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Chicago Film Archives

Collection Type: Institution

Phone Number: (312) 243-1808

Website: https://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/

Contact Email: info@chicagofilmarchives.org

Collection Policy: Chicago Film Archives is a regional film archive dedicated to identifying, collecting, preserving and providing access to films that represent the Midwest. Our purpose is to serve institutions and filmmakers of this region and elsewhere by establishing a repository for institutional and private film collections; serve a variety of cultural, academic and artistic communities by making the films available locally, nationally, and internationally for exhibition, research, and production; and serve our culture by restoring and preserving films that are rare or not in existence elsewhere.

12,397 films in this collection.

Title ▲ Year Creator LengthFormatColorSound
[Chicago's Picasso - unknown element] 16mm Color
[Christmas] 16mm Color silent
[Clouds] ▶ 1979 John Nash Ott Jr. 2:49 16mm Color silent
[Coffee Plant] ▶ 1962 John Nash Ott Jr. 3:16 16mm Color silent
[Collected Educational Films] 16mm Color sound
[Commercial : State Farm Insurance "The Invitation"] 16mm
[Commercial Food Reel] 16mm
[Controllers] 6:57 16mm Color silent
[Corn] ▶ 1950 John Nash Ott Jr. 3:25 16mm Color sound
[Costumes on Review: Orig 2 Shoot] 16mm
[Costumes on Review: They Wouldn't Let Me! W Pix] 16mm
[Costumes on Review: WP] 16mm
[Countdown] 16mm B&W sound
[Cracked - KE] 16mm Color
[Credits and Title Cards] 16mm Color silent
[Crusade of Mercy Sales Film] 16mm
[Damaged Commercials] 16mm
[Dancing Flowers Excerpt, Greenhouse, Time-Lapse Flowers] 1:31 16mm Color sound
[Della Reese and Nipsey Russell at the Roberts Motel] ▶ 1974 George Kirby 16mm Color silent
[Detroit Martin Neg.] ▶ 1954 Frank Koza 16mm B&W sound
[Disney World Scenes] 16mm Color silent
[Dixieland] Dancing Flower ▶ 1955 John Nash Ott Jr. 16mm Color sound
[Dixon Scenes - Print] Rolls #2 and #3 16mm Color silent
[Documentary on Prisoners and Art Therapy Rehabilitation] 18:03 16mm sound
[Donna Rosebud Optical Sound Element] II 16mm
[Donna Rosebud] Sec Sound R-1 16mm
[Doorknob] 16mm B&W silent
[Dr. Christian, etc.] 16mm B&W silent
[Eggplant] ▶ 1953 John Nash Ott Jr. 2:15 16mm Color silent
[Electrical Information Publications Spots] ▶ 1950 Kling Studios 27:59 16mm B&W sound
[Eli Lily Identidose Commerical] 16mm
[Evinrude 75] 16mm
[Excerpt: Ott puts slides in Fridge] 16mm Color silent
[Factory Sealed Eastman Kodak Plus-X Reversal Film] 16mm Color silent
[Fiery Spike] ▶ 1955 John Nash Ott Jr. 0:59 16mm Color silent
[Film Line - Gillette Purr Sales Film] 16mm
[Film Scraps] 16mm B&W
[Fire Footage] 16mm Color
[Fire Outtkaes] 16mm Color silent
[Flag Footage] 16mm
[Florida, Tampa - Richard at Home, Mother - Jean's birthday 1942 Florida] ▶ 1942 6:21 16mm Color silent
[Flowers Blooming - Originals] ▶ 1955 John Nash Ott Jr. 2:30 16mm Color silent
[For 4th Q: Bev Falls Death Wright] 16mm Color
[Full Circle: Children] 16mm
[Full Circle: Opening Text] 16mm
[Full Circle: Rama] 16mm
[Full Circle: Text and Picture Elements] 16mm
[Garden & Joe] (2025 Answer Print) 16mm Color silent
[Garden & Joe] (2025 DI Film Out Color Negative) 16mm Color silent
[Garden & Joe] (2025 Preservation Print) ▶ 1981 JoAnn Elam 16mm Color silent