00:00 Tape begins with a still and a countdown to six. Titles: “On Dream Street… by Skip Blumberg” RT is listed as 19:30. 00:13 Slow motion of people dancing onstage. The music fades in and gradually grows louder and the footage speeds up to normal. B-roll of people dancing onstage. 00:48 Blumberg interviews a man who explains the event taking place: it’s the Central Park Challenge for the National Institute for People wi… Continue reading →
American Way, Andrew Jones, Black, Communities, THE 90's
…Downtown… Everything’s waiting for you.” 04:26 “Polka Dots” by Skip Blumberg. A delivery man loads polka dot dresses into his van via a cord that slides them down from a 5th floor window to the street. Skip asks the man what’s new in this year’s fashions. He replies, “Polka dots, a lot of Chiffon.” Skip retorts, “Yeah, that’s your company, but when you’re driving around on th… Continue reading →
0:00 Open on footage of a street performer who is playing both a banjo and a kazoo. He plays for Judith Binder, the filmmaker. He sings about his dog and then a Christian song. He continues through several more songs. He speaks with Binder for a bit between songs. 16:07 Binder switches to filming another street performer who plays a hammered dulcimer. He speaks with a woman who stays for a bit to watch him play. 21:03 Binder films a violinist. 2… Continue reading →
Chicago, Guerrilla TV, Roots of Video, Video Makers Choice
0:00 Open to video recorded from inside the human body. The interviews for this street tape have been taped over by a science education video. 0:08 Cut to a sidewalk. A man walks out of his apartment building. Blumberg asks him if he wants to be on public television and then asks him what he thinks about having to work for a living. The man: “I think it’s good, but it’s alright to have a little vacation.” The man is a bar… Continue reading →
00:00 Titles: “Down Clark Street” Opens with Tom Palazzolo talking over his own archival photograph. He arrived in Chicago in 1960. His impressions of Chicago continue over archival video footage of downtown. 00:37 Footage switches to present day. Palazzolo is still talking about his inital impressions of Chicago, including that he moved to Hubbard Street in 1962, where he lived the next ten years, photographing his surroundings from… Continue reading →
Performance, Roots of Video, Video Makers Choice
00:50 Intro: Tom Weinberg Reads the Wall Street Journal April 20, 1982. Weinberg reads the paper on the train. 02:30 Weinberg introduces Paper Tiger crew and explains that the Wall Street Journal is only about money, then browses through the headlines. Skip Blumberg explains that he doesn’t read the WSJ. 05:00 Weinberg talks about business and finance section vs. world news, surveys articles in business and finance. 07:00 Weinberg talks ab… Continue reading →
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… He wants to take the MTV culture and give it an intellectual boost. 14:55 Vignette, a clip from a piece about street vendors. 15:36 Karen Thorne, media activist, says she wants to draw young videomakers together to create a challenging, exciting, meaningful media. 16:28 Clip of a segment documenting Alexandra Township in South Africa, an impoverished and over populated community. 20:00 Thorne says young people need to take their lives more seri… Continue reading →
Chicago, Outside Agitators, Studs Terkel
…957). Terkel goes on to speak of Jazz and Blues. 15:35 They discuss his first oral history book, Division Street America, and how this led to the other books he’s written. 16:45 Interviewer invites viewers to call in and speak with Studs. 16:56 Interviewer asks Studs to talk about his book Hard Times and the scar of keeping quiet about the humiliation that so many people experienced during the Great Depression. Studs speaks also… Continue reading →