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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...

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

Two separate Heidkamp home movies, one of Niagara Falls from June 1950 and one of downtown Chicago from August 1929.

Two separate Heidkamp home movies, one from 1929 and one from 1951, both shot in the Chicago area.

Fragment of an early three-strip Technicolor film produced by Wilding Picture Productions, depicting the 1933-1934 Chicago World's Fair/Century of ...

The News Parade of the Year 1939 is a documentary film made in the U.S. directed by Eugene W. Castle. News Parade is composed of newsreel footage...

Home movie footage of people on a beach as well as children roller skating.

Home movie of the Glick family celebrating Passover Seder.

A young family posing in front of a residential garage followed by Chicago park scenes, interior shots of children and children playing atop Chicag...

Home movie footage of children fishing and picnicking by Chicago’s lakefront.

This home movie beings with interior close-up scenes of a baby, followed by a family trip to Lawrence beach on Chicago’s lakefront. Three young gir...

Portrait-style home movie of a family posing in Chicago’s Lincoln Park. Behind them Lake Shore Drive scenes are evident.

Home movie footage that begins with close-up interior scenes of Shelly as a baby, followed by scenes of a young Diane pushing a stroller down a Chi...

Footage caputres children playing atop Anshe Emet Kindergarten rooftop in Lakeview.

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