Mort and Millie Goldsholl Collection
Inclusive Dates
1942 – 1980
Bulk Dates
1957 – 1971
Preservation Sponsor


Abstract
Morton & Millie Goldsholl ran Goldsholl Design & Film Associates, one of Chicago’s leading graphic design studios in the 1950s through 1970s. The studio became recognized for their animations, progressive hiring practices and developing corporate branding packages for various companies. Their collection, donated to CFA in 2006 and 2010, contains commercials and industrial films that Goldsholl Associates made for their clients, experimental films and animations made by both Morton and Millie, unedited travel films shot by Morton and Millie and films (primarily animated) that the two collected over the years.
Description
The Mort & Millie Goldsholl Collection is organized into three series:
SERIES I: Goldsholl Design & Film Associates Films
SERIES II: Personal Films (Animations, Experimental, Home Movies, Elements)
SERIES III: Collected Films (Animations, Experimental, Historical)
SERIES I contains 129 reels of 16mm industrial films made by Goldsholl Design & Film Associates for various clients. The dates of these films range from the 1950's to early 1980's, with the majority being made in the 1960's and 1970's. Each distinct title from this series is available for online streaming.
SERIES II contains 183 personal reels of 16mm and 35mm films created by Mort and/or Millie Goldsholl. They include children's animations ("Up is Down", "Rebellion of the Flowers", "Intergalactic Zoo"), experimental films ("Night Driving", "Dissent Illusion", "Union Pier 1942: Film Experiments"), home movies and unedited footage Mort & Millie shot while traveling in Japan, Europe and Israel. It is unclear at the time whether the unedited travel footage in this series was originally shot to be used in Goldsholl Associates films. Also included in this series are production elements related to "Rebellion of the Flowers", "Up is Down", "Dissent Illusion" and "Night Driving". [This series is currently being processed. Items will be updated as films are inspected, digitized and cataloged - August 26, 2014]
SERIES III contains 41 reels of 16mm films Mort & Millie Goldsholl collected over the years. The series includes eclectic and varied animations, experimental films and historical films. Notable reels include "Black White Grey" by Moholy Nagy, a mentor of Mort & Millie, as well as "Disintegration Line #1" by Lawrence Janiak, a colleague of Mort & Millie at Goldsholl Associates. The majority of this collection is unavailable for online viewing due to copyright restrictions.
SERIES I: Goldsholl Design & Film Associates Films
SERIES II: Personal Films (Animations, Experimental, Home Movies, Elements)
SERIES III: Collected Films (Animations, Experimental, Historical)
SERIES I contains 129 reels of 16mm industrial films made by Goldsholl Design & Film Associates for various clients. The dates of these films range from the 1950's to early 1980's, with the majority being made in the 1960's and 1970's. Each distinct title from this series is available for online streaming.
SERIES II contains 183 personal reels of 16mm and 35mm films created by Mort and/or Millie Goldsholl. They include children's animations ("Up is Down", "Rebellion of the Flowers", "Intergalactic Zoo"), experimental films ("Night Driving", "Dissent Illusion", "Union Pier 1942: Film Experiments"), home movies and unedited footage Mort & Millie shot while traveling in Japan, Europe and Israel. It is unclear at the time whether the unedited travel footage in this series was originally shot to be used in Goldsholl Associates films. Also included in this series are production elements related to "Rebellion of the Flowers", "Up is Down", "Dissent Illusion" and "Night Driving". [This series is currently being processed. Items will be updated as films are inspected, digitized and cataloged - August 26, 2014]
SERIES III contains 41 reels of 16mm films Mort & Millie Goldsholl collected over the years. The series includes eclectic and varied animations, experimental films and historical films. Notable reels include "Black White Grey" by Moholy Nagy, a mentor of Mort & Millie, as well as "Disintegration Line #1" by Lawrence Janiak, a colleague of Mort & Millie at Goldsholl Associates. The majority of this collection is unavailable for online viewing due to copyright restrictions.
