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Home movie of a family's trip to Lake Geneva. Consists mainly of boating or sailing footage.

Home movie footage of an infant taking a bath and being fed; the Baker family’s wrapping and unwrapping of Christmas gifts; infants in a crib toget...

Home movie footage of a family on Christmas; children playing in the backyard and in a portable pool, family members walking up a snowy sidewalk, v...

Silent home movies that feature four sisters performatively posing, playing outside and enjoying carnival rides together, sometimes including their...

Silent home movies featuring the Finnegans’ trip to Tampa, Florida and wintertime at home in Chicago.

The family is depicted picking flowers in a garden.

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

Short amateur documentary about fountain pen repairs and the process of repairs within a fountain pen 'hospital.' The film begins with a client han...

Independently-produced newsreel featuring brief human interest stories. Subjects include: cleaning Pullman cars at the Kansas City Terminal Yards; ...

Three men (Harry Hilfinger, Robert Davis, and Fred Kautzman) encourage people to follow rules set by the air raid warden in the event of an air rai...

Two men (amateur filmmakers Robert Davis and Harry Hilfinger) lip sync to the song Modern Design by Johnny Messner And His Orchestra.

A home movie reel consisting of four parts spliced together, one in color and the following in black and white. In the first, color segment, a Rock...

Backing up the Guns was produced by the Illinois Education Association in 1942 "to demonstrate the vital role our schools are now playing to...

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.

Footage of Chicago's Maxwell Street Market, likely shot in the 1940s by an unknown filmmaker. It made its way into Tom Palazzolo's collection while...