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Collection: Frank Koza Collection
Identifier: F.2012-03-1268
Collection: Frank Koza Collection
Identifier: F.2012-03-0160
Collection: Frank Koza Collection
Identifier: F.2005-03-0016
Collection: Film Group Collection, 1966-1969
Identifier: F.2005-03-0017
Collection: Film Group Collection, 1966-1969
Identifier: F.2005-03-0018
Collection: Film Group Collection, 1966-1969
Identifier: F.2005-05-0057
Collection: SERIES I: Film Group/Mike Gray Associates Films
Identifier: F.2012-03-0599
Collection: Frank Koza Collection
Identifier: F.2012-03-1066
Collection: Frank Koza Collection
The Chuck Olin Collection is comprised of films, videotapes and ephemera made by Chuck Olin from his work at two Chicago area film production companies from the mid-60s to the late 1990s: first with the Film Group/Mike Gray Associates and after 1974 with his own Chuck Olin Associates. Included are political documentaries made by the Film Group on the 1968 Democratic National Convention; television commercials for a variety of clients including Sears, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and politicians running for election; sponsored films for the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Medical Association, and Eli Lilly; educational films for Encyclopaedia Britannica; and a documentary by Olin on the Jewish Brigade in World War II.
Identifier: F.2012-03-1134
Collection: Frank Koza Collection
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.2012-03-1114
Collection: Frank Koza Collection
The Franklin McMahon collection consists primarily of audio recordings of significant political and social events from the 1960s, 70s and 80s. These recordings include interviews, political speeches, and environmental audio captured on location at Democratic and Republican National Conventions in the 1960s and 70s. McMahon’s subjects include Richard and Pat Nixon, Walter Cronkite, Jane Fonda, Abby Hoffman, Studs Terkel, Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nader, Hubert Humphrey, Ted Kennedy and Edmund Muskie. Capturing reflections on the major political events and socio-cultural issues of the time, including the Vietnam War and Women’s Liberation Movement, McMahon’s audio recordings provide a rich, acoustic record of a tumultuous period in American history. The collection also contains a few films, including one on the “Chicago Seven” conspiracy trial.