Home Movie: 010140 (silent)

Description: Crisp and atmospheric footage of downtown Chicago in the early 1930s, with throngs of pedestrians, motorcars and streetcars elbowing one another for room on the busy streets. Helpful intertitles identify all the locations. In the first half of the reel the camera is busy with welcoming new babies to a very affectionate and loving family, identified by name in the titles, that later relaxes on the shore of Lake Michigan. Latter parts of the reel were filmed on Kodacolor lenticular film, an extinct color process that contemporary technology reproduces as vertical striations in a black and white image.

Notes from can:
"B/W Orig Pix, Warp / Looping the Loop - Chicago/ XFER - 1 Taped Break"

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Subjects: 1930s, Families, Children, Leisure and recreation, Cities, Transportation, Great Depression

Tags: homemade titles; intertitles; infants; new babies; motherhood; implied breastfeeding; siblings; portaiture; father and three children pose together; front yards; smoking; cigarettes; men's wool overcoats; Fedora hats; 1930s men's winter fashions; suburbia in development; farmland converted to suburb; new homes; outhouses; children's winter suits of the 1930s; posing for camera; close families; parenthood; winter; mother and newborn; intimate closeups; man kisses infant; fatherhood; women's winter coats; 1920s soft-top automobile; three young adults walk toward camera; fashion boots; small dogs; aprons; adults jump off porch for fun; women cook together; intimate closeups; title Looping Chicago's Loop; under the El; neon signs; streetscapes; cars driving under the elevated train tracks; Chicago L train; elevated tracks; elevated railways; elevated trains; public transportation; main streets; State street; downtowns; street scenes; urban bustle; street cars; crowds of pedestrians; trolleys; traffic; double-decker buses; Wabash Avenue; newsboys; newspaper sellers; Melrose & Sheridan roads; Marshall Field's department store; Michigan Ave Bridge; Eastman Kodak Company plate; Kodak manufacturing building; lenticular film; Kodacolor; cars; lakeside; lakes; beaches; bathing suits; bathing caps; leap frog; smiling at camera; flower gardens; bird baths; Lake Michigan; life saver; close-ups

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: circa 1931

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Geographical Location: USA; Illinois; Chicago, Illinois

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal

Color: b&w, color

Color Process: Kodacolor

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle plus, plus

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Length (feet): 417