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Home movie from the second half of 1955 depicting Donald and Verna Perser's travels between Toronto, Chicago, and Delavan, WI.

Instructional film that demonstrates the basic strokes used in synchronized swimming and such routines as dolphin, porpoise, somersaults, corkscrew...

Two separate Heidkamp home movies, one from 1929 and one from 1951, both shot in the Chicago area.

Home movie of family travel and leisure, mostly around Wisconsin.

Home movie of child walking around near Chicago’s Belmont Harbor followed by children in a wading pool.

Home movie featuring a family outing to Union Peir in Michigan.

Home movie of a backyard adult gathering followed by a family’s day at a South Haven, Michigan beach.

Home movie of a family’s day at a Michigan beach.

Color home movie of a family’s trip to the Missouri Ozarks. Includes lake swimming and boating scenes and leisure scenes around the ranch.

Home movie of a Chicago suburban parade followed by picnic, swimming and front yard posing scenes.

A home movie that begins with marching band scenes shot in Chicago's Mt. Greenwood neighborhood. This is followed by swimming and sun bathing scene...

Footage of men and boys diving off of a springboard at an indoor pool. They dive one after another and practice different approaches and diving tec...

Silent footage of the grotto construction at the Playboy Mansion (aka Playboy West) in Holmby Hills, California. Includes footage of engineers, arc...

Home movie footage taken by Rhodes Patterson during his time as reconnaissance photographer based in India and the Northern Mariana Islands during ...

A medical research film that demonstrates expired air methods for swimmers. The film features a volunteer cast from Camp Susquehannock in Brackney...