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Home movie shot by Barbara Suster in Des Plaines and Elgin, Illinois, featuring the extended Suster family. Prominently features a large orange cat...

A silent home movie that shows an elderly woman as she enters and rides in a Rolls-Royce to a house. She then proceeds to pose performatively in va...

This film offers a tour through General Motors Powerama, an industry event that took place during the months of August and September 1955. The Powe...

Home movie of scenic stops along country roads of the Illinois & Michigan Canal. We follow a car on dirt trails with footage of the canal ranging ...

Home movie or amateur footage of an auto race from inside the track. Footage includes shots of race car drivers in helmets posing in front of thei...

Home movie that begins with scenes of downtown Chicago and a suburban American Can Company factory. The film also includes footage of cars driving ...

B&W home movie footage of leisure residential scenes. Includes shots of men and women posing near an urban home and brief automobile footage.

Color home movie footage of the Cring family’s trip to Mexico City.

Color home movie footage of a family’s trip to the Missouri Ozarks. Includes footage of the wooded property and family posing in a residential fron...

B&W home movie footage of a vacation to Mexico. Includes scenes of people wandering around Castillo de Chapultepec, and brief automobile footage.

B&W home movie footage of a vacation to Mexico. Includes scenes of the ancient pre-Columbian ruins of Teotihuacan.

Color home movie footage of the Cring family’s trip to Mexico City.

B&W home movie of men and women posing near a California railroad station.

Faded color home movie of a trip to Palm Springs. Includes mountain and hotel leisure scenes.

B&W home movie of well dressed men posing at a railroad station and dark interior setting, followed by a short sequence of men and women exiting an...

Home movie that begins with scenes of a 1947 Halloween party, where party guests are seen drinking and dancing. This is followed by Chicago street ...