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Collection: Rhodes Patterson Collection, 1937-1979
Identifier: F.2004-02-0134
Collection: Jack Behrend Collection, 1932-2001
Identifier: F.2005-05-0018
Collection: SERIES I: Film Group/Mike Gray Associates Films
Identifier: F.2012-03-1659
Collection: Frank Koza Collection
This collection of films was made by filmmaker DeWitt Beall in Chicago during the 1960s. A large portion of the collection consists of elements and prints related to LORD THING, a film about a Chicago-based gang named the Conservative Vice Lords. The film was never released, but won an award at the Venice Film Festival in 1971. Various other educational films, documentaries and PSAs are in this collection, including the EARTHKEEPING series which aired on PBS in the early 1970s.
The Film Group was a Chicago commercial film production company that made television commericials and political documentaries in the late 1960s/early 1970s. This collection includes original prints and preservation elements of their political documentaries on the 1968 Democratic National Convention including AMERICAN REVOLUTION II and the educational series URBAN CRISIS AND THE NEW MILITANTS. Filmmakers associated with the Film Group include Mike Gray, William Cottle, Howard Alk, Mike Shea, and Chuck Olin.
Identifier: F.2010-02-0065
Collection: Rhodes Patterson Collection, 1937-1979
Identifier: F.2018-10-0004
Collection: Mayor Edward J. Kelly Collection, 1939-1944
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Collection: Rhodes Patterson Collection, 1937-1979
Identifier: F.2012-03-1797
Collection: Frank Koza Collection