This sailing instructional film teaches basic boat handling and sailing safety skills demonstrated by a couple learning to sail along with a series...
Promotional film for Chicago as a tourist destination. The narrator highlights many attractions, including: boating on Lake Michigan; going to the ...
Amateur silent film of a boy scout troop making a fiberglass canoe step by step from a mold, from start to finish. Boy scouts all help in each pa...
Home movie portraying a baseball game taking place at Wrigley field. This is followed by footage of a young boy, Sheldon Glick, playing with a ball...
![[Peoria Community Fund Campaign Film]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/4/2/32062_ca_object_representations_media_4253_small.jpg)
Sponsored film made for the "Hands Across the City" fundraising campaign by the Peoria Community Fund Association in 1935.
![[Old Orchard Art Festival]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/3/7/74378_ca_object_representations_media_3756_small.jpg)
This footage by Mort and Millie Goldsholl was taken at the Old Orchard Art Festival of Skokie, IL ca. 1963. It shows the art works on display, ofte...
A winter walk through snowy Palmer Square Park in Logan Square, Chicago, near JoAnn Elam's home. Occasionally a small dog walks into frame.
Bowl belongs to a series of elements in the JoAnn Elam collection featuring JoAnn Elam and her coworkers from the US Post Office at the bo...
Bowl belongs to a series of elements in the JoAnn Elam collection featuring JoAnn Elam and her coworkers from the US Post Office at the bo...
Bowling ‘82 belongs to a series of elements in the JoAnn Elam collection featuring JoAnn Elam and her coworkers from the US Post Office at...
Children and parents alike laugh and play during a picnic on a sunny day in an unidentified Chicago park. Games played include wheelbarrow races, o...
Negative trims capturing the scenes of downtown Chicago during the 1960 Republican National Convention.
Footage of the seventh annual “People Week” which was held July 16-21, 1979, sponsored by the State Street Counc...
In 1926, Mervin W. LaRue Sr. moved from Toronto to Chicago with his wife Johanna “Jo” (Wartman) LaRue and son Mervin Jr. to start a job at Bell &am...
![[Chicago Service Men's Center - Fragment] (circa 1942)](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/4/1/5651_ca_object_representations_media_4192_small.jpg)
The film depicts scenes from Chicago’s Servicemen’s Center No.1, which opened in 1941 at the former Elks Lounge No. 4. It features Mayor Kelly high...
The film depicts an afternoon of hospitality and entertainment at Chicago's lakefront Service Men Centers' Summer Center, a.k.a. "The G.I.'s Countr...