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  Joann: My Sister The Mail Carrier

  Chicago, Chicago Slices, CLIR, Eleanor Boyer, Videomakers

  A brief portrait of Joann Elam who delivers the mail in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. She talks about being a woman in a traditionally male job. She comments on responses from job supervisors and how she derives personal benefit from this kind of employment. Produced for the Chicago Video Makers’ Coalition program, SLICES OF CHICAGO, a show for broadcast consisting of small format “alternative” videos on subjects not normally seen on broadcast television.

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  Chicago Slices – A Slice of Summer 1993

  Blog

  Chicago Slices was a local television series we produced 24 years ago. They were half-hour programs with four minutes of commercials, broadcast on independent channel 50, now owned by Fox TV. We created it to show interesting and offbeat local characters in short videos. As with many of the pioneering programs archived on Media Burn, it was an audience, critical and artistic success, but wasn’t financially viable for commercial television. Here’s a small slice of Chicago Slices from 1993. Watch the […]

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  Bike Messenger Jack Blackfelt- A Fresh Look

  Blog, Chicago Slices

  “I get paid good money to just be who I am: a freak on wheels.” -Jack Blackfelt We have more than 7000 videos in our archive.  Most portray interesting people at a particular moment in their lives.  One great thing about video is its ability for people to watch many years later and provide perspective about how they’ve changed. This is the first of these updates we will be doing. This update features footage of colorful bike messenger Jack Blackfelt that was […]

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  The Legacy of Chernobyl

  Blog, Chicago, Chicago Slices

  “I can see war. I cannot see radiation. I look around one day and I am dead.” —Dick Gregory, 1979 Illinois is a state of nuclear renown. The first ever atomic chain reaction took place at the University of Chicago in 1942. In 1960 the nation’s first full-scale, privately financed nuclear power plant, Dresden Generating Station, opened in northern Illinois. Today, Illinois continues to be the number one nuclear power producer in the U.S. and a nexus of the debate around […]

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  [Chicago Slices raw: Marc Smith]

  Chicago, Chicago Slices, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Performance

  Raw footage for “Chicago Slices,” a series documenting life in and around Chicago, that aired on WPWR-50 in the early 1990s. This video covers the semi-final of a poetry slam at the Green Mill, and consists mostly of short clips of various poets, as well as Marc Smith’s entire poem.

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  [Tom Weinberg video for Silver Circle Award]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Outside Agitators, Roots of Video, Tom Weinberg, TVTV

  Short highlight reel of Tom Weinberg’s career for his Silver Circle Award presented by the Chicago / Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

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  [Chicago Slices raw: Lisa Ely]

  Chicago, Chicago Slices

  Raw footage for “Chicago Slices,” a series documenting life in and around Chicago. In this video, we meet Lisa Ely and her cats, Kitty and Nikki, in her apartment. In her interview with Tobi Johnson, Lisa claims that her cat, Kitty, sings the Mickey Mouse theme song and “barks” and has Kitty demonstrate these talents.

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  [Chicago Slices raw: Community Support Systems, John Rossen]

  Chicago, Chicago Slices, Communities, Latinx

  Raw footage for “Chicago Slices,” a series about everyday life in Chicago. In this video, we meet Guadalupe Castillo Rossen, John Rossen, Jose Canderas, and Fabiana Cardozo, of an organization called “Community Support Systems,” a non-profit organization based in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. They are interviewed by Tobi Johnson at an annual fundraising event at their office, and talk about their work in the Mexican-American community in Pilsen, highlighting specific needs, challenges, and rewards of their work.