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  [Guerrilla Television event discussion]

  Ant Farm, Chicago, Guerrilla TV, Nancy Cain, Roots of Video, Skip Blumberg, Tom Weinberg, TVTV

  After the Guerrilla Television screening at the Gene Siskel Film Center, Skip Blumberg, Nancy Cain, Chip Lord, and Tom Weinberg participate in a discussion moderated by Amy Beste. Edited version.

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  [It’s A Living raw #20]

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video, Studs Terkel

  Raw footage from “It’s a Living,” the 1975 documentary inspired by the Studs Terkel book “Working.” This tape features Terkel interviewed in his office at Chicago’s WFMT radio station.

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  [It’s A Living raw #18]

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video, Studs Terkel

  Raw footage for “It’s a Living.” Studs Terkel at WFMT, in the street, and at Riccardo’s restaurant.

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  [It’s A Living raw #17]

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video, Studs Terkel

  Raw footage for “It’s a Living.” Studs Terkel is interviewed in the sound booth at WFMT.

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  [It’s a Living raw #16]

  Anda Korsts, Chicago, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video, Studs Terkel, Tom Weinberg, Video Makers Choice

  Raw footage for “It’s A Living.” End of piano tuner William Farrell, then Studs on Michigan Avenue Bridge. 

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  Street Tape Chicago ’75

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV, Roots of Video, Video Makers Choice

  Skip Blumberg walks the streets of Chicago, getting those he meets along the way to talk about what they do for a living. Some of the interviewees include a bartender, an Abraham Lincoln impersonator around 06:30, a produce clerk, a housewife, and a prostitute. Plus an interview with Democratic 43rd Ward Committeeman Dan O’Brien in front of the Biograph Theater. Also includes a follow-up with Wheelin’ Lovin’ Al, who was featured in It’s A Living a few months earlier. The interviews have been taped over an unrelated science video about the human body.

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  Media Burn by Ant Farm, 2003 edit

  Ant Farm, Guerrilla TV, Outside Agitators, Performance, Roots of Video, Viewers Choice

  A recent edit (2003) of Ant Farm’s classic video art piece examining and satirizing the media, particularly the impact of television. On July 4, Independence Day, 1975, what a TV newscaster described as a “media circus” assembles at San Francisco’s Cow Palace Stadium. A pyramid of television sets are stacked, doused with kerosene, and set ablaze. Then a modified 1959 Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz, piloted by two drivers who are guided only by a video monitor between their bucket seats, smashes through the pyramid destroying the TV sets.

  Preceding the event are clips from various TV news broadcasts that covered it (many of the TV reporters make the comment that they “didn’t get it”). The tape includes interviews with invited guests, a speech given by Doug Hall as President John F. Kennedy explaining the message of Media Burn, the dramatic unveiling of the Phantom Dream Car, several sequences of the car smashing through the TV sets, and its triumphant return from the end of the Cow Palace parking lot.

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  Image Union, episode 0013: Composite

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV, Image Union, Roots of Video

  Image Union episode featuring “Chairs” by Nick Despota, John Mabey, and Bob Synder, “Helen Lishman for Mayor” by Warren Leming, “Saturday Morning,” “Picture Box,” “Waiting,” and “Howard to Englewood” by Dan Curry, and “Commuting to Tomorrow” by Scott Fivelson.