This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 39a: It Seemed Like the Thing to Do at the Time or The Diapers and Daises Dance, Part II.
Viewer mail for episode 39.
Epidose 1302 of “CamNet,” a two hour cable program produced by Nancy Cain and friends in L.A. in the mid-90s. This episode features video from a tunnel infrastructure project in Oahu, Hawaii; a subway construction project in Los Angeles, California, and Louis ‘Studs’ Terkel speaking at his bridge dedication ceremony in Chicago, Illinois.
Raw footage for The 90’s election specials. The tape begins with footage from a festival. A man plays protest-ish originals and a gospel group performs. “We Shall Overcome” is sung in a host of languages. A man speaks on the rise of Japan and the decline of the United States. Ralph Nader speaks on education, civic involvement, and the economy. Dr. Neal Bernard speaks against unhealthy food and draws parallels to addictive substances.
Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. An informal tour of Barcelona with a local.
0:00 John Doug Hays for Congress ad: Hays talks about jobs, poverty, the need for new leadership.
The second of three election specials from the award winning series, The 90’s. This episode is called “THE CONVENTION” and features moments from the Democratic National Convention in New York and the Republican National Convention in Houston in 1992. The producers tend to stay away from the regular news type footage and find the human interactions and the moments when the politicians are off their guard.
The narration is a spoken poem by Chicago poet, Bob Chicoine. It is related over still photos of old Comiskey Park. The poem includes personal recollections of the poet’s experiences at old Comiskey park and also chronicles the park’s demolition. The photos include pictures Comiskey Park, many baseball players, Bill Veeck, and the Chicago stockyards.