Mary Frances Veeck Personal Memoirs #1
Recollections by Mary Frances Veeck, wife of baseball entrepreneur Bill Veeck. Show or marriage? Before Bill, meeting Bill, taking a year off, great love affair, involvement in St. Louis.
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Watch It!, episode 104-2
A “video scrapbook” featuring camcorder footage from people around the world. This episode is devoted to Chicago politics.
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Remembering Chicago Radio
A documentary about Chicago radio in its prime from the late 1920’s through the early 1940’s. It is made up primarily of the recollections of the people involved with Chicago radio during its prime. Very interesting, but the interviews run for a long time with no interruption, or any image other than that of the interviewee. Also includes vintage still photos, and audio clips from various radio shows; including “Little Orphan Annie,” “Fibber McGee & Molly,” and “The Breakfast Club.”
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Watch It!, episode 104-3
A “video scrapbook” featuring camcorder footage from people around the world.
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Know Your Enemy: Japan
Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. A WWII U.S. War Department orientation film using racist, anti-Japanese propaganda techniques. The film gives a brief history of Japan, and an overview of Japanese social, military, and political culture, with the ultimate goal of explaining that the whole Japanese culture is designed to create soldiers bent on world domination. It uses typical War Department technique of narration over newsreel and stock footage, and dramatic re-enactments.
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A Great Day In Harlem
A documentary about the day in 1958 when Art Kane, then an aspiring photographer and art director for Esquire magazine, arranged for a group photo (which was titled “A Great Day In Harlem”) of almost every prominent jazz musician in New York City to be taken in Harlem; among the many musicians are many jazz giants, including Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Charles Mingus, and Gene Krupa.