Outtakes from Tom Palazzolo's 1976 documentary Gay for a Day featuring an optical step printing technique.
A portrait of the spectators and press covering the dedication of Claes Oldenburg's "Batcolumn" sculpture on April 14, 1977, outside of the newl...
Home movie capturing the 6th birthday party thrown for Palazzolo's daughter, Sarah Marie, who was born in 1972. Features scenes of children eating ...
Home movie documenting birthday celebrations for Palazzolo's daughter, Amy Louise, who was born in 1974. The footage captured here is most likely o...
Sound home movie depicting the Palazzolo family's 1977 Halloween outing.
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Friends Chuck Kleinhans and JoAnn Elam experiment with a 16mm camera by testing camera distance and F-stops in this black-and-white, silent footage.
Scenes of public life in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood in the late 1970s.
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Time-lapse footage of a cluster of cumulus humilis clouds moving across the sky.
Animated film made by four boys (Mardik Sikat, Philip Tascon, Richard Saenz and Rayundo Villarreal) from St. Thomas of Canterbury grade school. "Fe...
A segment of a CBS evening news program with host Walter Cronkite, who introduces McMahon's artist report of the 1972 Democratic Convention.
The sights and sounds of a Chicago Christmas, as seen through an artist report by Franklin McMahon. Individual interviews and field recordings act ...
A slyly subversive student film from the mid 1970s exploring the pitfalls of American consumer culture through the framework of a stoner comedy.
A short film based on the Homestead Plot; an assassination attempt helmed by anarchist Emma Goldman and her collaborators - also lovers - fellow po...
An artist report by Franklin McMahon about the infamous Chicago 8 conspiracy trial of the eight (later just seven) defendants arrested during the p...
Uses a cow's eye to show the parts of the eye, including lens, pupil, iris, retina, cornea, sclera, choroid, vitreous humor and ciliary body. Expla...
Shows clouds massing and evaporating, ice crystals growing under photomicrography, and air and water under varying pressures in a plastic box in or...