Part of the It’s a Living series created by Videopolis based on Studs Terkel’s book Working, which focuses on workers in Chicago. This tape unfolds practically in real-time in the bowels of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Station. It features discussion and interaction with the workers on newspaper delivery trucks and railway workers wheeling wagons to commuter trains.
This video contains a half-hour rough cut of the program “It’s A Living: Paper Wagon.” The focus is on a group of newspaper and railroad workers who share their personal thoughts about their jobs, dreams, and hopes for the future. There is also a brief interview with Studs Terkel towards the end of the tape. Terkel’s book “Working” was the inspiration for the “It’s A Living” television series.
A documentary following a group of actors as they perform a play about the perils of incarceration at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York.
Compilation episode of Image Union featuring the work of Ellen and Lynda Kahn, Max Almy, Norman Magdon and Tom Erickson, Richard Serra and Carlota Fay Schoolman, Jane Veeder, and Bart Friedman and Nancy Cain.
0:07 Channel 6 Woodstock TV Promo. 0:17 Frank Perino talks about plight of blind people. 0:40 Title: “The Night Owl Show” 1:00 Perino talks about the death of his seeing-eye dog and his difficulties getting a new dog from an organization for the blind. 3:10 Perino discusses what needs to be done to help the blind in America. He discusses his activities as a musician – singing on the subway in New York. He talks about how his life has […]
Image Union broadcast of “Human Hair.” Produced as part of the Chicago Editing Center’s Artist-in-Residence program, the tape is a loosely connected experimental piece that borders most often on documentary. Cain and Friedman reference important issues of the day, such as the gasoline shortage and the meltdown at Three Mile Island. The tone of the tape is very light and often humorous. Note: This version was taped off the air and begins with a promo for “Masterpiece Theatre.
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0:00 Black, static. 0:32 Flying Saucer clip from “Greetings from Lanesville” by the Videofreex. This segment features Tom Weinberg and Skip Blumberg playing flying saucer inspectors. This is a different edit from the version on the full “Greetings From Lanesville” tape. The Lanesville TV Show was broadcast out of the Catskills of New York in the 1970s. 7:55 End. Static. 8:22 “In Black and White. Report. State of the Movement.” by Nancy Cain. Cain takes us to the Little Miss […]