Bill Granger, Chicago Sun-Times TV columnist, offers his praise for the Chicago Videomakers Coalition’s “Slices of Chicago,” a compilation of the best independent Chicago-based video work. It aired on Channel 44 in 1977 and was the first step in the establishment of the Chicago Editing Center, later the Center for New Television.
Marilynn Preston’s Chicago Tribune article “An alternative to TV is for and by the people” describes the emerging alternatives to the “Big Three” television networks. She refers to the new possibilites offered by portable videotape, examining and contrasting the work done by TVTV, Videopolis, and Communications for Change. She focuses specifically on the “video interventions” discussed by Tedwilliam Theodore of C for C.
An opinion piece by Studs Terkel published in the Chicago Tribune, explaining why he added his name to the Ralph Nader for President Committee.
A program for the Studs Terkel Toast given by the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago on April 9, 1991. Includes an introduction by Lew Kreinberg, a schedule of events listing all speakers, a tribute to Studs by Kenan Heise, a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks, a photo essay compiled by Ida Terkel, and a poem by Paul Carroll.
Documenting Social History: Chicago’s Elderly Speak Video Archive is an oral history of non-broadcast television interviews with elderly Chicagoans. Each subject from Chicago’s array of ethnic, geographic, or special interest communities shares his or her personal history with a young interviewer, with the intent of connecting the generations. This document catalogs the individuals represented in the archive so that outside intstitutions can make use of them. A joint project of the Center for Continuing Education at Loop College and Communications for Change.
Program for Women’s Video Festival from 1973. The event was held October 26 at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Campus and November 3 at the YWCA at 37 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago. It included equipment demonstrations and an open screening of work made by local women.
A dub of an infomercial about a corporation called Lifelink that functions as an adoption agency and provides various services for seniors.