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  Do you still have untransferred 1/2″ open reel videotapes?

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  (If you don’t know what this question means, you definitely don’t!) If you were a portable video pioneer who was active in the late 1960s and/or early 1970s, you might still have some lurking around somewhere that you never got around to transferring. Time is almost up… We are in the process of applying for a grant to transfer our remaining 1/2″ reels. We know that many wonderful tapes from this quickly vanishing era of video experimentation remain untransferred and […]

• [The 90’s Election Specials raw: Aaron Freeman]

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  This tape features raw footage gathered for the “The 90’s Election Specials.” Correspondents Aaron Freeman and Pat Creadon travel with videomaker Tom Weinberg to a barber shop and a beauty salon talking to people about the upcoming Presidential election.

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  Let’s Go Hawks!

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  multiple edits at once

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  Nancy Cain’s Journal

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  Several segments produced by Nancy Cain: Street / At Home / Rita Ironing / Obscene Phone Call / Boone & Bredesen / Robbie Conal / TV Review / Bob Morton.

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  Inside The Baffler, 1993

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  Today, we look back at the early years of The Baffler, a literary journal which was published out of Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood for more than 20 years. Praised for its critiques of mass media and business culture, The Baffler came from a strong “do it yourself” ethic inspired by punk rock music and the advent of personal computers, which helped move cultural production out of the hands of big businesses and into the hands of everyday people. In this 1993 interview, Thomas […]

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  Neon signs and baked Alaska

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  We’ve been meaning to update you on the exciting results of our projects with five University of Michigan graduate students back in March. We had a great week together: the students showed us how to do amazing things with our website, and we gave them t-shirts and introduced them to Baked Alaska at Sabatino’s. Sara with the group at lunch (L-R): Yiqing Li, Maria Smith, Soohyun Park, Kimberly Springer, Krishna Vadrevu In just five days, they created some marvelous new […]

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  Mike Gray (1935-2013)

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  We’re sad to report the passing of a close friend and pioneering documentarian. Mike Gray was brilliant…a journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker, steadfast in his beliefs and and absolutely creative every day of his life. H. Michael Gray was born in Darlington, a small town in Indiana. He received an engineering degree from Purdue University, and came to Chicago in the early 1960s. He had lived and worked in Los Angeles since 1973. He was the co-founder of the Chicago-Based […]

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  Richie Havens (1941-2013)

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  Three videos in honor of musician and activist Richie Havens. The first was shot in 1982 as part of a national nuclear disarmament survey with the participation of more than 300 videomakers. Next, from 1990, a short interview by Skip Blumberg for the PBS series THE 90’s. Lastly, enjoy a performance by Havens at the 1991 Studs Terkel Toast at the Bismarck Hotel in Chicago from our extensive Studs Terkel collection. As always, you can watch the full programs: Disarmament Survey (1982, […]