From A to Z: The Story of Special Summer Schools

A sponsored film made by Goldsholl Associates for the Chicago Public Schools about their innovative summer school programs for the districts pre-K through sixth grade aged students. The majority of the film consists of live action footage of classrooms and field trips accompanied by synced sound, music and voiceovers of students & teachers.; Preserved by Chicago Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

Credits

Goldsholl Design & Film Associates (producer); Benjamin C. Willis (contributor)

Complete catalog record

Cfa collection: Mort and Millie Goldsholl Collection
Sponsor: Chicago Public Schools; Board of Education of the City of Chicago
Subjects: Education; Youth; Children; Classrooms; Brookfield Zoo (Ill.); City and town life; Airports
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Cfa elements: Distribution Print, 996 feet; Preservation answer print, 900 feet; Preservation sound negative, 996 feet; Preservation picture negative, 1,004 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/6223; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21726; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21724; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21725

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Sources

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