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A silent home movie featuring children playing with their Christmas toys, a child’s third birthday party celebration, and families interacting outd...

Children are seen gathered by a Christmas tree. Then, a woman, child and soldier pose together on a sunny sidewalk.

The sights and sounds of a Chicago Christmas, as seen through an artist report by Franklin McMahon. Individual interviews and field recordings act ...

This is footage of the Godman brothers playing with train sets, board games, and dancing with their mother. 

Three separate Heidkamp home movies, from 1929, 1930, and 1936, each shot in Chicago.

Spooky Boo's and Room Noodles, one of Somersaulter-Moats and Somersaulter's first children's films, is an animated lesson about fear of th...

Sound home movie depicting the Palazzolo family's 1977 Halloween outing.

Workprint for episode 10 of the 1952 season of The Adventures of Uncle Mistletoe, a fifteen minute children's TV show in which whimsical s...

Workprint for episode 3 of the 1952 season of The Adventures of Uncle Mistletoe, a fifteen minute children's TV show in which whimsical st...

Workprint for episode 4 of the 1952 season of The Adventures of Uncle Mistletoe, a fifteen minute children's TV show in which whimsical st...

Home movie from the second half of 1955 depicting Donald and Verna Perser's travels between Toronto, Chicago, and Delavan, WI.

“Chicago Halloween” shows the Splatter Theater eviscerating victims at the Limelight club, Freddy Krueger's actor, Robert Englund, judging a costum...

Home movie of Bradley Barnes Suster from age four to six months.

Four short segments shot in and around Stickney, Illinois. Includes a stop-motion cowboy drama, portraits of summer and fall foliage, and the Pauli...

Three short scenes of a stop-motion Santa Claus delivering Christmas gifts. The film was possibly made or inspired by designer Darrill Connelly, wh...