He also had a bit of an accidental acting career - starring in commercials for Mueslix cereal, Usinger sausage, Stroh's beer, and Sprint. Chicago Film Archives owns Topic: filmmaking. Home movie footage from the Chicago World's Fair.
From our Ferd Isserman Collection. This 16mm. Quite a find! The studio became recognized for their animations, progressive hiring practices and developing corporate branding packages for various companies. A film that celebrates the work of John Ott while documenting the different uses of stop-motion photography- from cancer research to the effects of fertilizer on bean sprouts. In the film we see John Ott hard at work in his Chicago suburban home.
Topics: Chicago, Photography, Plants, Flowers. While it doesn't depict any violence, the film captures the mood and tensions of the time, as well as a few instances of the "male gaze. Chicago Film Archives owns copyrights to all films created by Rhodes Patterson. Topics: Chicago, Democratic Convention. It was shot by Jack Behrend from a penthouse at N. A 16mm. Quaker Oats corporate film from ! From our William O'Farrell Collection. Includes scenes of animation exercises, learning to use a light meter, and acting.
Topics: filmmaking, s, students. Judith Ford went onto win the Miss America pageant in The film was shot by Rhodes Patterson, an employee of the Container Corporation. Topics: Home Movies, Illinois.
Made by Wilding Studios for Illinois Bell. From our Chicago Public Library Collection. Topics: Illinois, Travel, Sponsored Films. A "city symphony" film, produced to encourage Photographic Society of America members to attend their conference in Chicago. The film edits together beautiful and dynamic footage of Chicago and then combines this with a deadpan commentary that pokes fun at commercial travel films: "Chicago is my town," the narrator says wryly, "and no other town will do.
Topics: Amateur Films, Chicago. Footage of a combat zone, the landscape barren and repeatedly torn apart by explosions.
Includes various army vehicles in action, with tanks and fighter jets discharging their weapons. There are numerous takes, with some footage repeating. The filmmaker and particulars behind this film are unknown. The majority of the film consists of crowd and street footage. Topics: Home Movies, Chicago, Parades.
Maurer, and assisted directed by Margaret Conneely. Narrator William B. Rich, M. There is an emphasis on doctor and patient communication and sensitivity when Dedicated to the men, women and children of Mars, this fantastical animation uses the simplest of elements: solid backgrounds, block letters, and a length of metal chain.
The creatures created are the kind of strange and other-worldly beings that thrive only in children's dreams and play. This is yet another astonishing product from the creative geniuses at Morton Goldsholl Associates. Topics: Animation, Children's films. Extended footage of koalas in their habitat as the song "Teddy Bear Picnic" plays.
Sponsored by the Australian National Travel Association. Restored to its original glory by the National Film Preservation Foundation back in , this little Christmas film is one of our holiday favorites. Topics: Amateur Films, Christmas.
A domestic black comedy, MISTER E s expresses some of the edgier mischief and discontent that women of the s could rarely express openly. This short film narrates the revenge acted out by a young wife, left at home while her husband is at a card game; by staging a rendezvous with a mannequin, this woman provokes an eruption of jealousy and violence before bringing about the desired marital tenderness. Margaret Conneely, an award winning and Topics: Amateur Films, s, House Wives.
From our Henry Wilczynski Collection. Topics: Home Movies, Chicago, amuseument parks. Topics: Home Movies, s, Chicago, Temples. Here is a 16mm. It comes from our David Gray Collection, which includes other footage of Chicago from the s through s.
Highlights of this reel include an animatronic tyrannosaurus rex, a strange looking Radio Flyer sculpture and a building titled "Infant Incubators - with living babies. A s sponsored film that highlights Chicago's water system as one of "the seven wonders of Modern American engineering.
Created on. Jeff Kaplan Archivist. ChicagoFilmArchives Member. Sean Wayne Doyle Reporter as Reporter. Chita Rivera Nickie as Nickie. Susan Misner Liz as Liz. Rob Marshall.
More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. With the right song and dance, you can get away with murder. Rated PG for sexual content and dialogue, violence and thematic elements.
Did you know Edit. That character is played by long-time Broadway actress Chita Rivera , who portrayed Velma Kelly in the original production of "Chicago".
Goofs In the s, the electric chair had replaced hanging as Illinois' method of execution. Quotes Liz : Pop. Annie : Six. June : Squish. Hunyack : Unh-uh. Mona : Lipschitz. Alternate versions The musical number "Class," featuring Queen Latifah and Catherine Zeta-Jones , was deleted from the final version of the film. However, it was recut into the movie for a brief, extremely limited theatrical re-release in the summer of User reviews 1K Review.
Top review. Murder, music, media, and all that jazz. Fictional characters, as a whole, get away with more than is permissible in reality. They do things we would never condone in our peers, yet still manage to elicit our sympathy. Maybe it's a form of catharsis--instead of inflicting violence on other people, we watch someone onscreen do so and cheer them on. Such is the case with "Chicago"--the film features a large rogue's gallery of criminals, con men, and crooks, yet most of these are surprisingly likeable.
And yet, the urge to root for the bad guys is somewhat unsettling, for "Chicago" is a story about people beating the rap by manipulating the public, illiciting their sympathy and playing on their deep-seated need for the bizarre and bloody. Told one way, the story of "Chicago" sounds like a showbusiness drama: a young girl dreams of stardom. She is initailly naive but learns quickly, rising into the blaze of limelight while an older, more experienced rival resents the new face that's stealing the show.
The twist is that the art is murder, and the stage is comprised of the papers, the radio, the courthouse, and the all-devouring public eye. The veteran is Velma Kelly Catherine Zeta-Jones , a nightclub singer who did in her husband and sister after finding them in what is usually called "a compromising position. Reilly, excellent as the quintessentail doormat to stand by her afterwards. Both women are represented by Billy Flynn Richard Gere , who brags he can beat any rap for the right price and is probably what Shakespeare had in mind when he made that crack about killing all the lawyers.
Flynn's formula is simple: turn the client into a media darling, spin a tragic tale of the good girl ruined by bad choices, and an aquittal is certain.
In many musicals this wouldn't work, but here it makes sense. Director Rob Marshall fuses the two worlds together very well, creating images that compliment each other effectively. Some of the concepts look like things you'd see in an editorial cartoon: a press conference becomes a ventroliquist act and puppet show, a trial is depicted as a literal circus.
Others offer a reflection of the character's inner self: Amos, in the guise of a baggy-pants comic, bemoans the fact that, like all second banannas, nobody really notices him--even the fantasy audience seems indifferent to his performance which is, in truth, wonderful. The ensemble all turns in excellent performances in the acting category, but the singing is more uneven.
Zeta-Jones has by far the best voice of the leads, as exemplified by the casually sensual "All That Jazz. Gere only barely manages with the music, and does so mainly on the grounds that Billy Flynn isn't one of the more vocally difficult roles in the music theater cannon.
But what he lacks in pipes he makes up for in the character department: his Flynn is a perfectly charismatic scoundrel, one whose talent and danger is in his ability to be so charming.
Taye Diggs, who presides over the dream world as the Bandleader, doesn't get to sing, which is a shame because he can--he was in the original cast of "Rent"--but works very well with what he's given. The mix of glitter and grime in "Chicago" is reminicent of last year's "Moulin Rouge," but those who thought the latter too excessive will probably find this one more appealing.
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