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This sailing instructional film teaches basic boat handling and sailing safety skills demonstrated by a couple learning to sail along with a series...

Promotional film for Chicago as a tourist destination. The narrator highlights many attractions, including: boating on Lake Michigan; going to the ...

Edited footage providing an overview of Tanque Verde ranch and resort, located just east of Tucson, AZ. Includes many resort amenities, activities ...

Semi-edited footage of Tanque Verde ranch and resort guest amenities. Includes swimming pool, indoor dining and outdoor barbeque, fishing hole and ...

Amateur silent film of a boy scout troop making a fiberglass canoe step by step from a mold, from start to finish. Boy scouts all help in each pa...

A Castle Films “World Parade” travelogue film highlighting Canada’s cities, natural wonders, and recreational activities. Footage includes Niagra ...

Home movie portraying a baseball game taking place at Wrigley field. This is followed by footage of a young boy, Sheldon Glick, playing with a ball...

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

This footage by Mort and Millie Goldsholl was taken at the Old Orchard Art Festival of Skokie, IL ca. 1963. It shows the art works on display, ofte...

This footage by Mort and Millie Goldsholl documents their trip to Japan ca. 1964. First taken from a moving car, it shows the busy streets of an un...

While “Back Porch” shares title with several of Elams’ films, the content of this film appears completely unrelated to others. In its short duratio...

A winter walk through snowy Palmer Square Park in Logan Square, Chicago, near JoAnn Elam's home. Occasionally a small dog walks into frame.

Footage of dirt bikes on a course, Frisbee-throwing in a park, dogs, cars, bicycles, and baseball are intercut in this fast-paced film, which frequ...

Bowl belongs to a series of elements in the JoAnn Elam collection featuring JoAnn Elam and her coworkers from the US Post Office at the bo...