Three Fourths
A video compiling footage of waves and the beach.
The documentary “Earth Birth, Sky High,” which records the home birth of Dean and Dudley Evenson’s daughter, as well as a response to the video by an obstetrician. The tape also includes a sampler of artists whose audio recordings were released by the Soundings of the Earth label as well as footage of an interview with members of the Blackfoot tribe about their decision to remove their children from American schools.
A brief portrait of Joann Elam who delivers the mail in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. She talks about being a woman in a traditionally male job. She comments on responses from job supervisors and how she derives personal benefit from this kind of employment. Produced for the Chicago Video Makers’ Coalition program, SLICES OF CHICAGO, a show for broadcast consisting of small format “alternative” videos on subjects not normally seen on broadcast television.
A look at the Panama Canal, with footage and discussion of the ships that pass through and the surrounding areas.
Friday Night with Steve Edwards TV show. Features a debate between civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and head of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke.
00:00 Episode Title 00:08 “Tuxedo Center” Owner of the tuxedo center talks about the amount of business they get during the Academy Awards. Intro to Worldwide Tonight about the camera work done for the Oscars. Several celebrity nominees are named and introduced. Cameraman talks to a woman about her outfit. Narrator discusses trying to get people to act natural in front of the camera. A True Value TV (TVTV) cameraman describes the equipment they use. They play TVTV’s special about […]
Raw footage from an afternoon behind the scenes at Flying Bob’s Traveling Amusement Show when it came to a parking lot in Arlington Heights one weekend in 1977.
Chuck Olin’s documentary on the making of Marc Chagall’s America Windows created for the Art Institute of Chicago.