Series: Films

Finished film

Mifflin Street, Madison, Wisconsin, 1962-1972

User copy

Master copy

Raw footage and final mix
Physical Description: All films are 16 mm; picture is color and black and white and silent; sound track is on magnetic film 

Reel 1
Note: Footage of the 1970 Mifflin Street block party, short riot scenes, and interactions between police, firemen and partygoers. Stills from the Broom Street Theater scrapbook show posters from their productions. Shots of a large mural featuring homes on West Mifflin Street that were torn down; and shots of house fronts on Mifflin Street filmed from a moving car. Footage also includes of people at the Mifflin Street Co-op and members of the Madison motorcycle gang, the C.C. Ryders.

Reel 2
Note: Footage of Madison police, Fire Chief Ed Durkin, Paul Soglin, lawyer Melvin Greenberg, Mifflin Street block party, and the Mifflin Street Co-op.

Reel 3
Note: Footage of a recreated fight in front of the Mifflin mural, local poet and blues musician at the 602 Club, and door to door footage of Mifflin Street residents.

Reel 4
Note: Footage of Ed Durkin at fire station, the block party of 1971, aftermath of the Monona Tire Company fire, inside the Mifflin Co-op, and stills of Mifflin Street from magazines and scrapbooks including the Co-op after the Cambodia riots, police and resident interactions, and National Guardsmen.

Reel 5
Note: Footage of people watching the news that featured violence in Madison, comparisons of Madison to the East and West Village of New York, a Broom Street Theater skit, the C.C. Ryders, and a local laundromat hangout.

Final sound mix

Mifflin Street parade party, 1969
Alternate Format: Digital access copy available.

Physical Description: Super 8 mm films, black & white and color, silent (250 feet) 
Scope and Content Note: Footage from the Mifflin Street block party, including the formation of the party and the subsequent two day riot.