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Trailer to promote Chicago in the Year 2000 (CITY 2000), a yearlong project documenting everyday life in Chicago.

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Trailer to promote Chicago in the Year 2000 (CITY 2000), a yearlong project documenting everyday life in Chicago.

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Silent workprint for ten animated advertisements for Vernor's Ginger Ale.

An episode of The Yellow Kid, a TV program dramatizing the exploits of notorious Chicago con man Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil, who is purporte...

Scene 1, take 7 of an unidentified Kling Studios production featuring comedian Hal Block.

Fragment of an early three-strip Technicolor film produced by Wilding Picture Productions, depicting the 1933-1934 Chicago World's Fair/Century of ...

Snipe made by Filmack Trailer Company advertising the Pekin Theatre's Jitterbug Contest, where contestants could win a Charlie McCarthy radio court...

Snipe made by Filmack Trailer Company advertising the Pekin Theatre's midnight Halloween Party. Still graphic cards depicting owls, black cats and ...

Rebellion of the Flowers is most likely the last film Millie Goldsholl finished, and took over ten years to complete.  Completed three yea...

A short animated film that presents a study of an unconventional young boy who is temporarily persuaded to accept others’ viewpoints as his own. De...

This film features Mayor Kelly inspecting the progress on the State Street Subway. Voiceover narration highlights both the engineering hardships of...

The film depicts scenes from Chicago’s Servicemen’s Center No.1, which opened in 1941 at the former Elks Lounge No. 4. It features Mayor Kelly high...

Mayor Edward J. Kelly signs a proclamation announcing that the City of Chicago intends to promote the motion picture industry by supporting "the gr...