Freeze Frame: You Can Do It!
Episode of “Freeze Frame” titled “You Can Do It.” Sponsored by the Illinois Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign.
Episode of “Freeze Frame” titled “You Can Do It.” Sponsored by the Illinois Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign.
“Freeze Frame,” a show sponsored by the Illinois Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Episode #2: Baseball, Briefcases and Bombshelters.
Demo of television show called “Freeze Frame” dedicated to the issue of ending nuclear arms race. Sponsored by the Illinois Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign.
Studs Terkel speaks at the 2002 Commencement at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois. Terkel praises the liberal arts and lessons taught through history, urging students to work toward realizing the dream of an “open society.” Excerpt of a longer tape, which includes the full ceremony and footage of honorary degrees given to Deborah Leff, Carl MaultsBy and Cass R. Sunstein.
Raw footage from the 1981 documentary “Rostenkowski,” a portrait of House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, a powerful figure in Chicago (and national) politics. The tape begins at a local Chicago courthouse. Midway through, it cuts to the outside of a campaign rally for Dan Rostenkowski. Whole tape is mostly b-roll.
A documentary about a day in the life of a Sears mail order catalog facility in Chicago, where the disconnect between workers and management is striking. The management seems to be entirely white and male, while the workers are black and female. The tape was produced as part of the “It’s a Living” series of videos on working in America.
Thursday, September 20, 2007, 6pm, Gene Siskel Film Center. The 1970s gave rise to a network of radical video makers who set out to create a feisty alternative to broadcast television. Decades before the so-called media democratization offered by YouTube, cell phone cameras, and hundred-channel cable, these artist-activists turned their Portapaks on protesters, politicians, and the men-, women-, and children-on-the-street to create startlingly candid documentaries that aired on a system of closed-circuit, pirate, and early cable stations—even infiltrating broadcast television itself. Hailing from seminal guerrilla collectives Videofreex, Ant Farm, and TVTV, artists Skip Blumberg, Nancy Cain, Chip Lord, and Tom Weinberg present an overview of their pioneering work and discuss its legacy today, in conversation with Amy Beste.
Raw footage from “It’s a Living,” the 1975 documentary inspired by the Studs Terkel book “Working.” This tape features Terkel interviewed in his office at Chicago’s WFMT radio station.