Marion Kudlick Collection
Inclusive Dates
circa 1940 – 1979
Abstract
The Marion Kudlick collection contains home movies and amateur travelogue films shot by amateur filmmaker Marion Kudlick, Sr. Highlights include films shot in Chicago, Poland, western Europe and Mexico during the 1960s, family vacations in Florida, and Boy Scout activities.
Collection Items
Film
Around Chicago
1941 – 1960
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- 1966 Poland - 1973 Lot Poland
- 1966 Poland - Small Pictures Spring Our Street
- 1984: The World's Fair
- Akt 1. Poczatek: Przerwana Podroz
- Alphi - New Mexico - West Europe
- America
- Around Chicago
- Chicago Society
- Chicago Society Golf Party
- Dr. Ed - Fishing Pictures
- East of Coulie[?]
- Fishing
- Florida
- Florida - Caribbean
- Florida - Mayor Holiday Inn - St. Pete - Mexico
- Florida: Vincent, Kent, Key West
- Fun Pictures 1&2
- Han Nabel[?] to Los Angeles and Back
- Homemade Guns Made in Poland and World War[?]
- Kiwanis Settlement - Kiwanis Boy Scouts (Separate)
- Kiwanis Settlement - Kiwanis Boy Scouts (Separate)
- Kiwanis Spring
- Lake Saranac New York - St. Augustine Home
- Lash Tishel[?]
- Loredo - Santa Rosa - Leon
- Maja 1
- Mexico (1st part Complete)
- Mexico: Acapulco - Monterrey - Hacienda Country
- Mexico: Can Anton [?] - Vera Cruz - Leon Oaxaca
- Mexico: Chapala City
- Mexico - France
- Mexico: From Mexico City to Acapulco
- Montreal
- Montreal to England to Spain
- Navajo Country - Las Vegas, Nevada - Portland, Oregon
- New Orleans
- New York Sleepy Hollow - Maryland
- Nova Scotia
- O’Hare - London - Athens - Lebanon
- Our Holiday
- Paris, France - Poland
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania & West Coast
- Poczatek Akt 1. Przeglad Filmowy
- Polish Week of Hospitality- Polish Day
- Pulawy
- Rome, Italy - Africa
- Round World to New York
- SAA Tran[?] - Sydney Australia 46 Days
- Scouting
- Seattle, Washington - Alaska
- Singapore
- Spain to Gibraltar & Spain
- SS California - Florida
- Texas: El Paso - White Sands
- Three Hundred Years After...
- Untitled
- Untitled
- Untitled
- Untitled
- Untitled
- WSA - 1st of South America
Collection Identifier
C.2011-08
Extent of Collection
65 reels of 16mm film totaling 76,500 feet.
Language Of Materials
English
Creators
Kudlick Sr., Marion
(was created by)
Marion Kudlick, Sr. was a prominent Polish-American attorney in the city of Chicago. He graduated from the John Marshall Law School and had a private practice in the city. He was born in 1892 and grew up in the Irving Park / Portage Park neighborhood on Chicago’s northwest side. He served as president of the Chicago Society of the Polish National Alliance, governor of the Illinois and Iowa District of Kiwanis, president of the Holy Name Society at St. Constance, and ran for the office of City Clerk. Marion Kudlick, Sr. is remembered as a meticulous individual, adventurous world traveler and dedicated amateur filmmaker. He owned state-of-the-art film and photography equipment. He and wife Sophie had a son, Marion Kudlick, Jr., and four grandchildren.