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Amateur footage of Chicago shot circa 1924.

Montage style film of the sights and people of Chicago. Focuses on the traffic and transportation, occupations and everyday lives of residents. Fil...

Montage style film of the sights and people of Chicago. Focuses on the traffic and transportation, occupations and everyday lives of residents. Fil...

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...

This travel film by Mort and Millie Goldsholl documents the trip the couple took to Japan around 1964, especially the train ride to the cities of H...

"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.

News outtakes filmed around Chicago on January 10, 1962—the coldest day of the year, when the temperature dipped to -12° Farenheit...

Color footage of a tug boat accident in downtown Chicago along the Chicago River near the DuSable Bridge/Michigan Avenue. The film captures scenes ...

"An investigation of what a motion picture camera can do in the hands of a good driver" - Robert Stiegler