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  [Peer Group Pressure – Art 1980 Footage]

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  00:05 The interviewer speaks with people at Art 1980 (inaudible) while the camera films art and attendees. 01:06 An elderly woman speaks about the show and shares the advice that her brother – a commercial artist – gave her about purchasing paintings.  02:40 The interviewer speaks to a woman about the show and about her opinions on contemporary art.  05:26 Interviews outside the exhibit with a group serving lemonade. They’re wearing t-shirts that read “Artists Must Make a Stand.” The […]

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  [Peer Group Pressure, 1st Rough Edit]

  Chicago, CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  A documentary about the art fair Art 1980, held in May 1980 at the Navy Pier in Chicago.

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  Pop Video Test: Chicago Video Art, part 1

  Arts & Culture, Chicago

  “The Pop Video Test” was a joint effort between Scott Jacobs and Tom Weinberg of the Chicago Editing Center, and the Video Group of the Bell and Howell Corporation. This cooperative effort between the independent video community and a corporate video distributor was intended to test the viability of the home video market. The videomakers assembled ten hours of video pieces meant as an alternative to available pre-recorded programming (ie Hollywood movies). Fifty VCR owners in the Chicago area agreed to examine and review the tapes. Test viewers then received the programming two hours at a time, in groupings labeled Video Art, Documentary, Entertainment, and Potpourri.

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  Pieces of Manley

  Chicago, Sports, Tom Weinberg

  Footage shot for documentary about Manley High School on the West Side of Chicago, and their successful basketball team.

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  Pop Video Test: Chicago Video Art, part 2

  Arts & Culture, Chicago, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Image Processing

  “The Pop Video Test” was a joint effort between Scott Jacobs and Tom Weinberg of the Chicago Editing Center, and the Video Group of the Bell and Howell Corporation. This cooperative effort between the independent video community and a corporate video distributor was intended to test the viability of the home video market. The videomakers assembled ten hours of video pieces meant as an alternative to available pre-recorded programming (ie Hollywood movies). Fifty VCR owners in the Chicago area agreed to examine and review the tapes. Test viewers then received the programming two hours at a time, in groupings labeled Video Art, Documentary, Entertainment, and Potpourri.

• Pop Video Test: Chicago Video Art, part 1

  Arts & Culture, Chicago

  “The Pop Video Test” was a joint effort between Scott Jacobs and Tom Weinberg of the Chicago Editing Center, and the Video Group of the Bell and Howell Corporation. This cooperative effort between the independent video community and a corporate video distributor was intended to test the viability of the home video market. The videomakers assembled ten hours of video pieces meant as an alternative to available pre-recorded programming (ie Hollywood movies). Fifty VCR owners in the Chicago area agreed to examine and review the tapes. Test viewers then received the programming two hours at a time, in groupings labeled Video Art, Documentary, Entertainment, and Potpourri.

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  Pop Video Test IV: Entertainment, parts 1 and 2

  Ant Farm, Arts & Culture, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, On the Media, Performance, Skip Blumberg, Tom Weinberg

  “The Pop Video Test” was a joint effort between Scott Jacobs and Tom Weinberg of the Chicago Editing Center, and the Video Group of the Bell and Howell Corporation. This cooperative effort between the independent video community and a corporate video distributor was intended to test the viability of the home video market. The videomakers assembled ten hours of video pieces meant as an alternative to available pre-recorded programming (ie Hollywood movies). Fifty VCR owners in the Chicago area agreed to examine and review the tapes. Test viewers then received the programming two hours at a time, in groupings labeled Video Art, Documentary, Entertainment, and Potpourri.

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  Royko At The Goat

  Chicago

  “Royko at The Goat” by Scott Jacobs and Lilly Ollinger. A relaxed conversation with legendary columnist Mike Royko at the Billy Goat Tavern in Chicago in July 1982. Royko shares some of his greatest memories playing sixteen inch softball with a group of friends over beers and burgers.