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What’s News at the 1972 political conventions work tape
00:00 Gray. Tape rewinds. Bars and tone. 01:00 Black. 01:10 Titles: What’s News? A montage of people answering the questions. News is: news events, television news, the changes that do affect people....
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Five Day Bicycle Race, part 6: Mock Turtle Soup
00:00 Black. 00:03 Titles. Image Union Presents: Mock Turtle Soup. “Mock Turtle Soup was a live election night TV show in New York City. The Image Union – nearly forty video people – produced this 5...
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Five Day Bicycle Race, part 7: Mock Turtle Soup
00:00 Black. 00:04 Titles: Image Union Part 7 Mock Turtle Soup 00:11 Channels flip on a TV. Skip Blumberg and Tom Weinberg in studio talk about reality. What on TV is reality? Weinberg says, “We’ve...
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Bill Singer campaign
0:03 A reporter, Elizabeth Brackett, describes Bill Singer’s campaign to be elected mayor of Chicago in the 1975 mayoral race. He spend over $1 million and campaigned 14 hours a day, but still lost the...
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[WGN news compilation]
0:10 The first news report concerns the financial crisis in the Chicago school system. Elizabeth Brackett talks to Catherine Rohter, president of the school board, who says that the school’s money...
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Clinton Defends Clinton
In the Clintons’ long political history together, each has played the supporting role at some point in time. As much as their reciprocal campaigning has garnered support, it has led to some public...
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[Harold Washington 1987 campaign]
0:00 At a lunch at the Rotary Club, Harold Washington lists his accomplishments during his first term. 0:15 At Washington campaign headquarters, two new TV commercials premiere. 0:28 David Axelrod, the...
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[Harold Washington on election day ’86]
00:00 A news clip notes that Mayor Harold Washington voted just after seven o’clock this morning. He then invited two journalists to join him for breakfast and talk about campaign postmortem. 00:18...
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Looking Back at the 2016 Election and World Series in ‘Seven Days Overexposed’
In seven short days, Chicagoans saw their greatest joy sour and their country descend into slow-rolling chaos. Shooting for this documentary began in early fall of 2016, to capture, in Guerrilla...
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A 1992 conversation with Joe Biden
An interview conducted by Skip Blumberg for The 90’s with then-Senator Joseph R. Biden. At 12pm Eastern on January 20th, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden will be sworn into office as our...
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