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  Media Burn by Ant Farm, 1975 edit

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

  Original version 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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  [Vito Marzullo raw #31]

  Chicago, Chicago Politics, NHPRC, Politics, Roots of Video, Vito Marzullo

  Raw tape #31 for Vito Marzullo. City Council with Vito wired #1. The tape follows Vito Marzullo through the first part of a typical day at City Hall. Though most of the tape consists of Vito sitting at his desk or walking through the halls, it does catch a few hushed conversations about business deals and proof of the patronage system at work in Chicago.

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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.

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  Rostenkowski: The Man And The Power

  Chicago, Chicago Politics, Dan Rostenkowski, Politics, Tom Weinberg

  This is an early fifteen minute sampler for the documentary “Rostenkowski,” a portrait of House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, a powerful figure in Chicago (and national) politics. The tape is full of anecdotes relating to the particular style of politics in Chicago and the man himself. This revealing tape shows us the phone calls, handshakes, and political deals that run this country.

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  Harold Washington spots

  Chicago Politics, Harold Washington

  Harold Washington For Mayor ads.

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  World’s Largest TV Studio

  Guerrilla TV, Outside Agitators, Politics, Roots of Video, TVTV, Viewers Choice

  An irreverent documentary produced by video pioneers covering the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida. This was the first major news event to be covered by portable video cameras. The tape is experimental, informative, and humorous. This video is for personal/educational use only. For more information, check out TVTVNow: //www.tvtvnow.com/.

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  The 90’s, episode 308: The Anti-War Tapes

  Global Perspectives on War and Peace, Global Village, THE 90's

  Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. Episode 308 of the award winning series, The 90’s. This episode is called “THE (ANTI)-WAR TAPES” and features the following segments:

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  [Chicago Slices raw: Rahm Emanuel]

  Chicago, Chicago Slices, Eddie Becker, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Politics

  Raw footage for the TV program Chicago Slices. Eddie Becker visits Rahm Emanuel’s office as Senior Adviser to President Clinton in Washington, D.C. Emanuel does not do an interview and talks on the phone for the duration of Becker’s visit.