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

International Amphitheater Demonstration / Via Crucis 18th Street / Jesus is Buried

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Yes, thank you.

Thank you.

All to you.

There was only one drug the animals would continue to give themselves until they die.

Cocaine.

If permitted unlimited access, they will die in convulsions within a few hours.

The reason, say researchers, is that cocaine chemically produces a feeling of well -being, literally masking its own deadly effects, and masking the potential for addiction, a potential that only now researchers are beginning to uncover.

No! Oh my goodness.

No! No! Up.

We love the King's Heart Way! We've got to know when to accept a person.

They know how to give them some heart, but they know how to give them pain.

Hey! Come on, come on, come on! Ladies and gentlemen, to the show office, please.

Mark.

Oh.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Turn back.

You better wait a minute, because I'm running out of juice.

Thank you.

There was a judge in a certain city who respected neither God nor man or woman.

A widow in that city kept coming to him and saying, Give me my rights against my opponent.

For a while the judge refused, but finally he said, I care little for God or anybody else, but this widow is wearing me out.

I'm going to settle in her favor, or she will end by doing me violence.

Believing that we can overcome corruption and raise up justice.

We shall overcome, we shall overcome someday.

Oh, deep in my heart I...

Thank you.

Thank you.

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That's a combination of both social and political injuries.

We have gay businesses, organizations.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Let them go! Let them go! Let them go! Let them go! Let them go! Let them go! Let them go! Let them go! Let them go! Careful, gentlemen.

Careful.

Are you serious? Are you serious? Yes, I'm very serious.

Hurry! Over here, ma 'am.

Let's go! Come on! Come on! Come on! We're all in play, you guys.

United will never be defeated! The people united will never be defeated! The people united will never be defeated! The people united will never be defeated! The people united...

Next.

There's a turkey on this window.

We shall overcome! We shall overcome! We shall overcome! Jenny, you're right.

You're right, babe.

So long.

So long.

One minute to go.

One minute to go.

Let's go.

It's going up, babe.

We're good.

We're going up.

We're good.

Lift it up.

All right.

Have a good time.

I'm going too.

Thank you.

Angels, we have heard our hearts sweetly singing o 'er the plains, and the mountain in reply echoing their joyous strains.

Gloria in excelsis Deo.

Gloria in excelsis Deo.

Deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo, deo

Identifier
F.2005-08-0319
Date Of Production
circa 1981 – 1984
Abstract
Loosely assembled footage primarily depicts various parades, marching bands, and street protests. Shots include the following: Chicago protestors rally against Poland’s martial law in December 1981; red paint and eggs cover the Polish Consulate Building’s stone facade; bystanders admire a whale float at the Venetian Night Boat Parade; televised news footage depicts monkeys under the influence of cocaine; Chicago’s 1st Thomas A. Dorsey Gospel Festival is held at the South Shore Country Club on June 15, 1985; an international pet show is held at the International Amphitheatre on March 26-27, 1977; the Nicolaus Copernicus Monument stands outside the Adler Planetarium; the Man with Fish fountain operates outside Shedd Aquarium; a congregation reenacts Jesus’ crucifixion outside of St. Pius V Catholic Church; Chicago Police march toward St. Peter’s Church in the Loop; police boats patrol the Chicago River; Jane Byrne attends St. Patrick’s Day celebrations and Chicago Police make several arrests during the parade; circus elephants march across the street; contestants compete in a banana-eating contest hosted by Federal TV Electronics Warehouse, 955 W. Addison St.; Santa Clauses queue up in a Christmas parade.
Format
Super 8
Extent
400 feet
Color
color and B&W
Sound
Mag Stripe
Reel/Tape Number
1/1
Has Been Digitized?
Yes
Language Of Materials
English
Spanish
Polish
Element
Reversal Positives
Subject
Animal behavior
Chicago (Ill.) Police Dept.
Christmas
Contests
Demonstrations
Historical reenactments
Holidays
Marching bands
Parades and processions
Police
Polish Americans
Political Activists
Religious services
Preservation Sponsor

Related Collections
Subseries II: Footage


Related Places
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ Loop
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ Near North Side
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ South Shore
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ New City
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ Near South Side
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ Lower West Side
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ Lakeview

Main Credits
Stamets, Bill (is filmmaker)

Participants And Performers
Byrne, Jane (is participant)

 
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