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Preparations for 1956 Democratic Convention
Title card: "Paramount News Issue No 104" / title "Convention - Democrats in Chicago" superimposed over CU donkey sculpture / aerial pan Chicago / pan down Conrad Hilton Hotel to busy streets / awning reading The Conrad Hilton, people...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Chicago Tribune's printing press churns out newspaper editions
MS newspaper feeds thru rollers on printing press / MS completed newspapers are stacked by rollers / MS newspaper is fed vertically thru rollers / MS more completed newspaper loaded into stacks via rollers; back of worker's head enters...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Equipoise wins Hawthorne Handicap
Title card: "Equipoise Stirs Turf as Cash Winner - Victory in Hawthorne Gold Cup race boosts earnings, to $314,420" / looking across crowd in stands at Hawthorne Race Course, some mingling in fg / crowd moving in stands / horses and...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Hobo College in Chicago
Title card: "Hoboes Give Technocracy Bum's Rush! Dean MacBeth of Hobo College in Chicago inaugurates new course" / college Dean Jack MacBeth speaks of technocracy during lecture at Hobo College / VS CU Hobo College students / CU MacBeth...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Torch light parade for presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt in Chicago, 1932
Title card: "Roosevelt For Action! - Chicago's rousing torch-light parade marked climax of country-wide tour" / NIGHT crowd with torches line street, lots of smoke / MS car with Franklin D. Roosevelt drives down street, Franklin...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Miss America parade; state contestants in cars with signs; floats
Title card: "Paramount News Issue No 8" / title "Miss America - Beauty, Poise, Talent" superimposed over parade at night / high angle shot Miss America float pulled by jeep, crowd on side / closer shot float / women on swan floats / Miss...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Title cards for 1952 GOP convention stories
Title: 'Republican Convention Showdown!' superimposed over silhouette of an elephant, the symbol of the Republican Party [shaky video] / VS title card: 'Republican Convention Showdown' / title card: 'It's Ike!' / Note: exact day not known
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Track and field intercollegiate championships at Franklin Field in Philadelphia
Title card: "West Rules Track!" / A crowd of thousands in white summer attire / Scenes of start of 110-meter high hurdles race won by Phil Good / Pole vaulters Keith Brown and Frank Pierce / A crowd in the grandstands (dark winter...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Great Depression, businessman Samuel Insull on trial in Chicago for defrauding investors
Title card: "Insull's defense!" / Samuel Insull walking along amid small crowd of men / Insull talking to reporters and being photographed by photographers / Insull getting into taxicab / cab pulls away / Insull sitting inside beside his...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
1950 All-Star baseball game at Comiskey Park
[Shaky] ]Tile card: "All-Star Baseball Game" & "Zoomar Action Close-ups, Nationals Beat Americans in 14 innings" / Exterior of 'Comiskey Park, Home of the White Sox' / A crowd of thousands sits in the grandstands / The National League's...
Hearst Metrotone News
Spectators crowd into Wrigley Field in Chicago for the 1932 World Series.
Spectators crowd into Wrigley Field in Chicago for the 1932 World Series.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Various attractions at 1933 Chicago World's Fair
Sign over archway in wall 'Spain' / people walking along avenue in front of replica of large fortress / two men in Spanish costumes walking together down street towards camera / sign on wall that says 'Switzerland' / large buildings in...
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Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower with a baby and with Everett Dirksen in Chicago in 1952
Dwight Eisenhower holds a baby girl on his lap as Mamie Eisenhower, holding an 'I Like Ike' balloon, stands nearby; they coo over the baby, who wears an oversized 'I Like Ike' campaign button / Eisenhower holds up the baby, grins, and...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Prohibition repealed in US
[GHOC Episode A-03] Greatest Headlines of the Century title sequence / Title card: "Prohibition Repealed" / beauty shot US Capitol / US Pres. Franklin Roosevelt signs proclamation ending Prohibition on 12/5/1933 // Roosevelt's signature...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Chicago Cubs win Game Six of 1945 World Series against Detroit Tigers at Wrigley Field in Chicago
[Sportfolio episode 154] Countdown / Sportfolio intro sequence / title card: "place commercial here" / Detroit Tigers player Hank Greenberg hits home run / Greenberg rounding bases / Chicago Cubs player Stan Hack hits single, Cubs pinch...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Match horse race between racehorses "Nashua" and "Swaps" at Washington Park Race Track in Chicago
Title "Zoomar camera on the match race" superimposed over slo-mo Nashua and Swaps racing down homestretch / over-the-shoulder CU of racing program held by woman / crowd on grounds and in stands of racecourse / two shots of Swaps being...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Evangelist Billy Sunday, speaking in Chicago, preaches against campaign for repeal of Prohibition
Title card: "Billy Sunday declares war on dry repeal - Energetic evangelist attacks wet campaign with all his old-time vigor in plea for Prohibition at Chicago" / three shots of Billy Sunday standing on stage in front of curtain talking...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Indicted business magnate Samuel Insull with his attorney Floyd Thompson and his brother Martin enter Cook County Criminal Court Building in Chicago
Businessman Samuel Insull on left and attorney Floyd Thompson getting out of car; as they climb steps to the Cook County Criminal Court Building they are joined by Martin Insull and his attorney and they all enter building together / all...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Great Depression, Civil Works Administration workers repairing street in Boston are fed in church
Two shots of workers tearing up old pavement in street / workers lining up outside church / workers walking down street towards church / workers in line entering church / workers inside church sitting at tables eating / workers on small...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Attempted kidnapping target E. P Adler. speaking describes his experience
Close shot of publisher E. P. Adler, target of kidnapping attempt, with bandage on one ear; SOT he describes attempted kidnapping / two shots of law enforcement officer forcing one kidnapper, Charles E Mayo, to turn around and be...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Businessman Samuel Insull, charged with fraud, on his way to jail in Chicago
Title card: "Insull in jail!" / shot of exterior of Cook County Jail where Samuel Insull will be imprisoned / close shot of Insull / Insull getting off train in train station, crowd on platform / two shots of Insull walking with...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
1952 Democratic National Convention
Title card: "Politics - All Roads Lead to Chicago" / WS foggy Chicago coastline along Lake Michigan / view of skyscrapers from Grant Park / sign for International Amphitheatre / LS exterior amphitheater / electricians assemble and adjust...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Torrential rains cause floods in Chicago
Title card: "Chicago's Record Rainfall" / VS rain falling / CU flood waters running / (Hearst Telenews) -Chicago, Illinois: cars thru flooded Chicago streets / Another view and side view of cars and truck thru flooded Chicago streets /...