[Video Group and Senior Input]
Home movies from a girl’s sleepover, followed by a segment from the public access show Senior Input, featuring an interview with a retired newspaper photogrpaher.
Home movies from a girl’s sleepover, followed by a segment from the public access show Senior Input, featuring an interview with a retired newspaper photogrpaher.
Artist Larry Rivers’ portrait of his mother, Shirley Grossberg. Also known as “My Mother Shirley.”
High school students interview two residents of the Flannery Apartments, Chicago Housing Authority’s buildings for seniors.
Jeanie Shaw Wheeler, known as “Nana,” speaks to a class of elementary school students about her childhood in the rural Pacific Northwest in the late 19th century.
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.
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.
“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.
A dub of an infomercial about a corporation called Lifelink that functions as an adoption agency and provides various services for seniors.