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BlogJob Listing: Development and Communications Director
January 27, 2026Organization: Media Burn Archive Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid; minimum 3 days per week in-office) Compensation: $65,000 + benefits, flexible schedule Reports to: Executive Director Status: Full-time, Exempt About Media Burn...
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UPCOMING EVENTIn Another Light: Cinema of Memory
Feb 1, 2026, 6:30PM @ Music Box Theatre, 3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago IL 60613Join us at the Music Box for a screening of home movies!
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BlogMedia Burn joins Black Metropolis Research Consortium
January 8, 2026We are so excited to be the newest member of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium! This group of 29 Chicago-based archives, libraries, and museums connects all who seek to document,...
Recent Videos
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![[Dee Dee Halleck on Marshall McLuhan]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/781472004-3384c650bb974dbfce30a336f1e92f527bd44f547ab66dbb32a38cdfeae46290-d_295x166.png)
[Dee Dee Halleck on Marshall McLuhan]
1990, 7 min.Dee Dee Halleck takes a look back at Marshall McLuhan's theories and their widespread worship by her generation. She speaks her thoughts straight to the camera, like a personal dialogue...
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For A Moment You Fly: The Big Apple Circus
1978, 30 min.Documentary about a small, non-traveling circus in New York City called the Big Apple Circus. The circus features many human performers including acrobats, jugglers, tumblers, etc, but no animals. The...
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This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 46: Destroy All Monsters!
1992, 30 min.Air Dates: June 1, 8, 1992
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![[Studs Terkel with Bill Veeck at Billy Goat Tavern]](https://mediaburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/653863591_640-300x225.jpg)
[Studs Terkel with Bill Veeck at Billy Goat Tavern]
1981, 19 min.Studs Terkel and Bill Veeck sit down for a beer at Billy Goat Tavern to talk about Solidarity Day and the condition of unions today.
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Witness
1982, 5 min.Video artist Barbara Sykes' 1982 work "Witness."