[Bye Bye Basil #3]
Tape #3 of party honoring Basil Talbott. Includes footage of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington the week before he died.
Tape #3 of party honoring Basil Talbott. Includes footage of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington the week before he died.
A look at the life and career of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, produced for the 10-year anniversary of his death. The show is made up of interviews with Daley’s family, friends, colleagues, and critics, as well as much archival footage.
Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” This tape features a few minutes of footage of Bill Veeck’s home garden, followed by an interview with Chicago Mayor Harold Washington about Veeck.
This 1981 documentary creates a revealing portrait of Dan Rostenkowski, Chicago’s most important Congressman in Washington, at the time when he first became Chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. It demonstrates the style and deep-rooted network of politics in Washington and Chicago, the colorful man himself, and his contemporaries. “The Chairman” was at the height of his power when this documentary was produced, a over a decade before Rostenkowski was indicted, convicted and sent to Federal prison. It shows the inner workings of Congress and politics from the point of view of a genuine insider… the phone calls, relationships, and processes that run this country.
Footage for The 90’s Election Specials. This tape includes footage for a The 90’s segment called “President Who?” in which various people say who they would trust to be president. After this, there is footage of a Harold Washington fundraiser from 1987 followed by an interview with Izola White, who hosted this last fundraiser for Washington at her famous soul-food place, Izola’s Restaurant.
Mayoral Commercials by Lynn Sweet. This tape collects many of the political ads from the 1983 race for mayor of Chicago. The ads are shown in approximately consecutive order. First there are the ads for the Democratic primary race between Jane Byrne, Richard M. Daley, and Harold Washington, followed by ads from the general election between Harold Washington and Bernard Epton. Many of the ads are smears, so it is interesting to see them in close succession responding to each other. Includes ad featuring Studs Terkel for Washington.
0:00 Slate, count-in. 0:13 Image Union opening. 0:57 WBBM-radio’s Diane Abt interviews Chicago Mayor Harold Washington in his Hyde Park home. The interview starts out discussing race and later moves on to create a portrait of Washington’s daily life. 19:22 “The Nixon Tape” by Elon Soltes. Documentary about people who are obsessed with succeeding in photographing the elusive Richard Nixon. 27:20 Image Union credits. 28:40 End of tape.