Signs
Identifier
F.2005-08-0131
Date Of Production
circa 1976 – 1984
Abstract
Loosely assembled footage depicts a variety of signs filmed around Chicago. Shots include a series of slides promoting the political campaigns for Ed Vrdolyak and Geraldine Ferraro projected onto the front wall of the Chicago Marriott Hotel’s 548 N. Michigan Avenue location; an anti-Nazi banner displayed in Lincoln Park; the title card and other excerpted footage from Janice Finney and Bill Stamets’ Our Bamboo Gingerbread House; a banner in a protest march that reads, “End the CRISIS in EVERYDAY LIVING”; a relief sculpture carved in the Trustees System Service Building; advertisements for the Telorex “5000” Personality Computer, the talking robot “Freddie Ford,” and other labeled exhibits at a Chicago Auto Show, various outdoor musical performances, a demonstrator in Daley Center Plaza with an anti-communist sign hung around his neck standing next to a group canvassing for Alan Dixon; various parade floats; the Polish National Alliance Building.
Format
Super 8
Extent
150 feet
Color
color and B&W
Sound
Mag Stripe
Reel/Tape Number
1/1
Has Been Digitized?
Yes
Language Of Materials
English
Element
Reversal Positives
Subject
Preservation Sponsor

Related Collections
Related Places
Main Credits
Stamets, Bill (is filmmaker)
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