TESTES-3 Coming-Out Party / Sleep Deprivation Therapy School

TESTES-3 was the phone number & name of a then-anonymously-operated 'phone station' created & run by The International Dateman; tentatively, a convenience; & Sumu Pretzler. From June 29 to July 1, 1979, a 66 hour party was held to celebrate the change-over from the anonymous TESTES-3 to the public VD-RADIO. An article was written by reporter Franz Lidz for the Baltimore City Paper announcing this change. This article provides the crawling text for this document. The party was primarily shot by John Ellsberry using black-&-white reel-to-reel vaudeo. The length of the party was determined by the complete playing of the entire archive of TESTES-3 incoming & outgoing calls. Many of these calls were just silent - or phone company recordings. This movie is a very primitive document of a handful of friends progressively deteriorating under sleep deprivation. Only Sumu Pretzler stayed awake the entire time. - June 1, 2009 notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

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