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  [Transfer of Lithuanian woman – Youth conference]

  Anda Korsts, Chicago, CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  0:00 An elderly Lithuanian woman is interviewed while working in on a factory line sorting defective machine parts. She describes her pleasure in decorating her workstation with flowers. She reads some of the German philosophical quotations about loneliness and death (which make her giggle) that she keeps at her station to exercise her mind. She is very friendly and is disappointed when the interview is done so quickly. (B&W) 6:35 Black. 6:39 This material was taped over for the Lithuanian […]

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  Near North Montessori #3

  Anda Korsts, Chicago, CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  This is the third in a series of six raw tapes where videomaker Anda Korsts visits Near North Montessori School in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood of Chicago to learn about how it works.

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  Near North Montessori #2

  Anda Korsts, Chicago, CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  This is the second in a series of six raw tapes where videomaker Anda Korsts visits Near North Montessori School in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood of Chicago to learn about how it works.

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  Near North Montessori #1

  Anda Korsts, Chicago, CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  This is the first in a series of six raw tapes where videomaker Anda Korsts visits Near North Montessori School in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood of Chicago to learn about how it works.

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  [Accessible Billionaire b-roll]

  American Way, Arts & Culture

  From five small 16mm reels. Footage shot for Accessible Billionaire, a documentary about John D. MacArthur.

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  Street Tape Chicago ’75

  Chicago, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Video Makers Choice

  Skip Blumberg walks the streets of Chicago, getting those he meets along the way to talk about what they do for a living. Some of the interviewees include a bartender, an Abraham Lincoln impersonator around 06:30, a produce clerk, a housewife, and a prostitute. Plus an interview with Democratic 43rd Ward Committeeman Dan O’Brien in front of the Biograph Theater. Also includes a follow-up with Wheelin’ Lovin’ Al, who was featured in It’s A Living a few months earlier. The interviews have been taped over an unrelated science video about the human body.

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  Down Clark Street

  Chicago, Tom Palazzolo

  Tom Palazzolo takes us on a tour of the Chicago neighborhood where he lived in the 1960s, stretching down Clark Street from Chicago Avenue to the Chicago River. Palazzolo combines his own vintage photographs and film footage from the ’60s and ’70s with a modern-day video tour, led by the filmmaker himself. Palazzolo recounts stories of locals that he knew, filmed and photographed on Clark street and speaks of how the neighborhood has changed over the years.

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  This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 02: People As They Really Are

  Joe's Basement

  AIR DATES: August 4,8,14, 1989