The first of three election specials from the award winning series, The 90’s. This episode focuses on “The Primary” and features moments from the Illinois presidential and senatorial primaries, featuring Bill Clinton, Jerry Brown, Paul Tsongas, and Carol Moseley Braun. The producers tend to stay away from the regular news type footage and find the human interactions and the moments when the politicians are off their guard.
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This tape features a Channel 7 WLS-TV eyewitness news report on the Chicago senate race debate in 1992.
A TV show, including commercials, previewing the 1975 Chicago Cubs, and examining their chances of a winning season. Made up of interviews with players from the 1975 Cubs conducted at the Cubs’ spring training camp in Scottsdale, AZ, and highlight footage from training camp and previous seasons.
Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. In December 1989, videomaker Andrew Jones was in Panama, working on a documentary about President Manuel Noriega. On the eve of the interview, the U.S. invaded Panama amid rising tensions between the two countries. The United States had been claiming the Noriega was a drug trafficker and dangerous to America. Jones spends time with the everyday Panamanians as well as Panamanian government officials, and as a result, becomes increasingly suspicious of the portrayal of the invasion by the U.S. government and media. The documentary includes powerful on the ground footage during the U.S. attack.
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A documentary covering how nuclear power plants work, their safety issues, and public opinions on them. Don Johnson and Mike Gray speak with several industry employees as well as critics.
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Footage for The 90’s election specials. President H.W. Bush footage (including the vomiting incident in Japan) and footage of Pat Buchanan. From CNN.
Portrait of WBBM/Chicago radio news man Joe Cummings. We follow him out on the streets getting stories, in the studio reading broadcasts, and talking about his love for Chicago.
Raw tape from the 1992 Democratic National Convention in New York City. We talk to a man holding a camera who is wearing and selling “Blame it on the Media” t-shirts. He talks about whether we should blame it on the media and says everyone edits their shots and their stories. We then see him shooting Madison Square Garden and talking about the things he has shot that week. Last minute of tape repeats itself.