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Collection: Frank Koza Collection
Identifier: F.2008-02-0070
Collection: Marquis Ritchey Cring Collection, 1927-1966
Identifier: F.2004-02-0104
Collection: Jack Behrend Collection, 1932-2001
The John Dame Collection consists of 16mm and 8mm home movies shot by multiple generations of an Illinois family. Most of the home movies document life in the western Chicago suburb of Elmhurst, Illinois, including community parades, graduations, weddings and high school football games. The collection also contains extensive footage of global travel, sailing, and kayaking.
Identifier: F.2005-01-0087
Identifier: F.2011-05-0139
Collection: Ruth Page Collection, 1922-1999
The Richard J. Finnegan collection is a series of home movies, travelogues and amateur shorts shot by Chicago Sun-Times editor Richard J. Finnegan between 1929 and 1953. Many of the films in this collection creatively meld narrative inter-titles with non-fiction footage, and employ cinematic conventions such as slow motion and narrative-style editing. Subject matter spans trips to Yellowstone, Eureka, Bermuda and various parts of Northern and Southern California, personal films of notable events such as the 1929 Olympics in Los Angeles, and "classic" home movie family films of vacations, holidays and events, including birthday parties, baptisms, a wedding, Christmas and Halloween celebrations.
Series III includes home movies shot by Charles Stevens. They include films documenting his travels and family life, the majority of which were filmed in the 1950s and 1960s. The series also includes two films documenting Kathryn Schmidt competing in the javelin at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal.