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  [Blues 3/24/82]

  Arts & Culture, Black, Chicago, Communities, Performance

  Onstage discussions with blues musicians Honeyboy Edwards and Floyd Jones.

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  Comedy Chicago episode #5: “The Second City”

  Chicago, Performance

  Episode featuring the Second City, including many performers from the early 1990s.

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  Let’s Have Lunch

  Chicago, Performance

  A sketch comedy program.

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  The Chicago Entertainment Connection pilot

  Chicago, Performance, Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N Roll

  The Chicago Entertainment Connection pilot episode.

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  The Mother #1

  Chicago, Kartemquin Films, Performance, Roots of Video

  Footage from a performance of an English-language version of the Bertolt Brecht play “The Mother.” This performance appears to be at a smaller theatre, with very minimal set and prop design—many of the setting details are conveyed by the chorus saying the scene’s expository text out loud in unison. This tape contains the first four of the play’s fourteen scenes.

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  [Breakdancing at Park West, 1983]

  Chicago, Performance

  Footage from the Park West night club, circa 1983.

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  Musical Memories from Chicago 1963 to 2000

  Chicago, Performance, Tom Palazzolo

  A collection of excerpts from films by Tom Palazzolo focuing on music in Chicago, from street performers on Maxwell St to folk and rock bands at neighborhood festivals.

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  Annoyance Theatre, tape 2

  Chicago, Performance, Tom Palazzolo

  Footage of a rehearsal for Mick Napier’s show “Hot Monkey Pie”. Footage shot by Tom Palazzolo and Jack Helbig.