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

Andrew

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I have never seen a person relax and move both sides out of the way.

City Hall again this year, St.

Pat's Day 1977.

The old man is gone but the city goes on.

Little iambic pentameter? I think it's fantastic.

Well I want to announce my candidacy for the 48th Ward Alderman at this time.

Two years from now I'll be in the front line of the Kremlin wall.

You got me? That's it, over and out.

My wife.

I'm just not going to campaign for...

Well you've got to hold it.

We're going to do a cubist heart.

Just hold this.

That's a cubist heart.

No.

Talking about...no, no, I'm not going to do it this time.

Improper.

My old rotten friends from Cincinnati, they don't understand.

My new friends in Chicago, they don't understand.

Everyone takes advantage of me.

I work myself to death.

Poor Andrew.

That's it.

No, I understand.

Nobody understands.

Poor Andrew.

Oh, Lord.

Oh, no.

Oh my God.

Here we have Anne Berkeley, hostess with the mostes, at the end of a 12 hour...

You didn't bring this out before.

Why? Eileen from Phoenix.

Phoenix, Arizona.

Native.

One of the ten who exist in the world.

Born in Goods Merritton Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona.

Third generation.

It's memorable having you, Eileen.

Thank you.

Hi.

I'm not supposed to be here.

I don't know why I'm here, but I'm glad that it ended up that I was here.

Thank you.

That's all I have.

The fourth lost little child on Christmas, 1983.

1982.

Oh, Anne.

The one to the ocean.

Oh, shit.

Oh, stop it.

You have to give me something to read.

You see.

Oh, God.

Oh, God.

Oh, God.

Oh, God.

Oh, God.

Oh, God.

This is Grand Beach, Michigan.

Summer of 1983.

Bill Stamets persists in recording on celluloid.

T .R.

Leach is here.

He's had a nice summer at Judy Miller's house.

Say something to the folks, T .R.

Yeah.

We're up here visiting Beverly Hills on Lake Michigan.

Well, I've got to say.

Beverly Hills on Lake Michigan and it's all going to be lost very soon to the bill collectors.

The Irish mafia is moving in.

They're going to take it all away.

The little white cottages in the in the distance there above the shore is where the Queen of Chicago presently lives.

That's the compound of former mayor Richard J.

Daly.

Oh, God.

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Identifier
F.2005-08-0168
Date Of Production
circa 1977 – 1983
Abstract
Loosely assembled footage depicts Bill Stamets’ friends as they joke around in a Chicago apartment in December 1982, a drive along the Indiana Toll Road to a camping trip at Grand Beach, Michigan in the summer of 1983, and a tour of Andrew van Styn’s headquarters.
Format
Super 8
Extent
300 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
Beaches
Camping
Domestic life
Friendship
Rooms and spaces
Vacations
Preservation Sponsor

Related Collections
Subseries II: Footage


Related Places
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ Near North Side
North America ➜ United States ➜ Michigan ➜ Grand Beach

Main Credits
Stamets, Bill (is filmmaker)

Participants And Performers
van Styn, Andrew (is participant)
Leach, Thomas Royce (is participant)
Hindman, Leslie (is participant)

 
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