This Is A Test, Part II
Experimental program featuring the work of independent videomakers.
Raw footage for Chicago Slices. The first half of the tape is a continuation of the roast for steelworkers union leader Ed Sadlowski. The second half of the tape features interviews with Julie Fischer and other staff at Parkview Pet Shop in Chicago’s Lincoln Park.
Studs Terkel lectures at Northeastern University in Chicago.
Studs Terkel appears on an October 1995 episode of Common Ground. Terkel is interviewed by Monroe Anderson. Interview topics include: the O.J. Simpson murder trial, the death penalty, race relations in America, and Terkel’s newest book entitled Coming of Age.
Journalist Bill Kovach interviews Studs Terkel at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Education Forum. Professor and sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot gives an introduction.
Raw footage of an interview for the program “Studs On A Soapbox.” Tom Weinberg interviews Studs Terkel on his back porch at his residence in Chicago. The two discuss a variety of subjects including but not limited to: Terkel’s early days in Chicago, Terkel’s driving work ethic, author Nelson Algren, and Terkel’s current projects at the time.
This is a video of the Studs Terkel Toast recorded at the Bismarck Hotel, Chicago, April 9, 1991. Various performers and speakers include: Leon Despres, Pete Seeger, Richie Havens, Bonnie Kolac, Mike Royko, and many others.