Paik picked up an early portable videorecorder: the Portapack,and shot the crowds attending the Pope's NYC visit from a moving taxi. Paik's tape was then shown that same evening in a Fluxus event in Soho.This sequence-shot video contains Baladi's investigation into Nam June Paik's first art video tape sometimes referred to as "The Pope Tape".
On the same itinerary Baladi's video scans the streets of New York from the inside of a yellow cabwhile various experts are quizzed over the telephone about the original video.
Baladi's voice elicits voiced responses from Nam June Paik himself, Barbara London (the video curator at MOMA) and Shigeco Kubota, Nam June Paik's then companion as well as Don Foresta, Russel Connor
(a public access broadcaster) and John Hanhart (of the Whitney Museum).

Paul Robertson