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  [Studs Terkel in three industrial films]

  Chicago, NHPRC, Studs Terkel

  Three industrial films from the 1940s and ’50s that feature Studs Terkel. In an excerpt from “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 and for the final piece, “The Living City” (1953), which deals with urban issues.

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  [Rocking the Boat raw: Bughouse Square #1]

  Chicago, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Studs Terkel

  Footage of Bughouse Square in August 1998. Studs Terkel briefly appears in this video.

• Save Our School

  Uncategorized

  A documentary about the efforts of local families to save St. John Berchman’s, a Catholic primary school in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, from closing down.

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  [The 90’s Election Specials: Vote – Witness]

  Politics, THE 90's

  Segments for The 90’s election specials. “Vote” by Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom and “Witness” by Mary Ellen Strom.

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  [Pieces from hour III of Five Day Bicycle Race]

  CLIR, Five Day Bicycle Race, Guerrilla Television

  Pieces from the live broadcast of Five Day Bicycle Race, a documentary made at and about the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City. Most of this footage is from the studio, but it does include the segment in which Tom Weinberg and his cameraman attempt to gain entrance to a party thrown by Rolling Stone Magazine. It also includes a telephone poll that asks viewers if Rolling Stone represents their interests.

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  [Rocking the Boat raw: Bughouse Square #2]

  Chicago, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Studs Terkel

  This is a continuation of footage from Bughouse Square in August of 1998. Studs Terkel speaks to the crowd about Bughouse Square, specifically its history and what it represents to the people of the city of Chicago.

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  [Chicago Slices raw: Women’s Action Coalition]

  Chicago, Chicago Slices, Outside Agitators, Skip Blumberg

  Raw footage for “Chicago Slices,” a television series about life in Chicagoland. This video focuses on the Women’s Action Coalition (WAC), an organization focused around women’s issues. Videomaker Skip Blumberg tapes a WAC gathering at Carpenter and Huron in the West Loop where participants with homemade instruments play in a drum circle, and also interviews many of them about their beliefs and their cause.

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  War Essay

  International

  Edited segment for The 90’s. An impressionistic view of war shot in Iraq and Jordan shortly after the end of the air and land war. This segment, with an added intro and titles, was aired on The 90’s, episode 308 (The Anti-War Tapes)