People visit a modern furniture, artwork, and lighting store by Dux in Chicago, Illinois United States. Women move inside the 1960s modernistic looking displays featuring fashionable furniture and artwork of the time. Drawing, dining and bedroom displays in the store. Show pieces and portraits in the Dux store.
Elevated views of large buildings of Chicago and ground nearby. Buses and 1960s cars on busy roads, streets, and highways in West Chicago area. A streetcar or trolley goes by on the road. Its connecting electric rod can be seen above it. Pedestrians walk on roads and sidewalks in the Little Italy neighborhood of Chicago. Shops in the area. Three women walk on sidewalk in front of a pizzeria. Old men on streets. A residential housing area, and the Notre Dame de Chicago Roman Catholic Church (1335 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60607, United States) nearby. High rise apartment buildings and housing projects. City of Chicago workers, of the Department of Urban Renewal, work to clean debris from an area and load it on a truck. A huge building under construction.
The modern campus of the University of Illinois, in Chicago. Film opens showing architectural model of the proposed new campus designed by Architect Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM). Camera pans over the campus features, zooming in on the Circle Forum, a Greek-styled amphitheater built for plays, assemblies and concerts. Film shifts to students, and others, walking on a circular pavement. The University Hall is seen in background, flanked by two construction derricks. Views of various features of the spread out campus areas and buildings showing the concrete roofs forming the so-called "Great Court." Closeup vertical view of University Hall. More views of the extant campus. (construction is still underway.) Students walking along the Great Court with the multilevel construction visible. Closeups of students and others riding an escalator and conversing. Students in large classroom lecture hall where the Professor has written notes in chalk on a blackboard for the class, referring to revenue bills originating in the U.S. House of Representatives. Closeups of the Professor and students. Candid shots of a student's resting and relaxing in various places on the campus.
Film opens with camera panning closeup over the exterior of St. Michael's Church, at 1633 North Cleveland Avenue, in Old Town, Chicago. Then, neighborhood views are seen from an open convertible car. Momentary glimpse, from above, of driver in the car. More neighborhood scenes and a pillar identifying Crilly Court. Views of various buildings in the neighborhood. A white standard poodle dog is seen looking out the open window of a car. A woman walks a black standard poodle dog along a commercial district sidewalk. Closeup of the poodle. Closeup glimpse of a woman and a man riding together on a motorcycle. A young man riding a motorcycle. Closeups of many people walking on the sidewalks and sitting on front steps of buildings, some dressed conservatively, and some with counter culture and hippie fashions. A commercial area of Old Town jammed with numerous small eateries close to one another. A man riding a bicycle in the midst of heavy traffic. Closeups of pedestrians walking on the sidewalks, and young people sitting on the sidewalk, next to buildings. A man stripped to the waist taking a cigarette (possibly a marijuana joint). He lights it. Scene shifts to a shop where women try on various wigs. Many people in typical 1960s fashions. Another street scene showing various eating places, including Paul Bunyan, at 1355 North Wells Street. Large umbrella light at entrance to Piper's Alley. Customers visiting various small shops and galleries, in Piper's Alley. An African American boy having his portrait drawn by a street artist. His mother watching. Glimpse of the boy's portrait.
Men and women look up in sky while they walk. A man says 'We are your friends, please contact us'. Planets and stars in space. A comet. Interviews with people share their experiences with UFOs. A woman shares her experience while she was driving somewhere in Northwest Chicago. Street sign of 'Harmony Lane'. On seeing a flying object in sky, she gets out of the car and goes by her house. She enters the house and looks out of the window. She calls her husband and points out of window. Woman makes a sketch of flying object she saw. Shows children play with a UFO toy. Buildings in Chicago. Newspaper column reads line 'Airship Is Sighted'. UFO and patterns of light in the sky. A tourist plane takes off. Film recorded from plane's window shows a moving light in sky. UFO news in newspaper. Police officers patrol streets in Chicago at night. They see an object in sky but lose its sight. President of National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, confirms his belief that 'UFOs are real.' Sign of NICAP - UFOs outside planetarium. Shows an officer and young scientist speak on UFOs. USAF Major Quintanilla speaks about UFOs.
The world premier parade of Ross Hunter's movie 'The Art of Love' in Chicago. Ross Hunter and models sit in open cars in the parade. Movie posters and a board on the City Lake Theater. The leading actress of the movie, Ethel Merman, arrives at the theater and waves towards the people. She accompanies Ross on the stairs of the theater.