Series 5. Intermedia Systems Corporation (ISC)
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"George Litwin, who is the guy who has gotten me the appointment, and Andre Ruedi said, 'We didn't just bring you up here to do this thing at Harvard. What we want to do is we want to form a company, and we're going to do multimedia productions, and we're going to make multimedia equipment.' Michael Callahan and I and these two guys and later on other people formed a corporation, Intermedia Systems Corporation, and we rent a space with an office, a media production facility, and an electronics shop."
-Stern, Gerd. "From Beat Scene Poet to Psychedelic Multimedia Artist in San Francisco and Beyond, 1948-1978, Interviews Conducted by Victoria Morris Byerly in 1996" http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt409nb28g
Unlike USCO, Intermedia maintained formal office files, including files for clients, vendors, consultants, projects, legal & accounting. For the most part, their arrangement has been retained. In addition, a very large portion of the ISC series consists of slides used in various projects; those in carousels have been rehoused with order retained. There are slides for projects with no corresponding paper files. There are also many slide cases labeled "outs" or "duplicate," although some would appear not to be. Lids have been mixed up or recycled, and labels are brief or likely incorrect in some cases. Also, many slides were exposed to moisture and may be damaged.
- Language:
- English .
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Access and use
- Parent restrictions:
- Open for research, with the exception of born-digital materials, which are closed until processed. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual and born-digital materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
- Parent terms of access:
- While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
- Location of this collection:
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Department of Special Collections, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6004, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022