Kandy Fong

Kandy Fong is a Star Trek fan and mother of vidding.
Kandy ran vid shows at west coast gen and slash cons starting in 1979 and continuing through the 1990s. Kandy created the concept of a vid show compilation tape in 1989 for Koon-ut-Cali-Con, and continued making the masters and copies for many other cons (sometimes with credits!) that continued to circulate long after the conventions. She also agented tape collections of other vidders, such as Mary Van Deusen. These compilation tapes, e.g. A History of Vidding, have preserved important pieces of vidding history.
Kandy Fong helped start the longest-running Star Trek Fan Club in the world: United Federation of Phoenix in 1975. Her first slide show was created as 'club entertainment'. Kandy was an editor for several issues of the club's zine: 'The Phoenican Star Galley'. 
She then helped edit: 'Golden Oldies & New Delights'. 
The next year, Kandy and 3 other local slash fans held the fourth K/S con, 4-Play in Phoenix. 
She is also one of the creators of the famous K/S convention skit, the Dancing Penises.
Kandy brought her friends to Los Angeles to videotape the Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremonies, plus the private parties afterwards for Leonard Nimoy and Gene Roddenberry. She also directed " Star Trek: The Home Movie." From her bio in Quastar #4 (1984): "Kandy Fong: a bookkeeper with a decidedly warped sense of humor (ask her about Spock and the Mickey Mouse ears sometime), she writes, does "interesting" slide shows (like Star Trek slides set to Rocky Horror music!), runs conventions, is a K/S zine editor, and is the director of the infamous Star Trek: The Home Movie."
Some of Kandy's early slide shows and songvids can be found on her Kandy Fong Slide and VHS Video Shows to 1990‎ compilation DVD. 
In 2004, she released an anthology named "Vids by Kandy" which includes some of her early works, followed by "The Start of the Betamax Years: 1990-1992" in the late 2000s.
Kandy is the inventor of the con tape. "So, it was really kind of cool, because we could do titles, and credits, and all kinds of things, so it ended up— So I invented the idea of a con tape. And it made it so much easier, because then we could take that tape and make copies for people. 'Cause it always really frustrated me to go to a convention and you'd see these vids, and you'd never see them again." -- from Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Kandy Fong and Marnie S 
At Vividcon 2012, Kandy brought her slides and tapes to the convention and performed a number of rare slideshows: these performances were filmed and several can be seen at Kandy's page at the Archive of Our Own.
==Interviews==
* Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Kandy Fong and Marnie (2012)
==Some Early Vids and Slideshows==
* Just The Way You Are - Quantum Leap
* Losing My Religion -- SH 
* Both Sides Now
* Banned from Argo (the slideshow) 
* Kandy Fong's First Slide Show
* What Do You Do With a Drunken Vulcan?
==Her Slideshow Start==
From a 2012 interview with Kandy Fong and Marnie S: 
==Articles==
* mentioned in Why Do Fan-Made Trailers Rule the Internet?, by Cat Zhang, New York Times (October 25, 2023)
==References==
 
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