Chicago, Communications for Change, Guerrilla TV, Roots of Video
00:11 Camera opens on Eulalia Burke talking about music she used to play. She sings a song, “Pie in the Sky.” Interviewer voiceover says that she will be speaking with Burke about her life from 1917-1920 and involvement with the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) movement. 1:10 Burke describes coming to Chicago in 1917 and how she became a member of IWW. She talks about the actions of the group, and how many members were arrested… Continue reading →
Chicago, Communications for Change, Guerrilla TV, Roots of Video
00:14 Voiceover introduces Bessye Robin, an organizer who helped factory workers in the U.S. and Russia. She describes her first factory organizing experience at age 12, in Russia. She describes being arrested and losing her job. She describes her family, childhood, and poverty. She talks about violence in the neighborhood against Jewish people. 13:30 She describes her move to America. She describes meeting up with her brother and her new workin… Continue reading →
Chicago, Communications for Change, Guerrilla TV, Roots of Video
00:15 “Martha Feuer: Growing up in Humboldt Park & Logan Square.” “Interviewed by: Michelle Feuer” “Taped & Edited by: Gale Green.” 00:33 Still photo of Feuer as a child. Michelle begins by asking Martha to talk about where she was born and how old she is. She talks about playing in prairies as a child, and the atmosphere of the Humboldt Park neighborhood. Martha speaks a bit about crime. She talks ab… Continue reading →
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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…. Continue reading →
Ant Farm, Chicago, Cindy Neal, Eleanor Boyer, Guerrilla TV, Image Processing, Judy Hoffman, Roots of Video, Tom Weinberg, Video Makers Choice
…ing methods in rural IL. 24:00 Dan Dick of Communications for Change. Introduces tape from the ongoing project, Documenting Social History. Students at Loop College were taught to use video to interview senior citizens. 24:36 Tape: Dan Dick interviews Gladys Hogeland, who grew up in Rogers Park, about her childhood. 25:43 Tape: Jane Veeder processed video. 26:37 From Comiskey Park, Tom Weinberg introduces Media Burn. 27:10 Tape: Media Burn by The… Continue reading →
…land survivor Frank Blaha, who was 18 years old when he boarded the ship. It was produced as part of the “Documenting Social History Project” of Communications for Change and Loop College (now called Harold Washington College). Make sure to watch the full interview with Blaha, plus an interview with Mrs. Robert Stilton, whose father missed the boat getting one last beer on shore. http://mediaburn.org/video/documenting-social-history… Continue reading →
…the workers who were on the picket line and they start dropping like flies.” This footage comes from the “Documenting Social History: Chicago’s Elderly Speak” oral history series, which was project of Communications for Change, an early Chicago video group focused on providing a forum to people who ordinarily didn’t have one. Media Burn recently preserved and transferred fourteen half-inch reels by Communications for Chang… Continue reading →
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Black, Chicago, Communications for Change, Communities, Roots of Video
…Gene Siskel reports on a project being produced out of City Colleges by Communications for Change. The project, Documenting Social History, aims to create oral histories of the city of Chicago via the students using videotape to interview older members of their communities. 6:55 The first clip is of Prentice McCarey, a jazz musician in Hyde Park, who talks about working at clubs owned by Al Capone. 7:22 Ester Gerwitz, child of Russian immigrants… Continue reading →