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  [Chicago Slices raw: Joe Cummings Hanging Out In Skokie]

  American Way, Chicago, Chicago Slices, Viewers Choice

  Interviews with Skokie residents/immigrants from different countries who explain what they love about Skokie and why they chose Skokie over the rest of the world. Most give their full names, addresses, and phone numbers.

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  [Inside Spring Training raw #17]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports, White Sox

  Raw footage for “Inside Spring Training.” This tape features footage of Bill Veeck and his White Sox management colleagues in a hotel room in Sarasota, Florida during a bout of rainy weather at spring training. Motel Fever #4.

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  Image Union, episode 0007

  Image Processing, Image Union, Roots of Video

  Hour long compilation episode of Image Union featuring “Chairs” by Nick Despota, John Mabey, and Bob Synder, “Helen Lishman for Mayor” by Warren Leming, “Picture Box,” “Waiting,” and “Saturday Morning” by Dan Curry, “Commuting to Tomorrow” by Scott Fivelson, “Cycling Keeps Me Off the Streets” by Mirko Popadic, “Men in the Street, Sardines in the Bus” by Jiffy Vidinc, “To Die a Cowboy” by James Wright, Jr., “Black Spirit Boogie” by Kenneth Shearer, “Other Leading Brand 11-2-76” by Scott Walker, a film by E.E. Seiter, and “Gotta Sing” by Bill Melamed.

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  [Rostenkowski raw #105]

  Chicago, Chicago Politics, Dan Rostenkowski, NHPRC, Politics, Roots of Video

  Raw footage from the 1981 documentary “Rostenkowski,” a portrait of the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, a powerful figure in Chicago (and national) politics. This is a continuation of the Whip meeting. Poor audio throughout. Video cuts in and out and goes to black throughout the tape. Most of the tape consists of setup. Audio switches back and forth between channels.

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  [Rostenkowski raw #305]

  Chicago, Chicago Politics, Dan Rostenkowski, NHPRC, Politics

  Raw footage from the 1981 documentary “Rostenkowski,” a portrait of House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, a powerful figure in Chicago (and national) politics. Election day, 1980. Rostenkowski is interviewed in his office. He shows us photographs of himself with Presidents Ford and Carter; he discusses his support for Richard M. Daley for State’s Attorney for Illinois; describes his friendship with Presidents Ford and Johnson (he says that history will conclude that President Johnson was one of the greatest presidents); he tells a funny anecdote about how excited he was to be seen on stage with Presidents Truman and Johnson; and discusses his billboard advertising campaign.

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  [Chicago Slices raw: House O’Matics #1]

  Black, Chicago, Chicago Slices

  This video contains raw footage for the television show “Chicago Slices.” Camcorder Correspondent Brigid Murphy attends a House O’Matics dance crew performance in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago.

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  [Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #6]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  Raw footage of Bill Veeck being interviewed in his living room at home for “Veeck: A Man for Any Season.”

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  [Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #22]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  This tape features raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” In this video, Bill Veeck and his wife Mary Frances watch the Illinois high school state final basketball tournament in Champaign, Illinois.