Peter Callas initialising history | ACMI collection | ACMI: Your museum of screen culture

There are two works:

A monograph, the rights in which are owned by dLux Media Arts Inc

A video work, the rights in which are owned by Peter Callas.

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ACMI Identifier

B1001169

Object Types

Artwork

Materials

Single channel moving image, colour and audio

Holdings

Digital Betacam [PAL]; Master

Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master

VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded

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