The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd

The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd is a video directed by Arthur Ginsberg and Video Free America involving footage filmed between 1970 and 1975 following the lives and marriage of Carel Rowe and Ferd Eggan. Originally shown as a 3- channel video, 8-monitor installation including live feed of the audience, the edited video is now distributed by Video Data Bank and Electronic Arts Intermix. The edited video consists of an hour-long tape selected from over 30 hours of footage that includes both the footage of the marriage and subsequent consummation, shot from 1971- 1972, and footage of an interview of Carel, Ferd, and Ginsberg produced for WNET's Video and Television Review in 1975. The video is most readily available as a 33:15 segment on a collection of videos and video segments produced by Video Data Bank, Surveying the First Decade: Volume One. The video is often classified somewhere in between cinéma vérité and reality television, though the footage predates American Family, often considered the first example of reality television. Sometimes referred to as a video vérité, The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd blends modes of camera address, featuring shots taken by Ginsburg of the couple in private or among friends, as well as first-person camera confessional shots.

Ginsberg, seeking to film the making of a pornographic film, found Carel and Ferd, who were looking to make an erotic film from their wedding, in order to repay a man whose car Ferd had recently crashed. Ginsburg began shooting the day that Richard, an old friend of Carels, came by to talk about the wedding. This initial session was spontaneous, and in this instance Ginsburg says that in using video media, he was able to capture this footage impulsively. In this way, the video came about by chance.

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