Special Broadcast 1988

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Archive note

A Sears catalog page documenting two stills from a fictional 1988 television broadcast, marked only in Chinese characters (服従 / obedience, 他們活著 / they live). The juxtaposition of domestic surveillance imagery with commercial signage suggests a lost experimental TV event that collapsed cinema and advertising into a single propagandistic artifact. Collectors of alternate-history media, Cold War ephemera, and conceptual broadcast art.

Catalogued, not yet released. This artifact will become available to acquire soon.

One artifact. One owner. On acquisition it is permanently retired from the archive. You receive the high-resolution file and a signed certificate of exclusivity.

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Print specification

36×24 in

2752 × 1536 px · 4.2 MP · landscape

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Section: Broadcast Archives
Style: vintage catalog spread, black and white stills, yellow stock
Mood: dystopian, conspiratorial, archival
Palette: cream, black, red

Filed under

1988searstelevisionpropagandasurveillanceexperimental broadcastchinese textdystopianfound footagecommercialarchiveadvertising