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  • [Boxing at Fuller Park]

    [Boxing at Fuller Park]

    Ben Hollis interviews boxers training at Fuller Park in Chicago at 46th and Princeton.

  • Pop Video Test IV: Entertainment, parts 1 and 2

    Pop Video Test IV: Entertainment, parts 1 and 2

    “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.

  • [Once a Star raw : Floyd Patterson #9]

    [Once a Star raw : Floyd Patterson #9]

    This tape features raw footage of an interview with boxing legend Floyd Patterson (1935-2006) for the television series “Once A Star,” in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Patterson is asked about some of his more famous fights with Ingemar Johansson and Cassius Clay a.k.a. Muhammad Ali, his love for the sport, and his eventual retirement.

  • [Once a Star raw : Floyd Patterson #10]

    [Once a Star raw : Floyd Patterson #10]

    This tape features raw footage of an interview with boxing legend Floyd Patterson (1935-2006) at a boxing arena in Atlantic City. Taped for the 1985 television series “Once A Star.” Patterson talks about his legendary boxing career and his schooling in Brooklyn, New York.

  • [Once a Star raw : Floyd Patterson #11]

    [Once a Star raw : Floyd Patterson #11]

    This tape features raw footage of an interview with boxing legend Floyd Patterson (1935-2006) taped for the 1985 television series “Once A Star.” Patterson talks about keeping in shape after retirement and having bigger hands than Muhammad Ali. Shot in Atlantic City, NJ.

  • [Once a Star raw : Floyd Patterson #12]

    [Once a Star raw : Floyd Patterson #12]

    This tape features raw footage of boxing legend Floyd Patterson (1935-2006) and his son Tracy prepping before a fight in Atlantic City. Shot for the 1985 television series “Once A Star.”

  • [Once a Star raw : Floyd Patterson #14]

    [Once a Star raw : Floyd Patterson #14]

    This tape features raw footage of boxing legend Floyd Patterson (1935-2006) and his son Tracy Patterson during a fight in Atlantic City. Shot for the television special “Once A Star.”

  • [Once a Star raw: Floyd Patterson #13]

    [Once a Star raw: Floyd Patterson #13]

    This tape features of a boxing match in Atlantic City, shot for the 1986 series “Once a Star.” One of the fighters is Tracy Harris Patterson, son of boxing legend Floyd Patterson (1935-2006), who is also Tracy’s coach.

 
 
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