Watch Sign of the Times

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UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A woman flips through radio channels and a newspaper, activitating a collage of archival and documentary footage. Footage of President Regan's speeches and upper-class dinners are contrasted with images of poor people in the twentieth century, thereby critiquing social inequities and contemporary Regan administration policies which uphold systems of poverty. Uses experimental video technologies in image and technique, including video overlay, color inversion, and blue-screen techniques.

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