Collection Items
Film
Carborundum Corporation “Shaping the World”
circa 1960
Film
Coca Cola Company “Santiba” (Part One Only)
circa 1969
Film
Eastman Kodak Company “Worth How Many Words”
1968
Film
Kimberly-Clark Corporation “TexoPrint”
circa 1960
Film
Science Research Associates “Pitter Patterns”
1960
Film
Karolton Envelope Company “Envelope Jive”
circa 1963
Film
Life Magazine “Mag”
1959
Film
Lens Distortions #8 and 9
1971
Film
Lens Distortion #10
circa 1971
Film
Magazine Publishers Association “First Impression”
1965
Film
Chicago & North Western Railway Co. “Great Train Robbery"
1960s
Film
CBS “Bigger & Smaller”
1970
Film
Magazine Publishers Association “Wanderlust”
1965
Film
Johnson Wax “Big Wally”
Film
Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company “Schlitz Malt Liquor”
Film
Pabst Brewing Company “Old Milwaukee”
1964
Film
Crescent Cardboard Company “The Edge of a Line”
1976
Film
Carborundum Corporation “Shaping the World”
circa 1960
Film
Champion Papers Incorporated “Imagination 11”
1967
Film
Campbell-Mithun, Inc. "Ac'cent Sales Film: The Honeymooners"
circa 1971
Film
Stratford Squire International "The Measure of You"
1972
Film
CNA Insurance “Crusader”
Film
Honeywell International Inc. "Pay Philosophy"
1980
Film
Honeywell International Inc. “Many Businesses United by Common Bonds”
1980
Film
American Hospital Association “Costly Cutbacks”
1971
Film
Foote, Cone & Belding “25th Anniversary Presentation Reel”
1967
Film
National Safety Council "The Extra Step"
September 10 1976
Film
Turner Corporation “The Hot One”
1969
Film
Chemtron Corporation “Welding the Flux-Cored Way”
Film
Children’s Memorial Hospital “For Whom We Care”
Film
General Mills Fun Group Incorporated “Craft Master Toy”
1970
Film
Board of Education City of Chicago “Cooperative Work Training: A New Dimension”
Film
Illinois Bell “Black Youth”
1972
Film
Scott Foresman and Company “Reading: A Gift For Life”
1971
Film
National Education Association "Changing Technology in Adult Basic Education"
Film
Ansul Company “Ansul Mosaic”
Film
National Dairy Council "Food Your Choice"
1977
Film
American Republic Insurance “Eagles”
1975
Film
Eastman Kodak Company "Out of Sight"
1970
Film
Baxter “All of Us”
Film
Champion Papers Incorporated “Imagination 10”
1967
Film
Addressograph Multigraph Corporation “The Straight Talking Copy People”
Film
Western Electric Company "Getting It All Together" (Center Screen)
Film
Western Electric Company "Getting It All Together" (Left Screen)
Film
Western Electric “The Age of Alloys” (Long Version)
Film
Aid Association for Lutherans "Spirit of Fraternalife"
1977
Film
Inland Steel Company “Monostress”
Film
Magazine Publishers Association “The Meeting Place”
Film
Magazine Publishers Association “The Meeting Place”
1966
Film
American Paper Institute “Paper: The Prologue”
Film
National Institute of Dental Research “Magnificent Fluoride”
1983
Film
A Soil For Growth: A Story of the Gifted Children Program
1966
Film
Board of Education City of Chicago “Operation Head Start”
1965
Film
Aid Association for Lutherans “The Documents of Man”
1967
Film
Aid Association for Lutherans “The Documents of Man”
1967
Film
North American Van Lines “Y*R*S* Truly”
1973
Film
From A to Z: The Story of Special Summer Schools
1964
Film
Hammond Organ Company “The Beginning”
1972
Film
Allstate Insurance “Another Year of Success”
1969
Film
Hill & Knowlton Ingersoll “The I-Drive Line”
circa 1981
Film
American Bar Association "To Reason Why"
1973
Film
Life Magazine "Rip Roaring Day at Ripple Rock"
1958
Film
Lens Distortion (Original)
Film
Lens Distortion (Original)
1969
Film
Lens Distortion
circa 1966
Film
Lens Distortion
circa 1966
Film
Champion Papers Incorporated "Paper: Mirror of Imagination"
1975
Film
Kimberly-Clark Corporation “Kleenex X-Periments” (Sneeze, Road, Glove Love, Birds, Scratch)
1960s
Film
Scott Foresman and Company "KQED" (Work Print)
circa 1967
Film
Kimberly-Clark Corporation "Faces and Fortunes"
1959
Film
A Soil For Growth: A Story of the Gifted Child Program
1966
Film
From A to Z: The Story of Special Summer Schools
1964
Film
[Line Experimentation]
circa 1958
Film
[Lens Distortion]
Film
Dissent Illusion
1963
Film
Union Pier 1942: Film Experiments
1942
Film
Dance Original
1960s
Film
Intergalactic Zoo
1964
Film
Up Is Down [Outtakes]
1968
Film
Up Is Down [Outtakes]
1968
Film
Rebellion of the Flowers
1992
Film
Night Driving (Short Version)
Film
Victoria WP
circa 1962
Film
Lake Placid Holiday 1941
circa 1941
Film
Canada Meadow Etc
circa 1969
Film
Harry & Gleda Original #239
circa 1960
Film
Harry & Gleda Work Print #211
circa 1960
Film
Africa Work Print (Lacks Lion & Boar)
circa 1971
Film
Africa Work Print (Quasar outtakes)
circa 1971
Film
Africa Work Print
circa 1971
Film
Africa Work Print Ok #2
circa 1971
Film
Africa Work Print (Market, Treetops, Elephants, Cheetah, Vulture, Etc)
circa 1971
Film
Denmark and Israel
circa 1964
Film
Israel
circa 1965
Film
Greece, Turkey & Israel
circa 1965
Film
Greece or Turkey
circa 1969
Film
Greece
circa 1965
Film
Arab Orig
circa 1965
Film
Foreign WP Master
1960s
Film
H.P. Shopping Neg.
