Vito | movie | 1978 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

This 1978 documentary classic is an inside look at the old-style Chicago Machine politics of the Richard J. Daley era, w | dG1fbWpPVEV2b0hhc2c

Transcript

00:00This is the 25th Ward of Chicago.

00:08It includes the area of National Avenue on the east, Sacramento Boulevard on the west,

00:14and from the Eisenhower Expressway on the north to the Chicago River on the south,

00:19about four square miles with 55,000 people in a lot of urban industry.

00:25The 25th Ward is the home of Alderman Vito Marzullo.

00:29He's lived in this neighborhood for 68 years since he came from Italy.

00:33He has served in the city council as Alderman for the past 25 years.

00:37He's also the head of the 25th Ward Regular Democratic Organization as Ward Commitment.

00:43Vito Marzullo has been an important and colorful Chicago politician for decades.

00:48The program was taped when Alderman Vito Marzullo was 80 years old.

00:52And I am John Damagala, and I've been Alderman Marzullo's personal secretary for the last 18 years

00:5818 years with pleasure.

01:00This is the look at the man and his world.

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01:24The man and his world.