Image Union, episode 0436
Two part episode of Image Union featuring two films: “The Neightborhood” by W. Schwartz and A.J. Kornbluth and “A Letter From Trinidad” by Myrna Changar.
Two part episode of Image Union featuring two films: “The Neightborhood” by W. Schwartz and A.J. Kornbluth and “A Letter From Trinidad” by Myrna Changar.
This is raw footage for the TV show, The 90s. Recorded by Skip Blumberg, this particular footage shows performances by The Champions, a cheerleading/dance/jump rope group of girls residing in the Marcy Homes in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The Champions appear again in tape #15837, but are called “The Street.”
Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Cab driver Robert Demella tells us a series of stories, zipping from one topic to another. The camera mostly focuses on Demella but there are some shots of the New York streets.
A documentary about the day in 1958 when Art Kane, then an aspiring photographer and art director for Esquire magazine, arranged for a group photo (which was titled “A Great Day In Harlem”) of almost every prominent jazz musician in New York City to be taken in Harlem; among the many musicians are many jazz giants, including Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Charles Mingus, and Gene Krupa.
Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Tom Weinberg and Joel Cohen ride the train around O’Hare airport, and then travel to Manhattan, where they visit a charming shoe repair shop.
In this raw tape, Skip Blumberg shoots on the streets of New York for The 90’s, asking people about the upcoming presidential election. At the same time, Danny Schechter and a camera crew shoot Skip for a Globalvision video training tape. Most of the tape is Skip shooting Schechter’s crew as they interview him. Skip gives simple and clear explanations of the principles that guide his shooting (i.e., one should not look through the viewfinder but should instead learn to shoot without thinking about it).
Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s of 42nd Street in New York City.
Eddie Tape #107. Democratic National Convention, 1992, New York City. Becker at the 1992 Democratic National Convention, various interviews.