A visit to Chicago, featuring the city's architecture and well-known landmarks.A visit to Chicago, featuring the city's architecture and well-known landmarks.A visit to Chicago, featuring the city's architecture and well-known landmarks.
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- TriviaAs the camera pans the sandy beach of Lake Michigan, a man in a black swim suit in the background can be seen flexing and looking directly into the camera.
- ConnectionsReferences The Jolson Story (1946)
- SoundtracksO du Liebe Augustine
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Lots of interest crammed into this 1940's view of Chicago
This travelogue by James FitzPatrick is another of his informative overviews, in this case Chicago, the great Mid-Western city in Illinois, the heart of America. We start by seeing Chicago in a series of aerials overlooking the huge metropolis. Chicago has a large cluster of buildings, including many well designed ones. The city at the time is the transportation hub of the United States and the largest in the world. There are hundreds of railroads passing through the city and this vast network for the travelling public has given rise to many large hotels. We are introduced to the Stevens Hotel with some 3,000 rooms. Also, the Morrison Hotel the tallest in the United States. We hear about other the Palmer House on State Street. State Street is described as a huge retail district for the shopper.
Chicago is an architectural delight and there are tours of the Chicago River which allow breathtaking views of the magnificent skyscrapers. The oldest is the highly ornamented Water Tower which actually survived the great fire of 1870. However, it is modest by the standards of this film made in the 1940's, and even more so now. The Museum of Industry was built for the exposition of 1893, a relatively short time after the Great Fire, which gave way to a building boom and many of the great buildings are still standing. The Wrigley Building and the Chicago Tribune Building are also among the gems found here. We are treated to a tour of the "Gold Coast" with a large number of wealthy residences on the Outward Highway along Lake Michigan. The lake is an air conditioner for the city because its cool air relieves residents from the summer heat of the Mid-West.
There is clearly a lot to explore in Chicago - its streets, buildings, industry, history and people. Thanks again to James K. FitzPatrick for a glimpse of this city as it was in the 1940's, much of which still applies into the 21st century.
Chicago is an architectural delight and there are tours of the Chicago River which allow breathtaking views of the magnificent skyscrapers. The oldest is the highly ornamented Water Tower which actually survived the great fire of 1870. However, it is modest by the standards of this film made in the 1940's, and even more so now. The Museum of Industry was built for the exposition of 1893, a relatively short time after the Great Fire, which gave way to a building boom and many of the great buildings are still standing. The Wrigley Building and the Chicago Tribune Building are also among the gems found here. We are treated to a tour of the "Gold Coast" with a large number of wealthy residences on the Outward Highway along Lake Michigan. The lake is an air conditioner for the city because its cool air relieves residents from the summer heat of the Mid-West.
There is clearly a lot to explore in Chicago - its streets, buildings, industry, history and people. Thanks again to James K. FitzPatrick for a glimpse of this city as it was in the 1940's, much of which still applies into the 21st century.
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- barryrd
- Oct 13, 2021
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- 720 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA(Stevens Hotel - Hilton Chicago since 1998)
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- Runtime10 minutes
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