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TVTV Goes To The Superbowl

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:24:03 GMT

Excerpt from a behind-the-scenes documentary about the events and personalities surrounding Superbowl X in Miami between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys. Features intimate portraits of the players and the CBS personnel who broadcast the events of Superbowl week....

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Lanesville TV - UFO

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:02:34 GMT

One portion of an episode of Lanesville TV, a pioneering community program broadcast weekly by Media Bus. The Lanesville crew jokingly investigates a UFO sighting, getting the whole community to play along..

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Time Out - Bill Murray

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:31:04 GMT

Excerpt from a roundtable-type discussion about Chicago-area sports. Guests include: Gary Fencik, all-pro safety for the Chicago Bears; John Schulian, sports columnist; Fran Spielman, WIND radios sports and political reporter; John Mendgelt, broadcaster and NBA veteran; Bill Veeck, former baseball t....

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This Is A Test - Taxi, Rolling Stones

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:25:56 GMT

Philadelphia. Sept. 26 1981. Coverage of Rolling Stones fans waiting for concert. The Stones perform Under My Thumb. Cab drivers share their stories of celebrity fares. Every famous person in the world gives better tips to cab drivers than Mick Jagger..

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It's A Living, Part 1

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:22:01 GMT

Excerpt from hour-long program inspired by Studs Terkel's best-selling book, Working. In the book, people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about it. The documentary explores what it is actually like to be on the job with some of these people....

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Human Hair, Part 1

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:01:33 GMT

Excerpt from documentary by Nancy Cain and Bart Friedman on their trip from Woodstrock, NY to the Chicago Editing Center. In this excerpt: Cain reads news report about a nuclear accident, and we see a reporter mistakenly attribute the accident at a nuclear power plant to human hair instead of human ....

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Hobo, Part 1

Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:21:40 GMT

Hobo Excerpt from documentary exploring the quickly vanishing hobo culture. We speak with the old-timers who have ridden the rails for years and learn about the new generation. This excerpt is the beginning of the doc, and features narration about radio HOBO, "The Big Rock Candy Mountain," and passi....

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The Other M.J.

Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:17:32 GMT

Documentary about a man named Michael Johnson, a janitor at United Center, the home of the Chicago Bulls. (The title refers to this connection between the subject and basketball star Michael Jordan.) Johnson talks about his life and history and also about his views on race, politics, and survival....

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Lord of the Universe - Abbie Hoffman, Rennie Davis

Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:58:54 GMT

Excerpt from the duPont-Columbia winning documentary that takes a skeptical view of the Guru Maharaj Ji, leader of a cult-like, new age group, the Divine Light Mission (DLM), and who is known to his followers as "The Lord of the Universe"....

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Golden Gloves

Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:13:51 GMT

A moving portrait of a promising young boxer. We see him reeling after his first victory, certain of his impending fame and fortune. We also see the boy after his first big loss and his recognition that its really going to be hard for him to support himself while boxing....

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Vito Marzullo - Favors

Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:21:43 GMT

Excerpt from a portrait of Chicagos 25th ward alderman, Vito Marzullo, who is described as the last of the old time machine politicians. It chronicles the workings of Marzullos ward, Chicagos city hall, and Chicago politics in general....

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The 90's Pilot Episode - Bejing, Crack, Studs

Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:44:13 GMT

Excerpts from The 90's Pilot Episode including home video from Tiananmen Square 1989 and Crack Smoking in New York. 1) "Beijing Journal" by Pat Keeton. Tiananmen Square 1989. Footage of a political uprising of students in China and a discussion of the process of revolt....

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The '90s Next Election Special #102 - Part 2

Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:20:48 GMT

Excerpt from The 90s Election Special #102. Stoney Burke at the 1992 Republican National Convention at the Huston Astrodome. Stoney asks syndicated columnist Robert Novak if family values is a code word for something....

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The 90's Next Election Special #102, Part 3

Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:11:21 GMT

Excerpt from The 90s Election Special #102. Stoney Burke at the 1992 Republican National Convention at the Huston Astrodome. Stoney takes the podium to make his own speech. From this moment on, I declare that we as a people must get our act together, treat each other decently, share the wealth, prom....

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The 90's Next Election Special #102, Part 1

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:52:19 GMT

Excerpt from The 90's Election Special #102. Stoney Burke at the 1992 Republican National Convention at the Houston Astrodome. Burke notes, "You have to put all your intelligence in your back pocket; you know, sit on it for awhile, get it lateral, and you can come in here and talk to these people....

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The 90's Episode #201: TV Culture - How It Affects World Views - Dee Davis, Don Cherry

Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:56:04 GMT

Excerpt includes: It's Television, Dee Davis, Don Cherry, Today Show, Selling Gold, Cutaways 1) "It's Television" by TVTV. A spoof of early TV in the U.S. in the early 1950s. A middle class family gets their first TV and the whole neighborhood comes to watch....

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The 90's Episode #203: The Hemp Tapes - Dead Are Not Dead

Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:45:37 GMT

Excerpts from the award-winning series The 90's, including: "Dead are not Dead", "Johnny Marijuanaseed", "Gatewood Galbraith", "Don't go in the basement", "Zero Tolerance", "Surveillance in L.A." 1) "Dead Are Not Dead" by Judith Binder....

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Tales of Hoffman

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:44:55 GMT

Short documentary about the two main figures in the Chicago Conspiracy trial - Abbie Hoffman and the presiding judge, Julius Hoffman. This piece compares the Hoffmans' personalities and argues that they had a mutual fascination with one another..

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Making It In Hollywood - Shelley Winters, Sally Kirkland

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:54:08 GMT

Excerpt from documentary following several unknown actors as they attempt to become movie and TV stars (or, at least, make a living by acting). Sequences include actors working their day jobs (mostly in food service), going to auditions, waiting for acting work at SchwabÂs Drugstore, etc....

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Making It In Hollywood - Schwabs

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:51:37 GMT

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Adland - Opening, George Lois

Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:21:00 GMT

Excerpt from documentary about the advertising business includes: Footage of commercial shoot, text about the anonymity of most admen and about how this program intends to give them a voice, The Pontiac Choir Boys do a commercial, George Lois, chairman, Lois, Holland, Callaway, New York, explains th....

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Adland - McDonald's Commercial

Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:16:34 GMT

Excerpt from documentary about the advertising business : Footage of filming a McDonald's Christmas commercial. King Moody, in Ronald McDonald costume, talks about the few perks he gets playing that part....

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Media Burn

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:04:15 GMT

A video art piece examining the media, particularly Television news. On July 4, Independence Day, 1975, a "media circus" assembles at San Francisco's Cow Palace Stadium. A pyramid of television sets are stacked, doused with kerosene, and set ablaze....

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