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  Five day bicycle race, Part 3

  American Way, Five Day Bicycle Race, Guerrilla TV, Outside Agitators, Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N Roll

  A documentary made at and about the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City, which was produced as a live 3-hour cablecast for five days during the convention. It was subsequently broadcast on WTTW and other PBS stations. It chronicles the events on in and around the convention, and includes interviews with various delegates, politicians, members of the media, and people connected to Jimmy Carter, including Rosalynn Carter and Jeff Carter (Jimmy’s son). It also includes footage from the convention floor, and demonstrators outside the convention, led by Ron Kovic.

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  Five day bicycle race, Part 1

  American Way, Five Day Bicycle Race, Guerrilla TV, Outside Agitators, Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N Roll

  Highlights from a documentary made at and about the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City, which was produced as a live 3-hour cablecast for five days during the convention. It was subsequently broadcast on WTTW and other PBS stations. It chronicles the events on in and around the convention, and includes interviews with various delegates, politicians, members of the media, and people connected to Jimmy Carter, including Rosalynn Carter and Jeff Carter (Jimmy’s son). It also includes footage from the convention floor, and demonstrators outside the convention, led by Ron Kovic.

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  Bicentennial Golf Cart Parade

  American Way, Chicago, Roots of Video

  The July 4, 1977 America’s Bicentennial Golf Cart Parade in Whispering Pines, NC.

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  [Radio Free Venice interview]

  American Way, Judith Binder, On the Media

  This video shows an interview with Tom Reveille, operator of the pirate FM radio station Radio Free Venice in Venice Beach, CA. He is an advocate for “grass-roots radio,” and is purportedly in a prolonged legal battle with the FCC on the constitutionality of their operation.

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  3rd Street Promenade Music

  American Way, THE 90's

  This video shows four outdoors musical performances on the 3rd street promenade in Los Angeles. The first plays a kazoo and banjo, the second a hammered dulcimer, the third a violin, and the final a guitar.

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  Anna, Helan – Bevs – Sax Remy John Fleck

  American Way, THE 90's

  This video has several segments the first being a musical performance in what looks like a coffee shop. The second is a reading of a journal that was kept between the days of January 20 and 24 of 1991 by an Israeli-American living in Israel at the time of Saddam Hussein’s bombing of Israel in the Gulf War. The last two parts are of a bar in LA that is being threatened to be torn down and a friend of Binder, the filmmaker, chatting with her in his home and then performing for her there.

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  Holly Woodlawn

  American Way, Judith Binder

  This video shows a cabaret act by Holly Woodlawn in Los Angeles. The filmmaker, Judith Binder, also spends the time before the show talking to people in the audience, focusing in particular on a group of trans women and drag queens.

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  Ideas: Sandra Lowell – Tapdance; Tracy + Peter Wedding, etc.

  American Way, THE 90's

  The first part of this video is a tapdancer performing several takes of a performance for the TV show, THE 90’s. The second and larger part of the video is footage of a Jewish family wedding in Sonoma, CA with several scenic shots sprinkled throughout.