A version of the children’s game “telephone:” one person tells a story to a second, who retells it to a third, etc. With each retelling, the distortions inevitably arise. Unfortunately, the stories in question are not compelling or revealing, nor are the distortions all that amusing. AIR DATES: April 16, 23, 1990
Documentary made up of narration, archive footage, and current footage and interviews highlighting human rights struggles. The first half focuses on the victorious fight for human rights in Czechoslovakia, concentrating on methods of underground information dissemination, including samizdat literature and The Video Journal created by Czech dissidents. The second half focuses on the ongoing struggle for human rights in Guatemala. This main concentration is on the human rights workers and the Guatemalan government’s attempts to squelch them through beatings, kidnappings, and killings.
Videomaker Esti Marpet enters Nagorno Karabakh in hopes of further understanding the conflict between ethnic Christian Armenians and mostly Muslim Azerbaijan which claims the land of Karabakh as its own. Marpet gives an overview of the conflict, spends time with the Karabakh military fighting for liberation, visits the military clinic, and speaks with refugees.
A look back at 40 years of City Desk, a political talk show on WMAQ-TV (a local NBC affiliate). As the tape is only a short retrospective, we see clips of many major Chicago figures but do not go in to much detail.
Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. Footage of an anti-war demonstration outside ABC in New York on January 30, 1991. Protesters confront Peter Jennings about his network’s Persian Gulf War coverage. Difficult to hear at times because of background noise of the demonstration.
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Raw tape for the award-winning series The 90’s. Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame awards at the Midland Hotel, hosted by Irv Kupcinet (1912-2003).
A documentary made at the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City, which was produced as a live 3-hour cablecast for five days during the convention. It was subsequently broadcast on WTTW and other PBS stations. It chronicles the events in and around the convention, and includes interviews with various delegates, politicians, members of the media, and people connected to Jimmy Carter, including Rosalynn Carter and Jeff Carter (Jimmy’s son). It also includes footage from the convention floor and demonstrators outside the convention, led by Ron Kovic.
Raw footage of the 1992 New Hampshire Democratic Primary campaigns.