[John Callaway and Studs Terkel on Tom Weinberg]
Raw interviews with John Callaway and Studs Terkel about Tom Weinberg for his Silver Circle Award presentation. Also includes miscellaneous footage scattered throughout the tape.
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[Tom Weinberg video for Silver Circle Award]
Short highlight reel of Tom Weinberg’s career for his Silver Circle Award presented by the Chicago / Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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The New Historians II: A “History of Feeling” on Videotape: Real Life History From People Who Lived It
Jeanne Weimann describes the growing video archives of “Documenting Social History: Chicago’s Elderly Speak,” a joint project by Loop College and Communications for Change, in a 1975 Chicago Reader article. The story, “A History of Feeling” on Videotape: Real Life History From People Who Lived It,” describes how the project creates a living history of everyday people and helps to bridge the generation gap and address issues of isolation of the elderly.
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Alternative video flexes its muscles
Ron Powers, Chicago Sun-Times columnist, discusses his experience at the 1973 Women’s Video Festival at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. He describes the materials shown as a new type of “personal television,” and expresses his excitement that “videotape TV is clearly a wave of the future.” He quotes Chicago-based Videopolis members Lilly Ollinger and Anda Korsts.
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Video Notes
In Video Notes, left by Anda Korsts and compiled by Tom Weinberg, Korsts grapples with her experiences as a formal news reporter and her perception of this format as unsuitable for portraying subtleties. Korsts explains the possibilities offered by portable video and why she feels it is the only suitable medium for journalism that gets at the truth.
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A Proposal to Establish The Chicago Editing Center
A proposal to establish The Chicago Editing Center, a not-for-profit facility providing editing facilities to independent Chicago videomakers. The 10-page proposal includes why an editing center is needed, who the center will serve, the creators behind the proposal, budget, and letters of support. The Center opened at in 1977 at 11 E. Hubbard St.
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It’s no mirage; it is a work of art
Bill Granger, Chicago Sun-Times TV columnist, offers his praise for the Chicago Videomakers Coalition’s “Slices of Chicago,” a compilation of the best independent Chicago-based video work. It aired on Channel 44 in 1977 and was the first step in the establishment of the Chicago Editing Center, later the Center for New Television.
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An alternative to TV is for and by the people
Marilynn Preston’s Chicago Tribune article “An alternative to TV is for and by the people” describes the emerging alternatives to the “Big Three” television networks. She refers to the new possibilites offered by portable videotape, examining and contrasting the work done by TVTV, Videopolis, and Communications for Change. She focuses specifically on the “video interventions” discussed by Tedwilliam Theodore of C for C.