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Outtakes from Tom Palazzolo's 1976 documentary Gay for a Day featuring an optical step printing technique.

Home movie capturing the 6th birthday party thrown for Palazzolo's daughter, Sarah Marie, who was born in 1972. Features scenes of children eating ...

Home movie documenting birthday celebrations for Palazzolo's daughter, Amy Louise, who was born in 1974. The footage captured here is most likely o...

Sound home movie depicting the Palazzolo family's 1977 Halloween outing.

Silent home movie capturing the marriage of Tom Palazzolo and Marcia Daehn on December 22, 1968.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt encourages the Future Farmers of America to grow trees.

First, a newsreel featuring highlights from the 1937 Future Farmers of America convention in Kansas City, Missouri, produced for the FFA by Andlaue...

Artfully-shot footage around Dixon, Illinois, where filmmaker Julia Lesage was born and raised. Includes shots of boating and water skiing on the R...

A cat (Michi) sunbathes and eats catnip.

Scenes of Chicago summertime nightlife in three different parts of the city: downtown at Rush & Division streets, a concert at Grant Park's Petrill...

Unedited roll of film, primarily consisting of shots of people waiting outside the Biograph Theater on N Lincoln Avenue on a winter night. Other im...

Underexposed scenes from a backyard barbecue likely at the home of JoAnn Elam and Joe Hendrix, featuring members of the "Logan Square Rhinos" — a g...

Friends Chuck Kleinhans and JoAnn Elam experiment with a 16mm camera by testing camera distance and F-stops in this black-and-white, silent footage.

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