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Screened in 1976. In one of those rare instances of television acknowledging a cinema existing beyond the mainstream, Screening Room was a series uniquely devoted to the avant-garde and (very) independent. Hosted by filmmaker Robert Gardner, his relaxed manner eased a wide range of guests who were beginning to gain notoriety in the pages of the burgeoning market of film and arts magazines—Take One, Film Culture, Film Quarterly and Evergreen, to name a small handful. Once an unlikely scenario, Ricky Leacock, Hollis Frampton, Jean Rouch, Yvonne Rainer, Les Blank, Robert Breer and others had finally made their way from the so-called ‘underground’ into the nation’s living rooms. |