Chicagoist Weekend Theater: Lost Film from Chicago Board of Education

By Jon Graef in Arts & Entertainment on Mar 16, 2014 8:30PM

A curious, delightful find for this weekend's weekend theater: Vimeo user Fading Dyes claimed to have found a lost film from the Chicago Board of Education, a documentary about our fair city.

Here's what Fading Dyes writes:

This is a film I found at an estate sale on the south side of Chicago. It merely said "Chicago" and "Print 1" on the canister. I bought it because I was intrigued as to what might live inside.

Well, its hard to say exactly what this is. It's a film by the Chicago Board Of Education, produced sometime in the 1940s. I only know this because the narrator died in a horrible plane wreck around that time. It's hard to say the purpose of the film; it could be geared towards tourism or to entice companies to come to Chicago. This film could have just been used in the classroom. I'm not entirely sure.

While the mystery remains, let's watch:

Chicago - A Film from the Chicago Board Of Education from Fading Dyes on Vimeo.