…le.” In addition to other goofy Chicago-related gags, Mantegna reads report that Alds. Roman Pucinski and Vito Marzullo have challenged each other to a spelling contest, the winner of which will be the first who can spell his own name. In the middle of the report, the famous Picasso statue of Daley Plaza lifts off the ground and flies through the air. 23:11 “Television Delivers People” by Richard Serra & Carlota Fay Schoolma… Continue reading →
…ing stories, or absurd stories, or desperate stories, or people who were absolutely furious with Mike. Alderman Vito Marzullo once told me, ‘He has shit in his blood.’ We would listen to these idiotic stories sometimes of people who were in one way or another dispossessed. The leg man dutifully turned each one of these phone calls into a memo for Mike. You couldn’t, wouldn’t, didn’t omit a single call because youR… Continue reading →
…decisions. still of a zoning board hearing from Open Hearing BA: Tom, I was actually very inspired by your film Vito, about Alderman Vito Marzullo, which I saw maybe like 10 years ago. And also by Bill Stamets’ Chicago Politics: A Theatre of Power, which is in your collection. Those two films show the history of this place and the larger than life characters and all that. But I think both of those films were made in these times when if you… Continue reading →
…sses affect ordinary people everyday. 1972 Presidential Election 1 video Edit this post Alderman Vito Marzullo 1 video Edit this post Commercials and Marketing 1 video Edit this post Feminism 1 video Edit this post Mayor Richard J. Daley 2 videos Edit this post Women and Sports 1 video Edit this post Women at Work 4 videos Edit this post Working in the City (1970s) 1 video Edit this post… Continue reading →
…rn website. Or buy the brand new dvd from Tribeca Film Institute. This is an editing plan from the making of “Vito,” a documentary about Vito Marzullo, former Chicago alderman. Comparing this editing plan to the description on the Media Burn website, one can see the similarities between the finished product and the editing plan. Or buy the brand new dvd from Tribeca Film Institute. Below is the “Vito” trailer. The finished document… Continue reading →
…ecutive Director of the Media Burn Archive, will introduce the screening. Saturday, March 27 at 2pm. Screening: VITO by Tom Weinberg, 1978, 60 minutes. Nobody exemplified the old-style machine politics of the Richard J. Daley era better than Alderman Vito Marzullo, who ruled the West Side 25th Ward virtually unchallenged from 1953 to 1985. This documentary classic reveals how the business of Chicago politics was conducted in that era, with an in… Continue reading →
…ry, 1561 N. Milwaukee. Admission is free, so please come out and join us. Saturday, March 27 at 2pm. Screening: VITO by Tom Weinberg, 1978, 60 minutes. Nobody exemplified the old-style machine politics of the Richard J. Daley era better than Alderman Vito Marzullo, who ruled the West Side 25th Ward virtually unchallenged from 1953 to 1985. This documentary classic reveals how the business of Chicago politics was conducted in that era, with an in… Continue reading →
…ontains a particularly comprehensive documentation of local politics, featuring the lives and times of Alderman Vito Marzullo; Congressman Rahm Emanuel; Congressman Dan Rostenkowski; Senator Carol Moseley-Braun; Governors Jim Edgar and George Ryan; mayors Jane Byrne, Harold Washington, and Richard J. and Richard M. Daley; and many more. The footage in this collection, produced by passionate independent observers, provides a rare and valuable coun… Continue reading →