisher interview with Kay Bonetti, American Audio Prose Library, undated
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Audiocassette
Duration: 00:58:05
Hortense Calisher reads excerpts from "Herself" and "Mysteries of Motion," American Audio Prose Library, undated
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Audiocassette
Duration: 00:49:48
If You Could See Me Now, 1986
General
Peter Straub, author
Keir Dullea, narrator
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Audiocassette
Duration: [02:30:00]
In with the Out Crowd, 1998
General
Bob Holman, artist
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD
Duration: [01:05:00]
Interview with Reynolds Price, American Audio Prose Library, 1982
General
Lyn Ballard, interviewer
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Audiocassette
Duration: 01:00:00
Interview with Toni Morrison, American Audio Prose Library, 1983
General
Kay Bonetti, interviewer
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Audiocassette
Duration: 01:18:00
John Watts, 5/18/03
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD
Duration: unknown
Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1959
General
Pamela Brown, narrator
Howard Sackler, director
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Sound Disc: Analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in.
Duration: unknown
LeRoi Jones at Panther Benefit, Fillmore East, 1968-06
Language of Materials
Scope and Contents
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) gives a 15-minute address to an audience of Black Panther supporters, an event held at the Fillmore East in New York City, 1968.
Subjects
People
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Original format: 1/4" Open Reel Audio, Duration: 18 min.
Merry Fortune, 1981
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Sound Disc: Analog, 45 rpm; 12 in.
Duration: [00:21:00]
Mother Number 9, 1968
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Sound Disc: Analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in.
Duration: unknown
[Mrs. Corso at Keroac's Home], 1963-07
Scope and Contents
Track 1: Men discuss the cultural concerns of their day. Beat Generation figures are mentioned (Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg).
Track 2: Radio broadcasts of news and music (jazz, pop and classical).
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Original format: 1/4" Open Reel Audio, Duration: 136 min.
"Music from Living on the Earth," Alicia Bay Laurel
Scope and Contents
Commercially produced CD.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD
No Deposit No Return, undated
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Sound Disc: Analog, 33 1/3 rpm, 12 in.
Duration: unknown
On Freedom's Side: The Songs and Poems of Aaron Kramer, 1974
General
Viki Ann Diamond, artist
Karl Finger, artist
Joan Fishman, artist
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Sound Disc: Analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in.
P.O.W., Recorded Live in Amsterdam, 2/23/91
General
Lydia Lunch, artist
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD
Duration: unknown
Panjandrum, undated
General
artists/poets: Patrick Todd, Major Ursa, Alan Ginsberg, Nanos Valaoritis, John Harriss, Dennis Koran, David Gitin, Robert Bly, Anthony Shonwald, George Hitchcock, Don Cushman, George Ushanoff, John Logan.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Sound Disc: Analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in.
Duration: unknown
Poetry for the Beat Generation
General
Steve Allen, narrator
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Sound Disc: Analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in.
Duration: [00:39:00]
Reynolds Price reading "A Long and Happy Life," "The Names and Faces if Heroes," "Permanent Errors," "The Surface of the Earth," "The Source of Light" (excerpts), American Audio Prose Library, 1982
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Audiocassette
Duration: 01:20:00
Songs for Summer, 2002
General
Mark Kostabi, artist
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD
Duration: 01:1:28
Songs to Texts by James Joyce, undated
General
Patricia Neway, artist
Robert Colston, artist
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Sound Disc: Analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in.
Duration: unknown
Talisman, The, 2001
General
Stephen King, author
Peter Straub, author
Frank Muller, narrator
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Aduiocassette
Duration: [28:00:00]
Tape Poems, 1969
General
Eduardo Costa, editor
John Perreault, editor
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: 1/4" Audio Reel
Duration: 00:54:00
[Taylor Mead: Pink Peny, NYC, Ludlow St], 2003-06-27
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Audio cassette, Duration: 90 min.
Toni Morrison reading "Tar Baby" (excerpts), American Audio Prose Library, 1983
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Audiocassette
Duration: 00:55:00
window:9/11, 2002
General
Eve Packer, songwriter and artist
Noah Howard, artist
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD
Duration: 00:09:23
Zero Content: Greatest Kckn Hits, [2001]
General
Roger Manning, songwriter
fckn Partridge Family, songwriter
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD
Duration: unknown
Zone Benefit, 1982-01-25
Extent
Scope and Contents
Housing annotation includes the following names: Jon Gibson, Brad Webster, Spalding Gray, Jonas Mekas, and Mabou Mines.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Audio cassette, Duration: 120 min. (60 min. x 2)
Landing Signals, An Anthology of Sacramento Poets
Scope and Contents
A paperback book with two accompanying audiocassettes, recordings of poets reading their work. The book is edited by Douglas Blazek, Ann Menebroker, and C.K. Dobbs.
