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  [None of the Above raw #62]

  American Way, None of the Above, Outside Agitators, Politics

  This tape features raw footage for the documentary “None of the Above,” an in depth ethnographic look at non voters in this country. This video features footage and interviews with Michael and Holly Bowser of Morro Bay, California. Election day #3.

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  [The 90’s raw: Venice Beach #1]

  American Way, Outside Agitators, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. The tape begins with an interview about a CD-ROM produced in conjunction with Time Magazine that chronicles Operation Desert Storm. Then, Maxi Cohen tours California’s Venice Beach, showing us some of its usual characters. Included are: a man with a Safe Sex plant (with condoms for leaves); a “peace scroll,” a giant petition urging the United Nations to make peace in the Persian Gulf; a hip-hop dance group; and Echo Man, a man who has the ability to make his unaided voice sound as if it is echoing.

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  [The 90’s raw: Venice Beach #2]

  American Way, Outside Agitators, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Maxi Cohen tours California’s Venice Beach, showing us some of its usual characters (mostly various street musicians).

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  [The 90’s raw: Venice Beach #3]

  American Way, Outside Agitators, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Maxi Cohen tours California’s Venice Beach, showing us some of its usual characters (mostly various street musicians). The first part of tape covers the Whole Life Expo, where she shoots some sales pitches for nutritional products, a man who takes pictures of a person’s aura, and other New Age-type products .

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  Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times: An Evening With Studs Terkel

  NHPRC, Studs Terkel

  Studs Terkel in conversation with Harry Kreisler, producer of “Conversations with History.”  Introduced by Dave Eggers and the students of 826 Valencia. Kreisler interviews Studs Terkel—or rather Terkel unfurls a multitude of inspiring and humorous anecdotes, with Kreisler occasionally managing to interject—before a captive crowd at the University of California at Berkeley.