[Weinberg’s Short History of Camcorder Journalism]
For Toronto 3/12/94.
This is raw footage for the TV show, The 90s. Recorded by Skip Blumberg, this particular footage shows performances by The Champions, a cheerleading/dance/jump rope group of girls residing in the Marcy Homes in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The Champions appear again in tape #15837, but are called “The Street.”
Raw footage for “Chicago Slices,” a series documenting life in and around Chicago. This video features an interview with Tracy Williams, who recently moved from California to Maywood, Illinois. She tells stories about the differences between living in Southern California and Chicago. Hers is followed by several shorter interviews asking people about their love of hot dogs, ending at Gospel Fest in Grant Park.
Raw footage for Chicago Slices. Roosevelt High School with coach Manny Weincord. Ben Joravsky interviews.
Raw footage for the TV series Chicago Slices. Segments include: Inspiration Cafe, Edsel, Gyros, Tribute to Lefty Dizz at Buddy Guy’s Legends.
Dovie Thurman, community organizer & the “heart” of Uptown speaks with Studs Terkel about her work as a civil rights and welfare rights activist in a North Side Chicago neighborhood. Produced just one month before Thurman died of heart failure on April 7, 1997, Thurman retells her struggle against racist and classist powers, her meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and how she found redemption as a Christian preacher.
Raw footage for The 90’s election specials. At the Shalom Project Senatorial Candidates forum.