![[Friends of WFMT meeting]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/645718062_640-228x160.jpg)
“Friends of WFMT” meeting featuring Thomas Geoghegan, Leon Despres, and Studs Terkel, among others, including Susan Lipman of WFMT. Meeting focuses on informing supporters about the history of the station and impending changes to the structure of its management. Studs talks at around thirty-five minutes about the challenges facing the station’s long term survival.
![[Interview with Studs Terkel about Chicago TV in the ’50s]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/645662883_640-228x160.jpg)
Raw footage of an interview with Studs Terkel about Chicago television in the 1950s. He mainly discusses the show Studs’ Place, which aired from 1949-1951. The live, improvised show took place in a neighborhood restaurant (called Studs’ Place).
![[Center for New Television infomercial]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/center-for-new-television-infomercial-video-thumbnail-228x160.jpg)
00:00 Color bars and tone. 00:40 Opening text about the tape (ie it promotes the CNTV, it is not the final edit, etc). 00:50 Clips of famous Chicago television programs, like “Studs’ Place.” We see clips of community television created at the Center. Narrated by Studs Terkel. 02:00 Studs Terkel comes on screen and promotes the Center. We see clips of people learning at the Center. We see Edie Adams at a CNTV benefit. We also learn that the Center […]
![[Studs Terkel interview about America]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/653861603_640-228x160.jpg)
A woman interviews Studs Terkel about his opinions of American culture and democracy. Terkel muses about the essence of American democracy, history, patriotism and how the United States (somewhat fallen in his esteem) can return to being “that country that I dream of being.”
![[Studs Terkel interview for Charlie Rose, part 2]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/645594584_640-228x160.jpg)
This is part two of a forty five minute interview with Studs Terkel. Terkel speaks of many other social and political issues of the time including: The Gulf War, military spending, George H.W. Bush, and a WWIII scenario. He also talks about his thoughts on Christianity, the Bible, and the negative aspects of television.
Dovie Thurman, community organizer & the “heart” of Uptown speaks with Studs Terkel about her work as a civil rights and welfare rights activist in a North Side Chicago neighborhood. Produced just one month before Thurman died of heart failure on April 7, 1997, Thurman retells her struggle against racist and classist powers, her meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and how she found redemption as a Christian preacher.
![[Studs On A Soapbox raw: Mirko #4]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/653862629_640-228x160.jpg)
Raw footage of an interview for the program “Studs On A Soapbox.” Tom Weinberg and others visit Studs Terkel at his home in Uptown. This is a continuation from the last tape. In this video, Terkel takes the crew through his home and shows them various memorable pictures from his life and other transcripts for his newest book. Terkel also fixes drinks for his guests and they all watch the 2000 Presidential election unfold on television.
![[Studs on a Soapbox raw: Skip #1]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/studs-on-a-soapbox-raw-skip-1-video-thumbnail-228x160.jpg)
Raw footage for Studs on a Soapbox. Producer Tom Weinberg and cameraman Skip Blumberg visit Studs Terkel in his home in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. Composed mostly of behind-the-scenes material, they carry on a revealing chat about life, death and baseball.