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  [The 90’s raw : Joe Cummings reads the mail]

  GDDF, NHPRC-2, Patrick Creadon, THE 90's

  Tom Weinberg directs Joe Cummings who reads letters from fans of The 90’s.

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  RF on the streets #1

  Radio Faces

  Some of the camera crew from Radio Faces goes out onto the bike paths and parks of Chicago in order to ask people about their favorite radio shows and radio personalities.

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  Mark The Bird Fidrych #5

  Sports

  Raw interview footage with Mark–the Bird–Fidrych, former pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, for the TNT special Once a Star. Topics include his farm, family, marriage, and children.

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  [Chicago Slices raw: Hip Hop]

  Chicago, Chicago Slices

  Raw footage for “Chicago Slices,” a 1994-1995 television series on WPWR about life in and around Chicago. This video starts with a few minutes of footage of children doing a Chicago Slices promo. This is followed by footage of Ivan Watkins, who introduces us to his friends Julian, Andrew, and Duro Wicks, who are part of the rap group Kinetic Order. They discuss hip hop culture, and then head over to Duro’s house, where they meet up with another friend and circle up to freestyle rap.

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  [Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #67]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports, Tom Weinberg

  Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” Last day. Veeck talks about computers and how they changed baseball, among other things.

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  [The 90’s Election Specials raw: Center for Responsive Politics, Bush/Quayle campaign]

  1992 Election, American Way, Eddie Becker, Politics

  Raw tape for The 90’s election specials. This tape features interviews with Larry Makinson and Joshua Goldstein of the Center for Responsive Politics, a group that tracks the money that is donated to members of Congress. It is then followed by footage of Eddie Becker’s quest to get an interview with the Bush / Quayle campaign.

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  [The 90’s raw: William Armento]

  THE 90's

  Raw tape for the award-winning series The 90’s. Videomaker Nancy Cain interviews William Armento, manager of structures for public transportation in Los Angeles, about the proposed Los Angeles subway system. He talks about the advantages of subway systems, and the difficulty of convincing some diehard car drivers to use public transportation. Despite this, Armento is still optimistic that everyone will make the switch if the public transportation is good enough. “I think the subway has a better expectation for survival in the future than the automobile.” He talks about the difficulties faced by public transit programs, as the Bush administration is threatening to cut all federal funding and force communities to fund construction themselves.

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  [Chicago Reader #1-3]

  Chicago

  Interview with one of the co-founders of the Chicago Reader, Robert Roth, followed by an interview with then-editor, Michael Miner, in the office of the Reader.