Home movie of the Suster family featuring footage of a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field and of Lake Michigan from Oak Street Beach.
Underexposed scenes from a backyard barbecue in Logan Square, featuring members of the "Logan Square Rhinos" — a group of small gauge filmmakers th...
Various unedited scenes from an inn. Includes diners and an exterior view of the inn, but primarily follows the process of making pies in the kitch...
A slapstick domestic comedy about a middle-aged couple trying to live more economically.
An advertisement for People's Gas Company about their low cost recipe program. The ad features a mom cooking in a kitchen with her children.
This film's images consist of recreational types barbequing and loitering about a backyard superimposed on seemingly a spatial survey of the same b...
In “Barbeque,” the camera lurks around a backyard, recording a man grilling an assortment of meats and potatoes. The camera changes vantage several...
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...
"Rhino Souffle" depicts the process of creating a souffle, from initial ingredient preparation to baking to final communal enjoyment, with a group ...
The film consists of a series of shots documenting the making of a chocolate cake, followed by a shot of JoAnn's sandaled foot stepping in the midd...
Similarly to Elam’s other sink-centric work, e.g. “Letters and Dishes,” “Joe and Greens” takes note of a pair of hands in and around a kitchen fauc...
Through dark and grainy film stock, moving human figures and fabric can scarcely be discerned. Eventually these forms suggest elements of brewing t...
"Popcorn" begins with a teenaged boy reading from an unknown text inside a living room. JoAnn Elam is seen knitting, presumably nearby, before ente...
A film about the Chicago Goodwill Food Services Training Program.
WLS-TV Chicago reporter Sandi Freeman tours the kitchen of Mama DeLuca’s Restaurant with co-owner Pat DeLuca.
Newsreel footage of WBBM-TV Channel 2 reporter Bob Wallace's visit to the Family Corner Restaurant at 2901 W. Devon Ave., Chicago, IL.
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