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  Hollywood, 35 years later

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  In 1976, Frank Cavestani, Laura Cavestani, and Tom Weinberg produced a 30-minute documentary called Making it in Hollywood. It’s an insightful look at the business of fame and is still a strikingly accurate portrait of the Hollywood celebrity machine, featuring Shelley Winters, Sally Kirkland, Cissy Colpitts, and Tab Hunter, with appearances by Dr. John and John Belushi and many others. More than 35 years later, Mathias Sorum watched nearly all of the 80 camera original Making It tapes in the […]

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  Gatewood Galbraith, 1947-2012

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  Gatewood Galbraith, the fiercely independent five time gubernatorial candidate from Kentucky, died last week at the age of 64. We interviewed him in 1991 on his first run for governor. At the time, he was one of only a very few politicians anywhere who publicly endorsed legalizing hemp and marijuana. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcHpMcxT2U] For more on Galbraith, watch the full hour-long interview at Media Burn.

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  Last chance to support Media Burn in 2011

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  Please support Media Burn with a tax-deductible contribution before midnight December 31. If you do, you’ll be eligible for this year’s drawing for an HD Flip Cam! Then, enjoy this look back at Image Union‘s off-the-wall New Year’s Eve countdown in 1988 in honor of the program’s 10th anniversary. Here’s to another great year together. We couldn’t do it without you. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?amp;v=OnOERUdVcbY]

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  You can be Santa Claus this year

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  Greetings from Media Burn and Santa Claus (thanks to videomaker Scott Jacobs for this 1975 classic!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?amp;v=0aZ6w5XdxgE “Media Burn chronicles the grinding of a city and the aspiration of an era. And it offers a reality you would never see on reality TV.  In helping preserve these documentaries, we make a gift to our kids, but are also giving ourselves something along the way: a living connection to the characters and events that helped forge who we are and where […]

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  Videos Don’t Last Forever

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  We want you to read the entire post, but if you want to cut to the chase immediately, we hope you will support Media Burn with a tax-deductible donation this year. Use our simple online form or mail your check to Media Burn, 4270 W. Irving Park Rd. Chicago IL 60641. Every day, Media Burn is saving illuminating documentaries that are much more endangered than you may realize. In fact, one of the true innovators in moving image archiving, Jim […]

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  Chicago Reader, 1983

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  As the Chicago Reader celebrates its 40th anniversary, here’s a look back at the paper in 1983, including interviews with then-Publisher and Editor Robert Roth and then-Assistant Editor Michael Miner. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06_hNo-VmAM] If you haven’t already checked it out, don’t miss the Reader’s own retrospective and specifically, Miner’s fascinating recollection.

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  Remembering Studs

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  Studs Terkel died three years ago yesterday, on October 31, 2008. In January 2009, about 200 of Studs’ close friends came to the Chicago Cultural Center to tell their favorite Studs stories and jokes and to remember his life and work. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?amp;v=FOv_mjlL9jw]   Two Studs Terkel classics are now on DVD: It’s a Living (1974), the documentary based on Working, and Studs on a Soapbox (2000), a look at the feisty raconteur over several decades. The trailers are below […]

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  An introduction to Apple Computer, 1982

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  In this 1982 interview at Apple Computer in Cupertino, CA, we see how dramatically technology and the perception of computers has evolved in less than 30 years. Produced for a technology series, WIRED IN*, the vision of Steve Jobs was already alive and well. For more technology predictions at this early point in Apple’s history, watch the complete interview at Media Burn. Part 1: http://mediaburn.org/Video-Preview.128.0.html?&uid=1626 Part 2: http://mediaburn.org/Video-Preview.128.0.html?&uid=1627 *The demo for WIRED IN features young Bill Murray and Lily Tomlin […]