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  [Group Treatment]

  CLIR, Communications for Change, Roots of Video

  A group counseling session in which five women discuss the difficulties that they have had in their relationships with each other, followed by conversations with attendees at a gathering about policy towards senior citizens.

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  Public Service / Crime, Terror, and the Media

  Chicago Politics, CLIR, Communications for Change, Latinx, Outside Agitators, Politics, Roots of Video, Studs Terkel

  Two videos about community activism in Chicago. The first discusses protests and other actions supported by the Organization of the Northeast (O.N.E.) for housing rights. The second discusses crime against senior citizens and the portrayal of crime in the media.

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  Pop Video Test IV: Entertainment, parts 1 and 2

  Ant Farm, Arts & Culture, CLIR, Guerrilla TV, On the Media, Performance, Roots of Video, Skip Blumberg, Tom Weinberg

  “The Pop Video Test” was a joint effort between Scott Jacobs and Tom Weinberg of the Chicago Editing Center, and the Video Group of the Bell and Howell Corporation. This cooperative effort between the independent video community and a corporate video distributor was intended to test the viability of the home video market. The videomakers assembled ten hours of video pieces meant as an alternative to available pre-recorded programming (ie Hollywood movies). Fifty VCR owners in the Chicago area agreed to examine and review the tapes. Test viewers then received the programming two hours at a time, in groupings labeled Video Art, Documentary, Entertainment, and Potpourri.

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  Lifelink

  Chicago

  A dub of an infomercial about a corporation called Lifelink that functions as an adoption agency and provides various services for seniors.

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  Now And Then

  CLIR, Image Union, Roots of Video

  A short documentary about a group of elderly women who perform in a Broadway revue-type stage show. Originally aired on Image Union Episode 0038.