Instant Replay with Steven Hoffman session recordings
Abstract
Instant Replay was a conversation series held at The New School, focusing on professional sports from the perspectives of players, coaches, journalists and television producers. Steven Hoffman coordinated the course and moderated the sessions. The collection is comprised entirely of reel-to-reel audio recordings.
Dates
- 1978 February 15 - May 3
Creator
- Forte, Chet, 1935-1995 (Speaker, Person)
- Gilbert, Rod (Speaker, Person)
- Greenspan, Bud (Speaker, Person)
- Hoffman, Steven (1948 -) (Moderator, Person)
- Izenberg, Jerry (1930) (Speaker, Person)
- Lindemann, Carl, Jr. (June 3, 1985) (Speaker, Person)
- Michaels, Walt (October 16, 1929-July 10, 2019) (Speaker, Person)
- Ramsey, Cal (July 13, 1937-March 25, 2019) (Speaker, Person)
- Roth, Werner, 1948- (Speaker, Person)
Extent
8 Analog Recordings
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one semester of audio recordings of public conversations moderated by New School professor Steven Hoffman for his non-credit course, Instant Replay, listed in The New School's Adult Division catalog under the section, "Short Courses and Special Lectures." Open to the public, students could attend one or all of the sessions in the course. There is no known video of the events.
The New School course catalog describes the course as follows: "Instant Replay brings the sports fan a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at today's sports and its outstanding superathletes. How do these extraordinary stars formulate strategy, prepare for important games and develop their personal style of playing? How has their fame and fortune influenced their private lives? How has television exposure affected them and the sports they play? Who represents the real power behind what we see on the field? Instant Replay provides insights into these and other questions and gives the sports fan a chance to talk to some of the finest athletes now playing."
The New School Archives only holds recordings from the Spring 1978 semester class sessions. It is unknown if the Fall 1978 sessions were held and never recorded, if the recordings were lost, or if the course was, in fact, never held.
According to the catalog copy, the Spring 1978 session was to consist of ten sessions. However, the collection only documents eight sessions, beginning one week after the advertised start date. Additionally, the collection does not include most of the advertised guests.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use, but no access copies of these recordings are currently available. Researchers desiring access and willing to pay a digitization fee may do so upon consultation with The New School Archives. Please contact archivist@newschool.edu for further information.
Conditions Governing Use
To publish material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from the New School Archives and Special Collections. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu.
Historical note
Instant Replay was a special lecture series held at The New School in the Spring and Fall semesters of 1978. The series consisted of interviews with prominent athletes and sporting figures, especially sportspeople playing or having played on New York City teams, conducted by host Steven Hoffman. Interview subjects advertised in course promotion included tennis player Arthur Ashe, baseball and basketball player Dave DeBusschere, baseball player Jim Bouton, basketball player Walt Frazier, hockey players Rod Gilbert and Glen Resch, soccer player Werner Roth, football coach Walt Michaels, basketball coach Willis Reed, commentators Cal Ramsey and Howard Cosell, journalists Jerry Izenberg and Dick Schaap, television producer and director Chet Forte, sport documentarian Bud Greenspan, television executive Carl Lindemann, and others.
Steven Hoffman was an instructor at The New School. In the Spring 1975 semester, Hoffman co-taught a course for The New School with Robert Liss, titled Sports in America. He was also responsible for coordinating and hosting Instant Replay, a special lecture series consisting of interviews with athletes and sporting figures held at The New School in the Spring and Fall semesters of 1978.
The term "instant replay" comes from the ability to review live sporting events repeatedly or in slow motion as the result of advances in video technology during the 1960s.
Sources:
The New School (1974). New School Bulletin 1975 Spring Vol. 32 No. 5 [course catalog]. New School Course Catalog Collection. New School Archives and Special Collections. https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/objects/NS050101_ns1975sp
The New School (1978). New School Bulletin 1978 Spring Vol. 35 No. 5 [course catalog]. New School Course Catalog Collection. New School Archives and Special Collections. https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/objects/NS050101_ns1978sp
The New School (1978). New School Bulletin 1978 Fall Vol. 36 No. 1 [course catalog]. New School Course Catalog Collection. New School Archives and Special Collections. https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/objects/NS050101_ns1978fa
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by date of class session.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The staff of The New School Archives and Special Collections assembled this collection from a larger set of legacy recordings transferred from The New School's Raymond Fogelman Library following the establishment of The New School Archives, circa 2012.
Processing Information
New School Archives staff based all description in this finding aid on course catalog text and audiocassette container inscriptions. Staff did not listen to the tapes to verify content.
- Athletes -- United States (Subject) (Places) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Professional sports (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Sound recordings (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Sports journalism (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Sportswriters (Occupation) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Instant Replay with Steven Hoffman session recordings
- Status
- In Process
- Author
- Jack Wells, Jason Adamo, Jenny Swadosh
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin