Click! Tent and Performances at the 1998 Cybercast of the White House Easter Egg Roll, Howard Lefkowitz Collection
This film was taken at the White House Easter Egg Roll on April 13, 1998. This film includes footage of a reading by author Amy Tan, a performance by Sam Arnold the "Mountain Man," and footage inside the Click! tent. The Click! tent was part of EarthLink's World Wide Web Adventure. EarthLink was also on hand that year to produce the first cybercast of the Easter Egg Roll. Featured in the Click! tent was a costumed character dressed as the cartoon Dilbert.
This film is part of the Howard Lefkowitz Collection. Lefkowitz served as vice president of business development and Internet marketing for EarthLink. In 1998, Lefkowitz developed and produced the first cybercast of the White House Easter Egg Roll. Working with the White House, EarthLink, and other technology partners, over 100 hours of film was recorded and simultaneously aired on the Internet live from the South Lawn of the White House. Lefkowitz would produce the cybercast from 1998 to 2000.
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