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  [Chicago Slices raw: Maxwell Street Parade]

  Chicago, Chicago Slices

  At the Maxwell Street Parade, Tobi Johnson interviews participants celebrating Latin and African American heritage. Also includes footage of decorative puppets made by The Redmoon theater company.

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  [Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #9]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports, Tom Weinberg

  Raw footage of Bill Veeck in the bleachers at Wrigley Field, with the conversation continued at Murphy’s. Veeck discusses the changing social status of the bleachers  and goes on to point out other examples of changes in the park which illustrate changes in social mores. He also begins to highlight some of the promotions he has created over the years.

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  [Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #25]

  Bill Veeck, Sports

  Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” In this video, Veeck is interviewed in Assembly Hall at the Illinois high school basketball championship tournament in Champaign, IL.

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  It’s A Living: Paper Roses

  American Way, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Studs Terkel, Video Makers Choice

  In 1975, the Chicago video collective Videopolis produced a documentary called “It’s a Living.” The tape was loosely based on Studs Terkel’s book, “Working,” which was a collection of interviews with ordinary people talking about their jobs. This hour-long program was shown on Channel 11 (WTTW) in Chicago. After the success of this tape, the videomakers were commissioned to make six half-hour shows that had the same type of mission. “Paper Roses” featured residents of the Chicago Housing Authority’s Clark-Irving Apartments, which provided low-rent housing for senior citizens. The tape is not a traditional documentary with formal interviews, rather, it is a simple collection of real people talking about themselves. The subjects seem very comfortable talking to the camera and speak honestly about aging and retirement.

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  Time Out, episode 108

  Chicago, Sports, Time Out

  This tape features a 1984 episode of “Time Out,” a weekly sports program that is hosted by a number of Chicago area journalists and sportscasters. This week’s commentators are Ray Sons of the Chicago Sun-Times, Kenny McReynolds, a WBMX Sportscaster and Assistant Coach for DePaul University’s Men’s Basketball team, WIND reporter Fran Spielman, and former NBA star John Mengelt. Bill Veeck appears on the show as well.

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  Will The Circle Be Unbroken?

  NHPRC, Studs Terkel

  The Glenview Community Church Adult Education Board presents Studs Terkel speaking about his new book Will the Circle Be Unbroken? featuring “reflections on death, rebirth, and hunger for faith.” Terkel speaks to a packed church in Glenview, IL.

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  My American Century

  NHPRC, Studs Terkel

  Journalist Bill Kovach interviews Studs Terkel at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Education Forum. Professor and sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot gives an introduction.

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  [Studs On A Soapbox raw: Mirko #2]

  Chicago, NHPRC, Studs Terkel, Tom Weinberg

  Raw footage of an interview for the program “Studs On A Soapbox.” Tom Weinberg interviews Studs Terkel on his back porch at his residence in Chicago. This is the second half of the interview in which Terkel and Weinberg discuss ageism and the current state of politics in the U.S.