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Brief footage of a refrigerator's contents.

A home movie shot by John Ott of Winnetka, Illinois.

Experimental short featuring light and shadow patterns around an apartment and on filmmaker Chuck Kleinhans' legs and feet. It was likely made whil...

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...

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

A silent home movie featuring children playing with their Christmas toys, a child’s third birthday party celebration, and families interacting outd...

A short comedic film about a man who buys slow drying paint at Zeek's Ace Hardware and accidentally paints himself into a corner.

Crea...

A slapstick domestic comedy about a middle-aged couple trying to live more economically.

A humorous Metro Movie Club film club short film. After a day of domestic squabbling, an imposing wife and bumbling husband have their furniture ap...

A domestic black comedy, MISTER E expresses some of the edgier mischief and discontent that women of mid-century America could rarely express openl...

In this amateur domestic comedy by Chicago’s Metro Movie Club, housewives use 16mm film to outwit their horny husbands.

The Switch won...

A comedic sales film for Campbell-Mithun, Inc.'s Ac'cent Flavor Enhancer product. The film begins with a husband and wife duo separately lounging a...

A man is performing a balancing act. A young girl points to her socks and explores a fireplace.

“Garden ‘82” studies what appears to be Elam’s Logan Square backyard, a locale frequently used in Elam’s work. The footage focuses on the space of ...

This footage follows two dogs and two cats around the house, with the camera sometimes zooming in on the animals’ eyes looking directly towards us ...

This footage by JoAnn Elam from around 1974 shows Elam’s home in Chicago, her dog, her books and cans of films, her garden through the window, natu...