Chicago Public Library Collection
Chicago Film Archives incorporated on December 13, 2003 in order to house and care for its founding acquisition of 16mm films from the Chicago Public Library. This collection contains a broad sweep of genres. A large number of films are educational and travel films, but also there are silent films, foreign and American-made theatrical films, documentaries, industrials, newsreels, sports events and children's films. Included in this collection are 16mm prints from the Tyler, Texas Black Film Collection, such as Oscar Micheaux's Murder in Harlem and Spencer Williams' Juke Joint. Also, within this collection are rare and possibly one-of-a-kind 16mm film prints. Some of these are: Paracelsus by GW Pabst, American Shoeshine by Sparky Greene, The New World of Stainless Steel by Republic Steel and Wilding Studios, Siege by Julian Bryan, and The Santa Claus Suit by Martin Stevens. Because this collection was created over four decades in order to educate Chicago communities, it reflects Chicago's public sensibilities from the 1950s to 1990 and is an important part of our regional film archive.
Series In this Collection
Collection Items
- 101 Dalmatians, A Lesson in Self-Assertion
- 7362
- A
- Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
- About Illinois
- Absolutely Nonauthoratative History of American Sports, An
- Accidents Don't Have to Happen
- Act Without Words
- Actor, The [Part 1/2]
- Actor, The [Part 2/2]
- Adventures of an *, The
- Adventures of an *, The
- Adventures of Bunny Rabbit
- Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
- Alberta Hunter: Blues at the Cookery
- Alcohol
- Alcohol (Drug Information Series)
- Alcohol: The First Decision
- Alice in Wonderland: A Lesson in Appreciating Differences
- All Aboard
- All Bottled Up
- Allures
- Alphabet
- Alphabet
- Alphabet
- Amazing Bone, The
- Amazing Bone, The
- American Buffalo: The Comeback Trail
- American Shoeshine
- American Time Capsule, An
- Americans on Everest
- Ananse's Farm
- Ananse's Farm
- Anansi the Spider
- Andy and the Lion
- Andy and the Lion
- Angel Fish, An
- Animal Babies Grow Up
- Animals-Love and Care of Pets
- Animated Cartoons: The Toy That Grew Up
- Animated Cartoons: The Toy That Grew Up
- Animated Motion - Part 2
- Anna and Bella
- Another Fine Mess
- Ansel Adams: Photographer
- Ant and the Dove
- Ant and the Dove, (The Aesop Fable)
- Ant and the Grasshopper, The
- Antonia: Portrait of the Woman
- Antonio Gaudi
- Any Old Port
- Appalachian Spring
- Appeals to Santiago
- Applying for a Job
- Aquarium
- Arabian Nights, The
- Arctic Window [Part 1/2]
- Arctic Window [Part 2/2]
- Aretha Franklin: Soul Singer
- Arrow to the Sun
- Artes Creativos de Mexico
- Ascent of Man: Generation Upon Generation
- Ascent of Man: Knowledge or Certainty
- Ascent of Man: Lower than the Angels
- Ascent of Man: Music of the Spheres
- Ascent of Man: The Grain in the Stone
- Ascent of Man: The Harvest of the Seasons
- Ascent of Man: The Hidden Structure
- Ascent of Man: The Ladder of Creation
- Ascent of Man: The Long Childhood
- Ascent of Man: The Majestic Clock
- Ascent of Man: The Starry Messenger
- Ascent of Man: World Within World
- Ashes of Doom
- At Your Fingertips
- Aucassin et Nicolette
- Aucassin et Nicolette
- Audition, The
- Augusta Makes Herself Beautiful
- Augusta Makes Herself Beautiful
- Automania 2000
- Automania 2000
- Aztecs, The
- Ballad of Crowfoot, The
- Ballet Robotique
- Banana, Banana, Banana Slugs
- Bangladesh
- Baseball Basics and Blunders
- Basketball for Boys: Fundamentals
- Basketball for Boys: Teamplay
- Beatles Adventure: Do You Want to Know a Secret
- Beauty and the Beast
- Begone Dull Care
- Behave, Bernard!
