Metro!!! The School Without Walls
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Metro!!! The School Without Walls (Rod Nordberg, 1970) is an eighteen-minute documentary about the Chicago Public High School for Metropolitan Studies (aka Metro), which was part of the CPS system from February 1970 to September 1991. The film follows the students and their teachers outside the classroom, as they visit local institutions like the Art Institute of Chicago and Shedd Aquarium, attend classes at Second City, and engage with business owners, art gallerists, and neighbors from the communities around them. As both students and teachers emphasize throughout, Metro experimented with an alternative model of learning that celebrated the diversity and creativity of the young adults involved and fostered dialogue and respect by going beyond the walls of the classroom into the world.; Preserved by Chicago Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
Credits
Rod Nordberg (filmmaker); Bill Gronke (contributor); Vince Waldron (contributor); Annie Nakama (contributor); Karen Wagner (contributor); Kevin Clark (contributor); Joyce Rozanski (contributor)
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Rod Nordberg Collection
Sponsor: Hollywood East Producer
Subjects: Education; Youth; Teenagers; Teachers
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Cfa elements: Answer Print, 663 feet; Negatives, 700 feet; A and B Rolls (Negative), 663 feet; Print, 663 feet; Interpos, 681 feet; Dupe Negatives, 681 feet; Negative Soundtrack (Neg Track), 681 feet; Positive Soundtrack (Pos Track), 681 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21859; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21731; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21732; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21733; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21858; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21935; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21936; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21940; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21942; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21944
Sponsor: Hollywood East Producer
Subjects: Education; Youth; Teenagers; Teachers
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Cfa elements: Answer Print, 663 feet; Negatives, 700 feet; A and B Rolls (Negative), 663 feet; Print, 663 feet; Interpos, 681 feet; Dupe Negatives, 681 feet; Negative Soundtrack (Neg Track), 681 feet; Positive Soundtrack (Pos Track), 681 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21859; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21731; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21732; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21733; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21858; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21935; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21936; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21940; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21942; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21944
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:21