Compilation Image Union episode featuring "Shopper Ph.D" by Diana Stoneberg, "Cheat-U-Fair" by Columbia College's Visual Production Seminar Class, and "Passion of the Lion" by Vince Waldron.
0:10Copy video clip URL Image Union opening.
0:50Copy video clip URL “Shopper Ph.D.” by Diana Stoneberg. Black and white video. Comedy. Madeline and Bill have both earned the Shopper Ph.D. They are still wearing their black robes when they shop and meet each other in an aisle of the supermarket. Bill moves into Madeline’s apartment and soon retires as shopper since Madeline is becoming more and more addicted. Finally, she dies because of her excessive habits.
10:45Copy video clip URL “Cheat-U-Fair” by Columbia College Visual Production Seminar Class (Carl German, Thomas Phillips, Bruce Real, Scott Rosenthal, Marsha Rudak, Bob Schordje, and Al Stoncius; instructor, Jim Passin). Color video. A day in the life of Maxwell Street in summer 1980.
23:35Copy video clip URL “Passion of the Lion” by Vince Waldron. Black and white video. In faux-Swedish with subtitles. A woman has a love affair with a stuffed lion. Funny. Maybe a Bergman parody?
28:51Copy video clip URL Image Union end credits.
Main Credits
show produced by Tom Weinberg and Ken Solarz; individual segments produced by Diana Stoneberg, Columbia College Visual Production Seminar Class, and Vince Waldron
Date
1980-10-13
Staff and Producer Comments
About "Shopper Ph.D.": "Funny. A classic. Starr Sutherland had a finger in it." - TW
About "Cheat-U-Fair": "Good doc." - TW.
Jim Passin: "I recall that class, project and group of students quite clearly; they were a diverse mix of personalities, nationalities, ages and dispositions, typical of Columbia College. The project was done in Visual Production Seminar, a documentary class I designed and taught at Columbia jointly through the Film and Television Departments and then the Television Department exclusively.
After researching and scouting and all the usual pre-production, the project was shot on weekends over three or four consecutive Sundays and edited to give the impression of one congruent day. It was quite an effort for a student piece and one of the most fun to do. Not only was it shot by several students, it was also group-edited yet it manages to hang together rather well. It was shot and edited in 1980 on 3/4".
If it takes on some importance now I suppose it is because Maxwell Street has vanished, a victim of cold and mighty economic forces, changing times and a vastly skewed cultural milieu, taking with it another distinctly Chicago cultural phenomenon that can never be repeated, reassembled or re-imagined. During production we had the palpable feeling of capturing something fleeting, ephemeral and we were right. We knew we were swimming through a world that simply had no place for a Maxwell Street anymore.
Like so much of the city's rich past, it is gone forever and after it has finally moved completely out of living memory, there will be films and tapes like this along with photographs and audio recordings to echo its ghosts, allowing them perhaps one more tune, one more dance, one more pitch.
It garnered Silver Plaque, 16th Chicago International Film Festival; 1st Place Regional Winner, SONY Competition; Certificate of Honor, JVC Competition."
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