Item #39206 A small group of printed sheets produced by American Trans-Media, San Francisco, c. 1972. AMERICAN TRANS-MEDIA.
A small group of printed sheets produced by American Trans-Media, San Francisco, c. 1972.
A small group of printed sheets produced by American Trans-Media, San Francisco, c. 1972.
A small group of printed sheets produced by American Trans-Media, San Francisco, c. 1972.
A small group of printed sheets produced by American Trans-Media, San Francisco, c. 1972.
A small group of printed sheets produced by American Trans-Media, San Francisco, c. 1972.

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AMERICAN TRANS-MEDIA.

A small group of printed sheets produced by American Trans-Media, San Francisco, c. 1972.

Includes a letter on headed notepaper featuring the printed signatures of Marianne Hinckle and Richard Rosenblatt, a leaflet, and four broadsheets promoting a proposed multi-disciplinary event centered around ecology, alternative environments and intermedia. The letter, dated August 30, 1972, states that American Trans-Media represents "writers, editors and broadcast journalists who have been intimately involved in the changing priorities of our times" (among them Warren Hinckle, Paul Krassner, Jann Wenner, Hunter S. Thompson, Gene Marine, Studs Terkel, and Nelson Algren), and announces that it "has recently entered the field of lecture and special event programming."

Under the heading 'Exhibitions', the leaflet lists "Domes, Inflatables, Solari [sic], Solar Energy, Winde [sic] Energy, Infinity Room, Alternative Shelter" and other ideas for possible inclusion. The four broadsheets, two headed 'Monosystems', one 'Polysystems', and the other 'Entertainment', list some of these ideas, and more, along with specific references to, among others, Lloyd Kahn (Domes); Ant Farm and the Hog Farm (Inflatables); Steve Bear [sic] (Zomeworks); Anna Halprin (Movement); Dr. Joel Fort (Drugs); Margo St. James (Women); Bobby Shields (Mime); Herbert Marcuse, Herman Kahn, and Paoli Solari [sic] (World Systems); and Stewart Brand (Money).

American Trans-Media was an agency or organisation of unknown origin, perhaps related to Warren Hinckle and Ramparts magazine, seemingly undocumented since, and now lost to the San Francisco fog. These printed sheets were discovered in the papers of Movement activist, Michael Rossman (also of Parnassus), whose doodles appear on the 2pp. letter, and whose name appears printed alongside Anna Halprin's on one of the broadsheets.

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