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  [Making It In Hollywood raw #87]

  CLIR, Making it in Hollywood, Roots of Video

  Raw footage from the 1976 documentary “Making It In Hollywood,” which follows several actors as they attempt to break into the movie business. This tape features footage from a Grayline sightseeing bus tour of various Hollywood attractions. All footage is from inside the bus as it cruises past the stars’ homes in Beverly Hills, and its driver dispenses bits of trivia.

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  Dead Action

  Guerrilla TV, Roots of Video, Video Makers Choice

  Documentary about the San Francisco County Jails, which house people convicted of minor crimes such as theft and prostitution. The tape mainly argues (through interviews) that most of the inmates are in jail because they are poor and that the prison system only exacerbates the problem.

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  [Making It In Hollywood raw #88]

  CLIR, Making it in Hollywood, Roots of Video

  Raw footage from the 1976 documentary “Making It In Hollywood,” which follows several actors as they attempt to break into the movie business.

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  [White Sox opening day 1976 spots]

  Communities, Latinx, Roots of Video, Sports, White Sox

  This tape is a collection of Chicago White Sox promo commercials for opening day 1976. Players included in the promos are as follows: Ralph Carr, Bucky Dent, Minnie Minoso, Rich Gossage, Jorge Orta, and Brian Downing. Throughout the tape, there are both small and large breaks in between the promo footage.

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  [Making It In Hollywood raw #89]

  CLIR, Making it in Hollywood, Roots of Video

  Raw footage from the 1976 documentary “Making It In Hollywood”, which follows several actors as they attempt to break into the movie business.

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  The Nixon tape

  Guerrilla TV, Roots of Video

  Elon Soltes visits San Clemente, California, where photographers have been stationed for months trying to capture the ellusive former president Richard Nixon on film. This group of obsessives endures endless hours of boredom as they seemingly futilely wait for their chance to outsmart Nixon ‘s bodyguards and snap a valuable photograph.

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  [Making it in Hollywood Derrick’s edit]

  CLIR, Making it in Hollywood, Roots of Video

  An 6 min 30 sec. rough cut of the 1976 documentary “Making It In Hollywood”, which follows several actors as they attempt to break into the movie business. This cut centers around the comments made about acting by actors Julius Harris and Robert Walden while eating dinner at Derrick’s Restaurant.

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  It’s A Living: Paper Roses

  American Way, Guerrilla TV, Roots of Video, Studs Terkel, Video Makers Choice

  In 1975, the Chicago video collective Videopolis produced a documentary called “It’s a Living.” The tape was loosely based on Studs Terkel’s book, “Working,” which was a collection of interviews with ordinary people talking about their jobs. This hour-long program was shown on Channel 11 (WTTW) in Chicago. After the success of this tape, the videomakers were commissioned to make six half-hour shows that had the same type of mission. “Paper Roses” featured residents of the Chicago Housing Authority’s Clark-Irving Apartments, which provided low-rent housing for senior citizens. The tape is not a traditional documentary with formal interviews, rather, it is a simple collection of real people talking about themselves. The subjects seem very comfortable talking to the camera and speak honestly about aging and retirement.