- Ben's Dream
- Ben's Dream
- Best is Yet to Be, The
- Between Showers
- Big Bad Wolf
- Big Down Town Christmas
- Big Red Barn
- Big Thumb
- Big Thumb
- Bim, Bam, Bum
- Binary Bit Patterns
- Black Genesis
- Blaze Glory
- Blaze Glory
- Blinkity Blank
- BMX Bicycle Motocross
- Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy
- Boomsville
- Box, The
- Boxes
- Boy and the Snow Goose, The
- Boy Dog and a Frog
- Brain Power
- Brake Free
- Brand Names and Labeling Games
- Bridges and Lights
- Broderick
- Buffy the Bored Raccoon
- Buma: African Sculpture Speaks
- Burt Dow: Deep Water Man
- Cage, The
- California Bound
- California Bound
- Camera and Shot
- Canon
- Canon
- Canon
- Caps for Sale
- Cartoon
- Cat Came Back, The
- Cat Journey
- Cat's Cradle
- Cat's Cradle
- Caterpillar and Polliwog
- Celebration of Life: Trees
- Chairy Tale, A
- Chairy Tale, A
- Chambre, La
- Chameleon, The
- Changes, Changes
- Charlie Squash Goes to Town
- Chicago’s Modern Architecture
- Child Molestation: When to Say No
- Child's Garden of Verse, A
- Children of Wax: A Folktale from Matabeleland Zimbabwe
- Chips Ahoy
- Chips Ahoy
- Christmas Cracker
- Christmas Fantasy, A
- Christmas Gift, A
- Christmas Time - A Happy Time
- Chromophobia
- Chromophobia
- Chromophobia
- Chuck Hansen: One Guy
- Cinderella: A Lesson in Compromise
- Circle Circus
- Circus Slicker
- Classic Tales Retold: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Claude
- Clocks
- Closed Mondays
- Clown of God, The
- Cockaboody
- Cold Blooded Penguin
- Colorado Legend
- Colt Called Lucky, A
- Comforting Your Fussy Baby
- Concerto Grosso Modo
- Confessions of a Read-a-holic
- Contouring Your Figure
- Cornelius
- Corner, The
- Corner, The [Duplicate]
- Country Vet
- The Cow-Tail Switch
- Cow Who Fell Into the Canal
- Cowherd Marko
- Crack in the Pavement, A
- Creation, The
- Cria
- Cricket, The
- Critic, The
- Critter the Raccoon
- Cuckoo Clock that Wouldn't Cuckoo, The
- Curious Cougars, The
- Curious George Rides A Bike
- Curious George Rides a Bike (Spanish)
- Daisy, The
- Danny and the Dinosaur
- Dark Dark Tale, A
- Day Grandpa Died, The
- Day of the Fox
- Deep Threat
- Demetri Alexandros' Dive
- Dillinger
- Dina in the King's Garden
- Dinosaurs: A First Film
- Disinfection
- Doctor Don't Little
- Dog Watch
- Dolphins in the Zoo
- Donkey Prince
- Dots
- Dragon Over the Hill, The
- Earth: Volcanoes
- Ecco Homo
- Egg
- Elegy
- The Elephant Who Couldn't Forget
- Emperor's New Clothes, The
- End of One
- Energy Seekers
- Enter Hamlet
- Etruscan Tombs of Volterra
- Etude
- Every Dog's Guide to Complete Home Safety
- Experiment in Cubism
- Eye and Camera
- A Fairy Story
- False Note
- Farm Animals
- Farm Animals in Rhyme
- Farmyard Babies
- February 31st
- February 31st
- Fire Mountain
- Firefly Named Torchy, A
- Fish is Fish
- The Fish that Nearly Drowned
- Floating Free
- Flower, The
- Foibles
- Forest Murmurs
- Fourteen Rats and a Rat Catcher
- Fowled Up Falcon
- Fragmenting the Scene
- Frankenstein
- Frederick Douglass
- Freezie Yum Story
- Friendly Game
- Frog Prince, The
- Froggie Went A Courtin'
- Frontier, The
- Fundamentals of Diet
- Game
- Genesis
- Genius Man
- George Catlin and Alfred Jacob Miller
- Getting Even
- Giant Devil Dingo, The
- Giving Tree, The
- Go Faster
- The Golden Deer
- Goldframe
- Good Pie Farmer
- Great Chase
- Great Snake, The
- Greatest Fights of the Century
- Greedy Frog, The
- Grip to the Earth
- Grizzly Golfer
- Groon, The
- Growing
- Gruesome Grey Monster
- Hallucinogens
- Harold and Cynthia
- Harpya
- Heather Becomes a Fire Fighter
- Hello Up There
- Help! My Snowman is Burning
- Helpful Little Fireman, The
- Henry Moore, London 1940-42
- Hoarder, The
- Holidays Your Neighbors Celebrate
- Home for Christmas
- Hot Hippo
- Hot Stuff
- How the Camel Got His Hump
- How the Leopard Got His Spots
- How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
- How to Catch a Cold
- How to Dig a Hole
- How to Lose Your Lunch Money
- How to Make a Movie Without a Camera
