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Growing Up Bonobo

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We’re excited to show you the trailer for the new short documentary produced by Skip Blumberg and Tom Weinberg, as a not-for-profit project of Media Burn. Every view of the trailer will help the film get selected for a premiere at the Socially Relevant Film Festival in New York this spring, so please help us by checking it out! Growing Up Bonobo:Photographer Marian Bricknercoming soon!A unique upbeat short about an endangered species, and the inspired photographer who loves them.16 minutes, […]
[Chicago Reader #4]

Chicago, Tom Weinberg

Interview with Neil Tesser and Pat Clinton at the Chicago Reader.
“Our kind of video”: Nelson Mandela and South Africa through the eyes of Andrew Jones

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When Nelson Mandela died on December 5th, mainstream news media almost universally presented Mandela as a one-dimensional hero for his iconic life and accomplishments. But now that a lot of the coverage has waned, we want to give you another look at Mandela and his impact on South Africans. The archival footage we’ve put together here doesn’t try to give you a complete story of Mandela’s political career. This is a series of video snapshots, moments in time recorded along […]
Mayor Daley proclaims “Wild Chicago Day”- 1996

Chicago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8a7rzGZb1c On the occasion of our 100th episode, we decided to see if we could persuade the Mayor’s Office to issue a proclamation recognizing WILD CHICAGO DAY. It was surprisingly easy. We handed off the document to Field Producer Mike McAlpin one afternoon to see who he might convince to read our official city proclamation on-camera. Playing along were: Kup, Richard Roeper, Stella Foster, Cook County Clerk David Orr, Ald. Burt Natarus, Ald, Bernie Stone and Ald. Dorothy Tillman.
We don’t care when*

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*Today, tomorrow, whenever… Media Burn needs your support all the time! Dear Friend of Media Burn: Happy new year! 2014… a milestone year for the Media Burn Independent Video Archive. Ten years ago, all we had was a storefront full of videotapes and the knowledge that they were incredibly important and deteriorating quickly. Since then we have restored, permanently saved, and made freely available more than 2,500 historically significant videotapes, and they have been […]
Face it layoff

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This video contains footage gathered for the television program “Watch It.” Some of this footage was also gathered for the television show “Wired In,” which never made it on the air. In this video, we watch as broadcast journalist Anne Johnsos, along with a video crew, visits a technology convention in Chicago to demo a new product called “Face It.”
Why Media Burn Matters: A video message from Tom and Sara

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Dear Friend of Media Burn: We are writing to you today because we know you share our enthusiasm for preserving and distributing one of the most important collections of historical documentaries anywhere, and we need you to make a tax-deductible contribution now: http://mediaburn.org/donate/ In 2014, we will be celebrating ten years of mediaburn.org. Our online collection of freely-accessible documentary videos now exceeds 2500, which have been viewed more than 10 million times—a remarkable achievement! So as 2013 comes to a […]
[Ed Vrdolyak write-in Republican mayoral campaign 1989]

Chicago, Chicago Politics, Harold Washington, Politics

Reports on Ed Vrdolyak’s last minute write-in campaign in the Republican primary for mayor of Chicago: 2/28, 3/1, 3/2, and 3/3/1989.