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Amateur footage of Chicago shot circa 1924.

Montage style film of the sights and people of Chicago. Focuses on the traffic and transportation, occupations and everyday lives of residents. Fil...

Film promoting Griffin Wheel Company telling the history of Griffin Wheels in the train industry. The film shows the cycle of wheels in action tran...

This educational film tells the history of carriage and locomotive transportation in the United States. The entire film is set outdoors near Chicag...

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

"A day in the life of a man who is in much of a hurry to get somewhere. As he travels along his hurried way we are right in there enjoying his anxi...

A sponsored film on GATX’s new method of shipping ammonia via trucking containers. Shot in Iowa, it includes footage of truckers offloading t...

This footage by Mort and Millie Goldsholl documents their trip to Japan ca. 1964. Taken from a moving train, it shows a series of urban and rural l...

This footage by Mort and Millie Goldsholl documents their trip to Japan ca. 1964. Mostly taken from the conductor’s car on a moving train (probably...

This travel film by Mort and Millie Goldsholl documents the trip the couple took to Japan around 1964, especially the train ride to the cities of H...

This footage by Mort and Millie Goldsholl documents their trip to Japan ca. 1964. It includes images of school children in uniforms and people in t...

This footage by Mort and Millie Goldsholl documents their trip to Japan ca. 1964. It consists of images taken from the inside of a moving bus, refl...

This footage by Mort and Millie Goldsholl documents their trip to Japan ca. 1964. As its title indicates, it consists of images taken during a bus ...

Similarly to a portion of “E1 A&W F Print,” “El” focuses on the Chicagoan locomotion via CTA trains. A static camera idly sits passenger, recor...

"Windows" documents the views of and out from windows around JoAnn Elam's Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago. The first section begins at an El t...