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  The Purpose and Power of Video

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  Founded in 1985, Videomaker Magazine became the first magazine for non-professional video camera users. Beginning as a bi-monthly publication, Videomaker strove to make the process accessible, by including a beginner’s guide for users and cataloging the video cameras available at the time. Videomaker Inc. has since grown into the #1 national consumer magazine for video enthusiasts and continues to empower people to make video through an increasing variety of educational platforms. Matt York is the founder of Videomaker and has […]

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  Hate Mail: Lost documentary saved

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  Earlier this month, we got a nod from the Dallas Morning News for our recent digitization and ongoing preservation of “Hate Mail,” a 1992 documentary on racism produced by Mark Birnbaum and Bart Weiss that has been unavailable to the wider public for most of its life. The documentary gets its name from the spiteful missive sent to Bob Ray Sanders, a black talk radio host on an otherwise predominantly white radio station in Dallas, TX. Birnbaum and Weiss interviewed […]

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  3/21/16: Join Scrappers, Truthout.org, and Media Burn at the Music Box for Rights Lab: Can I record the police?

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  Where: Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave., Chicago, IL When: Monday, March 21, 2016 — 7:00 pm Admission: Free Filming police is legal in all 50 states – but numerous people have been arrested while doing so. The third episode of Rights Lab, a cross-genre web series using cinema verite techniques to explore the most pressing civil liberties questions of our day, explains the discrepancy between the law and what happens on the ground, with the help of performance […]

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  Dyeing the River Green

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  In Chicago, it has been a tradition since the first Mayor Daley to dye the Chicago River green for the St. Patrick’s Day parade. In 1992, videomaker Patrick Creadon, shooting for The 90’s, went downtown at 2:30 a.m. to cover the preparation for the parade and to talk with the guys from Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Local Union #110 about this tradition. The footage didn’t make it on the show, but decades later, we pulled it out of the archive and […]

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  Seventeen years old. Sixteen gunshots. Thirteen months before a murder charge.

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  Voters in Cook County, Illinois, will go to the polls in the state’s primary tomorrow and will pick a candidate to run for Cook County State’s Attorney. The Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, as well as many prominent Democrats, have endorsed candidate Kim Foxx over incumbent Anita Alvarez. All have citied Alvarez’s slow handing of the Laquan McDonald case. 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke in October 2014. Alvarez took over […]

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  Chicago Bears Legend Bill Wade

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  Chicago Bears legend Bill Wade passed away Wednesday at the age of 85. Most notably, Wade was the quarterback for the Bears back in 1963, when they won the NFL championship. He talked about that championship season, plus other musing about football and his dislike of soccer, when a video crew caught up with him in 1985 for Once A Star. Once A Star was a TV program produced by Tom Weinberg and Thea Flaum that profiled a number of […]

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  Remembering Dr. Quentin Young, Activist and Physician

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  Dr. Quentin Young was a Chicago-based activist for healthcare reform, desegregation, and other important issues throughout his life. He served as chairman of medicine at Cook County Hospital during the historic 18-day HSA strike in 1975, where he frequently butted heads with the hospital’s governing body over public health equality. He died earlier this week at the age of 92. In memory of his life and work, we present a number of clips from our archive. The first clip is […]

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  “It’s a con game.” —Bill Veeck on Spring Training

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  The windchill is in the 20s in Chicago, but in Arizona (and Florida) baseball spring training is about to begin. Ostensibly, spring training is a time for the players to get back into shape, but its significance for baseball fans goes far beyond that. Bill Veeck, legendary baseball owner for 60 years, gave his personal view of spring training in 1984 on an episode of Time Out, a weekly sports program hosted by a number of Chicago-area journalists and sportscasters. […]