Las Vegas Tapes Revised
The Las Vegas Tapes. A 1976 look at the city and those who flock to it.
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![[Chicago Slices raw: Wanda And Lilli #3]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/chicago-slices-raw-wanda-and-lilli-3-video-thumbnail-228x160.jpg)
[Chicago Slices raw: Wanda And Lilli #3]
Wanda McLenighan & Lilian Bender: two eighty-something women who share their opinions on various topics, including their lifelong friendship. Valjean McLenighan interviews Wanda and Lili in her backyard and in Lincoln Park. They get Perogi’s, tour the old neighborhood, have tea and discuss their lives and experiences.
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The Real Realness Of The Higher Highness
Documentary about a festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in August 1976.
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Pugs ‘n Pols
Three documentaries by Chicago videomakers from the 1970s: “Jane Byrne Election Night” by Scott Jacobs, “Golden Gloves” by Tom Weinberg and Scott Jacobs, and “Election Day (Chicago Style) by Scott Jacobs and Valjean McLenighan.
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Image Union, episode 0037: Somersaulters And Aces
Long compilation episode of Image Union featuring “The Light Fantastic Picture Show,” “The Wizard,” and “Cartoon Cartoon” by Lillian and J.P. Somersaulter, “Aces” by Valjean McLenighan, “Wa Mini” by Steve Walker, and “Borders” by Fill Cadkin.
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Image Union, episode 0002
Hour long compilation episode of Image Union featuring “Busia and Cioc” by Valjean McLenighan, “Newsquake” by Warren Leming and Nate Herman, scenes from “Think Twice” by Ruiz Bevis Community TV Class, “Going Shopping” by Andrew Aaron, “Beach Ball Boogie” by Annette Barbier, “Phoneme Frolics” by Dana Hogdon, “Silly Geese,” “The White Rock Blues” by Sally and Ray Cioni, scenes from “Making it in Hollywood” by Frank Cavestani, “Listen, Santa” by Lilly Ollinger, and “Teagarden” by Dana Hodgdon.
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[Chicago Slices raw: Wanda And Lilli #1]
This tape is a raw interview shot for “Chicago Slices.” Valjean McLenighan interviews her mother and godmother, Wanda McLenighan and Lilian Bender. The two women, who have been friends since 1914, travel to their old neighborhood and talk about their childhood growing up in the Ukranian Village. Wanda and Lilian go on to visit the schools that they attended during their childhood and teenage years. Later in the video, the three women eat lunch at a Polish restaurant.
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Image Union, episode 0001
Hour long compilation episode of Image Union featuring “TV Magic Ballots” by Nate Herman and Warren Leming, “Assassins” with Joe Mantegna and Jack Wallace, “Chicago Blues” by Jim Passin and Nancy Grosse, work from Jane Veeder, excerpts from “Now We Live On Clifton” by Kartemquin Films, stopmotion animation, an interview by “My Sister’s Cutting Room” during a dog’s birthday party, and “The Bums” by Scott Jacobs and Valjean McLenighan 1976.
The second half of the episode features “Electronic Masks” by Barbara Sykes, an excerpt from “Paper Roses” by Maxi Cohen and Joel Gold, and “Television Delivers People” by Richard Serra and Carlota Fay Schoolman.