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How to Make a Movie Without a Camera
Chuck Kleinhans Collection
Rhino BBQ
Underexposed scenes from a backyard barbecue in Logan Square, featuring members of the "Logan Square Rhinos" — a group of small gauge filmmakers th...
Monica Ross Collection
Plant Oddities
A film produced by John Ott highlighting various plants which exhibit unusual behavior. These include the pitcher plant, sundew, Venus flytrap, and...
Tom Palazzolo Collection
Baton Lounge
Footage documenting a toy drive – “Toys for Tots” – held at a leather bar / motorcycle club in Chicago, called the Baton Lounge. The club was origi...
Tom Palazzolo Collection
Filmmaker, The
Documentary film made about Chicago independent filmmaker Tom Palazzolo for the United States Information Agency.
Tom Palazzolo Collection
1966: Peace March
Footage of a large anti-war demonstration in 1966. People can be seen carrying signs; one person has even covered their dog in anti-war slogans. Th...
Tom Palazzolo Collection
80s Pilsen Backyard Circus
Silent footage of an amateur circus performance in a backyard in the Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen in the 1980s.
Chuck Kleinhans Collection
Julia - Urbana - Apt. - Light Pattern - Leg/feet
Experimental short featuring light and shadow patterns around an apartment and on filmmaker Chuck Kleinhans' legs and feet. It was likely made whil...
Tom Palazzolo Collection
Pizza Commercial @ Rodney's w/ John - Me
Chicago artists Rodney Quiriconi, John Heinz, Marcia Daehn and Tom Palazzolo playfully film each other eating Celeste brand sausage pizza by candle...
Tom Palazzolo Collection
The Mini Mystery Tour
"A search for the true identity of the Beatles walrus. Is he preserved in stone in Crystal Palace Park? Is he lurking in Henry VIII's suit of armor...
William O'Farrell Collection
Frank Collin, Nazi Leader
A short film depicting the white supremacist ideology of the National Socialist Party of America and its former leader, Frank Collin. The film adop...
Chicago Public Library Collection
This is Synchronized Swimming
Instructional film that demonstrates the basic strokes used in synchronized swimming and such routines as dolphin, porpoise, somersaults, corkscrew...
Perser Family Collection
A Step in Time Saves Nine
Industrial film detailing how Avon Cosmetics factory workers can be more productive.
Dan Dinello Collection
Pink Triangles Rising
A documentary short depicting attendees of the 13th annual Chicago Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade rallying against the American Nazi Party in Lincoln...
John Nash Ott Collection
Geraniums
John Nash Ott Collection
Coffee
Time-lapse footage of a coffee plant blooming.
Ott shot his time-lapse plant footage in his Winnetka greenhouse. He installed automatic...
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