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  Pick Up Your Feet: The Double Dutch Show

  American Way, Viewers Choice

  A sweet, interesting, and enjoyable documentary about a double dutch championship for junior high age kids in New York. The tape featured mainly local kids from Manhattan and the boroughs, but the event drew an international crowd to the Lincoln Center on 6/13/81. We spend time with the teams as they practice and compete and hear about how they train and how they feel about their sport. The tape manages to simultaneously capture all of the tension of the competition and give a personal look at a number of the teams. Blumberg manages to catch the participants at their most raw and emotional moments, like when a 10 (?) year old girl is sobbing uncontrollably like she had just lost a family member. Blumberg asks her what place her team got. They were #1.

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  [The 90’s raw: Prof. William Kornblum on Times Square]

  THE 90's

  Raw footage for The 90’s. Interview with urbanologist Prof. William Kornblum of City University about the history, and 1990s revitalization, of New York’s Times Square.

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  [Pieces from hour III of Five Day Bicycle Race]

  CLIR, Five Day Bicycle Race, Guerrilla Television

  Pieces from the live broadcast of Five Day Bicycle Race, a documentary made at and about the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City. Most of this footage is from the studio, but it does include the segment in which Tom Weinberg and his cameraman attempt to gain entrance to a party thrown by Rolling Stone Magazine. It also includes a telephone poll that asks viewers if Rolling Stone represents their interests.

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  [The 90’s raw: Reverend Calvin O. Butts followup]

  Black, Communities, Skip Blumberg, THE 90's

  Raw footage for The 90’s. Interview with Rev. Calvin O. Butts following up from an interview he gave on tape 11140 about his campaign to stop Philip Morris from advertising cigarettes in low income neighborhoods.

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  [The 90’s raw: Tovey Halleck]

  Skip Blumberg, THE 90's

  Artist Tovey Halleck shows off his iron sculptures and introduces artist Robert Parker and Chris, members of a squatter community in New York City’s Lower East Side.

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  [Five Day Bicycle Race raw: Another Day #3]

  American Way, CLIR, Five Day Bicycle Race, Guerrilla Television, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Performance, TVTV

  This video contains raw footage shot for “Five Day Bicycle Race,” a project comprised of live in-studio commentary and taped edited coverage of the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City. Produced by independent videomakers calling themselves The Image Union (including many members of TVTV and Videofreex), it aired on Manhattan Cable for three hours per night for five days during the convention. This video features Joel Gold performing a piece called “Another Day,” plus some music.

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  [The 90’s raw: bar talk]

  Skip Blumberg, THE 90's

  Raw footage for The 90’s. Bar talk with bartender Peter Fogel at the Mayflower Hotel bar, New York City.

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  [The 90’s raw: NYC streets #5]

  American Way, Black, Communities, Skip Blumberg, THE 90's, Videomakers

  Raw footage shot for the TV series The 90’s. Skip Blumberg goes around the streets of New York taping everyday people and some of their thoughts. A portion of this video shows some of his family life. A larger portion is concerned with the performance of a cheerleading-type routine by a group of girls, which Blumberg has called “The Street”; there are several takes of this spanning about a third of the footage. The recordings take place outside the Marcy Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. On a subsequent tape, the group is called “The Champions.”