[The 90’s raw: Robert Demella]
Videographer Skip Blumberg interviews taxi cab driver Robert Demella and others on the streets of New York City near City Hall.
Videographer Skip Blumberg interviews taxi cab driver Robert Demella and others on the streets of New York City near City Hall.
Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. This tape features footage of the Broadway Barber Shop in New York City. As patrons get their hair cut, shop owner Mr. Kay engages in lively debates with his customers.
Raw footage for The 90’s. Students in Hell’s Kitchen read their poems about the 1990s, followed by an interview with musician and activist Richie Havens. Shot in New York City.
Raw footage for The 90’s. Interview with Rick Hornung, staff writer at The Village Voice, about the Mohawk civil war.
Raw footage for The 90’s. Fran and Tak, an interracial couple, talk about the experiences of a mixed marriage.
Interview with Reggie Joule, an Alaskan Native Inupiat visiting New York City. Interview with Peter Fogel, bartender at the Mayflower Hotel bar.
A sweet, interesting, and enjoyable documentary about a double dutch championship for junior high age kids in New York. The tape featured mainly local kids from Manhattan and the boroughs, but the event drew an international crowd to the Lincoln Center on 6/13/81. We spend time with the teams as they practice and compete and hear about how they train and how they feel about their sport. The tape manages to simultaneously capture all of the tension of the competition and give a personal look at a number of the teams. Blumberg manages to catch the participants at their most raw and emotional moments, like when a 10 (?) year old girl is sobbing uncontrollably like she had just lost a family member. Blumberg asks her what place her team got. They were #1.