The 90s
Actor Todd Alcott performs the monologues “Keys”, “Lenore”, and “Dave”. An ABC news report on John Parker and his controversial needles exchange program.
Actor Todd Alcott performs the monologues “Keys”, “Lenore”, and “Dave”. An ABC news report on John Parker and his controversial needles exchange program.
Holland tunnel, Pro-choice, Civil disobedience #2. Skip Blumberg interviews demonstrators, police officers, and media at a pro-choice demonstration in Chicago.
This is raw footage for the TV show, The 90s. Recorded by Skip Blumberg, this particular footage shows performances by The Champions, a cheerleading/dance/jump rope group of girls residing in the Marcy Homes in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The Champions appear again in tape #15837, but are called “The Street.”
Raw footage for the award-winning series THE 90’s. Eddie Tape #88. In this tape, Eddie Becker interviews Steve Entin of Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation and Peter Bahouth of Greenpeace.
Eddie Tape #112. Last New York Democratic convention. Becker at the 1992 Democratic National Convention, various interviews.
Raw footage for The 90’s. Interview with Rick Hornung, staff writer at The Village Voice, about the Mohawk civil war.
Kennebunkport Church incident. On Sunday February 17, 1991, antiwar demonstrator John Schuchardt traveled to the church of President George H.W. Bush in Kennebunkport, Maine, to speak out against the Iraq War. This video also contains raw footage of kids recording “The 90s” tagline and an interview with a man running a Chicago scholarship program.
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.”