The 90’s, episode 109: Offbeat TV
Episode 109 of the award-winning TV series The 90’s. This episode is called “OFFBEAT TV,” and it features the following segments:
Episode 109 of the award-winning TV series The 90’s. This episode is called “OFFBEAT TV,” and it features the following segments:
Interview with Rick Masley, an orientation and mobility instructor helping the sight impaired adjust to using a cane and navigating the streets of New York City. He demonstrates the process with his student, Lilly Barry, who is learning to navigate to her new office building. Videographer Skip Blumberg follows a workers rights rally and demonstration.
Raw footage for the TV program Chicago Slices. This tape features footage of the Apple Festival in Long Grove, IL, including the parade, hat decorating contest, and apple pie eating contest.
This tape features raw footage for the documentary “None of the Above,” an in depth ethnographic look at non voting citizens in the U.S. We watch as the RePass family prepares food at their home after Sunday services. Cindy RePass talks about her religious and political beliefs. We also watch as Frank RePass takes a few of the videomakers on a tour of Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans.
Holland tunnel, Pro-choice, Civil disobedience #2. Skip Blumberg interviews demonstrators, police officers, and media at a pro-choice demonstration in Chicago.
This video contains raw footage for the television show “Chicago Slices.” On this tape, Skip Blumberg and Tom Weinberg interview a number of women working on the reconstruction of the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago, IL.
Labor/work-focused compilation episode of Image Union, hosted by Studs Terkel. It features several segments from the Illinois Labor History Society, “It’s a Living: When I Was a Worker Like LaVerne” by Skip Blumberg and Jane Aaron, “Uno Mas” by Mike Torro, Iris Bruno, and Jose Claudio, “Packingtown U.S.A. by William Adelman,” and “Winnie Wright, Age 11” and “Trick Bag” by Kartemquin Films.