[Chicago Slices raw: Chicago Board of Trade #1]
PATRICK WALSH: Chicago Board of Trader; wake up with, get ready, and drive to work with him. Shots of men in the pit. Con’t on 120.
PATRICK WALSH: Chicago Board of Trader; wake up with, get ready, and drive to work with him. Shots of men in the pit. Con’t on 120.
Raw footage for the TV program Chicago Slices. This tape is a continuation of footage of Windy City West, a gathering of former Chicagoans now working in the entertainment industry at Ed Debevic’s in Los Angeles. It begins in the middle of the award acceptance speech by Shelley Berman.
Raw tape for The 90’s election specials. President George H.W. Bush speaks to the Polish National Alliance at the Hyatt in Chicago. The camera is situated very far back in the room and doesn’t capture anything very interesting. The camera was also briefly turned off during the classic moment from this event, when Polish National Alliance President Ed Moskal calls Bush a “freedom farter.” Since Bush only appears for a few minutes, the majority of the tape is just footage of the press.
Image Union’s late-night special from 1:45-2:37 a.m. Features a collection of “films and video tapes you don’t usually see on TV”: various short films, commercials, viewer phone calls, music, and interviews.
A conference in Chicago on the solidarity of Puerto Rican Independence Movement against US Imperialism.
Skip Blumberg visits the WMVP radio station and talks to two of the hosts there, while they broadcast, for the TV show Radio Faces. There is also a clip at the beginning of Chet doing a segment for Radio Faces.
A continuation of the live broadcast continued in a previous tape. Part of the tape is an astrologist named Irene giving advice over the air.
Raw footage for “Chicago Slices,” a series documenting life in and around Chicago. This video is a continuation of a drive with Yogi Ward, a cab driver and DJ, who drives and entertains in his incredibly decorated cab. Yogi takes us to his hangout, Eppel’s Restaurant, his car wash, and to the Checker Taxi Association office.