Bill Stamets Collection > SERIES I: Films by Bill Stamets > Subseries II: Footage

Neighborhood Festivals

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What is this for? Am I talking? We are the McGilbury sisters, have lived in Morgan Park all of our lives.

Our parents brought us here as they came before we were born and we've lived here all our lives.

We now, only one of us live out in the park, but we make this picnic a sort of a family reunion for the three of us and all of the families of Morgan Park.

Our family name was McGilbury.

Watch the car man, watch the car.

The only church in Chicago that's listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, the Spire is 568 feet tall.

It's the oldest church in Chicago.

It's got the highest chapel in the world, it's what we call Sky Chapel.

And also the church is well known for many of its aspects.

I think I mentioned the oldest church in the city and we have a lot of tourists from around the world who come to see the chapel every summer throughout the year.

It's outdated now, huh? Thank you.

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On behalf of Music of the Americas, this is the kind of stuff that we're all about.

If we can't understand each other and we can't talk to each other, then we have no choice but to be violent.

If we understand each other, we have a possible alternative.

Thank you very much.

Speaking of love and speaking of sharing, since 1948, which is older than most of you here, Reverend Milton Bronson has been making glorious music with the Thompson community singers.

It is a group that has toured around the country and has not gotten its proper due here in town.

They say that no man is a prophet in his own land.

We're going to change that today.

As soon as we finish setting up the details, it will be our honor and it will be your pleasure to hear Reverend Bronson and the Thompson community singers.

They can hear you backstage.

If you warm it up with some applause, that means they'll come up that much more anxious to please you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The mruzes are good in country club and I love it.

I mean, joining the mruzes and people at country club are very nice.

Country club, as you see, there's mruzes over there, mruzes there, and mruzes over there.

It's very good in country club.

My friend want to say something.

Country club is a nice place to be at.

They play golf up here too.

No more heartaches, no more trouble.

In the new Jerusalem, where every day will be Sunday.

When Sabbath will have no end, the brothers and sisters, black and white, will get together.

I'm going to get through to some folks rolling their eyes at me.

I'm so mad I'm over you guys.

But you wouldn't roll your eyes if you wasn't guilty.

If you're guilty, you're just guilty.

And if you don't want to be guilty, then quit.

Why be high when you can get high on deep? And why be high? It's too hot.

Identifier
F.2005-08-0200
Date Of Production
1984
Abstract
Loosely assembled footage depicts various festivals held in summer 1984 including the 8th Annual Morgan Park Roots Picnic in Ada Park, the 5th Annual Bucktown Summer Fest, Break Fest Chicago Style ‘84, the South Loop Neighborhood Fair, the Fall Festival in Independence Park, the 1st Annual Italian Neighborhood Festival in University Village, and Music of the Americas held at Montrose Harbor and the South Shore Country Club. Shots feature a variety of food, music, dancing, gymnastics, petting zoos, interviews with residents, and special appearances by Mayor Harold Washington at the Morgan Park Roots Picnic and a Mexican Civil Society event.
Format
Super 8
Extent
400 feet
Color
Color
Sound
Mag Stripe
Reel/Tape Number
1/1
Has Been Digitized?
Yes
Language Of Materials
English
Spanish
Element
Reversal Positives
Subject
African Americans
Dance
Fairs
Festivals
Food
Hispanic Americans
Leisure
Music
Performances
Summer
Swimming
Preservation Sponsor

Related Collections
Subseries II: Footage


Related Places
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ Morgan Park
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ Logan Square
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ Loop
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ Irving Park
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ Near West Side
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ Lincoln Park
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ South Shore

Main Credits
Stamets, Bill (is filmmaker)

Participants And Performers
Washington, Harold (is participant)
Jones, Emil (is participant)

 
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