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  • The Thirst

    The Thirst

    A recording of a performance of a one-woman show written and performed by Donna Blue Lachman about her family and her search for her Jewish faith and identity.

  • Family Secrets

    Family Secrets

    A taping of a one-woman show called “Family Secrets” performed by Donna Blue Lachman at the Apple Tree Theatre. Over the course of several costume changes, she plays first the father, then the mother, then the two daughters, then the grandmother of a middle class Jewish-American family.

  • TVTV Looks at the Oscars

    TVTV Looks at the Oscars

    Here is your front row ticket to 48th Academy Awards (1976). The Oscars as you’ve never seen them before. Watch a young Steven Spielberg lose out in his first of many nominations to be Best Director. Join Lily Tomlin as she buys her acceptance gown, Lee Grant rehearsing her “losing smile” for the camera and Michael Douglas planning his sweep of nominations for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
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  • Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo

    Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo

    Today, we bring you clips from a fascinating and beautiful documentary being produced in Chicago by On Look Films. Like Media Burn, it is motivated by an effort to preserve and archive contemporary cultural reality that is in danger of being extinct. Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo is an engaged, objective cinéma vérité documentary about the complex relationship between modernity and tradition in Cairo. The story develops as the ancient oral tradition of the adhan, the Muslim call […]

  • More Treasures from the Archives

    More Treasures from the Archives

    Once again, here are more rare materials from the archive! These materials cover projects from the last fifty years of independent TV and portable video, many available on Media Burn’s website. First we have a flyer from Ant Farm regarding their plans to bury a time capsule in 1975 to be dug up in 2000. However, this was no ordinary time capsule—Ant Farm buried a station wagon filled with items representing the average person’s values & culture. The car was […]

  • [Facing History benefit at Orchestra Hall]

    [Facing History benefit at Orchestra Hall]

    Featuring Oprah Winfrey and Sweet Honey in the Rock.

  • Glenallen Hill

    Brief interview with Cubs baseball player Glenallen Hill about getting free gear at the Niketown store.

  • [The 90’s raw: Tony Schwartz #1]

    [The 90’s raw: Tony Schwartz #1]

 
 
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