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  The Roosevelt Experiment

  American Way, Arts & Culture, Black, Chicago, Chicago Politics, Communities, Harold Washington, On the Media, Politics, Videomakers, War and Peace, Wild Chicago

  Why and how did an integrated college in a segregated city start in downtown Chicago just as World War II was ending? In 1984 an independent documentary filmmaker, Jeff Spitz, found old pictures and film footage about Roosevelt University including a magazine article that referred to the school as “The Roosevelt Experiment.”

  Tapping the memories of former students who crossed the color line, particularly Blacks and Jews, the film blends archival images and interviews into an exploration of race, racial quotas and democratic ideals. Former students recall being questioned during an anti-communist investigation that targeted their school.

  Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, a former student council president, shares poignant memories of getting into political
  arguments in the cafeteria. He called it an “insane but interesting place.”

  Shortly after the film’s release Spitz returned to City Hall to interview Mayor Washington about fairness, diversity and clashing visions of government. Mayor Washington’s additional commentary appears at the end of the video.

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  Ishai Sagi: Not In My Name

  Judy Hoffman, Politics, War and Peace

  Uncut tape of an interview with Ishai Sagi, a lieutenant in the Israeli army who was sentenced to twenty-six days in Israeli military prison for refusing to serve in Palestine. Sagi recounts his story, discussing the reasons for his refusal and his opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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  Paper Press

  Chicago, CLIR, Eleanor Boyer, Guerrilla Television, Videomakers

  Documents the activities of a Chicago artist-run, non-profit organization fostering experimental hand papermaking and artists’ collaborations. Shows the process of making paper by hand. Includes interviews with co-directors Marilyn Sward, Linda Sorkin-Eisenberg and other artists. The video was made in three versions: English, Spanish and American Sign Language. (Note: Paper Press served as the proto-type for the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts, established in 1993 with Marilyn Sward as its Director)

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  Rugby Women

  Chicago, CLIR, Eleanor Boyer, Guerrilla Television

  By 1972, rugby football as an organized sport for women, was played at three universities in the U.S., including the University of Illinois. In 1977 the Lake Shore Ale-wives became the second women’s rugby team in Chicago. This video contains Interviews with the players, footage from practice sessions and scenes of their first home game. The women reflect on the problems they must overcome in playing a traditionally male sport and the benefits they derive from it.

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  Bonne Bell: 10,000 Meter Race For Women

  Chicago, CLIR, Eleanor Boyer, Guerrilla Television, Videomakers

  This video documents Chicago’s first 6.2 mile race for women. Organized and hosted by the Loop Center YWCA in April,1978, it was billed as one of the largest, if not the largest, sporting event for women to that date. Over 2000 entrants completed the race. The tape vividly captures the excitement of women of all ages, races and economic status, many of whom were motivated to run by the desire to do something ‘just for themselves.’ Loop YWCA organizers, Sharon Mier and Erma Tranter appear in the tape as does then mayor of Chicago, Michael Bilandic.

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  Women Working: Pioneers in Carpentry

  Chicago, CLIR, Eleanor Boyer, Guerrilla Television

  Jobs in construction carpentry and cabinet making, and the good pay derived them, traditionally have been the domain of men. This video gives a first-hand look at carpentry apprenticeship as experienced by some of the first women to enter these trades in the 1970’s. The camera follows women carpenters at work on job sites including a high-rise under construction, a carpentry shop at a sewer project and in a production cabinet shop. They talk about the training they receive, the working conditions, the kinds of responses they get from male co-workers and the benefits derived from their support-group, Chicago Women Carpenters. Produced by Audrey Denecke for the Women’s Pre-Apprenticeship Project, Midwest Women’s Center, Chicago. Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Film Festival, 1981.

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  Royko At His Best

  American Way, Arts & Culture, Black, Chicago, Chicago Politics, Communities, On the Media, Performance, Politics, Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N Roll, Sports, TVTV, War and Peace, Wild Chicago

  Some of the newspaper columns written by Mike Royko are reenacted, parodied, and read live on stage!

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  A 1992 conversation with Joe Biden

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  As Joe Biden is set to be inaugurated on January 20th, Media Burn is highlighting a 1992 interview with the former Senator.