circa 1960
Film
Art Fair WP
circa 1960
Film
Chicks & People
circa 1960
Film
Harry & Friend - Football
circa 1957
Film
Stratford Ontario Vacation Shots
circa 1960
Film
Old Aspen Film
1950s
Film
Greece & Turkey
circa 1965
Film
Edited for all in a day
circa 1965
Film
Up Is Down
1968
Film
Foreign Trims
1960s
Film
Shrine Near Heavy Trees
circa 1964
Film
Japan: Kiyomizu
circa 1964
Film
Shrine & People
circa 1964
Film
Japan: Osaka
circa 1964
Film
Hawaii
circa 1964
Film
Japan Work Print
circa 1964
Film
Japan Work Print
circa 1964
Film
Dragon Shrine Outs
circa 1964
Film
Japan: Gardeners - Shrine - Golden Pavilion - Goldfish
circa 1964
Film
Japan: Fushimi, Inari, Kyoto
circa 1964
Film
Moratorium in Washington, D.C. Oct 1969
circa 1969
Film
Moratorium
1969
Film
November 1969 Moratorium (Dark)
1969
Film
Japan: Lanterns, Monkeys, Cormorant Fishing
circa 1964
Film
Japan: Disneyland
circa 1964
Film
Big Buddha
circa 1964
Film
Heian Shrine Stepping Stones
circa 1964
Film
Bus Ride With Child
circa 1964
Film
Japan: Miyanoshita Naraya Inn Outs
circa 1964
Film
Bus Ride
circa 1964
Film
Original of Sign
circa 1964
Film
[Japan: Tokyo]
circa 1964
Film
Japan: Outside Stone Figure
circa 1964
Film
Japan: Enoshima, Fujisawa
circa 1964
Film
Japan: Lake Ashinoko Outs
circa 1964
Film
Streets & Rooftops (Packed)
circa 1964
Film
Japan: Deer Park & Shrine
circa 1964
Film
Nature shots - Shrine - Boys in White With Butterfly Nets
circa 1964
Film
Japan: Train Ride
circa 1964
Film
Japan: Tokyo Outs
circa 1964
Film
Japan: Train Ride To Hiroshima and Osaka
circa 1964
Film
Japan: Train to Osaka
circa 1964
Film
Japan: Katsura
circa 1964
Film
Hiroshima
circa 1964
Film
Moss Garden
circa 1964
Film
Moss Park & Sand Shrine
circa 1964
Film
Japan: Miyajima
circa 1964
Film
Japan: Street & Shrine - Pachinko
circa 1964
Film
Shrine - Fountain with Dragon - Many Students
circa 1964
Film
Japan W.P.
circa 1964
Film
Art Fair Original
circa 1962
Film
Mort's Personal Reel
circa 1979
Film
Goldsholl 420 Reel 2 orig
1956
Film
Original Scenes Not Used
circa 1959
Film
Gleda & Harry Orig Rev
circa 1960
Film
Gleda and Harry Drawing Together Orig
circa 1960
Film
Dancer
1960
Film
Experimental and Commercial Films
1956
Film
#190 Orig
circa 1958
Film
Dyer-Bennet School - Aspen
1949
Film
Art Fair - Several Scenes
circa 1963
Film
[Old Orchard Art Festival]
circa 1963
Film
Art Fair [Work Print]
circa 1963
Film
131
circa 1957
Film
Art Fair
circa 1965
Film
R-2
circa 1963
Film
Europe Original
circa 1965
Film
Orig Europe + Japan
circa 1965
Film
[Greece, Israel, Japan, Turkey]
1965
Film
Untitled Europe Original
circa 1965
Film
Europe [Trims]
circa 1965
Film
[Greece + Turkey]
circa 1965
Film
[Greece & Turkey Desert]
circa 1965
Film
[Africa: Market and Animals]
circa 1971
Film
Untitled - Africa
circa 1971
Film
[Africa Outtakes]
1971
Film
Africa Original
circa 1971
Film
Original Africa
Film
Denmark Original
circa 1965
Film
European Original
circa 1965
Film
Orig Outs From Europe - Footage Greece
circa 1965
Film
Foreign Originals
1960 – 1979
Film
[Greece + Turkey (upside down)]
circa 1965
Film
[Greece: Parthenon etc.]
