Walter & Helen’s Chicago 1932

This 1932 silent home movie, On "Location" at Walter's and Helen's and Looping Chicago's Loop, shot in black-and-white 16mm, captures family life and urban adventure. Helen introduces two-week-old Thomas Wayne Cornwell, cradled by proud parents in a winter home, sans snow. Suburban streets lead to Chicago’s Loop—State Street’s streetcars, Marshall Field’s store, and Tribune Tower loom under the L tracks, with newsboys at the I.C. Tunnel where Lingle was killed. A Kodacolor segment, transferred in monochrome, shows beach frolics at Lake Michigan, leapfrog, and an Ottawa County life ring, blending domestic joy with pre-war cityscapes.