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  Freeze Frame: Baseball, Briefcases, and Bombshelters

  Chicago, Politics

  “Freeze Frame,” a show sponsored by the Illinois Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Episode #2: Baseball, Briefcases and Bombshelters.

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  [Rostenkowski raw #201]

  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. The tape begins at a local Chicago courthouse. Midway through, it cuts to the outside of a campaign rally for Dan Rostenkowski. Whole tape is mostly b-roll.

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  It’s a Living: When I Was A Worker Like LaVerne

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Guerrilla TV, Roots of Video, Video Makers Choice

  A documentary about a day in the life of a Sears mail order catalog facility in Chicago, where the disconnect between workers and management is striking. The management seems to be entirely white and male, while the workers are black and female. The tape was produced as part of the “It’s a Living” series of videos on working in America.

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  [Guerrilla Television event discussion]

  Ant Farm, Chicago, Guerrilla TV, Nancy Cain, Roots of Video, Skip Blumberg, Tom Weinberg, TVTV

  After the Guerrilla Television screening at the Gene Siskel Film Center, Skip Blumberg, Nancy Cain, Chip Lord, and Tom Weinberg participate in a discussion moderated by Amy Beste. Edited version.

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  [It’s A Living raw #20]

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video, Studs Terkel

  Raw footage from “It’s a Living,” the 1975 documentary inspired by the Studs Terkel book “Working.” This tape features Terkel interviewed in his office at Chicago’s WFMT radio station.

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  [It’s A Living raw #18]

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video, Studs Terkel

  Raw footage for “It’s a Living.” Studs Terkel at WFMT, in the street, and at Riccardo’s restaurant.

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  [It’s a Living raw #16]

  Anda Korsts, Chicago, Guerrilla TV, NHPRC, Roots of Video, Studs Terkel, Tom Weinberg, Video Makers Choice

  Raw footage for “It’s A Living.” End of piano tuner William Farrell, then Studs on Michigan Avenue Bridge. 

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  [Video letter to Barbara London]

  Anda Korsts, Chicago, Roots of Video, TVTV

  Anda Korsts and Mark Fausner sit down in front of the camera for a video letter to Barbara London, the video and media curator for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. London had requested information on the role of Videopolis in Chicago’s video development for an upcoming exhibition on Chicago video.