circa 1965
Film
Europe Orig
circa 1964
Film
Up Is Down
1969
Film
Night Driving
1957
Film
Black White and Gray
1930
Film
Peter Pan
1964
To request more information about the items in this collection, please contact the archive at
info@chicagofilmarchives.org.
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SERIES I: Goldsholl Design & Film Associates Films
- Addressograph Multigraph Corporation “The Straight Talking Copy People”
- Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation “The Straight Talking Copy People”
- Aid Association for Lutherans "Spirit of Fraternalife"
- Aid Association for Lutherans “The Documents of Man”
- Aid Association for Lutherans “The Documents of Man”
- Allstate Insurance “Another Year of Success”
- American Bar Association "To Reason Why"
- American Hospital Association “Costly Cutbacks”
- American Paper Institute “Paper: The Prologue”
- American Paper Institute “Paper: The Prologue”
- American Paper Institute “Paper: The Prologue”
- American Paper Institute “Paper: The Prologue”
- American Republic Insurance “Eagles”
- Ansul Company “Ansul Mosaic”
- Ansul Company “Ansul Mosaic”
- Ansul Company “Ansul Mosaic”
- Baxter “All of Us”
- Baxter Travenol Laboratories “All of Us”
- Baxter Travenol Laboratories “All of Us”
- Board of Education City of Chicago “Cooperative Work Training: A New Dimension”
- Board of Education City of Chicago “Cooperative Work Training: A New Dimension”
- Board of Education City of Chicago “Operation Head Start”
- Board of Education City of Chicago “Operation Head Start”
- Campbell-Mithun, Inc. "Ac'cent Sales Film: The Honeymooners"
- Carborundum Corporation “Shaping the World”
- Carborundum Corporation “Shaping the World”
- CBS “Bigger & Smaller”
- CBS “Bigger & Smaller”
- CBS “Bigger & Smaller”
- Champion Papers Incorporated “Imagination 10”
- Champion Papers Incorporated “Imagination 10”
- Champion Papers Incorporated “Imagination 10”
- Champion Papers Incorporated “Imagination 11”
- Champion Papers Incorporated “Imagination 11”
- Champion Papers Incorporated “Imagination 11”
- Champion Papers Incorporated "Paper: Mirror of Imagination"
- Chemtron Corporation “Welding the Flux-Cored Way”
- Chicago & North Western Railway Co. “Great Train Robbery"
- Chicago & North Western Railway Co. “Great Train Robbery"
- Chicago & North Western Railway Co. “Great Train Robbery"
- Children’s Memorial Hospital “For Whom We Care”
- Children’s Memorial Hospital “For Whom We Care”
- Children’s Memorial Hospital “For Whom We Care”
- CNA Insurance “Crusader”
- CNA Insurance “Crusader”
- CNA Insurance “Crusader”
- CNA Insurance “Crusader”
- Coca Cola Company “Santiba” (Part One Only)
- Combination Reel: "Paper: The Prologue" & "Worth How Many Words"
- Crescent Cardboard Company “The Edge of a Line”
- Crescent Cardboard Company “The Edge of a Line”
- Crescent Cardboard Company “The Edge of a Line”
- Eastman Kodak Company "Out of Sight"
- Eastman Kodak Company "Out of Sight"
- Eastman Kodak Company "Out of Sight"
- Eastman Kodak Company “Worth How Many Words”
- Eastman Kodak Company “Worth How Many Words”
- Eastman Kodak Company “Worth How Many Words”
- Eastman Kodak Company “Worth How Many Words”
- Foote, Cone & Belding “25th Anniversary Presentation Reel”
- From A to Z: The Story of Special Summer Schools
- From A to Z: The Story of Special Summer Schools
- From A to Z: The Story of Special Summer Schools
- From A to Z: The Story of Special Summer Schools
- General Mills Fun Group Incorporated “Craft Master Toy”
- Hammond Organ Company “The Beginning”
- Hammond Organ Company “The Beginning”
- Hammond Organ Company “The Beginning”
- Hill & Knowlton Ingersoll “The I-Drive Line”
- Honeywell International Inc. “Many Businesses United by Common Bonds”
- Honeywell International Inc. "Pay Philosophy"
- Illinois '76
- Illinois Bell “Black Youth”
- Illinois Bell “Black Youth”
- Illinois Bell “Black Youth”
- Inland Steel Company “Monostress”
- Inland Steel Company “Monostress”
- Johnson Wax “Big Wally”
- Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company “Schlitz Malt Liquor”
- Karolton Envelope Company “Envelope Jive”
- Karolton Envelope Company “Envelope Jive”
- Karolton Envelope Company “Envelope Jive”
- Karolton Envelope Company “Envelope Jive”
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation "Faces and Fortunes"
