Chicago Morning

Reel-to-reel tapes, video and audio, related to the production of a film by Institute of Design students made on April 16, 1952. Collection includes the following items as identified on the canisters or reels: 1. IIT Work Print, Chicago Morning; 16 mm, b&w, sound, 547 feet, 7½" d., ca. 15 min. [on hub] 2. Boris Yakovlett "Chicago Morning" Negative, Dup Negative Picture [on hub] 3. Boris Yakovlett "Chicago Morning" 1952, 16 mm, b&w, Sound, 7½" d., ca. 15 min., multiple splices [On leader: "W-P Heads/Even Sync"].

VHS cassette copy of the film "Chicago Morning" self-described as "An assignment film presented by the government of the Institute of Design of Illinois Institute of Technology.... Photographed by eleven students on the morning of Wednesday, April 16, 1952." Shooting took place between 4 a.m. and 9:45 a.m. Film credits are as follows: Sound: Jack Jackson; script: Edwin Schonfeld; Narration: Studs Terkel; Singer: Win Stracke; Drums: James Williams; Music: Louis Applebaum; Instructor and Editor: Boris Yakovleff. Black and white with sound (music and narration), ca. 15 minutes. Film content is scenes of candid shots of Chicago people, transportation, buildings, and streets during early morning normal routine. Scenes are cued to either the narration, which is possibly an original prose poem in the style of Carl Sandburg's "Hog Butcher for the World," or cued to music, including an unidentified drum solo and a folk song about Illinois. Many of the locations and buildings in the film are identifiable; of note is the inclusion of Ogden School at the end of the film.