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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.

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  Time Out, episode 108

  Chicago, Sports, Time Out

  This tape features a 1984 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 Ray Sons of the Chicago Sun-Times, Kenny McReynolds, a WBMX Sportscaster and Assistant Coach for DePaul University’s Men’s Basketball team, WIND reporter Fran Spielman, and former NBA star John Mengelt. Bill Veeck appears on the show as well.

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  Will The Circle Be Unbroken?

  NHPRC, Studs Terkel

  The Glenview Community Church Adult Education Board presents Studs Terkel speaking about his new book Will the Circle Be Unbroken? featuring “reflections on death, rebirth, and hunger for faith.” Terkel speaks to a packed church in Glenview, IL.

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  My American Century

  NHPRC, Studs Terkel

  Journalist Bill Kovach interviews Studs Terkel at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Education Forum. Professor and sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot gives an introduction.

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  [Studs On A Soapbox raw: Mirko #2]

  Chicago, NHPRC, Studs Terkel, Tom Weinberg

  Raw footage of an interview for the program “Studs On A Soapbox.” Tom Weinberg interviews Studs Terkel on his back porch at his residence in Chicago. This is the second half of the interview in which Terkel and Weinberg discuss ageism and the current state of politics in the U.S.

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  [Studs Terkel with Bill Veeck at Billy Goat Tavern]

  Chicago, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Sports, Studs Terkel, Tom Weinberg, Video Makers Choice

  Studs Terkel and Bill Veeck sit down for a beer at Billy Goat Tavern to talk about Solidarity Day and the condition of unions today.

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  [Chicago Slices raw : Marc Smith]

  Chicago, Chicago Slices, Outside Agitators

  Raw footage for Chicago Slices, featuring Marc Smith, founder of the Poetry Slam, at the Green Mill. Brigid Murphy interviews Smith inside the Green Mill, followed by Smith performing two poems.

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  [Inside Spring Training raw #27]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  Raw footage for the documentary “Inside Spring Training,” a look at the 1978 Chicago White Sox team in the pre-season. Sunday Night #3.