Tom introduces a piece on television legend Bob Wussler, who passed away in early June. Wussler was one of the architects of modern television. In these telling interviews, Wussler talks about the evolution of television from the 1960s through the 1980s and shares his thoughts on global television and the future. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnOU551u0lc] To watch the 1976 interview, click here. Bob Wussler’s New York Times Obit
Longtime WBEZ all-night jazz DJ Dick Buckley (1925-2010) passed away today, at the age of 85. Buckley’s jazz program was a fixture on Chicago Public Radio every Monday through Friday night, from 1977 to 2008. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNOdTu4NDEE] This short clip of Buckley in the WBEZ studio is from the 1989 documentary Radio Faces. To watch the entire documentary, go to: http://mediaburn.org/Video-Preview.128.0.html?&uid=4927
What do immigrants expect of America, and how does it differ from their home countries? Videomaker Skip Blumberg asks applicants for citizenship at a New York immigration office in “Waiting for the American Dream”: If you want to watch the full version at Media Burn, click here. This video blog was inspired by Act 2 of an episode of This American Life, “True Urban Legends.” “Fleeing is Believing” starts at 35:32. In 1991, the U.S. opened a one week window to […]
A study of colorful Chicago author, radio personality, and raconteur Studs Terkel. The program contains footage of Terkel from the 1950s through 2000, when he was 89 years old. Terkel expounds on various topics such as work, art, media, himself, his political views, his family, and his colleagues.
Though Chicago may be known elsewhere for its pizza, our video collection seems to have a preoccupation with hot dogs and hot dog establishments. The video below features a trip in 1980 to the easily recognizable Superdawg at Milwaukee and Devon, where filmmakers Joe and Frank McGarry stop to eat before waiting for Pope John Paul II’s motorcade to pass through the distinctly Polish neighborhood. It also features a 1992 commercial for Gold Coast Dogs, back when they only had […]
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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.
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Raw footage for The 90’s election specials. This tape features footage from the 1992 Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden, focusing on the official tally of votes that leads to the nomination of Bill Clinton.
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Raw footage for The 90’s election specials. This tape focuses on the 1992 Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden. The majority of the tape features footage of the American Samoan delegation sightseeing around New York. At the end of the tape, “the only drag queen presidential candidate” Joan Jett Black gives a few statements.