https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/cdbcb251-53ec-4d4b-b140-ee873643f1f0 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This stylish documentary film titled “Pertaining to Chicago 1957” was made by Jim Davis and Leo J. Merker and dedicated to the Graham Foundation. It is a unique, impressionistic homage to the splendor, motion, color, bustle and activity of Chicago, Illinois. As stated in the foreword, “the film is a series of personal, subjective impressions of certain aspects of Chicago, especially masterpieces of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright from the late 1800s to the early 1900s and the works of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and others who influenced the Chicago of today.” The directors of the film take a particular interest in trying to convey the “American obsession with motion” by highlighting the Chicago L, the Chicago Loop and its electric signs. Opening credits (0:07). Foreword (0:36). Perspective from a rider on the “Chicago El” (short for elevated) operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) passing buildings, cars, and industrial zones (1:14). Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio Railroad (GMO) train car (1:48). Street-view perspective from a bus of the Chicago Loop (1:56). Chicago row homes (2:24). Scenes of a worn down neighborhood of Chicago (2:43). Man operates a Ryden Bros bulldozer on an empty lot (4:08). Shot of new residential developments (4:16). Sign by Chicago Park District (4:18). R.G. Lydy Parking Co. sign (4:33). View and details of the Wrigley Building and Chicago River in the foreground (4:41). Storefronts (5:21). The Drake Hotel and Oak Street Beach on the shore of Lake Michigan (5:32). Facades of various residential buildings and residential blocks in the city - comparison and contrast between neoclassical and mid century modern architecture (6:00). Chicago Lakefront (7:53). One Prudential Plaza overlooking the train yard (9:59). Michigan Avenue skyline (10:03). Aerial view of Chicago skyline (10:24).Ornate decorative details of buildings (11:51). Fire escapes of “The Loop” (12:42). Electric signs of The Loop like Imperial Loans, Fly TWA, Chicago Theater, Coca Cola, and Seagram’s (14:41). Camera pans the exterior of The Prudential building (15:54). Final vignettes of Chicago (16:09). Director Jim Davis (aka James E Davis) began his career as a painter and later began making small mobiles using plastic elements that interacted with light. Although his career was apparently somewhat stunted by lack of commercial success, he did have a number of patrons included Peggy Guggenheim. Davis began filming the shadows cast by his mobiles, and the mobiles themselves, to create a series of abstract motion pictures. In addition to "Pertaining", he also made a series of nature films that distorted reality and delved into abstraction. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwNzf4ujbsc Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:17:16 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/cdbcb251-53ec-4d4b-b140-ee873643f1f0 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.