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Amateur footage of Chicago shot circa 1924.

Unedited roll of film, primarily consisting of shots of people waiting outside the Biograph Theater on N Lincoln Avenue on a winter night. Other im...

Home movie footage of a child on a farm as well as a retreat to Chicago’s Lincoln Park.

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

This home movie portrays the Glick family paying a visit to Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo as well as the Anshe Emet Synagugue.

Home movie footage of various fall or early winter scenes that take place mostly near the University of Chicago campus in Hyde Park. Park scenes we...

An advertising firm employee receives a postcard in the mail that inspires him to daydream. In this daydream, which follows the cadence of a faux F...

"A neon wilderness of shoppers where mounting tensions added to frustrations, scurrying pedestrians, sadistic drivers, sex mad movie displays, hamb...

A home movie shot by Frank Miyamoto depicting life with family and friends on Hampden Court in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood in the early 195...

Home movie shot by Frank Miyamoto, featuring picnics and other family recreation in the Chicago area around 1953-1955.