A Franklin McMahon artist report about the political scene of 1968, including the death of Martin Luther King Jr., the presidential campaign and th...
An artist report by Franklin McMahon of the 1968 Republican, or GOP, National Convention, which took place in Miami, Florida that year, and the 196...
The first of three parts of Franklin McMahon's artist report on the political scene of 1968, or "one artists look at America in this polit...
A made for television adaptation/abridgement of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1962 novel “Palefire”. Presented as a lecture with slide show on the 7th annive...
This is a kinescope of a episode of an arts program “Facet”, produced by Chicago’s PBS station, WTTW. This episode is a play acted out in the sati...
This is a kinescope of a episode of a arts program “Facet”, produced by Chicago’s PBS station, WTTW. Music of Ted Ashford introduced by Ted Ashfor...
This film represents a brief segment of the April 6, 1958 episode of The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS). It was billed as The Chicago Opera Ballet (17 danc...
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This film represents a brief segment of the April 6, 1958 episode of The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS). It was billed as The Chicago Opera Ballet (17 danc...
This episode of the Earthkeeping series details the ways in which modern city growth affects its residents. “City Life” takes us to the Pruitt-Igo...
“Greenbacks” looks at the real costs incurred through industrial production - not just the short-term monetary costs paid by the corporations, but ...
This episode of the "Earthkeeping" series delves into behavioral concepts such as nature vs. nurture, and investigates the ways in which ...
Because of a rapidly increasing birth rate and land privatization in the United States, processes of urbanization are quickly taking over what were...
What is at stake as villages become cities and cities evolve into megalopolises? Interviews with Lewis Mumford, Harry Weese, Richard Saul Wurman, ...
In this episode of the Earthkeeping series, historical parallels are drawn between westward expansion and modern practices of industrialization. J...
In this episode of the Earthkeeping series, historical parallels are drawn between westward expansion and modern practices of industrialization. J...