| Summary: | Extracts from Polish underground publications compiled and translated into English by the RFE Polish Publication Unit for broadcasting purposes. Introductions to most articles are provided by RFE staff, and items are compiled in issues based mainly on theme and date.
Just Like Going to the Movies: An Interview with Video NOWA[from: Tygodnik Mazowsze, no. 129 (16 May 1985)]The Independent Publishing House NOWA has extended its activity to include the distribution of video cassettes. This interview in the leading Solidarity publication presents the scope of films available and the advantage that video films have over both the official media such as cinema and television and the underground printing movement. Video NOWA foresees that video films as a feature of Polish unofficial cultural life may well outstrip the current possibilities offered by the printing movement.
Film List[from: NOWA Independent Publishing House, Warsaw, April 1985.]The NOWA Independent Publishing House has issued a catalogue of films available for distribution. The video cassettes include fictional and documentary films produced both in Poland and abroad. In its foreword to the catalogue, NOWA explains that the choice on offer is entirely arbitrary - the only criterion used is the unavailability of the film to the public. Most of the films have been banned by the authorities since they are politically unacceptable. NOWA intends to provide its customers with the same range of choice that is provided in any free country and to leave it to the viewer himself to decide what he watches. The list includes only full-length films; shorter films and television broadcasts are too numerous to be included. The price of one, full-length video cassette recording dubbed in Polish ranges from 12,000 to 15,000 zloty. The fee for copying the video recording is 1,000 zloty.
A Tape Recorder is Antigovernment[from: Tygodnik Mazowsze, no. 161 (6 March 1986)]This is an interview in the leading Solidarity weekly for the Warsaw region with a representative of NOWA-kaseta, a branch of NOWA independent publishing house, which has been producing cassette tapes. See also the note below, "A Letter to Video NOWA."
A Letter to Video NOWA[from: Tygodnik Mazowsze, no. 165 (3 April 1986)]This is in response to the article above [item 3].
The Home Cinema[from: Tygodnik Mazowsze, no. 171(22 May 1986)]The article in the leading Solidarity weekly for the Warsaw region illustrates how the use of video equipment has developed in Poland through the story of someone who organizes home viewings of banned films.
Solidarity Cultural Prizes for the Year 1985[from: Tygodnik Mazowsze, no. 156 (30 January 1986)]The leading Solidarity weekly for the Warsaw region published a list of prizes granted by the Committee for Independent Culture for artistic achievements in various areas in the arts and letters in 1985. See also an interview in "Tygodnik Mazowsze" no. 157 (see item 7 below), justifying some of the choices.
About Solidarity Cultural Prizes[from: Tygodnik Mazowsze, no. 157 (6 February 1986)]Various members of the Committee for Independent Culture, one of the several organizations active in Poland's parallel social life, were interviewed by "Tygodnik Mazowsze" about the Solidarity prizes that it distributes annually (see item 6 above). The different speakers were not named but designated by Roman numerals in the text.
The Prizes of Solidarity Publishing Employees[from: Tygodnik Mazowsze, no. 172 (29 May 1986)]Following the distribution of various prizes by the Committee for Independent Culture, the members of Solidarity working in underground publishing gave their own book prize, not honorary this time, but worth nearly three times the average monthly industrial wage.
The Bestsellers of 1985[from: Tygodnik Mazowsze, no. 155 (23 January 1986)]The leading Solidarity weekly for the Warsaw region describes the most popular books to have been published independently during the past year. The article is signed with the pseudonym Marek Mokotowski.
The State of Polish Cinematography[from: Biuletyn Dolnośląski, no. 2(70) (February 1986)]The independent monthly issued by Fighting Solidarity in Wrocław published an account of the cinema scene in Poland. The article is a transcript from a tape recording of a lecture given by Tadeusz Szyma on 21 November 1985 during the eighth Week of Christian Culture held in Wrocław from 17 to 24 November 1985. Szyma regularly writes film reviews and criticisms for "Tygodnik Powszechny" (the Catholic weekly published in Kraków).
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