Beagle videos recall simpler time

March 26, 2011 - PRLog -- When people think of Chicago in 1968, they think of riots in the streets, the National Guard patroling the parks, and the raucous Democratic Party convention.

But for most residents of Chicago in that hot summer, life went on as usual.

Videographer Anne Nordhaus-Bike has obtained some home movies, shot on 8mm film in Chicago in 1968, showing kids playing with beagle dogs in a backyard. She has turned them into two You Tube videos, Beagles in the Backyard, Chicago 1968, and Superhero Beagle 1968.

In Beagles in the Backyard, Nordhaus-Bike has added relaxing, lazy summer music and dog sounds to set the scene of a pleasant summer afternoon.

The film was shot by youngsters with the plot of mild-mannered beagle “Prince” actually being a beagle superhero, and Superhero Beagle 1968 features a voiceover by one of the youngsters in the film, now 53 years old, explaining the story.

Beagles in the Backyard can be accessed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvd-gUlr6ck&feature=related. Superhero Beagle can be accessed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGV7CVd1Muk&feature=related.



Among videos Nordhaus-Bike has created are Thanksgiving With You for the song of the same name, which can be accessed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSfaPc1qxjk; Hymn to Aton at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TsLwgIGNfs; and Journey Within at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvAQB9OFDuw&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL.

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