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Explore the JoAnn Elam Collection
In 2024, CFA received a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to photochemically preserve six 8mm films by JoAnn Elam. Learn more about the JoAnn Elam Collection here.
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Explore The Film Group Collection
Films in this collection include The Murder of Fred Hampton, American Revolution II, and short film series "The Urban Crisis and the New Militants."
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Wrestling films from the Russ & Sylvia Davis Collection
Wrestlers who appear in the films in this collection include Verne Gagne, Gorgeous George, and Lou Thesz.
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Explore the Bill Stamets Collection
In 2023, CFA was awarded a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to photochemically preserve four films by Super-8 filmmaker Bill Stamets.
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Explore the Tom Palazzolo Collection
The National Film Preservation Foundation and The Film Foundation have awarded Chicago Film Archives an Avant-Garde Masters Grant to photochemically preserve Tom Palazzolo’s first feature film, Caligari’s Cure (1982).
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Explore the John Nash Ott Collection
Thanks to a grant from the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board, CFA recently finished processing this collection.
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Murder of Fred Hampton Selected for National Film Registry
Chicago Film Archives is proud to announce that the National Film Preservation Board has selected The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971) for the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress.

Chicago Film Archives is dedicated to identifying, collecting, preserving and providing access to films that represent the Midwest. We hold over 40,000 films and other media, including thousands of items streamable online.

Events & News

The Murder of Fred Hampton
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Out of the Vault at 20: The Murder of Fred Hampton
December 3, 2024 at 6:15pm
Gene Siskel Film Center
We Love 2023
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Joe Cutting Tree
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CFA awarded NFPF Avant-Garde Masters grant to preserve 8mm films by JoAnn Elam
National Endowment for the Humanities
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NEH Awards CFA $10k for digital preservation planning
Chicago Film Archives
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Chicago Film Archives: 2004 to 2024
Amateur Cinema League
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CFA Awarded National Film Preservation Foundation Grant to Preserve Five Midwestern Amateur Films
Stamets Image Web
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CLIR Awards CFA $44k Recordings at Risk Grant to Digitize Sound Films by Bill Stamets
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Chicago Film Archives offers a full range of services to ensure that all Midwest film and media collections are properly cared for, and are more accessible and meaningful to a variety of communities in our region and throughout the world.

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