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

Short, silent advertisement for the QRS Company's combination camera and projector. The Chicago-based company sold the 16mm equipment for $98.50, u...

Amateur footage of Chicago shot circa 1924.

Amateur film documenting a parade in Port Washington, Wisconsin, shot circa 1925.

Footage of Chicago shot in 1928.

Two separate Heidkamp home movies, one from 1929 and one from 1951, both shot in the Chicago area.

Two separate Heidkamp home movies, one of Niagara Falls from June 1950 and one of downtown Chicago from August 1929.

Three separate Heidkamp home movies, from 1929, 1930, and 1936, each shot in Chicago.

Edited footage highlighting the attendees of the 1926 Institute of American Meat Packers Convention.

Set in Paris, 1895, the plot concerns the frantic search for a duplicate of an Italian straw hat eaten by a horse. The hat is needed to prevent a h...

Quaker Oats corporate film that looks at the use of Quaker Oats feed in the dairy industry.

In a small town, a cowardly young man (played by Harold Lloyd) becomes courageous, and captures a bandit, after his grandmother gives him an umbrel...

Silent slapstick comedy starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, and Wallace Howe. After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd)...

Silent B&W comedy set to musical score starring Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis. An American book salesman (Lloyd) is persuaded to go to the kingdo...