The dramatized adventures of a boy at his job as a muledriver, and incidents along the banks of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at the time of its gr...
Montage style film of the sights and people of Chicago. Focuses on the traffic and transportation, occupations and everyday lives of residents. Fil...
Film promoting Griffin Wheel Company telling the history of Griffin Wheels in the train industry. The film shows the cycle of wheels in action tran...
Montage style film of the sights and people of Chicago. Focuses on the traffic and transportation, occupations and everyday lives of residents. Fil...
This educational film tells the history of carriage and locomotive transportation in the United States. The entire film is set outdoors near Chicag...
Unedited scenes from Mary and Joe Chicago Style, a retelling of the Nativity as re-imagined by Chicago's Central Cinematographers amateur ...
"A day in the life of a man who is in much of a hurry to get somewhere. As he travels along his hurried way we are right in there enjoying his anxi...
A sponsored film on GATX’s new method of shipping ammonia via trucking containers. Shot in Iowa, it includes footage of truckers offloading t...
This short documentary presents the fast-paced operations of an air traffic control tower. located at the O'hare international airport of Chicago.
"Windows" documents the views of and out from windows around JoAnn Elam's Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago. The first section begins at an El t...
Elam’s “El Shots,” sharing footage and theme with Elam’s “El,” sketches travel in Chicago. From people scurrying across intersections, to cars blur...
A home movie featuring Chicago's CTA L subway system and trains. This is followed by a pan of Chicago's skyline shot from atop a skyscraper downtown.
A silent Telenews newsreel featuring Illinois Institute of Technology graduate student Louis Richards riding a miniature power scooter called a "Sk...
Queen Elizabeth II gives a speech about the recently-completed St. Lawrence Seaway at the Ambassador Hotel in Chicago on July 6, 1959. The queen an...
Footage of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, and Mayor Richard J. Daley at the Chicago International Trade Fair on July 6, 1959.
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