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A public relations information film about the Starr Commonwealth for Boys, a privately endowed school for troubled boys. Depicts the emphasis on se...

This collaborative student film follows a confused young man throughout his day, as he navigates various environments (church, neighborhood streets...

A South Shore High School student film that is an allegory on the wastefulness of war and the duplicity of those who wage it. Filmmaker Wayne Willi...

Shot by filmmaker Jeff Kreines on Veterans Day in 1970 when he was only 16 years old, the film showed at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and was select...

A documentary presentation from the point of view of the Vice Lords, a group of boys on Chicago's West Side, a description of their world as they k...

Presents a dramatization of a young girl's first baby-sitting job to emphasize the responsibilities young people take on when they become baby-sitt...

Metro!!! The School Without Walls (Rod Nordberg, 1970) is an eighteen-minute documentary about the Chicago Public High School for Metropol...

Columbia College student film about a young man receiving and responding to his Vietnam draft card. The film is part of a series of student films t...

Amateur film covering Tar’s girl’s basketball intramural game of 1954. The girls receive trophies, the teams are introduced in a opening ceremony,...

Amateur film covering Tar’s boy’s basketball intramural game. The teams are introduced in a opening ceremony, a marching band plays and cheerleade...

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...

A charmingly humorous morality play by amateur filmmaker Margaret Conneely on the dangers of smoking. The film stars Margaret's then 11-year old so...

A compilation reel featuring candid footage and interviews with various prominent members of the early-'80s Chicago independent film scene, many of...;Most well-known for his off-beat and darkly comedic documentaries about life on the margins, legendary Chicago filmmaker Tom Palazzolo took his fir...

A home movie featuring the nuns and students of Holy Family Academy, a Cathollic elementary and high school once located at 1444 West Division Stre...

Sponsored film made for the "Hands Across the City" fundraising campaign by the Peoria Community Fund Association in 1935.