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This is footage of the Godman brothers playing with train sets, board games, and dancing with their mother. 

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...

Student film set to the Beatles song "Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End / Her Majesty" from their album "Abbey Road". The film depict...

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...

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 non-narrated documentary short about an African American brass band as they set up and play for an audience in an unnamed Chicago park.

An advertisement for various instruments and recording devices sold at Sears department stores. The ad features two young boys attempting to record...

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

Montage of several different political and public events in Chicago between 1985 and 1987.

This is a kinescope of a episode of a arts program “Facet”, produced by Chicago’s PBS station, WTTW. Music of Ted Ashford introduced by Ted Ashfor...

A variety show is performed at Peoria's Palace Theater. Includes live performances by a number of singers and dancers in front of a band of female ...

The Hoosier Hot Shots perform at a barn dance in Iowa.

A portrait of the Chicago Near-North nightlife scene in the mid-1960s, centering around the struggles and romantic desires of an African American s...

Industrial film promoting the GF Color Collection, "a consistent, color-coded system based on color harmonies" developed by GF Business Equipment, ...

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...