Workprint for episode 10 of the 1952 season of The Adventures of Uncle Mistletoe, a fifteen minute children's TV show in which whimsical s...
Workprint for episode 3 of the 1952 season of The Adventures of Uncle Mistletoe, a fifteen minute children's TV show in which whimsical st...
Workprint for episode 4 of the 1952 season of The Adventures of Uncle Mistletoe, a fifteen minute children's TV show in which whimsical st...
Home movie from the second half of 1955 depicting Donald and Verna Perser's travels between Toronto, Chicago, and Delavan, WI.
Four short segments shot in and around Stickney, Illinois. Includes a stop-motion cowboy drama, portraits of summer and fall foliage, and the Pauli...
Three short scenes of a stop-motion Santa Claus delivering Christmas gifts. The film was possibly made or inspired by designer Darrill Connelly, wh...
Footage of costumed children participating in various Halloween games such as bobbing for apples and a paper-bag pinata. This footage was used for ...
An amateur Christmas film made by Chicago amateur filmmaker Margaret Conneely, who frames stop-motion animation and trick photography with live act...
Scenes from the Photographic Society of America's Chicago chapter Christmas party at Toffenetti Restaurant in the Loop, circa 1959.
This 1950s amateur film (presumably made by Chicago amateur filmmaker Margaret Conneely) stars an unenthused housewife and a dry narration track. C...
Home movie of various leisure scenes, including children shoveling snow, a boy’s birthday party and an adult Halloween party.
Home movie footage of various leisure scenes, including a father doing yard work, Christmas scenes, a child’s bath, shuffle board and a trip to a l...
The first of two-reels by Julian Gromer about his two son’s John and Gary from 1948 through 1972. The film begins with the birth of his elder son J...
Color home movie footage from 1953 of a family celebrating Easter with drinks, then playfully modeling their Sunday clothes in the front yard.
Color home movie of Susan’s Christmas Party in 1953. Teenagers in suits and dresses slow dance, swing, and watch as a couple steals the spotlight i...