Earthkeeping “City Life”
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Credits
DeWitt Beall (director); DeWitt Beall (producer); Goldsholl Design & Film Associates (contributor); Steven Samler (composer); Michael Lowenstein (contributor); Pepper Ross (contributor); Jim Gedwellas (contributor); Tom Markle (lighting director); Rich Well (sound); Kaz Ayukawa (contributor); Olaf Bergman (contributor); Robert Boldt (contributor); Peter Bretz (contributor); Dave McDermand (contributor); Glen McGowean (editor); DeWitt Beall (writer); Cal Langenberg (cinematographer); Margery Warder (contributor); Lewis Mumford (interviewee); Lee Rainwater (interviewee); Robert Heilbroner (interviewee); Harry Weese (interviewee); James Taggert (interviewee); Charles Libby (interviewee); Dennis Swenie (interviewee); John L. Knuppel (participant); Paul Booth (participant); John Belushi (actor); Harold Ramis (actor); Jim Fisher (actor); Joe O'Flaherty (actor); David Rasche (actor); Eugenie Ross-Leming (actor); Ann Reierson (actor)
Complete catalog record
Notes: This episode of the Earthkeeping series details the ways in which modern city growth affects its residents. “City Life” takes us to the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects in St. Louis, a site used to exemplify how urban sprawl can potentially trap a population within the confines of the city. At the conclusion of the program members of Chicago’s Citizens Action Program (CAP) testify against property expansion on the city’s waterfront at a city hearing. Throughout the episode, members of Chicago’s Second City improv group (including pre-SNL John Belushi) provide relevant sketches that are used as interludes in the program.
Sponsor: WTTW (Television station)
Subjects: City and town life; City planning
Places: North America > United States > Missouri > St. Louis; North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Cfa elements: Reversal Positive Print, 1,050 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/11473
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:12