Mary Van Deusen

Mary Van Deusen was an influential vidder in the 1980s and 1990s. She has vidded in a wide variety of fandoms and is still creating vids today. She has a long history of mentoring new vidders.
==Role In Vidding History==
During the 1980s, Mary was one of the few fans with access to semi-professional video editing equipment, moving from RCA VCRs to Sony pre-roll Beta I HB. She taught a great number of vidders not just how to vid, but also how to approach visual narrative, how to use songs and clips. In turn, those vidders went on to teach others. Mary Van Deusen's aesthetic focuses heavily on character and narrative. Telling a story was key to this aesthetic, it was also known for very strict cutting with edits being made strictly to the beat. More info can be found in the Genealogy of Vidding. One of her vids - Temper of Revenge (Miami Vice) made with Caren Parnes was showcased in the 2008 "24/7" DIY Video Summit.
Also see My Background in Making Song Videos, written about her early years in vidding] (which included BetaMax VCRs!!) and What Are Literary Music Videos? (an article about what Mary she calls "literary music videos," (their history, some how-to...). She credits Pam Perry with inspiring her to make music videos in 1985.
In 1986, Mary made a tribute video to many of the friends she has made in fandom over the years, including Patricia Frazer Lamb, Linda Sax, Crystal Ann Taylor, Camille Bacon-Smith, Gayle F and her husband Richard, Mickey Dupree, Caren Parnes, Linda Ploetz, Jessica Daigenault, Bev Lorenstein, Flora Poste and her brother, she and her husband, Lyn Bates, Judith Gran, and others of the Philadelphia Crew.
A copy of the video tribute can be found here.
Samples of Mary's vids can be found here. You can also find examples of her more influential vidding work across multiple fandoms here.
==Activity==
===Songtape Collections===
By the time Mary attended 4-Play in Phoenix in the 1980s, she had completed over 3 hours of songvids. By the end of 1991, Mary she released over 8 songtape collections, releasing new versions incrementally. She would also release custom songtapes upon request,combining all of the vids in a specific fandom made to date. Most of the songtape collections contained no playlists or videocassette covers or labels.
===Remastered Vids===
In November 2010, Mary began remastering many of her older vids, as well as experimenting with a 16:9 aspect ratio in order to achieve better quality on wide-screen televisions and computer monitors. Mary Van Deusen, New Videos up on site Posted November 14, 2010. Last accessed November 30, 2010. These new and remastered vids were posted to her site, as well as being announced on her livejournal and the main lj vidding community, vidding. Final Frontier Media archived both the original and enhanced versions, though most of their links are dead now.
===YouTube Vids===
In March 2017, Mary Van Deusen put many of her videos up on YouTube. They are organized into playlists by fandoms. There are currently more than 550 of her videos on YouTube.
===Works===
*How Can I Tell You
*Alone (The Professionals vid)
*Needs of the One
*Tapestry
*Temper of Revenge (Starsky & Hutch vid)
*I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore
*The Boxer (Sherlock Holmes vid)
*Sister Golden Hair
*Long Long Way to Go
*Gravel on the Ground
*Be Prepared
*Eye of the Tiger
*The Gambler
*Gus (The Professionals vid)
*The Hunting Song
*Mean Old Man
*One Friend
*Only the Strong Survive (The Professionals vid)
*On the Front Line
*Send the Marines
*The Tribe
*Waiting For A Friend
*When He Shines
*Uptown Girl
==Politics==
Mary Van Deusen began posting fanvids of the Trumps on Youtube starting in August 2017. They were later uploaded to her website in March 2018. Mary Van Deusen, Currently Available Literary Song Videos Last accessed July 5, 2018. The most recent one on Youtube to date was posted in June 2018. While the Trump videos are part of a poltical themed Youtube playlist, subscribers to her video channel receive notification of all vids. The Trump vids are also grouped alongside he media fandom vids on her website. This came as an unpleasant surprise to a number of vidders in fandom, though her website has long shown her support for conservative politicians. Mary Van Deusen, Election 2008 Articles Last accessed July 5, 2018. Mary Van Deusen, Politics Last accessed July 5, 2018. Mary Van Deusen, President George Walker Bush Last accessed July 5, 2018. [for fandom reaction]
==Bio==
About her involvement in fandom Mary has to say this:
==Visual Representation of Changes In Vidding Technology==
		
==Fan Comments Regarding Songvids==
==References==
Category:Vidders