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

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