![[Kirby / MacArthur Meeting]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/646556395_640-228x160.jpg)
May 11-12, 1990, Chicago. Raw footage of a planning committee for a 24-hour, innovative independent TV channel, composed of various independent videomakers and William T. Kirby of the MacArthur Foundation. People pictured onscreen include: Virgil Grillo, Dee Dee Halleck, Dee Davis, Jon Alpert, John Schwartz, Bill Kirby, Lillian Jimenez, Tom Weinberg, Jim Martin, Steve Pearce, and Woody Wickham.
![[The 90’s raw: pro-choice demonstration]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/635032898_640-228x160.jpg)
Raw footage for the award-winning TV series The 90’s. This tape features video of a pro-choice demonstration. Women protest outside Hill and Knowlton, an advertising agency that was representing the Catholic bishops in America in their campaign against legalized abortion. They march and give speeches stating their opposition to Hill and Knowlon’s actions and try to pressure the firm to drop the account.
Nuclear Illinois by Lily Ollinger. A compilation of short pieces examining the dangers of nuclear power in Illinois. It includes anti-nuclear PSAs, various interviews with real anti-nuclear activists and supporters, and those exploring alternative power sources, such as solar energy.
Raw footage from Studs Terkel at the Steel Mill by The Public Interest Video Network. Terkel interviews steel mill workers about Reagan’s policies (“What does Ronald Reagan mean to you?”) and the low level of employment at the mill. Also b-roll of the plant.
Documentary about the death of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party. The film started out as a simple portrait of Hampton and features lots of footage of his powerful speeches. However, in 1969, Hampton was murdered in his bed at the Panther headquarters by the Chicago police. The event was extremely controversial as the police and the Black Panthers told drastically different versions of the events. The film became instrumental in proving the Panthers’ story that the police broke in to headquarters without warning and killed Hampton without resistance.
This compilation episode of Image Union features a mind-bending experimental video, a time lapse photography piece, a video tribute to Judy Roberts, and a short political documentary. Works include “…Living in the City” by Bill Chayes, “The Quickie” by Moving Memory Films, “Judy” by Rosalie Loewy, “Seamus” and “Octopus’ Garden” by Dean Kendrick and Chip Scoglio, and “Justice for Joe Torres” by Betsy Martins.
![[Studs Terkel in two industrial films]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/645631511_640-228x160.jpg)
Two industrial films from the 1940s and ’50s that feature Studs Terkel. In “Beginning to Date” (1953) Terkel plays a high school diving instructor and offers advice to students on proper dating etiquette. The second film on this tape, “No Vacancies” (1946), is about the crisis that plagued many returning WWII soldiers who could not afford housing. Terkel is the narrator in this piece.
![[The 90’s raw: AIDS protest in San Francisco]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/634992318_640-228x160.jpg)
Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Activists demonstrate in the streets of San Francisco demanding more research to fight AIDS. The camera is pretty passive and the sound is bad, so it’s pretty hard to tell what’s going on; the tape is mostly just shots of police and people standing around shouting.