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Pop Video Test IV: Entertainment, parts 1 and 2

Ant Farm, Arts & Culture, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, On the Media, Performance, Skip Blumberg, Tom Weinberg

“The Pop Video Test” was a joint effort between Scott Jacobs and Tom Weinberg of the Chicago Editing Center, and the Video Group of the Bell and Howell Corporation. This cooperative effort between the independent video community and a corporate video distributor was intended to test the viability of the home video market. The videomakers assembled ten hours of video pieces meant as an alternative to available pre-recorded programming (ie Hollywood movies). Fifty VCR owners in the Chicago area agreed to examine and review the tapes. Test viewers then received the programming two hours at a time, in groupings labeled Video Art, Documentary, Entertainment, and Potpourri.
Royko At The Goat

Chicago

“Royko at The Goat” by Scott Jacobs and Lilly Ollinger. A relaxed conversation with legendary columnist Mike Royko at the Billy Goat Tavern in Chicago in July 1982. Royko shares some of his greatest memories playing sixteen inch softball with a group of friends over beers and burgers.
Now And Then

CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Image Union

A short documentary about a group of elderly women who perform in a Broadway revue-type stage show. Originally aired on Image Union Episode 0038.
Image Union, episode 0325

Chicago, Chicago Politics, Image Union

Compilation episode of Image Union featuring “Jane Byrne Election Night” by Cindy Neal and Lilly Ollinger, “Don’t Rain on my Boufont” by Diana Stoneberg, and “Uptown Mellow Drama” by Ron Shook.
Image Union, episode 0038

Image Union

Two part Image Union episode featuring “Now and Then” by Lilly Ollinger and “It’s Not Like That No More” by Rudy Horn.
Image Union, episode 0040: Holiday Show

CLIR, Communities, Guerrilla Television, Image Processing, Image Union, Latinx, Viewers Choice

Compilation episode of Image Union featuring “The Happy Bus” by Lilly Ollinger, “Christmas Eve at Gordon’s” by Jay Tannenbaum, “Chairs” by Nick Despota, John Mabey, and Bob Snyder, “Christmas Morning in Sister Bay” by Dan Sandin, and “Nicaragua Report” “by Juan Downey. In between videos, there is footage of a Chicago holiday parade. It features footage of Mayor Jane Byrne, various politicians, and numerous floats.
The Ambassadors of Cabrini

Black, Chicago, Communities, Sports, Viewers Choice, Voices of Cabrini

Documentary about the Jesse White Tumblers, a gymnastic group made up predominantly of kids from the Chicago Housing Authority’s Cabrini Green.
Image Union, episode 0521

CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Image Union

Compilation episode of Image Union featuring the work of artists Cynthia Neal, Lilly Ollinger, and Tom Weinberg. Works include footage from Chicago’s Deep Tunnel Project, a portrait of an 11-year-old marathon runner, and an interview with a producer of x-rated pornographic films.