Arts & Culture, Black, Chicago, Communities
00:01 Color bars. 00:21 Camera pans down a Chicago Street. Lefty Dizz voiceover introducing a show. “Chicago Blues Urban Experience: Loyola University Program for Continuing Education” Music begins to play. Sign reads “Help celebrate Blue Monday live in Chicago featuring: the sounds of 43rd St. with Lefty Dizz and his shock treatment. Also special assorted guest.” Camera zooms in and out and then pans on a map of Chicago…. Continue reading →
Arts & Culture, Black, Chicago, Communities
00:09 “Chicago Blues Urban Experience: Loyola University Program for Continuing Education” Music begins to play. 00:16 “Sweet Home Chicago Overture: A Thematic Progression” 00:21 Camera pans over a map of the American South. “Concert Poster for James A. Williamson, David Edwards, and Floyd Jones. Brief footage of the three playing on a stage interspersed with footage of the map. Audio cuts in and out. Historic photo… Continue reading →
Arts & Culture, Black, Chicago, Communities
00:07 Color bars. Camera opens on Jimmy Walker and Billy Branch performing with a band. “Chicago Blues Urban Experience: Loyola University Program for Continuing Education.” Footage of their performance. 2:31 Cut to a performance by Albert Luandrew. 3:46 Cut to a performance by Johnny Davis. 5:23 Voiceover of Davis speaking about his family playing music. Camera pans over a map of Chicago with a focus on the places Davis is mentio… Continue reading →
Black, Chicago, Communities, Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N Roll, Studs Terkel
…tive entering a terminal and then a shot of the tracks passing below the front of a train. Cut to a shot of the Chicago River looking east over Lake Michigan. The Carbon and Carbide, Tribune Tower, and Wrigley Buildings can be seen. Louis ‘Studs’ Terkel explains the Great Migration of black people from the south to Chicago, “The City Called Heaven.” 2:02 Cut to a photograph of the Wrigley Building (?). Blues music plays un… Continue reading →
…so remembers the historic boxing match between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling. Footage of Blind John Davis playing blues piano. Terkel talks about the importance of blues music. 29:02 Chicago at night. Terkel sits in an all-night grill, then visits the Edward Hopper painting “Nighthawks” at the Art Institute of Chicago. Terkel strolls the halls of the Art Institute, showing off the impressive collection of French Impressionist paintings,… Continue reading →
…7;s subjects shown over carnivalesque music. A narrator briefly gives depictions of each. 01:42 Opening to Wild Chicago, montage of Ben Hollis’s introduction and fragmented clips of eclectic scenes across the Chicagoland area. 2:44 “King’s Manor.” Hollis visits Kings Manor (2122 W Lawrence Ave.), a medieval themed banquet hall. Staff dress in medieval style clothing. The banquet’s interior has fabricated appurtenance… Continue reading →
Chicago, Home movie, NHPRC, Studs Terkel
…emory and truth, themes to which he returns later in the tape. 01:19 Terkel’s longtime friend John Davis, Chicago native and blues pianist, shares his early memories of music with Terkel. Segues into a portrayal of segregation in Chicago, layering sound bytes over images of the city. “Segregation is worse in Chicago than I ever knew in my life,” says one person. “What we’re witnessing is the deterioration of the simp… Continue reading →
0:08 The film opens with a newscaster speaking about the rising prominence of Chicago’s film scene. 0:30 A woman with a clapperboard marks the first take of “Hollywood Comes to Chicago.” 0:49 John Landis, director of The Blues Brothers, speaks about that film — and encourages viewers to go see it when it’s released. 1:12 The film cuts to Lucy Salenger, the director of the Illinois Film Office, as she speaks on the achievements of her office. 2:0… Continue reading →