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Amateur footage of Chicago shot circa 1924.

The dramatized adventures of a boy at his job as a muledriver, and incidents along the banks of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at the time of its gr...

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

Film promoting Griffin Wheel Company telling the history of Griffin Wheels in the train industry. The film shows the cycle of wheels in action tran...

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

“A documentary film about the automobile and its effect on the history of North America, focusing on the Ford dynasty from the original Henry throu...

This educational film tells the history of carriage and locomotive transportation in the United States. The entire film is set outdoors near Chicag...

Unedited series of animated maps, drawings, title cards, and spiced images for the film “Chicago: Why It Grew.”

Unedited scenes from Mary and Joe Chicago Style, a retelling of the Nativity as re-imagined by Chicago's Central Cinematographers amateur ...

"A day in the life of a man who is in much of a hurry to get somewhere. As he travels along his hurried way we are right in there enjoying his anxi...

A sponsored film on GATX’s new method of shipping ammonia via trucking containers. Shot in Iowa, it includes footage of truckers offloading t...

This short documentary presents the fast-paced operations of an air traffic control tower. located at the O'hare international airport of Chicago.

This footage by Mort and Millie Goldsholl documents their trip to Japan ca. 1964. Taken from a moving train, it shows a series of urban and rural l...

This footage by Mort and Millie Goldsholl documents their trip to Japan ca. 1964. Mostly taken from the conductor’s car on a moving train (probably...

This travel film by Mort and Millie Goldsholl documents the trip the couple took to Japan around 1964, especially the train ride to the cities of H...