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  3/30/23: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: “CamNet”

  Events, Virtual Talks with Video Activists

  A screening/discussion about the groundbreaking 1990s “camcorder series” CamNet, with producer Judith Binder and scholar Leah Shafer

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  3/2/23: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Lori Felker + Nancy Cain: Women’s Video Histories

  Events, Virtual Talks with Video Activists

  A screening/discussion of Nancy Cain’s foundational feminist classic Harriet (1973) and Lori Felker’s acclaimed Spontaneous (2020) with artist Felker and media scholar Melissa Dollman. 

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  [Voices of Cabrini raw: demolition – Robbins Barber Shop]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Voices of Cabrini

  Footage for the documentary “Voices of Cabrini.” Shot between 1995-1999, it documented the Cabrini Green redevelopment project proposed and carried out by the city of Chicago. This video includes footage of construction workers cleaning up the rubble of Robbins Barber shop, followed by footage shot before the demolition of a conversation between Robbins Barber shop patrons about race relations, and footage from a little league baseball game in the neighborhood.

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  [Voices of Cabrini raw: Marion Stamps funeral]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Voices of Cabrini

  Video from the documentary “Voices of Cabrini.” Shot between 1995-1999, it documented the Cabrini Green redevelopment project proposed and carried out by the city of Chicago. This video features footage from Cabrini activist Marion Stamps’ funeral. Congressman Bobby Rush speaks at the service. Towards the end of the video, there is an interview with a Cabrini resident who had lived in the area since the 1960s.

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  9/5/12: Be the first to see Studs’ Place episodes lost for 60 years

  Blog, Events

  STUDS’ PLACE: LOST AND FOUND SEPTEMBER 5, 2012, 5:30-7:30pmFREE ADMISSION Free non-alcoholic beverages Birthday cheesecake courtesy of Eli’s Cheesecake Museum of Broadcast Communications360 N. State St., Chicago, ILguarantee your seats by rsvp’ing to info@mediaburn.org On September 5, you will have the first opportunity to see footage from four lost episodes of the seminal Chicago TV show Studs’ Place. Unseen for 60 years, these kinescope recordings of the live show were recently discovered in Terkel’s basement. This amazing find increases the […]

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  [Voices of Cabrini raw: City Hall Demonstration]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Voices of Cabrini

  Footage for the documentary “Voices of Cabrini.” Shot between 1995-1999, it documented the Cabrini Green redevelopment project proposed and carried out by the city of Chicago. This tape includes footage of a protest and press conference inside City Hall.

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  [Voices of Cabrini raw: Demolition – Barbershop – Pratt home]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Voices of Cabrini

  Footage for the documentary “Voices of Cabrini.” Shot between 1995-1999, it documented the Cabrini Green redevelopment project proposed and carried out by the city of Chicago. This video includes footage of construction workers demolishing a Cabrini building, Robbins Barber Shop, and the Pratt family home. Mark Pratt also takes the filmmakers on a tour of the neighborhood.

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  [Voices of Cabrini raw: protest march]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Voices of Cabrini

  Raw video shot for “Voices of Cabrini.” Shot between 1995-1999, it documented the Cabrini Green redevelopment project proposed and carried out by the City of Chicago. This video features a protest march from Cabrini-Green to Grant Park.