A stop-motion film set to the song “Close to You” by The Carpenters. It was made by a Chicago high school student David Strutzel as a hobby in 1971...
Student film set to the Beatles song "Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End / Her Majesty" from their album "Abbey Road". The film depict...
Student film made at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago set to "Sugar Mountain," a song by Canadian folk rock singer and composer Neil Youn...
An art film. Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambert paint directly on film restless lines that take momentary shapes and catapult into other forms as th...
An International Film Bureau production about a small film crew creating their film from the original idea to editing. Also shows the finished resu...
Abstract cubes and lines are synchronized to a catchy tune. The film was likely made by amateur filmmaker Denver Sutton of San Francisco.
A sponsored film made for Chicago radio station WLS as a promotional tool to sell airtime to advertisers. Includes scenes inside the studio with DJ...
A sponsored film made for Chicago radio station WLS as a promotional tool to sell airtime to advertisers. Includes scenes inside the studio with DJ...
An advertisement for various instruments and recording devices sold at Sears department stores. The ad features two young boys attempting to record...
![[Sun Ra, Jazzfest, International Folk Fair]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/5/5/80675_ca_object_representations_media_5554_small.jpg)
Loosely-constructed footage of the 1984 Chicago Kool Jazz Festival in Grant Park and the 25th Annual International Folk Fair.
Elam wanders about an art fair in “Palmer Square Art Fair ’85,” documenting the happenings of the event. Setting scale, the short begins on the out...
Student film written, directed, shot and edited by Paul Muth while he was a freshman at Loyola University in New Orleans.
Dr. Harry Hootnick's daughter Shirley sings songs and opens presents for the camera on her birthday, July 4, either 1951 or 1952. Shot on an Aurico...
![[Dixieland] Dancing Flower](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/5/3/33657_ca_object_representations_media_5383_small.jpg)
An excerpt from an episode of John Nash Ott's weekly television program How Does Your Garden Grow?, featuring a performance by Ott's neighbo...