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🇵🇷 Chicago Mayor Harold Washington marches with the Puerto Rican Day Parade on June 9, 1984.
From a Super 8 reel in the Bill Stamets collection.
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Come see us this Saturday afternoon! We're excited to be part of this @landmarksillinois.bsky.social event highlighting the history of the Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church on Chicago's West Side.
Unidentified children trying to do headstands in an 8mm home movie from the John McNaughton Collection, likely shot in Chicago's Pullman neighborhood in 1956.
Journalists, IL Governor Jim Edgar, and officials from other nations walk through Soldier Field (and kick a ball around!) as Chicago prepares to host the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
📽️ Super 8 from a reel labeled "Soccer" in the Bill Stamets Collection, digitized with support from @clirnews.bsky.social
Legendary advertising filmmaker Joe Sedelmaier passed away earlier this month. His most famous work was the 1984 "Where's the beef?" TV commercial (shot right here in Chicago!) CFA's Bill Stamets Collection includes a few behind-the-scenes Super 8 moments from the "beef" campaign:
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Watch the whole reel on the archive website:
We'll be sharing excerpts from our Ernest F. Ledbetter Family Collection, which contains home movies of two generations of Metro Church pastors, including Rev. Ernest F. Ledbetter Sr. (who was famously photographed by Gordon Parks in 1953).
Loosely assembled footage depicts the following: Mayor Harold Washington exchanges pleasantries with State’s Attorney Richard M. Daley and State Senator Dawn Clark Netsch, possibly at Daley’s fundrais...
Home movies shot by Chicago pastors Rev. Ernest F. Ledbetter Sr. and his son Rev. Ernest F. Ledbetter Jr. Some of the films were likely shot by Brother Gaither, a member of Metropolitan Missionary Bap...
Loosely assembled footage documents Chicago’s preparations to host the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Shots include the Parade of the Nations as it proceeds along Michigan Avenue on Wednesday June 14, Governor ...