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation "Faces and Fortunes"
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation “Kleenex X-Periments” (Glove Love, Sneeze, Scratch)
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation “Kleenex X-Periments" (Scratch)
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation “Kleenex X-Periments” (Sneeze, Glove Love, Scratch)
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation “Kleenex X-Periments” (Sneeze, Glove Love, Scratch)
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation “Kleenex X-Periments” (Sneeze, Glove Love, Scratch)
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation “Kleenex X-Periments” (Sneeze, Road, Glove Love, Birds, Scratch)
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation “TexoPrint”
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation “TexoPrint”
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation “TexoPrint”
- Lens Distortion
- Lens Distortion
- [Lens Distortion]
- Lens Distortions #8 and 9
- Lens Distortion #10
- Lens Distortion (Original)
- Lens Distortion (Original)
- Life Magazine “Mag”
- Life Magazine “Mag”
- Life Magazine “Mag”
- Life Magazine "Rip Roaring Day at Ripple Rock"
- [Line Experimentation]
- Magazine Publishers Association “First Impression”
- Magazine Publishers Association “First Impression”
- Magazine Publishers Association “First Impression”
- Magazine Publishers Association “The Meeting Place”
- Magazine Publishers Association “The Meeting Place”
- Magazine Publishers Association “Wanderlust”
- National Dairy Council "Food Your Choice"
- National Dairy Council "Food Your Choice"
- National Dairy Council "Food Your Choice"
- National Education Association "Changing Technology in Adult Basic Education"
- National Institute of Dental Research “Magnificent Fluoride”
- National Safety Council "The Extra Step"
- North American Van Lines “Y*R*S* Truly”
- Pabst Brewing Company “Old Milwaukee”
- Science Research Associates “Pitter Patterns”
- Scott Foresman and Company "KQED" (Work Print)
- Scott Foresman and Company “Reading: A Gift For Life”
- Scott Foresman and Company “Reading: A Gift For Life”
- Scott Foresman and Company “Reading: A Gift For Life”
- A Soil For Growth: A Story of the Gifted Child Program
- A Soil For Growth: A Story of the Gifted Child Program
- A Soil For Growth: A Story of the Gifted Child Program
- A Soil For Growth: A Story of the Gifted Children Program
- Stratford Squire International "The Measure of You"
- Stratford Squire International "The Measure of You"
- Stratford Squire International "The Measure of You"
- Turner Corporation “The Hot One”
- Turner Corporation “The Hot One”
- Western Electric “Age of Alloys” (Short Version)
- Western Electric Company "Getting It All Together" (Center Screen)
- Western Electric Company "Getting It All Together" (Left Screen)
- Western Electric “The Age of Alloys”
- Western Electric “The Age of Alloys” (Long Version)
- Western Electric “The Age of Alloys” (Long Version)
- 131
- #190 Orig
- [Africa: Market and Animals]
- Africa Original
- [Africa Outtakes]
- Africa Work Print
- Africa Work Print (Lacks Lion & Boar)
- Africa Work Print (Market, Treetops, Elephants, Cheetah, Vulture, Etc)
- Africa Work Print Ok #2
- Africa Work Print (Quasar outtakes)
- Africa Work Print (Quasar Sample Film Segments)
- Arab Orig
- Art Fair
- Art Fair Original
- Art Fair - Several Scenes
- Art Fair [Work Print]
- Art Fair WP
- Big Buddha
- Bus Ride
- Bus Ride With Child
- Canada Meadow Etc
- Chicks & People
- Dance Original
- Dancer
- Denmark and Israel
- Denmark Original
- Dissent Illusion
- Dissent Illusion
- Dissent Illusion
- Dissent Illusion
- Dissent Illusion
- Dissent Illusion
- Dissent Illusion
- Dissent Illusion
- Dissent Illusion
- Dissent Illusion
- Dissent Illusion
- Dissent Illusion
- Dissent Illusion
- Dissent Illusion [Outtakes]
- Dissent Illusion [Outtakes]
- Dissent Illusion [Outtakes]
- Dragon Shrine Outs
- Dyer-Bennet School - Aspen
- Edited for all in a day
- Europe Orig
- Europe Original
- Europe [Trims]
- European Original
- Experimental and Commercial Films
- Foreign Originals
- Foreign Trims
- Foreign WP Master
- Gleda & Harry Orig Rev
- Gleda and Harry Drawing Together Orig
- Goldsholl 420 Reel 2 orig
- Greece
- Greece & Turkey
- [Greece & Turkey Desert]
- [Greece, Israel, Japan, Turkey]
- Greece or Turkey
- [Greece: Parthenon etc.]
