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Educational documentary on the modern art from the Impressionist through the Expressionists and ending with Cubism. Features paintings by and biog...

Excerpt from an unsuccessful pilot for a series called “Across the Great Divide” that was to focus on out of the ordinary occupation. The pilot foc...

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 trailer was made before Fred Hampton’s death when the film was to be called “Black Panther.” It shows Hampton giving a speech on revolution an...

A sponsored film used to sell condos in a building on Chicago’s lake shore called Malibu East. Though comprised mostly of animation that expl...

A compiled version of the six ads the Film Group made for electronics firm Bunker Ramo including interstitial explanations of the approach to the a...

A sponsored film made for Chicago radio station WLS as a promotional tool to sell airtime to advertisers. Includes scenes inside the studio with DJ...

A political ad for Peter Bensinger who ran for Cook County sheriff in 1974.

A non-narrated documentary short about an African American brass band as they set up and play for an audience in an unnamed Chicago park.

A sponsored film made for Eli Lilly that promotes their new Identi-dose system that disperses pills more safely.

A sponsored film produced for Commonwealth Edison on the importance of recycling in Chicago. Includes footage of trash men picking up garbage aroun...

Made in collaboration with the U’Mista Cultural Centre on the west coast of Canada, “Box of Treasures” documents the return of the potlatch ritual ...

Advertisement for A.B. Dick Company. The film quickly edits various A.B. Dick machines and products to an upbeat tune. The ad ends with a narr...

Advertisement for A.B. Dick Company. The film quickly edits various A.B. Dick machines and products to an upbeat tune. The ad ends with a narr...

Advertisement for A.B. Dick Company. The ad shows salesmen at work in the field and encourages customers to consult with their  "A.B. Dic...

A trailer for Film Group’s feature length documentary on the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Includes footage not in the film of Black Panther...