Woody: “We were probably not directly influential on overall concepts. We were influential in a specific way. You see, when we asked George Brown to build a special tool, like his switcher [Video Sequencer or Field Flip/Flop Switcher, 1972] which was designed in fact to do A and B stereoscopic work or the Multikeyer [1973], they were very specific tools. But if you look other tool makers, they were concerned with general use. You see, they were toolmakers more in the tradition of music, who wanted everyone to play the violin. They disseminated their tools; they really believed in changing society by providing an unbelievable instrument that everybody could play. We were more exclusive in a sense … For example, the Multikeyer had a very specific purpose – we wanted to have multiple cameras that could be collaged together and we needed that tool to do it because we knew it could be done … We got completely interested in personalized images, not generalized ones, and synthesizers were exactly against our vocabulary. We never used the term in our own work and we never wanted one. We never bought one until the mid 70s.”