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Filter Search ›Identifier: F.2012-03-0038
Collection: Frank Koza Collection
Identifier: V.2011-05-0498
Collection: Ruth Page Collection, 1922-1999
Identifier: F.2005-01-0097
Identifier: F.2004-02-0047
Collection: Jack Behrend Collection, 1932-2001
Chicago Film Archives has received two lots of films from the Warren Thompson Collection. The first lot consists of 2 reels of 16mm amateur films that document 35 years of citylife in Chicago and trips to Mackinac Island in Michigan shot from 1955 to 1965. In February of 2011, CFA received 21 more reels of 16mm Thompson films that document domestic and international travel from 1939 to 1981. They include footage from Japan, Hong Kong, Bangkok, the Caribbean, the St. Lawrence River, New England, the west, the Wisconsin Dells, and the Smokey Mountains. One reel is named "Fjord Mail Boat".