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William F. Paulin Collection
Laff-In
A series of short, comedic sketches featuring William Paulin along with his family and friends. Shot in and around Paulin's Stickney, Illinois home...
Jack Behrend Collection
De Düva
A parody of Ingmar Bergman films. An elderly Viktor reminisces about an event in his youth concerning his lover/sister Inga who plays a game of bad...
Margaret Conneely Collection
Slow Drying
A short comedic film about a man who buys slow drying paint at Zeek's Ace Hardware and accidentally paints himself into a corner.
Crea...
Margaret Conneely Collection
Caeser and Cleo
Amateur sound film featuring a humorous retelling of the meeting of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.
The film won an award in the "Advance...
Margaret Conneely Collection
Shooting of the Girl on the Beach, The
Comedic amateur film made by Central Cinema Photographers club member Fred Strauss depicting the chaotic production of a film of a woman on a beach...
Margaret Conneely Collection
Ooom Titty Boom
Amateur film that follows primitive character Ooom Titty Boom who lives his life sheltered from modern society happily living off the land and frol...
Margaret Conneely Collection
Imaginative George Melies, The
Bob Kick: The Mischievous Kid Two films by early filmmaker George Melies copied by the Library of Congress in 1968 from original 35mm paper positiv...
Margaret Conneely Collection
The Red Skelton Show: "Freddy and the Yuletide Doll"
Holiday episode of "The Red Skelton Show" starring Red Skelton and Cara Williams. Freddy the Freeloader is all alone on Christmas until he finds a ...
Margaret Conneely Collection
Thirteen Tokens [Workprint]
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...
Margaret Conneely Collection
45, The
Plays out at an amateur level Jean-Luc Godard’s dictum that all a film needs for a plot is a woman and a gun. This is how Margaret Conneely says Th...
Margaret Conneely Collection
Mister E
A domestic black comedy, MISTER E expresses some of the edgier mischief and discontent that women of mid-century America could rarely express openl...
Margaret Conneely Collection
Switch, The
In this amateur domestic comedy by Chicago’s Metro Movie Club, housewives use 16mm film to outwit their horny husbands.
The Switch won...
Margaret Conneely Collection
Switch, The
In this amateur domestic comedy by Chicago’s Metro Movie Club, housewives use 16mm film to outwit their horny husbands.
The Switch won...
Ron Doerring Collection
Nostalgia
An amateur film made by and starring the husband and wife duo, John & Evelyn Kibar. After Mrs. Kibar asks Mr. Kibar to throw away his old collectab...
Ron Doerring Collection
Oh Yeah?
An amateur film made by and starring the husband and wife duo, John & Evelyn Kibar. The couple visit an art gallery, where John proclaims he can ma...
Ron Doerring Collection
Here We Go Again
An amateur film made by and starring the husband and wife duo, John & Evelyn Kibar. The film documents the couples’ struggles to make and complete ...
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