[Howard Zinn raw #75: Zinn speaks briefly about activism and American media]
Howard Zinn speaking at Campos High School.
Howard Zinn speaking at Campos High School.
Howard Zinn speaking at Campos High School.
Training video for new delivery drivers at Leona’s restaurant in Chicago.
Instructional films from the 1940s and 50s. Some are merely humorously outdated, others are downright horrifying — particularly one that concludes that mechanized laundry machines are the best example of women’s liberation in this century. Most deal with dating. Old Chicago footage with streetcars in last segment.
Studs’ Place (1951?) produced by Charlie Andrews. This episode is called “Jimmy Romano Is Home.” A neighborhood kid comes back from college on the East Coast and suffers embarrassment over his working class roots. Eventually he realizes the people in his neighborhood have more talent than he thought. Features musical performances by Chet Roble and Win Stracke. Followed by “The Living City” (1953). Instructional film dealing with urban problems such as how are existing slums to be eliminated, how to deal with congestion, etc. “How did our cities get this way?” “I was in bombed out cities in Europe in the war. And then I came back to Chicago to this.” We need to tear down the slums, and build up new affordable housing. Studs Terkel narrates.
Ant Farm promotes their ideas for inflatable living and demonstrates how to construct inflatables using basic materials.
Raw footage for “Chicago Slices,” a television series about life in Chicagoland. This video features the end of videomaker Skip Blumberg’s interview with Ray Still, retiring oboist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, who demonstrates how to tie a reed for the oboe.
For Nintendo-compatible games. Members of the U.S. National Video Game Team show tricks and preview new games. Interesting only for the few seconds where you get to see the team members and laugh at them. Also potentially interesting for people who want to watch others play video games from 1989 and/or learn tricks for those games.