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Black Box was the first independent documentary videomaking group in Communist Hungary and one of the most important chronicler of the regime change in 1989. It was founded in 1987 by Judit Ember, Márta Elbert, István Jávor, András Lányi and Gábor Vági. The group distributed their documentaries on VHS tapes which were referred to as issues of a video magazine. The wider recognition of Black Box came after the release of their documentary Plot #301 which documented the inauguration of the leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Imre Nagy's memorial in Paris in 1988, while showing parallel the protests in Budapest and the corresponding police violence. Some of their widely known films showed the founding of Fidesz (Hungary's current governing party), the Hungarian Round Table Talks, a Duna-gate scandal, and the protests against the Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros Dams. After the regime change in 1989, the group focused their films on disadvantaged groups. In 1993 Black Box won the Hungarian Pulitzer Memoria

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Chris Hill (1994) Where Independent Media Made a Difference: Citizen producers in Eastern Europe, 1989-1991 Community Media Review 17 (2): 24–24.

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