-
[Greece + Turkey]
- Greece, Turkey & Israel
- [Greece + Turkey (upside down)]
- H.P. Shopping Neg.
- Harry & Friend - Football
- Harry & Gleda Original #239
- Harry & Gleda Work Print #211
- Hawaii
- Heian Shrine Stepping Stones
- Hiroshima
- Intergalactic Zoo
- Intergalactic Zoo
- Israel
- Japan: Deer Park & Shrine
- Japan: Disneyland
- Japan: Enoshima, Fujisawa
- Japan: Fushimi, Inari, Kyoto
- Japan: Gardeners - Shrine - Golden Pavilion - Goldfish
- Japan: Katsura
- Japan: Kiyomizu
- Japan: Lake Ashinoko Outs
- Japan: Lanterns, Monkeys, Cormorant Fishing
- Japan: Miyajima
- Japan: Miyanoshita Naraya Inn Outs
- Japan: Osaka
- Japan: Outside Stone Figure
- Japan: Street & Shrine - Pachinko
- [Japan: Tokyo]
- Japan: Tokyo Outs
- Japan: Train Ride
- Japan: Train Ride To Hiroshima and Osaka
- Japan: Train to Osaka
- Japan W.P.
- Japan Work Print
- Japan Work Print
- Lake Placid Holiday 1941
- Moratorium
- Moratorium in Washington, D.C. Oct 1969
- Mort's Personal Reel
- Moss Garden
- Moss Park & Sand Shrine
- Nature shots - Shrine - Boys in White With Butterfly Nets
- New Guinea Original Reels 1-8
- New Guinea Original Reels 9-16
- New Guinea Original Reels 17-21
- Night Driving
- Night Driving
- Night Driving
- Night Driving [Outtakes]
- Night Driving [Section B]
- Night Driving [Section B]
- Night Driving [Section B]
- Night Driving [Section B]
- Night Driving (Short Version)
- November 1969 Moratorium (Dark)
- Old Aspen Film
- [Old Orchard Art Festival]
- Orig Europe + Japan
- Orig Outs From Europe - Footage Greece
- Original Africa
- Original of Sign
- Original Scenes Not Used
- R-2
- Rebellion of the Flowers
- Rebellion of the Flowers
- Rebellion of the Flowers
- Rebellion of the Flowers
- Rebellion of the Flowers
- Rebellion of the Flowers
- Rebellion of the Flowers
- Rebellion of the Flowers
- Rebellion of the Flowers
- Rebellion of the Flowers
- Rebellion of the Flowers
- Rebellion of the Flowers
- Rebellion of the Flowers
- Rebellion of the Flowers [Misc Neg]
- Rebellion of the Flowers [Misc Neg]
- Rebellion of the Flowers [Misc Neg]
- Rebellion of the Flowers [Misc Neg]
- Rebellion of the Flowers [Misc Neg]
- Rebellion of the Flowers [Misc Neg]
- Rebellion of the Flowers [Misc Neg]
- Rebellion of the Flowers [Misc Neg]
- Rebellion of the Flowers [Voice Recording Take 1 & 2] (Audio)
- Shrine & People
- Shrine - Fountain with Dragon - Many Students
- Shrine Near Heavy Trees
- Spider
- Spider
- Stratford Ontario Vacation Shots
- Stratford Original B+W
- Streets & Rooftops (Packed)
- Union Pier 1942: Film Experiments
- Untitled - Africa
- Untitled Europe Original
- Up Is Down
- Up Is Down
- Up Is Down
- Up Is Down
- Up Is Down
- Up Is Down
- Up Is Down
- Up Is Down
- Up Is Down
- Up Is Down
- Up Is Down #74
- Up Is Down #75
- Up Is Down [Live Action Work Print]
- Up Is Down [Outtakes]
- Up Is Down [Outtakes]
- Up Is Down [Outtakes]
- Up Is Down [Outtakes]
- Up Is Down [Outtakes]
- Up Is Down Outtakes
- Up Is Down [Outtakes] - Florescent Color Tests
- Victoria WP
- Alpha and Omega
- Aos
- Appetite of a Bird
- Ballet Mécanique
- Bed, The
- Black White and Gray
- Breath (Souffle)
- The Button / The Chair
- Clay or Origin of the Species
- Clearing, The (1950)
- Disintegration Line #1
- Dreams of the Wild Horses
- Edison: Seawaves, Japanese Acrobats, Hammock, Ostriches, Cook in Trouble, The Kiss, The Sneeze
- Eggs, The
- Evil
- Fiddle De Dee
- Fly, The
- Frank Film
- Hunger
- La Belle Cerebrale
- Last Trick of Mr. Edgar, The
- Len Lye: Color Box and Rhythm
- Leonardo's Diary
- Love / Locus
- Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa, The
- Monsieur Tete
- Moon Bird
- Opera Cordis
- Options
- Paper Paradise
- Peter Pan
- Plus Vite
- Samurai
- Sand Castle
- Street, The
- Street, The
- Sun Flight
- Venus the Cat
- Visages des Femmes
- Walking
- Why Do Animals Looks Like They Do
- World of Vatican II, The
- Young Man With a Future
SERIES II: Personal Films (Animations, Experimental, Home Movies, Elements)
SERIES III: Collected Films (Animations, Experimental, Historical)
Collection Identifier
C.2010-01
Extent of Collection
322 reels of film of 16mm film; 27 rolls of 35mm film; 3 reels of 8mm film; 1 1/4" audio reel to reel
Language Of Materials
English
Custodial History
