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<br />In N.F'.L.C.P.'s `Bicycle Tour'
<br />By Peggy Ziegler
<br />Entertainment Editor
<br />IA)S ANGF.LES— Hear', a
<br />temsa little
<br />rm rm f.cableopeart.s: Urn)
<br />abandon local programming.
<br />Then ere law of goad things
<br />going on out these.
<br />End des woos. To see for
<br />your self, watch the National
<br />Federation of Local Cable Pro-
<br />grammers' "Hometown USA
<br />Bicycle Tour,"a Bann -Mon wl-
<br />lectiun of 10 imen in the
<br />N FLCI"s 1995 Mountain USA
<br />Pideu Festival, held in July in
<br />Barton. The program is being
<br />rat to cable system. now fro use
<br />on " origination and areas,
<br />channels.
<br />The beat single slow by far in
<br />the 19M Bicycle Tour is the mre
<br />that operathe wllectio t:"Yellow
<br />Creek:' by an Appah,hian
<br />Moths group called App,lahop
<br />and done for a symenh I. White -
<br />burg, AY. Tlwe s e w many
<br />good things shout this pngr.u..
<br />racellent editing and camera
<br />work, a topoutch professional
<br />"feel"that doen't sacrifice local
<br />flavor, amp a terrific Wm for the
<br />minldug d what is molly a very
<br />complicated gory.
<br />But the Mt deri.ku Appsl-
<br />rhop muk ws" to Ion the people
<br />rh{e Cnml>,rlaod Gap eon
<br />ter sell brie mory thrm-
<br />'I. rven eb..,.I.numnw
<br />dint narrow, selling m what
<br />everyone cold ,-d whit we ought
<br />u think abo,.-, •... lean mrnum-
<br />grabbo.r.Wehacea,byte. v,, ad
<br />judge for ounsei es, rveMhing
<br />that luppem, to than Joan. It
<br />a rans con o hem nrarght fnm
<br />he pw,ple inwdvrd that Yellow
<br />lire\ is bring polluted by a tar-
<br />orry nmpany in what is ossm-
<br />Iiml, • o rep raWy held a -vn. Iln
<br />a great too, h, a heal writer to
<br />ran an oral Insu ry •d At.ddl .-
<br />hough, begun as a.ramer+id
<br />moor by . Briti 1. do error in
<br />Iles Prato,
<br />.Fhe town dana. a ,towage
<br />me o n ;ant ha. ,:reed up
<br />,I,- I.n.,..,,,.. but w ,re Ian
<br />r:hn ohm ),]he. I7rk to
<br />'ether, but ,lies,. l)r m.ry
<br />tra.e the political awakening at
<br />resident who nmbiliu a, get a
<br />better responr front the town
<br />government, and again, the
<br />slow's nuke. play it weight,
<br />na singling out one hem for to
<br />to follow, but portraying the
<br />movement as the group effort it
<br />evidently toss.
<br />While "Yellow Creek" was
<br />beautifully produced, a less
<br />polished winner was just as
<br />absorbing. Ethnic expression
<br />category winner "Panama to
<br />Bomon."wane piny mople Pon -
<br />gram. but it had a story we rare
<br />ly get to see: the amumporary
<br />immigrant experiene a from the
<br />inside. A Panamanian teacher
<br />bock in the Carol Zme and
<br />therefore s U.S. cititsen—has
<br />immigrated to B wan, where dw
<br />only work he could find was in a
<br />factory. "Here, 1 am dirty all the
<br />time. Sometimes my whole body
<br />husia," he says. "And 1 don't get
<br />the respect 1 got in Panama:' He
<br />tells mf the lure of money in the
<br />U.S. but finds, 'The marry
<br />yao'reloirg to Pm in your p -let
<br />is not the big none)they talk
<br />about." But the man .,d his
<br />Phillipinu wile, who works duce
<br />job, said shares just we lan-
<br />guage, English, with her hue
<br />bsnd, aredrusmined m auy. An
<br />English lass transforms iteaB
<br />arm a support group. and fara
<br />real look al what it mean. to he
<br />on doe other sdr of the Ianguap
<br />barrier, eonsider one students
<br />mory, about a simple thing like
<br />asking .maxi to donne. 'She
<br />mid,'get out of here.' 1 dmugha
<br />it wee her tome."
