[Veeck baseball clips]
Footage of baseball highlights and highlights of Bill Veeck’s career, including many of his famous promotional stunts.
Footage of baseball highlights and highlights of Bill Veeck’s career, including many of his famous promotional stunts.
A documentary about the seminal beat novelist, Jack Kerouac, that combines narration and current interviews with vintage footage, interviews, still photos, and excepts and dramatic re-enactments from some of Kerouac’s autobiographical novels; including Maggie Cassidy, Dr. Sax, Visions of Cody, Visions of Gerard, Vanity of Duluoz, Desolation Angels, Dharma Bums, Big Sur, On the Road, and The Town and the City.
In this interview segment with Hall of Fame Defensive End Doug Atkins, Atkins combines stories from his playing days with his views on the current state of the NFL. Atkins also offers his thoughts and opinions on topics such as drug testing in professional sports, the ways in which the game has changed since he’s played, and the 1985 Chicago bears team.
John Callaway interviews entrepreneur and chairman of Occidental Petroleum Armand Hammer in February of 1981. The interview goes in depth into Hammer’s childhood, his many business ventures, as well as controversial political policies of the time with the Soviet Union.
Raw footage for Veeck: A Man for Any Season. This tape features Veeck at home talking about jazz and tells a story about playing rummy in the hospital.
Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” This tape features a few minutes of footage of Bill Veeck’s home garden, followed by an interview with Chicago Mayor Harold Washington about Veeck.
B-roll of the various awards Doug Atkins had won in his time as a professional football player. Atkins tells about how he was the first player to receive the Vince Lombardi Trophy, and discusses the politics of the game.