- How to Make Movies Your Friends Will Want to See Twice
- How We Elect Our President
- How Weather is Forecast
- Howdy Doody: A Trip to Fun Land
- Hug Me
- Hunter and the Forest
- Hypothese Beta
- I Had a Bird
- I Was a Thanksgiving Turkey
- I Wonder Why
- The Idyll
- Illness
- Imani
- Imprint
- Information Machine
- Inhalants
- Invisible Mustache of Roaul Dufy
- It's Mine
- It's Snow
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Jail Keys Made Here
- Joey Runs Away
- John Brown, Rose & the Midnight Cat
- Jonah and the Great Fish
- The Juggler of Our Lady
- Just Awful
- Justice
- K-9000
- Kali Nihta, Socrates
- Kameleon
- Karate
- Katura and the Cat
- Keep Cool
- Kick Me
- King Rollo and the Balloons
- Korochan, the Little Bear
- Kujichagulia: Kangaroos Who Forgot
- Kujichagulia: the Kangaroos Who Forgot
- Kuumba: Simon's New Sound
- L'oiseau
- La Maggia
- Lady of the Brave
- Last Holiday [Part 1/3]
- Last Holiday [Part 2/3]
- Last Holiday [Part 3/3]
- Last Meow: Valse Triste by Sibelius
- Le Merle
- Leaders of the 20th Century: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi: Politics of Oil
- Learning to Walk
- Leopold the See-Through Crumbpicker
- Let's Have Music with Oscar Brand
- Letter from an Apache
- License
- The Lion and the Mouse
- The Little Airplane That Grew
- Little Drummer Boy
- Little Drummer Boy
- The Little Engine That Could
- Little Match Girl
- The Little Match Girl
- Little Red Lighthouse
- Little Red Riding Hood
- The Little Rooster Who Made the Sun Rise
- The Little Tadpole Who Grew
- Little Tom Thumb
- Lollipop Opera
- Loops
- Lost and Found
- Lost Duchess
- Lullaby
- Making a Living
- Making A Pinata
- Making Change
- Making of Star Wars, The [Part 1/2]
- Making of Star Wars, The [Part 2/2]
- Man That Gravity Forgot, The
- Marching the Colors
- Marijuana
- Martin Luther King
- Max's Christmas
- McGruff's Drug Alert
- Me and My Senses
- Metro!!! The School Without Walls
- Mexican Handcraft and Folk Art
- Minnie Yoo Hoo
- Miss Peach I
- Miss Peach II
- A Mobster's Cortege
- Monkey's Fish the Moon
- The Moose Our Largest Deer
- Morris's Disappearing Bag
- Morris the Midget Moose
- Mosaic
- Mother Goose
- Mother Goose Stories
- Mr. and Mrs. Peacock
- Mr. Finley's Feelings
- Music Makers
- Musketeers of Pig Alley, The
- My Dog Is Lost
- My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
- My Own Yard To Play In
- Napping House, The
- Narcotics
- The Navajo Indian
- Neptune's Nonsense
- New Friends
- The New World of Stainless Steel
- Nia:Mary Jean & Green Stone
- Night Before Christmas
- Night Before Christmas, The
- Night Before Christmas, The
- Night's Nice
- Nine in a Row
- Noises in the Night
- North Wind & the Sun, The
- Notes on a Triangle
- Nursery Rhymes
- Olympic Ice Hockey
- Opera
- Our Kids Need Good Schools
- Over in the Meadow
- Pacific 231
- Painting a Portrait
- Panama
- Papa Penguin's Home Movies
- Peas with Mom
- Peasant's Pea Patch, The
- Pen Point Percussion & Loops
- People Dance
- Petey the Pelican
- A. Philip Randolph
- Piero Della Francesca
- Social Courtesy
- Spooky Boo's and Room Noodles
- Super Up
- This is Synchronized Swimming
- Winter Camping
- 1-A
- 2-Year Machine, The
- 158 W. Erie
- Brothers
- Close to You By the Carpenters
- Das Uttle Humper
- February 31st
- Game
- In the Divine Plan
- Lift, The
- Lurking Unbookish
- Lurking Unbookish
- Midnight Pineapple
- Ratamata
- Sugar Mountain
- What’s the Matter With Kids Today?
- You and Me
The American Documents
Brothers Grimm Folktale Series
A Challenge Film
Civil Rights Movement
The Classic Stories Series
Critic and the Film
Discovering Music Series
EBE Humanities Series
Eleanor and Franklin
Evolution of Living Things
“Exploring” for NBC
The Family of Man
Films on Black Americans
First Twenty Years
Firsty Twenty Years
History of the Motion Picture
in series with Dry Wood
Just so stories
Of Black America
Rediscovery
SERIES: Young Chicago Filmmaker’s Festival
Study in Greatness, A
Tyler Texas Black Film Collection : This Missing Link in Black Cinema
Young People’s Concert Series