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  • It’s a Living: When I Was A Worker Like LaVerne

    It’s a Living: When I Was A Worker Like LaVerne

    A documentary about a day in the life of a Sears mail order catalog facility in Chicago, where the disconnect between workers and management is striking. The management seems to be entirely white and male, while the workers are black and female. The tape was produced as part of the “It’s a Living” series of videos on working in America.

  • [Pieces from hour III of Five Day Bicycle Race]

    [Pieces from hour III of Five Day Bicycle Race]

    Pieces from the live broadcast of Five Day Bicycle Race, a documentary made at and about the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City. Most of this footage is from the studio, but it does include the segment in which Tom Weinberg and his cameraman attempt to gain entrance to a party thrown by Rolling Stone Magazine. It also includes a telephone poll that asks viewers if Rolling Stone represents their interests.

  • Five Day Bicycle Race (30 min version)

    Five Day Bicycle Race (30 min version)

    A documentary made at and about the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City, which was produced as a live 3-hour cablecast for five days during the convention. It was subsequently broadcast on WTTW and other PBS stations. It chronicles the events on in and around the convention, and includes interviews with various delegates, politicians, members of the media, and people connected to Jimmy Carter, including Rosalynn Carter and Jeff Carter (Jimmy’s son). It also includes footage from the convention floor, and demonstrators outside the convention, led by Ron Kovic.

  • [Making It In Hollywood raw #90]

    [Making It In Hollywood raw #90]

    Raw footage from the 1976 documentary “Making It In Hollywood”, which follows several actors as they attempt to break into the movie business.

  • [Making It In Hollywood raw #87]

    [Making It In Hollywood raw #87]

    Raw footage from the 1976 documentary “Making It In Hollywood,” which follows several actors as they attempt to break into the movie business. This tape features footage from “The Hollywood-Beverly Hills Tour,” a bus tour of stars’ homes and other notable locations in the area. All footage is from inside the bus as it cruises past the stars’ homes in Beverly Hills, and its driver dispenses bits of trivia.

  • [Making It In Hollywood raw #86]

    [Making It In Hollywood raw #86]

    Raw footage from the 1976 documentary “Making It In Hollywood,” which follows several actors as they attempt to break into the movie business. This tape features footage from “The Hollywood-Beverly Hills Tour,” a bus tour of stars’ homes and other notable locations in the area. The bus stops at Grauman’s (Mann’s) Chinese Theatre where several tourists gawk at the stars’ hand & footprints. Most of the footage is from inside the bus as it passes Schwab’s drugstore, The Sunset Strip, and Beverly Hills.

  • [Making It In Hollywood raw #67 & 68]

    [Making It In Hollywood raw #67 & 68]

    Raw footage from the 1976 documentary “Making It In Hollywood,” which follows several actors as they attempt to break into the movie business. This tape features excerpts from “Making It” raw #67 & 68 that have been color corrected to partially remove greenish cast on the camera original. In these clips actor Robert Walden discusses how he prepares for certain roles, and how he discovered his love for acting.

  • The Nixon tape

    The Nixon tape

    Elon Soltes visits San Clemente, California, where photographers have been stationed for months trying to capture the ellusive former president Richard Nixon on film. This group of obsessives endures endless hours of boredom as they seemingly futilely wait for their chance to outsmart Nixon ‘s bodyguards and snap a valuable photograph.

 
 
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