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  TVTV Looks at the Oscars

  American Way, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Outside Agitators, TVTV

  Here is your front row ticket to 48th Academy Awards (1976). The Oscars as you’ve never seen them before. Watch a young Steven Spielberg lose out in his first of many nominations to be Best Director. Join Lily Tomlin as she buys her acceptance gown, Lee Grant rehearsing her “losing smile” for the camera and Michael Douglas planning his sweep of nominations for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
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  Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo

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  Today, we bring you clips from a fascinating and beautiful documentary being produced in Chicago by On Look Films. Like Media Burn, it is motivated by an effort to preserve and archive contemporary cultural reality that is in danger of being extinct. Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo is an engaged, objective cinéma vérité documentary about the complex relationship between modernity and tradition in Cairo. The story develops as the ancient oral tradition of the adhan, the Muslim call […]

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  More Treasures from the Archives

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  Once again, here are more rare materials from the archive! These materials cover projects from the last fifty years of independent TV and portable video, many available on Media Burn’s website. First we have a flyer from Ant Farm regarding their plans to bury a time capsule in 1975 to be dug up in 2000. However, this was no ordinary time capsule—Ant Farm buried a station wagon filled with items representing the average person’s values & culture. The car was […]

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  [Facing History benefit at Orchestra Hall]

  Chicago

  Featuring Oprah Winfrey and Sweet Honey in the Rock.

• Glenallen Hill

  Chicago, Sports

  Brief interview with Cubs baseball player Glenallen Hill about getting free gear at the Niketown store.

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  [The 90’s raw: Tony Schwartz #1]

  Outside Agitators

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  [The 90’s raw: interview with John Davis]

  Chicago, Outside Agitators, Tom Weinberg

  Raw footage shot for the award-winning series The 90’s. From The 90’s office, Tom Weinberg interviews John H. Davis, author of Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, over the phone. Davis’ answers are recorded by Skip Blumberg on tape #10956.

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  Allen Ginsberg, 1991

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