In 2006, Millie loaned films to CFA with the understanding that eventually she would gift them to CFA. Subsequently, MIllie Goldsholl became ill and was unable to manage her own affairs. In 2010, Goldsholl's son Harry Goldsholl, delivered the remaining films to CFA and donated all of them to CFA.
Related Materials
Chicago Film Archives' DeWitt Beall Collection contains sponsored films Beall worked on while working for Goldsholl Design & Film Associates. The Chicago Design Archives' website displays print and logo designs by both Morton Goldsholl and Goldsholl Design & Film Associates (http://www.chicagodesignarchive.org/projects.php?by=designer&id=156).
Related Collections
Access Restrictions
This collection is open to on-site access. Appointments must be made with Chicago Film Archives. Due to the fragile nature of the films, only video copies will be provided for on-site viewing.
Use Restrictions
Goldsholl estate owns the rights to all Goldsholl affiliated films in the collection.
Creators
Goldsholl, Millie
(was created by)
Millie Goldsholl was born in 1920 and grew up in Freeport, New York on the south shores of Long Island. As a child she developed a love for pastoral life and art, creating elaborate chalk drawings of her family and grandparents' farm animals outside her family's home. Millie moved from the sidewalk to the easel when she entered high school. Here, encouraging art teachers inspired Millie to make a career out her passion for art. Millie moved to Chicago when she was sixteen with her sister and widowed mother. They moved in with Millie's brother, who had recently acquired a factory job and needed help around the house. After failing to enroll in art classes that required too many prerequisites, Millie joined her brother in the factory. Millie entered the design world through her husband, Mort, who invited Millie to enter the world of advertising alongside him. The two met at work, a paper box manufacturer where Millie did accounting and Mort designed packaging. Mort kept his day job as a freelance designer and encouraged Millie to enter the newly formed School of Design - the first school in Chicago to offer a design degree. Millie ultimately studied architecture, but the school's Bauhaus inspired environment encouraged her to experiment with different materials, mediums and machines. It is here where she was first introduced to filmmaking, and where she developed a life-long connection to Moholy-Nagy's vision of industry, art and design. In 1955, Millie and Mort established Goldsholl Design & Film Associates. Mort took responsibility for the design division, while Millie took charge of building a film division. Their Northfield, Illinois studio, design by Millie and built in 1960, reflected the flexibility and freedom of the Bauhaus tradition, combining traditional graphic design work alongside a filmmaking studio. Millie compared the studio to a beehive, noting that the proximity led to collaborations and experiments that wouldn’t have happened any other way. “We are involved here in every step of the film process, from idea to imagery,” Millie told Rhodes Patterson (interviewer, Container Corporation colleague & CFA Collection namesake) shortly after moving in, “and we find this maintains the integrity of the concept. Phonics can be manipulated with the same freedom as image. The auditory is mobilized to create mood. Images may be heard, and sound seen. It is not so much in the components of the film structure that its art resides, but rather in relationships, interaction and transitions that it assumes its significance. The pulse or rhythm of a film can produce tension, excitement and release,” she continued. “In editing, the filmmaker gives wings to the parts . . . cleaving them from their place in time and space . . . releasing them into a designer’s stratosphere––there to be juggled, taken, rejected, extended, clipped, superimposed and recomposed.” Filmmaking for the Goldsholls was a cerebral process that nevertheless thrived on serendipity. Millie once stated, "We’d rather make films that have guts than gimmicks – and we don’t equate gimmicks with honest experimentation and unorthodox techniques. Serendipity is something we are committed to." Millie died in May 2012, preceded by Mort in 1995.
