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Footage of a "kiss-in" demonstration for gay civil rights at the Picasso sculpture at Daley Plaza in 1974, followed by footage of people preparing ...

Super 8mm film depicting a pro-Equal Rights Amendment demonstration in Chicago's Grant Park on May 10, 1980.

Amateur film about a man (Robert Olssohn) who finds tokens for a telescope at the top of Chicago's Prudential Building. He mostly uses them to peep...

Unedited scenes from Mary and Joe Chicago Style, a retelling of the Nativity as re-imagined by Chicago's Central Cinematographers amateur ...

Loosely-constructed footage of the 1984 Chicago Kool Jazz Festival in Grant Park and the 25th Annual International Folk Fair.

Footage from the 1984 Chicago Kool Jazz Festival in Grant Park, featuring performances by Redd Holt, Ramsey Lewis Trio, Laurel Massé Band, Ornette ...

An advertising firm employee receives a postcard in the mail that inspires him to daydream. In this daydream, which follows the cadence of a faux F...

"A neon wilderness of shoppers where mounting tensions added to frustrations, scurrying pedestrians, sadistic drivers, sex mad movie displays, hamb...

Color footage of wintry downtown Chicago followed by rural scenes of two women by a lake.