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  [Pursuit of Happiness: Molly Rush]

  CLIR, Global Village, Global Village, John Reilly, Julie Gustafson, Outside Agitators, Politics, Roots of Video

  Raw footage of an interview with activist Molly Rush for the video Pursuit of Happiness, produced and directed by Julie Gustafson and John Reilly. 

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  Waiting for Godot in San Quentin

  CLIR, Global Village, Global Village, John Reilly, Roots of Video

  A fascinating version of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, produced by an all-inmate cast in San Quentin maximum-security prison. There are three additional works in The Beckett Project series produced by Global Village: What Where (1988/10 minutes), a video version of Beckett’s last play overseen by the playwright himself, Peephole Art: Beckett for Television (1992/38 minutes) featuring definitive versions of Beckett’s recent works written or adapted for television, and Waiting for Beckett (1994/86 minutes), a unique television documentary on the life and work of the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett, which includes a rare scene with the playwright critiquing a video performance of one of his plays.

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  Message to the Grassroots: Malcolm X… Human Rights… The Black Experience Continues, Pt 2

  Black, Communities

  An episode of Message to the Grassroots, a cable access talk show produced & hosted by Michael Zinzun from 1988-1998 at Pasadena Community Access Corporation, which is now Pasadena Media.

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  Out From the Wall

  Carol Marin

  30 minute documentary on Tennessee Correction. Followed by interview with Blanton.

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  [Howard Zinn raw #47: Zinn speaks about incarceration and justice]

  Howard Zinn

  Howard Zinn speaks on prisons at Northeastern University in Boston.

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  Image Union, episode 0815

  Chicago, Image Union, Tom Weinberg

  Image Union episode featuring highlights from the 1985 National Video Festival, presented by the American Film Institute and sponsored by Sony Corporation of America. The program includes work from Jonathan Borofsky and Gary Glassman, Saundra Sharp, and Jean-Luc Godard.

• [Andrew Jones compilation]

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  00:00 “Georgia Prison/Church.” A documentary that alternately follows a church group in Georgia, and a boot camp program that serves as an alternative to prison. How each affects the lives of African American men is examined. 29:33 “South Africa: A Video Symphony.” A documentary that looks at the everyday live of middle-class South Africans. It focuses on a two people that were paralyzed as a result of shootings that occurred at an Apartheid demonstration. We meet them in 1990, and […]

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  [Addie Green – Tom talks to kids – Wildlife Way Station – Prisoner TV show]

  GDDF, NHPRC-2, Patrick Creadon, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series, The 90’s. Addie Green talks about her passion for food and eating right and creating a respectable restaurant in Washington, DC, that celebrates natural foods and healthy cooking. Tom Weinberg interviews young kids about their perspective on getting old. Followed by a brief segment with Martina Colette’s Wildlife Way Station in Angeles National Forest, California, a shelter for abandoned exotic animals. Last, there is a segment about Jeff Town, which has a tv production program for inmates.