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  Art History at the Panama Canal

  Skip Blumberg, Tom Weinberg

  A look at the Panama Canal, with footage and discussion of the ships that pass through and the surrounding areas.

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  Kennedy Women: Construction workers on the Kennedy Expressway, 1993

  Blog, Chicago, Skip Blumberg, Tom Weinberg

  Construction season is upon us again, and the Kennedy Expressway is about to get hit with some serious lane closures over the next few weekends, with the first round starting this evening. It’s part of the project to replace Ontario Street Bridge, and it’s expected to cause major traffic disruptions. The frustration of road construction is nothing new to Chicagoans, but we often don’t spend much time thinking about the people on the other side of the orange cones. That’s […]

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  [Chicago Conspiracy Appeal press conference]

  Chicago, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Outside Agitators, Politics, Skip Blumberg

  Bay Area Video Coalition remaster of raw 1/2″ portapak footage. The original tape appears to have been recorded over many times, so often a random image will insert itself in for a minute or so. The tape appears to have been in extremely terrible condition, so the images are always flashing or the are obscured by everything looking almost completely white.

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  On Dream Street…

  Skip Blumberg

  Documentary about a dance team for people with disabilities called Dream Street as they compete at the Central Park Challenge.

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  CamNet, episode 1302

  Eddie Becker, Global Perspectives on War and Peace, Judith Binder, Nancy Cain, Patrick Creadon, Skip Blumberg, Tom Weinberg

  Epidose 1302 of “CamNet,” a two hour cable program produced by Nancy Cain and friends in L.A. in the mid-90s. This episode features video from a tunnel infrastructure project in Oahu, Hawaii; a subway construction project in Los Angeles, California, and Louis ‘Studs’ Terkel speaking at his bridge dedication ceremony in Chicago, Illinois.

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  CamNet, episode 702

  Eddie Becker, Judith Binder, Nancy Cain, Skip Blumberg, Tom Weinberg

  A cable program produced by Nancy Cain, Judith Binder, and friends in L.A. in the mid-90s. This episode focuses primarily on a protest in Washington, D.C. over the Rodney King verdict, as well as a short segment about the aftermath of the riots in L.A.

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  Pop Video Test IV: Entertainment, parts 1 and 2

  Ant Farm, Arts & Culture, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, On the Media, Performance, Skip Blumberg, Tom Weinberg

  “The Pop Video Test” was a joint effort between Scott Jacobs and Tom Weinberg of the Chicago Editing Center, and the Video Group of the Bell and Howell Corporation. This cooperative effort between the independent video community and a corporate video distributor was intended to test the viability of the home video market. The videomakers assembled ten hours of video pieces meant as an alternative to available pre-recorded programming (ie Hollywood movies). Fifty VCR owners in the Chicago area agreed to examine and review the tapes. Test viewers then received the programming two hours at a time, in groupings labeled Video Art, Documentary, Entertainment, and Potpourri.

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  [The 90’s Election Specials raw: DNC Thursday]

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

  Raw footage for The 90’s election specials. This tape covers the last day of the 1992 Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden, culminating with Bill Clinton’s acceptance speech.