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  [Jesse Jackson and Harold Washington footage]

  Bill Stamets, Black, Chicago, Chicago Politics, Communities, Harold Washington, Politics

  Footage of Rev. Jesse Jackson campaigning for Harold Washington during his 1983 campaign for Mayor of Chicago.

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  Novo Dextro: Purity & Danger

  Bill Stamets, Chicago, Communities, LGBTQIA

  Documentary by Bill Stamets about the American Nazi Party’s “anti-queer, pro-life” rally held in 1982 in Chicago’s Lincoln Park in response to the city’s annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade.

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  Boy With a Microphone

  American Way, Bill Stamets

  Footage of a boy wandering around a farm with a microphone, interviewing family members and animals.

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  Harold is Gone

  Bill Stamets, Black, Chicago, Communities, Harold Washington

  Loosely constructed footage following the sudden death of Chicago’s Mayor Harold Washington in 1987, including his funeral procession and funeral service.

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  [Moving Pictures / Six Families]

  Bill Stamets, Black, Chicago, Chicago Politics, Communities, Politics

  0:03 Color bars. 1:45 Bells playing and footage around the city of Chicago. Cut to footage of the people playing the church bells. Footage of them playing interspersed with footage people around the city. 5:00 Cut to a montage of different religious ceremonies and events. 11:52 A graduation ceremony. An opera house lobby before a show. Mayor Daley at a conference. A woman testifies about civil disobedience. Footage from different rallies, marches, and parades. Boy sings the national anthem at […]

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  [“American Movie” interview 1999]

  Arts & Culture, Bill Stamets

  Interview by Bill Stamets for the Chicago Sun-Times with the subjects of the 1999 documentary “American Movie,” Mike Schank and Mark Borchardt, as well as its director, Chris Smith, and producer, Sarah Price.

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  [Bob Dole rally – Medium Cool screening at Music Box – Return to Chicago 68 / 96]

  Bill Stamets, Chicago, Politics

  Footage shot by Bill Stamets in 1996 beginning with footage of a Bob Dole for President rally, followed by a screening of Medium Cool with director Haskell Wexler at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre, ending with a pre-event press conference and official program of the Return to Chicago 68 / 96 event at the Arie Crown Theater.

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  [Rainbow/PUSH tribute to MLK – Spike Lee press conference at Chicago Cultural Center]

  Bill Stamets, Black, Communities, Politics

  A Rainbow/PUSH Coalition event remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Dr. featuring Jesse Jackson, followed by a press conference at the Chicago Cultural Center about a Spike Lee retrospective, featuring Lee and critic Gene Siskel.