Category: History
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Common Good Promo Trailer
I’m excited to share a promo trailer for a new documentary I’m currently working on with the Lombard Historical Society. We are well into production and hope to have it finished by Spring 2021. For more information go to frakesproductions.com or contact the Lombard Historical Society at lombardhistory.org On a small network of curving, treelined…
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All Citizens
Join us Sunday, June 7 at noon on Youtube for a special premier of our new documentary. All Citizens The Lombard women who voted 29 years before the 19th amendment and the story of those who made it possible. On April 6, 1891 fifteen Lombard women, led by Chicago attorney Ellen A.…
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Live in Three States, The Story of WCFC TV-38 Chicago
Here is my latest documentary. Live in Three States, The Story of WCFC TV-38 Chicago The summer of 1983, I was a 22 year old college intern standing behind an RCA TK-760 plumbicon three tube color broadcast studio camera in a tiny studio (known as the two-car garage) on the 44th floor of Chicago’s Kemper…
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How About Some Gospel Music!
What A Fellowship – Rev. Clay Evans & the AARC Mass Choir from Tim Frakes on Vimeo. How about some Gospel music! The Rev. Dr. Clay Evans, Pastor of the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church was a major Gosple recording artist in the 1970’s and 80’s. Evans bought airtime on TV-38 and made regular appearances during…
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Sheldon Peck, An Ordinary Man in Extraordinary Times
Here is a promo for the Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries airing of our new documentary, Sheldon Peck, And Ordinary Man in Extraordinary Times. The half hour broadcast version will air every Sunday at noon in December (beginning this Sunday) on ABC 7.2 Live Well Network Chicago. A longer version will be offered on DVD this…
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Sheldon Peck, Portrait of an Ordinary Man in Extraordinary Times
Here is a promo trailer for a new documentary I’m producing with the Lombard Historical Society on the life of Lombard, Illinois most famous son, 19th century primitive portrait artist, radical abolitionist, progressive temperance and public education advocate and conductor on the underground railroad, Sheldon Peck. Sheldon Peck, Portrait of an Ordinary Man in Extraordinary…
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WCFC TV-38 Teen Challenge Temporary Move
Dipping into the wayback machine, I dug up the last story I produced at WCFC TV38 in late 1989. TV-38 was in the process of purchasing land and building a new facility at 38 South Peoria on Chicago’s near West side. At the same time, their rented facilities at 1 North Wacker Drive were slated…
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Frederick Douglass Doing a Great Job
Here is a silver lining. On February 1, 2017, President Donald Trump praised 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895) at a Black History Month White House event as someone “who’s done an amazing job that is being recognized more and more.” On August 9, 2018, I interviewed Kenneth B. Morris, the great-great-great grandson…
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Rick Steves’ Luther and the Reformation
In 2015 Rick Steves, Simon Griffith, Peter Rummel and I went back to Germany to record a 1-hour PBS broadcast version of our original 2001 production for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, “Opening the Door to Luther with Rick Steves.” The program aired nationally on PBS stations in celebration of the 500th anniversary of…