[None of the Above roll-in reel]
Roll-in-Reel for the documentary “None of the Above,” which takes a look at non-voters. Includes interviews with non-voters across the country on or around election day 1996.
Roll-in-Reel for the documentary “None of the Above,” which takes a look at non-voters. Includes interviews with non-voters across the country on or around election day 1996.
Image Union episode featuring “Can’t Take No More” by Janet Hayman Jenny Durin.
Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. A series of Civil Defense Fund Films, all dealing with atomic energy and atomic attacks.
Mayoral Commercials by Lynn Sweet. This tape collects many of the political ads from the 1983 race for mayor of Chicago. The ads are shown in approximately consecutive order. First there are the ads for the Democratic primary race between Jane Byrne, Richard M. Daley, and Harold Washington, followed by ads from the general election between Harold Washington and Bernard Epton. Many of the ads are smears, so it is interesting to see them in close succession responding to each other. Includes ad featuring Studs Terkel for Washington.
One of the many incarnations of Punchline, a show that never came to fruition. The show features people from all over the country telling jokes on-camera.
The narration is a spoken poem by Chicago poet, Bob Chicoine. It is related over still photos of old Comiskey Park. The poem includes personal recollections of the poet’s experiences at old Comiskey park and also chronicles the park’s demolition. The photos include pictures Comiskey Park, many baseball players, Bill Veeck, and the Chicago stockyards.
Host Lewis Lapham conducts a round table discussion with oral historian Studs Terkel and author Paul Fussell on the subject of World War II. Fussell had just written a book about WWII entitled Wartime.