This film documents John Ott's construction of a time-lapse studio custom built to record an apple's growth for the production of Walt Disney's ...
Short, silent advertisement for the QRS Company's combination camera and projector. The Chicago-based company sold the 16mm equipment for $98.50, u...
Scene 1, take 7 of an unidentified Kling Studios production featuring comedian Hal Block.
Silent workprint for ten animated advertisements for Vernor's Ginger Ale.
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.
Footage from a Sound for Film class taught by Chicago based cinema engineer James Bond at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Fall of...
Documentary film made about Chicago independent filmmaker Tom Palazzolo for the United States Information Agency.
An eight-minute dialectical film about the politics of representation. More specifically, it examines the politics of filmic representation of wome...
A fascinating behind-the-scenes account of how the most successful movie of all time was made. Hosted by robots C-3PO and R2-D2, it features the te...
A fascinating behind-the-scenes account of how the most successful movie of all time was made. Hosted by robots C-3PO and R2-D2, it features the te...
A short film that documents a Niles Township High School filmmaking class. Various scenes of students and teachers going through exercises and less...
“In this film by Norman McLaren, Alexandre Alexeieff demonstrates the pinboard technique of film animation that he and his wife, Claire Parker, inv...
An instructional film about the filmmaking concept of "continuity" made by amateur filmmaker Margaret Conneely. Conneely would present the film wit...
An International Film Bureau production about a small film crew creating their film from the original idea to editing. Also shows the finished resu...
Instructional film by International Film Bureau on how to create a film with sound. Techniques are demonstrated by adding sound to an informative f...
Comedic amateur film made by Central Cinema Photographers club member Fred Strauss depicting the chaotic production of a film of a woman on a beach...