<br />11. Bkyvdr'low also ineludm
<br />a civics lawn in the hum of a
<br />documenary In,.I Group W
<br />Cable of 'lurv.ma. municipal
<br />channel. Th.. episde u1 the
<br />channel'. "G.wermwn Speaks"
<br />preigrem outlines the:mpar of
<br />Washington'. new domestic
<br />rioter. haw, which req of ea
<br />mandmery art.s in durrstic
<br />Halenre inololerta. This redly is
<br />g.rvemmeu gr.kug. but it's 1n
<br />from ono... umm , puhlr inure.t
<br />Programming. In the one rate
<br />-
<br />,rn., two winner made the
<br />trot ulr: , Mirvr.padi. prusit
<br />d photmospher'pm Amdt.d
<br />an imam red • (iiwtlike wr.y
<br />plg.f a hmrrjaiBaase in Inde
<br />Reek, Alb, with huge paper
<br />weavings. Roth wroe interesting
<br />enough. though tlw latter lees so,
<br />largely beemue the artist Ridkud
<br />Storey hadjust a few thingem ssy
<br />about his work —and he mid
<br />them over and over spin.
<br />'ITe worm chow in the whole
<br />lineup was a thankfully short
<br />paewaosn"Iron Man" athlete,
<br />who was going to swim. walk.
<br />bike, do I,IgM) Icount'emiswps,
<br />1,000 leg life Ithis guy doesn't
<br />kmry when to supl and a full
<br />Nsadlus workout, for the benefit
<br />of the American Lung Amecis-
<br />tion. You probably wouldn't
<br />want to do this. and you certain -
<br />Iv wouldn't want to watch woe-.
<br />Joe do this. The program, pot
<br />ducvel in San Jos. CA. wmam-
<br />phee with bad poetry prai-'ng
<br />"the. men of von," but whet it
<br />proved nuinly u Ihaljoeks of any
<br />stripe spout die mine senseless
<br />sports mumbo-jiveo when the
<br />camera is on.
<br />A short film from Taman on
<br />water conservation evidently
<br />addressed a real community
<br />nmeern--water or alicn—
<br />but dada) do it with say verve,
<br />end, oanedy show. "Fntertain-
<br />mee t Sin." produced for Rogers
<br />Cabl,,ynems in Eau Multmr
<br />moth Gusty, was 'Saturday
<br />Nigh live" on a shoestring• ter
<br />more Imitative than innovative.
<br />That's part of the resaon the
<br />nererm was sort. But B local
<br />programming isnl always where
<br />it's are it. definitely where it'm
<br />gulp. laical shows..p.eiI"Y
<br />eacrllea area like ")'allow
<br />Creek" help brh down the Big
<br />Media, bieoamul mrsight jacket
<br />omen d television is bound in.
<br />Thu chance u bring a Iresh
<br />perspective. and give local pre qde
<br />a chance a, rally ammunieate
<br />throo,h .,levisiem, .hmddn i he
<br />raerifwA b,r the bottom tine. `.
<br />GSPAN Begins
<br />Canadian Coverage
<br />WASIHNGTUN U.C.—Cable
<br />public Blabs network GSPAN
<br />last week ran five days of live
<br />cablemou, from the Canadian
<br />Haut of Commons, an .peri-
<br />menl that. B successful. will con-
<br />tinue, GSPAN mid.
<br />CSPAN cablecam the daily
<br />live "question period" when
<br />Prins Minimer Brian Mulroney
<br />sad his mbinet.n.wer questions
<br />from the miarity party member
<br />of parliament- Frond the sessions
<br />were followed by viewer call -ion.
<br />said GSPAN ipoliesp,twis
<br />Susan Swain.
<br />Thu is the firm nap in the oet-
<br />wak's cooperative venave with
<br />the Canadian Parliament. and
<br />programming director Carrie
<br />Collins. "We hope that in the
<br />lot. we can tela ire''ire call -in
<br />programs that join members of
<br />Gngress and the Pasiment by
<br />ammlite,' Ma. Collins said.
<br />'lire Nor dGnunmedfae•
<br />began recrfvirg the five GSPAN
<br />network [red N. 6 her Mahn
<br />,flannel New. Nov. 11. 1985. p
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