Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Al Smith gets new title from Chief Yellow Thunder at the Chicago World's Fair
Title card: "The Happy Warrior" / MS Al Smith, Winnebago Chief Yellow Thunder, and two other men behind microphones on "Al Smith Day" at the Chicago World's Fair; Chief says Smith's title in his language (Natch-Ce-Pee Wah-Ke-Za-Ga);...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
National Recovery Administration head Hugh S. Johnson speaks at Chicago World's Fair
Title card: "Johnson praises New Deal" / aerial shot of World's Fair / crowd at World's Fair / retired Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, head of the National Recovery Administration, walking with security guards and other officials towards podium /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Animal trainer Allen King puts on show in Chicago taming lions and tigers
Allen King in cage with lions and tigers / King using chair to tame lion / people in audience watching / tiger running across stools, King using chair and whip to tame two lions sitting on stools / crowd watching / two shots of King...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Industrialist Henry Ford visits Ford Exhibit under construction at Chicago World's Fair in Chicago
Henry Ford with group of men in front of the Ford Building under construction on the grounds of the World's Fair / Rufus C. Dawes, head of World's Fair organization, standing next to Ford; they speak / CU Ford / Ford trots to car / Note:...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
New Yorkers offer their views on the separation of church and state, 1935
Title card: "Church", "State", "?" and "Should They Mix" superimposed over a Gothic steeple dissolving into the US Capitol / CU clergyman speaking outside and in church / CU man sitting in vehicle speaking, young son sits next to him /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Detroit Tigers win third game of the 1935 World Series against the Chicago Cubs
Title card: "Cubs' first run" / VS Cubs # 6 Frank Demaree makes home run, cutaway to fans in stands at Chicago's Wrigley Field / Intertitle: "Tigers Score" / MS Cubs' Bill Lee pitches / High angle Tigers score a run / MS Lee pitches / VS...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Chicago Cubs vs Philadelphia Pirates at the season opener at Wrigley Field in Chicago
Title: "Play Ball" superimposed on the game in progress / A huge crowd partially protected by a net / Managers Charlie Grim and Pie Traynor / More of the crowd with Chicago Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly throwing out the ball with Jimmy...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Los Angeles Rams beat college all-stars
[Sportfolio episode 189] Countdown / Sportsfolio intro sequence / card: "place commercial here" / crowd watches football game at Soldier Field / Los Angeles Rams beat College All-Stars / lots of end zone action / Rams' Bob Waterfield...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pres. Dwight Eisenhower announces he'll run for reelection
Title superimposed over Pres. Dwight Eisenhower at his desk, "Historic chronology: The President's Decision" / Eisenhower greets wife Mamie; she rests her arm on his shoulder, and they look at a document on his desk; (note: Press...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Prison riots in Illinois and Ohio
Title card: "Riot and Ruin - Aftermath of Tension behind Prison Bars" / The tall walls of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary (later knows as the Menard Correctional Center), with people in the street clustered around a door / Sign under...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Dwight D. Eisenhower wins the 1952 presidential nomination at the Republican convention in Chicago
VS Sen. Robert Taft and Gen. Dwight Eisenhower arm in arm, working their way through a crowd of excited delegates; they stop and talk to three correspondents' microphones (one is NBC) / VS CU the expressionless men; they shake hands / An...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Three hundred prisoners take seven guards hostage in riot at Menard State Prison in Chester, Illinois
Title: "Convicts Riot - Grim Prison Drama in Illinois" superimposed over guards on roof / high angle Menard State Prison / from behind guards standing on hill overlooking prison / VS state police being briefed inside prison / LS down...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Argonne National Laboratory opens School of Nuclear Science and Engineering near Chicago in 1955
Title: "Atoms-for-Peace -- 19 Nations Represented at Reactor School" superimposed over students looking at atomic controls / car pulling up to guard at gate at the Argonne National Laboratory, guard checks credentials / angled shot of...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pres. Dwight Eisenhower addresses 1954 American Legion convention in Washington DC
Title card: "Paramount News Issue No 5" / title "Legion" superimposed over CU medal from New York convention / CU Illinois Legion hat / CU hat reading Hamtramck / CU hat reading Baltimore, MD / CU hat reading North Dakota // title "In...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Assembly of World Council of Churches meets in Illinois
The title superimposed on a silhouetted cross, "Festival of Faith" / A group of people gather around the front of the First Methodist Church in Evanston / A procession of clergy in assorted robes walk right / Black men enter; a man with...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Democratic Paul Howard Douglas is re-elected as Senator for Illinois in 1954
Title: "Illinois" superimposed over Paul Howard Douglas / Chicago, Illinois: INT view Paul Howard Douglas, D. Senator from Illinois up for re-election, arriving at headquarters, greeted by crowd / CU cameramen / CU Douglas removing...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
1952 Democratic National Convention floor, with delegates voting, candidates conceding and candidate announced
Title: "Convention Finale -- For the Democrats" superimposed over donkey shadow / "Stevenson" superimposed over high shot convention floor / delegates waving states and Stevenson signs superimposed over candidate Adlai Stevenson at...
Curated Video
SYND 17-2-70 CHICAGO SEVEN DEMONSTRATION IN NEW YORK
Chicago Seven demonstration in New York
1 marchers assemble
2 marchers with banners and effigies enroute from City Hall to Federal Courthouse
3 marching around courthouse building
Film: Pos - Sound: Opt - Colour - NYFilm: c0008739 -...
Curated Video
Arraignment of former Illinois governor on fraud charges
1. Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich arriving at Chicago Federal Court
Ousted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges on Tuesday, making official his denial of political malfeasance that...
Curated Video
Police in Indiana and Illinois are opening the books back up on a series of murders spanning 20 years they say may have all been committed by a Gary, Indiana man. (Oct. 21)
Investigators in two states are reviewing unsolved murders and missing person reports after the arrest of an Indiana man who police say confessed to killing seven women and hinted at more victims over a 20-year span.
But determining...
Sky News
Families talk about the impact of gun crime in Chicago
Families talk about the impact of gun crime in Chicago
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : FILE: US police search for missing Sinead O'Connor
CLEAN : FILE: US police search for missing Sinead O'Connor