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  The Life of Work

  Chicago, NHPRC, Studs Terkel

  Studs Terkel presents a lecture and question-answer session at Loyola University Chicago on the topic, “The Life of Work.” Terkel shares many encounters and stories he accumulated while writing his celebrated book Working. Shot just one day after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

• [Studs Terkel interview about the 1919 Black Sox scandal]

  Sports, Studs Terkel, White Sox

  Studs Terkel is interviewed on ESPN speaking about Jack Dempsey and the 1919 Black Sox scandal. This tape is single camera raw footage of Terkel responding to questions from an interviewer. The tape finishes with a second take of the first section.

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  [Studs on a Soapbox b-roll]

  NHPRC, Studs Terkel, Viewers Choice

  B-roll footage of Studs Terkel from “Studs on a Soapbox.” Highlights include his narrated tours of Bughouse Square, a public debate forum he frequented during his youth, and the rooming house where he grew up. He debates Chicago’s gentrification with a construction worker renovating the old building into luxury apartments. Also included is footage of Terkel at his recording studio and typewriter.

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  [Studs on a Soapbox raw: Skip #2]

  Chicago, NHPRC, Studs Terkel, Tom Weinberg, Video Makers Choice

  Continuation raw for Studs on a Soapbox (Skip’s camera). Producer Tom Weinberg interviews Studs Terkel at his home and at Bughouse Square, a park that hosted a free-speech forum during Terkel’s youth.

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  [Interview with Studs Terkel about Chicago TV in the ’50s]

  Chicago, NHPRC, Studs Terkel

  Raw footage of an interview with Studs Terkel about Chicago television in the 1950s. He mainly discusses the show Studs’ Place, which aired from 1949-1951. The live, improvised show took place in a neighborhood restaurant (called Studs’ Place).

• Come out and play.

  Studs Terkel

  A promotional video for Chicago Park District advertising programs, some new, some existing, at various Chicago Parks in September 2003. Divided into seven segments, each featuring a different park district program. Each segment is made up of narration over video and still photos of the various programs and parks that are featured.

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  [Studs interview tapes 2 and 3]

  Chicago, NHPRC, Studs Terkel

  Raw interview footage of Studs Terkel at the Newberry Library. Terkel is being interviewed for a Chicago-oriented program.

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  [Bughouse Square debates]

  Chicago, Communities, Latinx, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Studs Terkel

  CAN-TV coverage of the Bughouse Square Debates at Washington Square Park in Chicago in July 2001. The event, a free speech forum, traces its history to the early twentieth century when soapbox orators, beatnik poets and radicals gathered at the park to rant and rave. Generally, the video is a static shot of the podium with occasional cutaways to the crowd.