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A second special compilation presented in the context of the Video Market originates with the British quality broadcaster Channel 4. Jane Rigby and Anna Ridley asked 15 video makers to make a 4-minute tape to be screened on Channel 4 without any previous announcement. The unsuspecting television audience would, in this way, be confronted with art totally unprepared - without any explanation or other patronage. Video pioneer David Hall used the same approach in 1971 when his '7 TV Pieces' were shown by Scottish television. Four of these classic TV Pieces have been included in the programme, which consist of 19 'intruders'. Also included is one of Hall's new pieces, titled 'Stooky Bill'. The ventriloquist's dummy Stooky Bill was the only assistant to John Logie Baird, television's founding father, who according to Hall never received proper acclaim. When in October 1925 the first recognisable television image was transmitted, Stooky Bill was the subject. Sixty five years later, he has been reanimated.
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