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  [The 90’s raw: New York City shoe repair]

  American Way, THE 90's, Tom Weinberg

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Tom Weinberg and Joel Cohen ride the train around O’Hare airport, and then travel to Manhattan, where they visit a charming shoe repair shop.

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  [The 90’s raw: New York streets #1]

  American Way, Skip Blumberg, THE 90's, Videomakers

  Raw footage for The 90’s of New York City streets. Skip Blumberg speaks with a woman, Danica Kombol, about stroller techniques in New York. He also speaks with Susan Cohn about the Green Guerrillas, parks around New York, and crime. Interspersed are various shots of the city and a musical performance by an unknown artist.

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  [The 90’s raw: Norval Morris]

  Chicago, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Interview with Norval Morris (1923-2004), University of Chicago law professor and advocate for criminal justice. He describes the iniquities in the American criminal justice system.

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  [The 90’s raw: NYC streets #4]

  American Way, Skip Blumberg, THE 90's, Videomakers

  Raw footage shot for The 90’s. In this tape, Skip Blumberg, the videographer, wanders around different parts of New York including Chinatown and a homeless enclave, talking to various people. Segments include: workers shirt pick-up, Chinatown, Tee Pee, Irene, Princess, Fed Ex.

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  [The 90’s raw: NYC streets #5]

  American Way, Black, Communities, Skip Blumberg, THE 90's, Videomakers

  Raw footage shot for the TV series The 90’s. Skip Blumberg goes around the streets of New York taping everyday people and some of their thoughts. A portion of this video shows some of his family life. A larger portion is concerned with the performance of a cheerleading-type routine by a group of girls, which Blumberg has called “The Street”; there are several takes of this spanning about a third of the footage. The recordings take place outside the Marcy Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. On a subsequent tape, the group is called “The Champions.”

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  [The 90’s raw: Pat Arbor]

  Chicago, THE 90's, Tom Weinberg

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Tom Weinberg interviews Pat Arbor, chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade, who talks about his two main pastimes: mountain climbing and soybean trading. “When I was new in the business I had lots of feelings; I also had lots of troubles…The secret to life is discipline.” He recounts the story about how he began mountain climbing — he read that Robert MacNamara had climbed the Matterhorn and decided to do it himself.

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  [The 90’s raw: Paul Nadler interview]

  Skip Blumberg, THE 90's

  Professor Paul Nadler from Rutgers University talks about money, racism with Tom Weinberg and Skip Blumberg at Bentley’s restaurant at a Hilton hotel in Newark, New Jersey.

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  [The 90’s raw: Post Visa lottery #2]

  Eddie Becker, GDDF, NHPRC-2, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Eddie Tape #80. Outside the United States Post Office in Merrifield, Virginia, 1991 after the first immigration visa lottery. Nearly 19 million applications were submitted by mail for the 40,000 open slots. The lottery was an attempt to give a boost to several under-represented countries, including Ireland. There are multiple interviews on this tape, which is continued from 10935.