Goldsholl, Morton
(was created by)
Morton (Mort) Goldsholl was born in 1911 with the dream of becoming a great painter. “That dream dissolved in the nightmare of a depression and factory work for too many years,” he recalled. But he did manage to find work in the advertising industry, producing mat books, layouts, engravings and typeset.
At this time he also found Millie, his future wife, who shared his passion for design. That passion led them to the School of Design where Moholy-Nagy was preaching the doctrine of design awareness. His was the first school in Chicago to offer a design degree so while Mort kept his day job, Millie enrolled. But both gravitated to seminars and classes where Moholy-Nagy, himself an experimental filmmaker, invited friends like Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí to show theirs. “Film is the art of the century,” he would say, and the Goldsholls set out to prove it.
In a 1992 interview, Mort spoke of a special project he spent months on. He would take a single film slide, slice away pieces of the film and replace it with hair, feathers, dirt and other objects to make abstract images that, when projected, turned into impressionistic collages. He called the process “light painting.” When he showed it to Maholy-Nagy, his mentor walked him around the school into every classroom announcing, “This is what design is about.”
In 1955, Mort and Millie established Goldsholl Associates, which consisted of three groups - Goldsholl Design Group, Goldsholl Film Group and Informational Media. Mort already had packaging and design clients, so he became titular head with responsibility for the design division, while Millie took charge of building a film division. By 1963, the company had grown to about 30 employees so the Goldsholls built a spare office building on frontage road in Northfield, filling it with a stage, sound and editing suites for the movies alongside the designers.
While at Goldsholl Design & Film Associates, Mort created iconic logos and packaging for Motorola, Vienna Beef, Peace Corps, Alcoa and Brach's Candy, just to name a few. When he was asked what he liked most about his company, Mort Goldsholl said, “I enjoy my work immensely, but seldom the results. The playtime in design is the most joyful experience––the wasted moments in scribbles, dribbles and scratches that formulate vague thoughts into ideas and dreams into action. I don’t know how or why this is so. The problem is to get the final design to match the fleeting idea. The big dreams about the great work of art can too easily be dissipated in the practicalities of solutions, clients, markets, statistics, sales, function and committee decisions."
The Goldsholls worked together for 40 years until the company closed down in the 1990s. Mort died in 1995.
At this time he also found Millie, his future wife, who shared his passion for design. That passion led them to the School of Design where Moholy-Nagy was preaching the doctrine of design awareness. His was the first school in Chicago to offer a design degree so while Mort kept his day job, Millie enrolled. But both gravitated to seminars and classes where Moholy-Nagy, himself an experimental filmmaker, invited friends like Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí to show theirs. “Film is the art of the century,” he would say, and the Goldsholls set out to prove it.
In a 1992 interview, Mort spoke of a special project he spent months on. He would take a single film slide, slice away pieces of the film and replace it with hair, feathers, dirt and other objects to make abstract images that, when projected, turned into impressionistic collages. He called the process “light painting.” When he showed it to Maholy-Nagy, his mentor walked him around the school into every classroom announcing, “This is what design is about.”
In 1955, Mort and Millie established Goldsholl Associates, which consisted of three groups - Goldsholl Design Group, Goldsholl Film Group and Informational Media. Mort already had packaging and design clients, so he became titular head with responsibility for the design division, while Millie took charge of building a film division. By 1963, the company had grown to about 30 employees so the Goldsholls built a spare office building on frontage road in Northfield, filling it with a stage, sound and editing suites for the movies alongside the designers.
While at Goldsholl Design & Film Associates, Mort created iconic logos and packaging for Motorola, Vienna Beef, Peace Corps, Alcoa and Brach's Candy, just to name a few. When he was asked what he liked most about his company, Mort Goldsholl said, “I enjoy my work immensely, but seldom the results. The playtime in design is the most joyful experience––the wasted moments in scribbles, dribbles and scratches that formulate vague thoughts into ideas and dreams into action. I don’t know how or why this is so. The problem is to get the final design to match the fleeting idea. The big dreams about the great work of art can too easily be dissipated in the practicalities of solutions, clients, markets, statistics, sales, function and committee decisions."
The Goldsholls worked together for 40 years until the company closed down in the 1990s. Mort died in 1995.