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  [Chicago Crossings: Bridges and Boundaries, 6 minutes selects Bridgeport school]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Kartemquin Films

  An rough edit of footage shot for a documentary about the Spertus Museum of Judaica’s 1992 exhibition “Bridges and Boundaries.” In this tape, students from Bridgeport Elementary School look at the pieces by Claire Wolf Krantz and Kerry James Marshall.

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  [Chicago Crossings: Bridges and Boundaries, reel 49; Spertus Museum]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Kartemquin Films

  A Kartemquin Films crew spends the day at the Spertus Museum of Judaica’s 1994 exhibition, “Bridges and Boundaries: Chicago Crossings,” as part of their documentary of similar name. The crew follows a class of schoolchildren through the exhibit, interviews a pair of patrons, and heads upstairs to film part of a symposium.

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  [Chicago Crossings: Bridges and Boundaries, reel 48; Spertus Museum & R.J. Daley]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Kartemquin Films

  Rebecca, a docent from the Spertus Museum of Judaica, guides a group of young schoolchildren through their 1994 exhibition, “Bridges and Boundaries: Chicago Crossings.” Also present is a Kartemquin Films crew, who captures the children’s conversations about gangs, morality, and Judaism.

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  [Chicago Crossings: Bridges and Boundaries, reel 47; Spertus Museum]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Kartemquin Films

  A Kartemquin Films crew follows a group of young schoolchildren through the Spertus Museum of Judaica’s 1994 exhibition, “Bridges and Boundaries: Chicago Crossings,” as the children, with the help of a few adults, attempt to find meaning in the artists’ work.