Chicago, Chicago Politics, Communities, Latinx, Politics, Roots of Video, Viewers Choice, Vito Marzullo
00:30 John Damagalo, Marzullo’s personal secretary of 18 years, introduces the documentary and gives basic facts about the 25th Ward. A slide show plays, including a picture of Marzullo with Robert Kennedy and a picture of Marzullo with Jimmy Carter and Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic. 01:27 Marzullo boasts of his 58 years in politics, holding positions ranging from precinct captain and ward superintendent to alderman and state legislator…. Continue reading →
Video: Vito Purchase DVD Video Details & Transcript Level: Middle, High school Subject:Government/politics, History, Social studies/science Title: Vito Date: 1978 Duration: 61 minutes Synopsis: Nobody exemplified the old-style machine politics of the Richard J. Daley era better than Alderman Vito Marzullo, who ruled the West Side 25th Ward virtually unchallenged from 1953 to 1985. This 60-minute documentary classic produced in 1978 re… Continue reading →
…go White Sox tickets from Watch It!. 37:41. Commercial for Gold Coast Dogs. 38:16 A parody of a mayoral campaign commercial. 39:12 An excerpt from the “Vito Marzullo,” a 1978 documentary about Vito Marzullo, Chicago’s 25th Ward Alderman, and one of the last of the old time machine politicians. 58:51 Les Brown Commercial. 01:00:20 An ad for a contest to win free Chicago White Sox tickets from Watch It!. 01:00:40 End of Tape…. Continue reading →
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…! What a wonderful name! Boy, are we glad to meet you. We’ve been looking for you for months.” 0:24 Vito Marzullo. 1978. The old-time Chicago machine alderman expounds on his philosophies in his trademark style. “You gotta be everything from a street cleaner to a psychiatrist to be an alderman nowadays. The requests and demands that they have nowadays – never in the history! When they come with the demands, I say ‘Yo… Continue reading →
…onal Historical Publications and Records Commission and the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation. Vito Marzullo Extent: 49 videocassettes (U-matic); 6 videocassettes (DVCAM); 1 videocassette (Mini-DV) Paper materials (.5 linear feet): Drawer 7, collection 7, series 1, folder 1 (Vito production) Dates: 1978 Description: Tom Weinberg’s Vito Marzullo is a portrait of Chicago’s 25th Ward Alderman Vito Marzullo (1897-1990), who is descri… Continue reading →
…le.” 19:55 “Newsquake” comedy segment, created by Warren Leming and Nate Herman. Starring Tom Alderman, Miriam Flynn, Nate Herman, Warren Leming, and Joe Mantegna. A spoof news show. “Chicago’s news spectacle.” In addition to other goofy Chicago-related gags, Mantegna reads report that Alds. Roman Pucinski and Vito Marzullo have challenged each other to a spelling contest, the winner of which will be the first… Continue reading →
…eartbreaking stories, or absurd stories, or desperate stories, or people who were absolutely furious with Mike. Alderman Vito Marzullo once told me, ‘He has shit in his blood.’ We would listen to these idiotic stories sometimes of people who were in one way or another dispossessed. The leg man dutifully turned each one of these phone calls into a memo for Mike. You couldn’t, wouldn’t, didn’t omit a single call becaus… Continue reading →
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…mmigrants. 05:46 “Newsquake” comedy segment, created by Warren Leming and Nate Herman. Starring Tom Alderman, Miriam Flynn, Nate Herman, Warren Leming, and Joe Mantegna. A spoof news show. “Chicago’s new spectacle.” In addition to other goofy Chicago-related gags, Mantegna reads report that Alds. Roman Pucinski and Vito Marzullo have challenged each other to a spelling contest, the winner of which will be the first w… Continue reading →