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Clip #: TFA-207A
Length: 8:21
Year: 1947
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
An educational film about Chicago in the late 1940s
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Clip #: TFA-29O
Length: 3:30
Year: 1933
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A tour of the 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair exposition in Chicago at night by Burton Holmes
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Clip #: MF-14B-16
Length: :38
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Actor Ray Milland speaks about a proposed ordinance before the Chicago City Council for an additional movie theater admission tax.
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Clip #: TFA-243G
Length: 7:37
Year: 1933
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Sights of the 1933-4 Century of Progress International Exposition (Chicago World's Fair) in Chicago, Illinois.
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Clip #: TFA-29M
Length: 3:30
Year: 1933
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A tour of the 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair exposition in Chicago by Burton Holmes
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Clip #: MF-21P
Length: 2:11
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
The Unicel freight car, a combination freight and refrigerator car, which is made from plywood and is much better insulated and cheaper to build than the traditional steel freight car.
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Clip #: TFA-29N
Length: 3:30
Year: 1933
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A tour of the Paris pavilion at the 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair exposition in Chicago by Burton Holmes
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Clip #: MF-17C-1
Length: 2:26
Year: 1934
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Newsreel looking back at 1934 with highlights from the year including the birth of the Dionne Quintuplets, the Chicago World's Fair and a woman driving with and walking a lion on a leash in Hollywood, California.
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Clip #: TFA-201B
Length: 10:22
Year: 1951
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A visit to historical sites related to Abraham Lincoln
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Clip #: TFA-315I
Length: 2:50
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Candy, including Saf-T-Pops and Baby Ruth bars, is produced at the the Curtiss Candy Company in Chicago, Illinois.
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