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Collection: Beryl Simon Collection
Identifier: F.2005-03-0016
Collection: Film Group Collection, 1966-1969
16mm home movies of Oak Park and Downtown Chicago shot between 1929 and 1930. Features footage of Museum Campus and other important landmarks, while also documenting Beryl Simon's stay at Fair Oaks Avenue with a friend.
The films in this collection were made and collected by Chicago area film critic and filmmaker Bill Stamets. The bulk of the collection consists of Super 8 films and outtakes made by Stamets in the 1970s and 1980s. They depict political events primarily in the city of Chicago, including former Chicago Mayor Harold Washington's two election campaigns, inaugurations, and time in office; numerous street protests and marches; and cultural festivals around the city. Also in the collection are nine 16mm film prints consisting of 3 films made by Chicago filmmaker Tom Palazzolo and 6 films by Stan Brakhage.
The Camille Cook Collection consists of outtakes, work prints, original negatives, collected films, home movies, and edited diary films of the experimental and personal work of Camille Cook, filmmaker and founder of The Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (now The Gene Siskel Film Center). The films depict various aspects of Cook’s life in Chicago throughout the mid 1960s, ranging from images of city street life to moments with her friends and family in Western Springs, IL, as well as her experiments in structural filmmaking.
Identifier: F.2007-08-0008
Collection: Julian Gromer Collection, 1938-1973
Identifier: F.2004-02-0033
Collection: Jack Behrend Collection, 1932-2001
Identifier: F.2004-02-0095
Collection: Jack Behrend Collection, 1932-2001
Identifier: F.2005-01-0365
Collection: Margaret Conneely Collection, 1902-2007
Identifier: F.2005-08-0229
Collection: Bill Stamets Collection, 1959-1995
Identifier: F.2005-08-0231
Collection: Bill Stamets Collection, 1959-1995
Identifier: F.2012-03-1654
Collection: Frank Koza Collection
Identifier: F.2004-02-0074
Collection: Jack Behrend Collection, 1932-2001
Identifier: F.2005-01-0045