A Certain Level of Denial by Karen Finely
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Audio CD
LT's Theory of Pets by Stephen King, a Live Reading by the Author
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Audio CD
Digitas, New York Digital Review of Arts & Literature
Scope and Contents
An interactive CD-ROM of art and literature, featuring the work of John Farris, Elizabeth Murray, Paul Beatty, Andres Serrano, David Hammons, Shalom, Hal Sirowitz, Joseph Overstreet, Darius James, and Bob Holman.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD-ROM
Series II: Video
Scope and Content
This series contains moving image material on videotape and dvd including music and art performances.
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown: 611 lower East Side-EXT, 2018
Extent
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD-R
Anti-Credo, 1988
Scope and Contents
Monty Cantsin, artist
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS Duration: 00:30:00
Big Thumbs, 1986
Scope and Contents
Jamie Gillia, actor
David Lipman, actor
Janette Sinclair, actress
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS Duration: 01:20:00
Cincinnati's Imperfect Moment: The Robert Mapplethorpe Exhibit Controversy, 1998
General
Kelly A. Gorth, creator
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS Duration: 01:27:00
Cinema of Transgression, [1992]
General
filmmakers: Richard Kern, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Holly Adams, David Wojnarowicz Nick Zedd, Jeri Cain Rossi, Tommy Turner, Beth B, Henry Jones, Kenbra Pfahler, Jon Moritsugu.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: 02:27:00
Concrete TV: Never Hard Enough, 2008
General
Ron A. Rocheleau, filmmaker
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: [09:00:00]
Confessions of a Porn Star, 1995
General
Eric Bogosian, performer
Barbara Dare, performer
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: 01:00:00
David Wojnarowicz, Programs 1 and 2, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival at the National Film Theatre, April 2002
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: 01:04:00
Downtown New York, 1986
General
Willoughby Sharp, creator
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: 00:58:00
Drag Show Video Vérité V, Joe E. Jeffreys, 2011
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD-R, Duration: 58 min.
Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring, 1989
General
Elisabeth Aubert, director
Gina Belafonte, narrator
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: 00:30:00
Erich Maria Remarque: a Biography in Pictures, undated
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: 00:15:40
Funky Pu[n]ky Chic, undated
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: unknown
"Gooseflesh", Charles Ludlam, undated
Extent
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Hardly Gold, 1997
General
William Wegman, filmmaker
Hardly Boys, performers
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: 00:30:00
Judson and Fragments, undated
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: 00:15:16
Kool Logic Sessions: Poems, Pop Songs, Laugh Tracts, 2005
General
Urayoan Noel, artist
Monxo Lopez, composer
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: 01:21:00
Laments, 1989
General
Jenny Holzer, artist
Contains one VHS and one (unpaged) booklet.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: unknown
Last Address, 2009
General
Ira Sachs, filmmaker
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: unknown
Last Address, [2010]
General
Ira Sachs, filmmaker and director
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: 00:09:00
Laurie Simmons, undated
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: unknown
Miguel Pinero Reading, 1984
General
Jim C., filmmaker
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: 00:20:00
Nam June Paik: #1 Video Artist, 3-29-06
General
Skip Blumberg, creator
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: unknown
NME Story; Once Upon A Time in NY, undated
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
NOT Performance Art, parts 1 & 2, 1995
General
Tom Zafian, filmmaker
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: 00:58:00
NYU Celebration: Amitin Archival Inauguration, 11/21/02
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: unknown
"On the Road with Bob Holman": Episodes 1-3.
Scope and Contents
Commercially produced distribution copy of a Rattapallax/Bowery Arts + Science production.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD, Duration: 90 min. (30 min. x 3)
Optic Nerve: David Wojnarowicz on CD-ROM
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD-ROM
Peops Show, The vol. 1, 2006
General
Fly, artist
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: unknown
Pier Groups - 1999 re-release, 1999
General
Adult Male Video.
Cream of the Crop Entertainment presents "Archer Brown's classic film of love lust under the waves and piers of New York's fabled waterfront."
A "Cream of the Crop" classic.
