Water Bike
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In this home movie, a group of men, women, children, and dogs take turns riding a tandem water bike (or hydrocycle). The film was likely shot in the Channel Lakes area near Antioch, Illinois, where the Redlich family rented summer cottages in the 1930s. The bike may have been homemade, as Rudolph Redlich Jr. was the co-founder of the Eagle Sheet Metal Manufacturing Company.
Credits
Rudolph Redlich Jr. (filmmaker); Marylyn Redlich (participant); William R. Redlich (participant); Rudolph Redlich Jr. (participant); Kenneth "Pat" Patterson (participant)
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Redlich Family Collection
Subjects: Bicycles; Bodies of water; Recreation; Summer
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Antioch
Cfa elements: Reversal Positives, 400 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/39069
Subjects: Bicycles; Bodies of water; Recreation; Summer
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Antioch
Cfa elements: Reversal Positives, 400 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/39069
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:26