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  [Five Day Bicycle Race raw #30]

  American Way, Five Day Bicycle Race, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Politics, Roots of Video, TVTV

  This video contains raw footage shot for “Five Day Bicycle Race,” a project comprised of live in-studio commentary and taped edited coverage of the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City. Produced by independent videomakers calling themselves The Image Union (including many members of TVTV and Videofreex), it aired on Manhattan Cable for three hours per night for five days during the convention. In this video, we watch as the videomakers travel to the Americana Hotel in Midtown Manhattan to hear Jimmy Carter make an address.

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  [Five Day Bicycle Race raw #28]

  American Way, Five Day Bicycle Race, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Politics, Roots of Video

  This video contains raw footage shot for “Five Day Bicycle Race,” a project comprised of live in-studio commentary and taped edited coverage of the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City. Produced by independent videomakers calling themselves The Image Union (including many members of TVTV and Videofreex), it aired on Manhattan Cable for three hours per night for five days during the convention. This video documents a champagne breakfast and fashion show at Bloomingdale’s in Manhattan. Various attendees and convention delegates are interviewed about their experience in New York and their thoughts on the convention.

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  [Five Day Bicycle Race raw #27]

  American Way, Five Day Bicycle Race, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Politics, Roots of Video, TVTV

  This video contains raw footage shot for “Five Day Bicycle Race,” a project comprised of live in-studio commentary and taped edited coverage of the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City. Produced by independent videomakers calling themselves The Image Union (including many members of TVTV and Videofreex), it aired on Manhattan Cable for three hours per night for five days during the convention. In this video, we watch as the videomakers make their way into Madison Square Garden to document the Democratic National Convention.

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  [Five Day Bicycle Race raw #26]

  American Way, Five Day Bicycle Race, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Politics, Roots of Video

  This video contains raw footage shot for “Five Day Bicycle Race,” a project comprised of live in-studio commentary and taped edited coverage of the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City. Produced by independent videomakers calling themselves The Image Union (including many members of TVTV and Videofreex), it aired on Manhattan Cable for three hours per night for five days during the convention. This video covers a champagne breakfast and fashion show at Bloomingdale’s in Manhattan. Various attendees and convention delegates are interviewed about their experience in New York and their thoughts on the convention.

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  Down Clark Street

  Chicago, Tom Palazzolo

  Tom Palazzolo takes us on a tour of the Chicago neighborhood where he lived in the 1960s, stretching down Clark Street from Chicago Avenue to the Chicago River. Palazzolo combines his own vintage photographs and film footage from the ’60s and ’70s with a modern-day video tour, led by the filmmaker himself. Palazzolo recounts stories of locals that he knew, filmed and photographed on Clark street and speaks of how the neighborhood has changed over the years.

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  In Our Own Hands: The Hidden Story of the Jewish Brigade in World War II

  Chicago, Viewers Choice

  Documentary about the only all-Jewish fighting unit during WWII.

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  Watch It!, episode 104-2

  Black

  A “video scrapbook” featuring camcorder footage from people around the world. This episode is devoted to Chicago politics.

• Herbert Hoover: An American Adventure.

  Uncategorized

  A PBS documentary about Herbert Hoover. It begins with his early Quaker childhood in Iowa, and follows his career as a mining engineer in Australia and China. It continues through WW I, as Hoover moves into public service, heading the food relief operations in Europe, where he became known as “The Great Humanitarian.” It follows his 1928 Election as president, and his tumultuous time in office after the 1929 stock market crash, and during the great depression. It concludes on Hoover’s resumption of a humanitarian role as he, again, heads food relief in Europe following WW II. The story is told using narration over vintage footage and still photos.