The sights and sounds of a Chicago Christmas, as seen through an artist report by Franklin McMahon. Individual interviews and field recordings act ...
This is footage of the Godman brothers playing with train sets, board games, and dancing with their mother.
Workprint for episode 10 of the 1952 season of The Adventures of Uncle Mistletoe, a fifteen minute children's TV show in which whimsical s...
Workprint for episode 3 of the 1952 season of The Adventures of Uncle Mistletoe, a fifteen minute children's TV show in which whimsical st...
Workprint for episode 4 of the 1952 season of The Adventures of Uncle Mistletoe, a fifteen minute children's TV show in which whimsical st...
Home movie from the second half of 1955 depicting Donald and Verna Perser's travels between Toronto, Chicago, and Delavan, WI.
Home movie of Bradley Barnes Suster from age four to six months.
Children are seen gathered by a Christmas tree. Then, a woman, child and soldier pose together on a sunny sidewalk.
A silent home movie featuring children playing with their Christmas toys, a child’s third birthday party celebration, and families interacting outd...
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...
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...
Three short scenes of a stop-motion Santa Claus delivering Christmas gifts. The film was possibly made or inspired by designer Darrill Connelly, wh...
Unedited scenes from Mary and Joe Chicago Style, a retelling of the Nativity as re-imagined by Chicago's Central Cinematographers amateur ...
Holiday episode of "The Red Skelton Show" starring Red Skelton and Cara Williams. Freddy the Freeloader is all alone on Christmas until he finds a ...
Animated episode of The Little King written by comic strip artist Oscar E. Soglow. The Little King is feeling low on Christmas Eve, so he joins a p...
An amateur Christmas film made by Chicago amateur filmmaker Margaret Conneely, who frames stop-motion animation and trick photography with live act...