"An experimental exercise with extension tubes, picturing textures in extreme closeup. Such materials as salt, bread, leaves, nylon hose, coffee gr...
A silent home movie that shows an elderly woman as she enters and rides in a Rolls-Royce to a house. She then proceeds to pose performatively in va...
A silent home movie featuring children playing with their Christmas toys, a child’s third birthday party celebration, and families interacting outd...
![1941 circa: [Skeeter Slumber Party - Pony Rides]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/4/2/24846_ca_object_representations_media_4254_small.jpg)
Silent home movies that feature four sisters performatively posing, playing outside and enjoying carnival rides together, sometimes including their...
Silent home movies that feature the Finnegans’ travels, in possibly the Southwest of the United States.
A home movie reel consisting of four parts spliced together, one in color and the following in black and white. In the first, color segment, a Rock...
Experimental short featuring light and shadow patterns around an apartment and on filmmaker Chuck Kleinhans' legs and feet. It was likely made whil...
![[1926 circa: Ott Family Home Movie]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/5/3/38144_ca_object_representations_media_5310_small.jpg)
A home movie shot by John Ott of Winnetka, Illinois.
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...
Crea...
A slapstick domestic comedy about a middle-aged couple trying to live more economically.
A humorous Metro Movie Club film club short film. After a day of domestic squabbling, an imposing wife and bumbling husband have their furniture ap...
A domestic black comedy, MISTER E expresses some of the edgier mischief and discontent that women of mid-century America could rarely express openl...
In this amateur domestic comedy by Chicago’s Metro Movie Club, housewives use 16mm film to outwit their horny husbands.
The Switch won...
The Switch won...
In this amateur domestic comedy by Chicago’s Metro Movie Club, housewives use 16mm film to outwit their horny husbands.
The Switch won...
The Switch won...
An amateur film made by and starring the husband and wife duo, John & Evelyn Kibar. Title cards with dialogue are dispersed throughout the film. A ...
An amateur film made by and starring the husband and wife duo, John & Evelyn Kibar. John is frustrated with Evelyn’s hat shopping habits. To distra...