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Still from Heather McAdams’ The Scratchman, courtesy of Chicago Film Society 

Film Restorations from the Chicago Film Society

Art Films and Special Screenings

  • Saturday, April 26, 2025
  • 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
  • East Building Auditorium
  • Films
  • In-person
  • Registration Required
  • Drop-In Registration

Presented by Julian Antos, Chicago Film Society, in person.

Join us for a program of restored gems from the vaults of the Chicago Film Society, a nonprofit organization founded by film projectionists in 2011 to promote the preservation of film in context. 
 
Titles in this program include short films by independent filmmakers Fred Camper, Heather McAdams, and Edward Owens, as well as promotional titles like Doll Messengers of Friendship (1929, silent), which documents a doll exchange between the US and Japan, initiated by the Committee on World Friendship Among Children. Total running time is approximately 90 minutes.

About the Chicago Film Society

“Film prints capture the past uniquely. As physical artifacts, they hold the stories told by films, but also the stories of the industries that produced them, the labs that printed them, the places where they were exhibited, and the people who watched them. All of this history—not just of film, but of industry, labor, recreation, and culture—is more intelligible and powerful when it’s grounded in unsimulated experience: seeing a film in a theater, with an audience, and projected from film stock.” 

Presented in partnership with the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives and Film Projection Society. 

Part of the ongoing film series Art Films and Special Screenings