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  [People for Community Recovery rally #1]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Judy Hoffman, Videomakers

  A rally by the People for Community Recovery, an environmental activist organization based in the Altgeld Gardens community, in August of 1991. Notable speakers are Hazel Johnson, the founder of PCR, Father Michael Pfleger, activist Walter “Slim” Coleman, and former Mayor of Chicago Eugene Sawyer.

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  [Satori Shakoor]

  Arts & Culture, Judith Binder, Performance

  This video consists of two parts. The first is an interview with Satori Shakoor, a performer in the Los Angeles area with her own one-woman show. The second is said show, although unfortunately the recording of the show is not complete.

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  [MIA Vietnam veterans – Lorrien Finley – Steve Binder]

  American Way, Judith Binder

  This video shows three different interviews. The first is with a street artist who is painting a mural in honor of the MIA veterans of the Vietnam War in order to attract support to find them. The second is with a woman named Lorrien Finley, who talks about reproductive rights, selective sterilization, and injustice in universal health care systems in the UK in the ’60s. The final interview is with Steve Binder, who directed/produced the Elvis’ 68 Comeback Special, as well as the 1968 Petula Clark special (which had the first televised touch between a white woman, Clark, and a black man, Harry Belafonte) and the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special. He mainly talks about his experiences with Elvis.

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  [Sedona] – Feminist Porn: Gynamite, #2

  Judith Binder, Performance

  A continuation of tape #16300 this tape shows the rest of Feminist Porn: Gynamite, an open microphone show about female empowerment through sexuality. This tape begins with a visit to Sedona, AZ that lasts for quite some time.

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  Feminist Porn: Gynamite, #1

  Judith Binder, Performance

  This is a tape that mostly has the performances of several people in an open microphone event called Feminist Porn: Gynamite.

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  The Trouble With Peggy

  Chicago, Performance

  A live performance of Donna Blue Lachman’s one-woman show, “The Problem with Peggy: Pieces of Guggenheim” performed at the Blue Rider Theatre.

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  [Ephemeral Films : selected layoffs]

  American Way, Chicago, Home movie

  Instructional films from the 1940s and 50s. Some are merely humorously outdated, others are downright horrifying — particularly one that concludes that mechanized laundry machines are the best example of women’s liberation in this century. Most deal with dating. Old Chicago footage with streetcars in last segment.

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  Fifty Wonderful Years

  American Way, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video

  A behind the scenes look at the 1973 Miss California Pageant and the state of the feminist movement. By the early 1970s, pageants had become a target of feminists and the organizers and contestants found themselves facing protests and scrutiny from the media. Optic Nerve presents both sides neutrally, allowing the clueless pageant community to make the feminists’ case for them.