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  More treasures from the archive

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  Media Burn’s paper document collection has been sorted and ready for digitization. These records roughly encompass the last fifty years of independent TV and portable video, most of it shot & edited in Chicago. These materials cover projects previously shown on television (and available to watch on Media Burn’s website), but also include projects previously unseen on television, as well as historical materials relating to the rise of independent television and even some public television channels. This project was supported […]

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  Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011)

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  We remember Gil Scott-Heron with Skip Blumberg’s excellent interview from The 90’s. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZvWt29OG0s]

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  Media Burn at eFlux Tuesday May 31

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  Media Burn will be in New York next Tuesday for a screening at eFlux. The program will highlight an eclectic mix from the archive, including work by the Videofreex, Juan Downey, and TVTV–George Lois, a UFO sighting, and hallucinations in the jungle, all in one night! Tom Weinberg will introduce the screening, and there will be some surprise guests in the audience. Join us for this fun reunion! Tuesday, May 31 7pm, free admission e-flux Gallery 41 Essex Street NYC

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  Media Burn at realeyz.tv

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  Media Burn is now part of realeyz.tv, an exciting new online community for film lovers. Based in Berlin, their focus is on creating community and dialogue about independent film. We’re excited to be a part of it. Please check out our collection at realeyz.

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  Why we’ll miss Mayor Daley

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  This week, writer David Murray spoke with Media Burn about what Chicago’s losing as Mayor Daley completes his 22 years in office. If you didn’t catch it already, he wrote a great article about the lives of politicians after leaving office for the Chicago Reader. Our favorite is his Huffington Post article about Media Burn called “How to Go From Jamoke to Chicagoan in Under 40 Minutes.” David Murray is a writer based in Chicago; he blogs about his work and his life at Writing Boots. [youtube=http://youtu.be/PJu5BTeD7II]

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  Happy May Day! Studs Remembers Haymarket

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  At Haymarket Square in 1996, Studs Terkel remembers the activists who won American workers the right to the eight hour day. The video is an excerpt from “Rocking the Boat,” a documentary on the labor movement produced by John de Graaf, Mirko Popadic, and Alan Harris Stein. Watch the full version of “Rocking the Boat” at Media Burn. Know someone else who would like what we do? Send them this link to sign up for our email list.

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  It’s a Living: a documentary inspired by Studs Terkel’s Working

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  It’s a Living Produced through Videopolis by Skip Blumberg, Paul Challacombe, Joel Gold, Judy Hoffman, Anda Korsts, Jim Mayer, Jack McFadden, Tom Shea, Tom Weinberg, and Jim Wiseman 1975 It’s A Living was the first locally produced independent videotape broadcast on Chicago television, airing May 9, 1975 on WTTW. More than a dozen video pioneers worked together with Studs Terkel to make an insightful television program about everyday people that was unlike anything that had been broadcast before. It’s A […]

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  Great Men, Division Street

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  Jerry Blumenthal presents his video, “Great Men, Division Street.” In honor of Kenneth Green’s book, “I’m From Division Street,” old friends from 1950s Humboldt Park reunite at Manny’s in 2010. Watch this video at Media Burn for more information about the “great men.”