Vietnam Veterans Parade - Mayor Washington - General Westmoreland - Art Jones
Identifier
F.2005-08-0309
Date Of Production
circa 1982 – 1987
Abstract
Content notice: this film contains hate speech and hateful imagery.
Loosely assembled footage shows the following: Max Hare handles a bow and arrow in an excerpt from Walt Disney’s The Tortoise and The Hare (1935); shots taken from an Amtrak passenger car traveling between Seattle and Chicago capture the passing landscapes while live synced to music by Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson; Senator Paul Simon poses with Bernard Velna aka Flashie the Clown during Chicago’s Columbus Day Parade on October 14, 1985; a Jesus proselytizer carries a wooden cross at the intersection of State and Washington Streets in Chicago; Chicago’s Vietnam Veteran’s parade begins in Milton Lee Olive Park with speeches delivered by parade marshal and retired General William Westmoreland, and veteran and chairman of the parade committee Tom Stack, the parade follows a route through the Loop, and Mayor Harold Washington delivers a speech from a reviewing stand at LaSalle and Washington Streets on June 13, 1986; Neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members rally in Marquette Park and march Uptown where anti-racist protestors counter their presence; Jane Byrne rides in the 18th Annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade, Mayor Harold Washington poses with members of the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus, and Washington and his security detail weave through the parade’s gathering crowd in Lincoln Park on June 28, 1987; The Dorsey Tribute Choir marches along South Shore Drive; footage of a group of neo-Nazis attending a rally in Lincoln Park is contrasted with a concluding shot of several sheep idling in a field.
Loosely assembled footage shows the following: Max Hare handles a bow and arrow in an excerpt from Walt Disney’s The Tortoise and The Hare (1935); shots taken from an Amtrak passenger car traveling between Seattle and Chicago capture the passing landscapes while live synced to music by Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson; Senator Paul Simon poses with Bernard Velna aka Flashie the Clown during Chicago’s Columbus Day Parade on October 14, 1985; a Jesus proselytizer carries a wooden cross at the intersection of State and Washington Streets in Chicago; Chicago’s Vietnam Veteran’s parade begins in Milton Lee Olive Park with speeches delivered by parade marshal and retired General William Westmoreland, and veteran and chairman of the parade committee Tom Stack, the parade follows a route through the Loop, and Mayor Harold Washington delivers a speech from a reviewing stand at LaSalle and Washington Streets on June 13, 1986; Neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members rally in Marquette Park and march Uptown where anti-racist protestors counter their presence; Jane Byrne rides in the 18th Annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade, Mayor Harold Washington poses with members of the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus, and Washington and his security detail weave through the parade’s gathering crowd in Lincoln Park on June 28, 1987; The Dorsey Tribute Choir marches along South Shore Drive; footage of a group of neo-Nazis attending a rally in Lincoln Park is contrasted with a concluding shot of several sheep idling in a field.
Format
Super 8
Extent
250 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
Civil rights
Clowns
Columbus Day
Demonstrations
Neo-Nazism
Parades and processions
Parks
Police
Political Activists
Politicians
Racism
Gay pride celebrations
Clowns
Columbus Day
Demonstrations
Neo-Nazism
Parades and processions
Parks
Police
Political Activists
Politicians
Racism
Gay pride celebrations
Preservation Sponsor
Related Collections
Related Places
Main Credits
Stamets, Bill (is filmmaker)
Participants And Performers
Simon, Paul, 1928-2003 (is participant)
Stack, Thomas J. (is participant)
Westmoreland, William C. (William Childs), 1914-2005 (is participant)
Washington, Harold (is participant)
Jones, Art (is participant)
Byrne, Jane (is participant)
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