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Home movie shot by Barbara Suster in Des Plaines and Elgin, Illinois, featuring the extended Suster family. Prominently features a large orange cat...

Scenes of public life in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood in the late 1970s.

A man pulls over to repair a flat tire on his car and is quickly ambushed and robbed by a passerby. The victim regains consciousness and soonafter ...

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...

This film offers a tour through General Motors Powerama, an industry event that took place during the months of August and September 1955. The Powe...

Montage style film of the sights and people of Chicago. Focuses on the traffic and transportation, occupations and everyday lives of residents. Fil...

Unedited footage of the 1968 Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. Reel one of two.

Unedited footage of the 1968 Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. Reel two of two.

An unedited film documenting motorcycle and automobile stunts within a state fair’s park grounds. This may possibly be raw footage from the Kibar’s...

An amateur film made by the husband and wife duo, John & Evelyn Kibar. It stars a young boy, named Bill, who writes to his friend Jim, reflecting o...

Advertisement for AC Spark Plugs, an American automotive parts brand owned by General Motors (GM). The ad shows these "self cleaning spark plu...

Advertisement for All State Insurance Co., featuring a Lake Bluff, Illinois man and actor Ed Reimers. The two discuss the Lake Bluff man's sati...

An advertisement for Vets Dog Food featuring a man driving a racecar and observing a dog passing his speeding car. The ad ends with a narrator intr...

An advertisement for Montgomery Ward's Eskimo Snow Tires. The ad shows people abandoning their dog sled and entering a car with snow tires.

Advertisement for toy manufacturer, Kenner Products, who was owned by General Mills at the time this ad was produced. The ad features a young boy p...

Home movie or amateur footage of an auto race from inside the track. Footage includes shots of race car drivers in helmets posing in front of thei...