Kieth Anthoni, performer
Johnny Kovaks, performer
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: unknown
Poetry Thin Air Interviews: Chavisa Woods, undated
General
Mitch Corber, videographer and director
George Spencer, interviewer
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: unknown
Poetry Thin Air Interviews: Eve Packer, undated
General
Mitch Corber, videographer and director
George Spencer, interviewer
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: unknown
Poetry Thin Air Interviews: Jeff Wright, undated
General
Mitcher Corber, videographer and director
George Spencer, interviewer
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: unknown
Poetry Thin Air Interviews: Karin Randolph, undated
General
Mitch Corber, videographer and director
George Spencer, interviewer
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: unknown
Poetry Thin Air Interviews: Larissa Shmailo, undated
General
Mitch Corber, videographer and director
George Spencer, interviewer
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: unknown
Poetry Thin Air Interviews: Mitch Corber, undated
General
Susan L. Young, videographer
George Spencer, interviewer
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: unknown
Poetry Thin Air Interviews: Ron Kolm, undated
General
Mitcher Corber, videographer and director
George Spencer, interviewer
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: unknown
Poetry Thin Air Interviews: Steve Cannon, undated
General
Mitch Corber, videographer and director
George Spencer, interviewer
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: unknown
Poetry Thin Air Interviews: Steve Dalachinsky, undated
General
Mitch Corber, videographer and director
George Spencer, interviewer
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: unknown
Poetry Thin Air Interviews: Susan Scutti, undated
General
Mitch Corber, videographer and director
George Spencer, interviewer
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: unknown
Polymath, or, The Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman, The, 2009
General
Fed Barney Taylor, filmmaker
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: unknown
Portrait of Dale Goodson, A: NOT Performance Art, part 3, 1997
General
Tom Zafian, filmmaker
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: 00:45:00
Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World, 2010
General
L. Ron Hubbard, author
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: 01:06:00
Putt-Modernism - Television Coverage of Exhibition (Artists Space), 1992
General
Content:
1. "What's Up in New York?" - Show #106
2. CBS This Morning - 30 July, 1992
3. HBO - Night After Night - 14 August, 1992
4. Fox "Style News" (WNYN) - 10 August, 1992
5. Channel 2 News (WCBS) - 6 August, 1992
6. ABC News - World News Now - 13 August, 1992
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: [00:30:00]
Rapporti Orali e Trasversalita Sonore, 1999
General
Nicola Frangione, creator
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD
Duration: [00:43:00]
Rattapallax Issue 17: Literary Films on DVD, undated
Scope and Contents
Commercially produced distribution copy.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Recettes de Mina - Terezin 1944, Les, 2007
General
Anne Georget, filmmaker
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: 00:47:00
Red Souvenir, No Sell Out, Promised Land, Lynch: Who Killed, M.J. Stewart?, undated
General
Frank Goldberg, videomaker
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: 01:00:00
Richard Minsky, "American Decorated Publishers' Bindings, 1872-1929," Volume 2 CD-ROM
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD-ROM
"Roy Cohn," Brown University, 1993-03-20
Scope and Contents
Housing annotations: Performed by Ron Vawter, Written by Gary Indiana
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll, 1991
General
Eric Bogosian, performer
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: 01:36:00
Smalltown Boys, 05/2003
General
Matt Wolf, director
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: 00:21:00
Split: Portrait of a Drag Queen, 1992
General
Ellen Fisher Turk, filmmaker
Andrew Weeks, filmmaker
International Chrysis, performer
This file also contains documents and photographs related to this video.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: 01:00:00
Tester, [2005]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: 06:00:00
TG24, 12/4/02 - 12/7/02
General
Throbbing Gristle, artist
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
Duration: 00:30:00
"The Bacchae," Charles Ludlam, undated
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: DVD
"Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman, 1995
General
Howard Weinberg, filmmaker
Nam June Paik, filmmaker
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: 00:30:00
The History of the Future, 1998
Scope and Contents
A distribution copy of a Franklin Furnace production.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD-ROM
U2 Video "One", undated
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: unknown
UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, Gay Cable Network Archives, undated
Scope and Contents
A compilation of clips from the Gay Cable Network Archives, screened at UNESCO's World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: Digital Betacam, Duration: 12 min.
Video Data Bank, Art Institute of Chicago: "Alice Aycock: An Interview." Kate Horsfield and Lyn Blumenthal., 1977
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS, Duration: 37 min. 30 sec.
Way it is, The, undated
General
Eric Mitchell, writer and director
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: VHS
Duration: unknown
Series III: Data Storage
[Dennis Cooper's old blog], 2005-2006, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Web pages from Dennis Cooper's blog saved as PDF files.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD-R
[D. Wojnarowicz/J.Vega correspondence], 1970-1990, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Photo documentation of written correspondence between David Wojnarowicz and Janine Vega.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Format: CD-R
