[7/25 STORE – 7/27 FEJ]
Celeste Neuhaus’s experimental student documentary, focusing on Al Kohn’s life and the neighborhood where he lived.
Celeste Neuhaus’s experimental student documentary, focusing on Al Kohn’s life and the neighborhood where he lived.
Celeste Neuhaus’s experimental student documentary, featuring an interview with Al Kohn about his life.
Along the length of Chicago’s Halsted Street one can view a dozen nationalities and a thousand lifestyles. This riveting, kaleidoscopic “road movie” traces this unique thoroughfare nearly 400 miles, from its origin in the cornfields of southern Illinois up to Chicago’s far south side, then through several neighborhoods to its terminus in the heart of Lakeview. Narrated by Studs Terkel, Halsted Street, U.S.A. is a thought-provoking crash-course in American cultural geography.
The Illinois Bell Telephone Company takes the viewer on a journey through the past, present, and future of Chicago!
A “Black and White” short produced by the Marshall Fields Company that connects Jupiter and Juno of the Ancient Roman Pantheon with everyday Americans in 1940’s America!
See what the nightlife scene in downtown Chicago was like in 1948 – in spectacular technicolor!
“What Trees Do They Plant” is a film produced by the City of Chicago as a response to criticism of the way the Chicago Police Department treated protesters during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Its claim is that the Yippies conducted a deliberate campaign to disrupt the city and harm the police.
Witness silent film footage of Roosevelt College in its early days as filmed by some of its first students!