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  [Interview with Tom Weinberg about Guerrilla Television, tape 1]

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV, Tom Weinberg

  Interview with guerrilla television pioneer Tom Weinberg about his career and the alternative video scene in Chicago in the 1970s. Shot for a University of Chicago BA thesis project called “Alternative Television: A Short History of Video Activism in Chicago.”

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  [Interview with Denise Zaccardi about Guerrilla Television]

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV

  Interview with guerrilla television pioneer Denise Zaccardi about her career and the alternative video scene in Chicago in the 1970s. Shot for a University of Chicago BA thesis project called “Alternative Television: A Short History of Video Activism in Chicago.” Interview starts at 7:30 and is preceded by unrelated silent footage of Midway Studios at the University of Chicago.

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  [Interview with Scott Jacobs about Guerrilla Television]

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV

  Interview with guerrilla television pioneer Scott Jacobs about his career and the alternative video scene in Chicago in the 1970s. Shot for a University of Chicago BA thesis project called “Alternative Television: A Short History of Video Activism in Chicago.”

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  [Interview with Judy Hoffman about Guerrilla Television, tape 1]

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV, Judy Hoffman

  Interview with guerrilla television pioneer Judy Hoffman about her career and the alternative video scene in Chicago in the 1970s. Shot for a University of Chicago BA thesis project called “Alternative Television: A Short History of Video Activism in Chicago.”

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  Wrigley Field 7th inning stretch with Harry Caray

  Chicago, Cubs, Sports

  Raw tape from the film “Baseball’s Heirlooms” by Media Process Group.

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  What Trees Do They Plant?

  Chicago

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  [The Roosevelt Experiment demo]

  Chicago

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  The Roosevelt Experiment

  Black, Chicago, Harold Washington

  Why and how did an integrated college in a segregated city start in downtown Chicago just as World War II was ending? In 1984 an independent documentary filmmaker, Jeff Spitz, found old pictures and film footage about Roosevelt University including a magazine article that referred to the school as “The Roosevelt Experiment.”

  Tapping the memories of former students who crossed the color line, particularly Blacks and Jews, the film blends archival images and interviews into an exploration of race, racial quotas and democratic ideals. Former students recall being questioned during an anti-communist investigation that targeted their school.

  Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, a former student council president, shares poignant memories of getting into political
  arguments in the cafeteria. He called it an “insane but interesting place.”

  Shortly after the film’s release Spitz returned to City Hall to interview Mayor Washington about fairness, diversity and clashing visions of government. Mayor Washington’s additional commentary appears at the end of the video.