[The 90’s raw: Tony Schwartz #1]
Raw footage shot for the award-winning series The 90’s. From The 90’s office, Tom Weinberg interviews John H. Davis, author of Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, over the phone. Davis’ answers are recorded by Skip Blumberg on tape #10956.
A study of colorful Chicago author, radio personality, and raconteur Studs Terkel. The program contains footage of Terkel from the 1950s through 2000, when he was 89 years old. Terkel expounds on various topics such as work, art, media, himself, his political views, his family, and his colleagues.
This tape features and episode of “Time Out,” a weekly sports program that is hosted by a number of Chicago area journalists and sportscasters. This week’s commentators are Kenny McReynolds, a WBMX Sportscaster and Assistant Coach for DePaul University’s Men’s Basketball team, Rick Telander, a Chicago-based writer for Sports Illustrated, WIND reporter Fran Spielman, and broadcaster and former NBA star John Mengelt. Gary Fencik joins the group later in the tape.
This tape features audio-only footage of Jesse Weinberg as a eight month old baby. It is followed by footage of a group of construction workers replacing a telephone pole in an alley somewhere in Chicago.
An entrepreneurial proposal for a company that would act as a “take-out videotape rental business in Chicago.” It would feature drive-thru pickup, and delivery/pickup service. Full business plan including the budget.
A note from Tom Weinberg to Dick Bowman concerning the recycling of several of the Vito tapes. On WTTW/Channel 11 header, Dick has replied in almost illegible marker.
Cover sheet and fact sheet about Image Union. The facts are about the rights of the tapes, the funding for Image Union, etc.