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  Getting to Know Studs Through Media Burn Archive

  Blog, Recommended Videos

  For nearly ten years, you have been able to depend on Media Burn to give you free online access to Chicago’s history and people. By now, you know there’s no other way to watch larger-than-life figures like Studs Terkel, Vito Marzullo, Dan Rostenkowski, Bill Veeck, and Mike Royko. In fact, we now have more than 6000 videos produced outside of traditional television which we have saved for posterity, and each and every one of them will only become more valuable […]

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  Sam’s Shoe Service

  Chicago, Cindy Neal

  Short documentary by Cindy Neal about Sam’s Shoe Service shop on West Roscoe St. in Chicago.

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  The Four Tops In Concert

  Chicago, Judy Hoffman, Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N Roll

  The Four Tops perform live in Chicago at the Park West. Intercut with band interviews and studio session footage.

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  Cook County Hospital Rally

  Chicago, Outside Agitators

  Cook County Hospital workers rally on October 13, 1979 at Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago. They are trying to prevent the hospital from closing.

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  Interview with architect Stanley Tigerman (1990)

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  Today, Chicago-based architect Stanley Tigerman is being honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Architects Chicago for “his innovative design in over 175 built works for ‘all levels of society’” as well as the lasting influence of his critical and theoretical writings. Back in 1990, Tigerman was interviewed for an episode of The 90’s, where he espoused his own approach to architecture while levelling a few choice criticisms against the profession as a whole. The resulting […]

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  Good Jane, Bad Jane, parts 1-3 of 5

  Chicago, Chicago Politics, Harold Washington, Politics

  WLS-7 special on Mayor Jane Byrne’s first year in office, reported by Hugh Hill. Only contains the first three of five parts.

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  The Inner Workings of Congress, 1981

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  Ever wondered what really goes on behind closed doors in Congress? Cameras would never be permitted in closed door meetings today, but in 1981, we managed to shoot a rare peek at an orientation for newly elected House Democrats (including Harold Washington). In it, Majority Whip Dan Rostenkowski, with his typical tell-it-like-it-is attitude, explains to the freshmen how things are really done in D.C. It’s part of the excellent documentary Rostenkowski. This collection of raw footage was digitized through the […]

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  Gus Van Sant’s first film, from “Image Union,” 1982

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  Since its first broadcast in 1978, “Image Union” has been a place on Chicago public television to celebrate the potential of the next generation of actors, documentarians, animators, writers, and directors. If it is independently produced and it is interesting, it has a chance of being seen on the air. “Image Union” was the first stop in many celebrated artists’ careers. Take, for example, this short film called “The Discipline of DE,” based on a story by William S. Burroughs, […]