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  • Farmers protest at the Chicago Board of Trade

    Farmers protest at the Chicago Board of Trade

    It’s not obvious from the outside, but the videotapes sitting in your closets, attic, and basement are quietly deteriorating inside their cassettes. The time when programs shot on 1/2″, U-matic, and Hi-8mm are totally unrecoverable is coming much sooner than you’d probably expect. Every day, Media Burn works against the clock to restore and transfer the diverse body of work created on videotape so that these programs can live on and be seen by people around the world. We recently […]

  • Image Union, episode 0729

    Image Union, episode 0729

    “Reclaiming America” is a short documentary about the American Agriculture Movement’s 1985 protest in front of the Chicago Board of Trade. The protesters, family farmers, target futures trading and the speculative shorting tactics used in the financial system. 49 protesters were arrested over two days. Footage focuses on speeches from Wayne Cryts, president of the American Agricultural Movement.

  • [Chicago Slices raw: Jim Hensel #1]

    [Chicago Slices raw: Jim Hensel #1]

    This video contains raw footage for the television show “Chicago Slices.” On this tape, videomaker Skip Blumberg interviews stock trader Jim Hensel on his ride home via Metra train after a day on the floor of the Chicago Board and Trade.

  • [Chicago Slices raw: Jim Hensel #2]

    [Chicago Slices raw: Jim Hensel #2]

    This video contains raw footage for the television show “Chicago Slices.” On this tape, videomaker Skip Blumberg meets stock trader Jim Hensel at the Chicago Board of Trade and shoots Hensel and others in the “pit.”

  • [Chicago Slices raw: Chicago Board of Trade #1]

    [Chicago Slices raw: Chicago Board of Trade #1]

    PATRICK WALSH: Chicago Board of Trader; wake up with, get ready, and drive to work with him. Shots of men in the pit. Con’t on 120.

  • [Chicago Slices raw: Chicago Board of Trade #2, Slices billboard]

    [Chicago Slices raw: Chicago Board of Trade #2, Slices billboard]

    PATRICK WALSH (con’t) drives Pat Creadon to WPWR and explains what happened in the pit that day; SLICES BILLBOARD and interviews with billboard painters BILL PRUSAK and DAVE RUBIN.

  • [The 90’s raw: Pat Arbor]

    [The 90’s raw: Pat Arbor]

    Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Tom Weinberg interviews Pat Arbor, chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade, who talks about his two main pastimes: mountain climbing and soybean trading. “When I was new in the business I had lots of feelings; I also had lots of troubles…The secret to life is discipline.” He recounts the story about how he began mountain climbing — he read that Robert MacNamara had climbed the Matterhorn and decided to do it himself.

 
 
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