Image Union episode featuring “Days of Swine and Roses” by Dennis Darmek. Color video. A documentary about the Wisconsin State Fair. The various activities and oddities at the fair are showcased, including pig and cattle shows; performances; and a freak show.
The episode of Image Union features the documentary “Information Withheld” by Juan Downey. The documentary focuses on signs and symbols used around the world.
Compilation episode of Image Union called “People and Their Music,” featuring a documentary about fiddlers by Victoria Hamburg, Dana Hodgdon, and John Peaslee, “Celebrating Fifty Years of Tamburitza Music” by Mirko Popadic and Gordana Trbuhovich Grasa, “Chicago Blues” by Jim Passin and Nancy Grosse, “It Ain’t City Music” by Tom Davenport, a tribute to Chicago blues by Raul Zaritsky, Jim Morrissette, and Linda Williams, “Music from the Heart” by Victoria Spivey, and “The Luckies” by Fred Colon.
Compilation episode of Image Union featuring the work of Paul Thornton, James Vincent Minnice, and Kirk von Heflin. Topics include war and militarization (Thornton), narrative fiction (Minnice), and documentary (von Heflin).
Commercialfest ’88. The international winners of the 1988 Mobius Awards, featuring spots by SGIC Car Insurance, Uniroyal Tires, Telecom, Cosmopolitan, Federal Express, Anti-smoking Campaign, New Zealand Whiskey, Fison Levington Composts, Royal Bank of Scotland, The Drug Offensive, Heinz Baked Beans, Croft Original Sherry, AA, Lee Jeans, Miller Lite, Levis’ Jeans, UKLA, MacKay King, New Zealand education PSA, Funder, Cimarron International.
Two part Image Union episode featuring “Fowl is Fare” by Pete Weiner and “He” by Tom Palazzolo. “He” was banned in 1965 by the Chicago Board of Censors.
Image Union episode featuring “Hard Bargain” by Michael Pack. The episode ends with a fake commercial for “Vinyl-On.”
Two short shows. Image Union #24 (8/18/79) and #25 (8/25/79). From same 3/4″. Plus :35 promo. Works include “Chicago Blues” by Jim Passin and Nancy Grosse and “Four Women Over 80” by Sandra May Greenberg.