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  It’s a Living: The Unemployment Line

  Anda Korsts, Chicago, Communities, Latinx

  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 is the record of a single hour at the state unemployment compensation office in Logan Square on the city’s northwest side. People in the line talk about what it’s like to be out of work as they deal with bureaucratic entanglements of their cases. As the program progresses, a family finally receives the check they needed to survive–after eight attempts.

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  It’s a Living: Paper Wagon

  Chicago

  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.

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  H.M. 5 at the Super Bowl Mansion

  American Way, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video, Skip Blumberg, Sports, TVTV

  This tape features footage gathered by videomaker Skip Blumberg in Miami during the 1976 production of “TVTV Goes To The Super Bowl.” Blumberg, Jane Aaron, and other members of TVTV test out video equipment before the shooting the program.

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  NHPRC, Roots of Video

  This tape features a documentary on the Everson Art Museum in Syracuse, New York. The videomakers speak with numerous attendees about their views and opinions the artwork in the museum, with an eye towards capturing how everyday people, including children, experience abstract art.

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  7 1/2 LBS/Second – Tooth Stories – BiCentennial Quiz

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video

  This tape features three short pieces created by Nick Despota in Chicago in the mid seventies.

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  [TVTV Goes to the Super Bowl: selects from Wussler and Super Night at the Super Bowl]

  American Way, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video, Sports, Tom Weinberg, TVTV

  Selects for the behind-the-scenes documentary about the events and personalities surrounding Super Bowl X in Miami between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys. Features intimate portraits of the players and the CBS personnel who broadcast the events of Super Bowl week. Produced with multiple lightweight video cameras in TVTV style, it is both informative and revealing of the extremes surrounding football culture and hype. This video contains footage from a production meeting led by CBS TV Executive Bob Wussler and the taping of “Super Night at the Super Bowl,” a CBS television special.

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  [TVTV Goes to the Super Bowl raw: Bob Wussler]

  American Way, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video, Sports, Tom Weinberg, TVTV

  Raw footage from the behind-the-scenes documentary about the events and personalities surrounding Super Bowl X in Miami between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys. Features intimate portraits of the players and the CBS personnel who broadcast the events of Super Bowl week. Produced with multiple lightweight video cameras in TVTV style, it is both informative and revealing of the extremes surrounding football culture and hype. This tape features an interview with CBS TV Executive Bob Wussler.

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  [TVTV Goes to the Super Bowl comedy outtakes]

  American Way, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Performance, Roots of Video, Sports, Tom Weinberg, TVTV

  Raw footage of improvised comedic scenes shot for (but mostly not used in) TVTV Goes To The Super Bowl, a documentary about the events and personalities surrounding Super Bowl X in Miami between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys. This tape features Christopher Guest, Bill Murray, Brian Murray, and Harold Ramis.