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  Street Tape Chicago ’75

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

  Skip Blumberg walks the streets of Chicago, getting those he meets along the way to talk about what they do for a living. Some of the interviewees include a bartender, an Abraham Lincoln impersonator around 06:30, a produce clerk, a housewife, and a prostitute. Plus an interview with Democratic 43rd Ward Committeeman Dan O’Brien in front of the Biograph Theater. Also includes a follow-up with Wheelin’ Lovin’ Al, who was featured in It’s A Living a few months earlier. The interviews have been taped over an unrelated science video about the human body.

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  Down Clark Street

  Chicago, Tom Palazzolo

  Tom Palazzolo takes us on a tour of the Chicago neighborhood where he lived in the 1960s, stretching down Clark Street from Chicago Avenue to the Chicago River. Palazzolo combines his own vintage photographs and film footage from the ’60s and ’70s with a modern-day video tour, led by the filmmaker himself. Palazzolo recounts stories of locals that he knew, filmed and photographed on Clark street and speaks of how the neighborhood has changed over the years.

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  This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 02: People As They Really Are

  Joe's Basement

  AIR DATES: August 4,8,14, 1989

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  [None of the Above raw #26]

  American Way, Chicago, None of the Above, Politics

  Raw footage for the documentary “None of the Above,” and in depth ethnographic look at non voters in the U.S. In this video, Skip Blumberg continues to spend time with non voter Michael Johnson while he works as part of the floor crew at the United Center in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention.

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  [Rocking the Boat: Studs Terkel’s 20th Century rough cut]

  Chicago, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Studs Terkel

  Documentary on activism and the labor movement.

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  Watch It!, episode 101-2

  THE 90's

  An episode of “Watch It!” featuring video segments that touch upon racial issues, CamNet, music, and more.

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  [The 90’s raw: kites, Fugazi, El Salvador protest]

  Eddie Becker, Outside Agitators, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s.

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  [None of the Above raw #28]

  American Way, Chicago, None of the Above, Politics

  Raw footage for the 1996 documentary “None of the Above,” an in-depth look at non voters in the U.S. In this video, Joe Cummings does street interviews with Chicago residents during the 1996 Democratic National Convention.