Mary Schmidt

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Fan
Name:	Mary Schmidt
Alias(es):	Mary M. Schmidt
Type:	fan writer, vidder,fanzine publisher
Fandoms:	Quantum Leap, Star Trek, Robin of Sherwood, Sime~Gen
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Mary Schmidt is a gen fan writer and a fan vidder.

In the 1990s, she wrote and published a manual on fan vidding, Making Fannish Music Videos.

Her vids have been shown at Zebracon and MediaWest.

Mary was the editor and publisher of Quarterstaff, a Robin of Sherwood newsletter which won a FanQ award.

Zines

• Gemini Lynx (Star Trek: TOS)

Vid-ography

• "In the Navy" (A&E's Horatio Hornblower)--the Village People
• "You're Only Human" (A&E's Horatio Hornblower)--Billy Joel
• "Threshold" (Masterpiece Theatre's "Great Expectations")--Garnet Rogers (The vid comes in at just under 8 minutes, including opening and closing credits. It is often considered a living room vid due to its length.)
• "Crossroads" (Quantum Leap)--Don McLean
• "(What If God Was) One of Us" (the movie, "Oh, God" and multi-fandom)--Joan Osborne
• "Turn! Turn! Turn!" (Quantum Leap)--the Byrds
• "Come from the Heart" (Quantum Leap)--Garnet Rogers
• "I'll Stand by You" (hurt/comfort multi-fandom)--Pretenders
• "Come to My Window" (The Crying Game)-- Melissa Etheridge
• "Every Little Thing (He) Does Is Magic" (Scott Bakula multi-fandom)--Shawn Colvin
• "Home" (Quantum Leap)--Cat Eggleston
• "Desperado" (Eisenhower and Lutz)--Clint Black
• "Be Prepared" (Quantum Leap)--Tom Lehrer
• "Once I Was" (Quantum Leap)--Tim Buckley
• "Somebody Else's Troubles" (Quantum Leap)--Steve Goodman
• "Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall" (Quantum Leap)--Simon and Garfunkel