Cool 1940s Color Video of Chicago

Very cool color footage of Chicago in the 1940s was recently discovered at an estate sale and digitized.  It was apparently some sort of promotional video produced by the Chicago Board of Education in 1945 or 1946, but it's not exactly clear why it was produced, other than to tell people why Chicago is awesome.  As a Chicagoan, it's interesting to see what the city looked like before most of the current cityscape was installed.  I also love the various stats and superlatives about Chicago, including that 1/6 of all meat consumed in the US was processed in Chicago, Chicago's train track mileage was greater than that in "39 of the 48 states," the University of Chicago is "the greatest research institution in the world," and Chicago is the "most American of American cities."

Here is the video.  It's 32 minutes long, and choppy at the beginning, but it smooths out.  

The craziest part for me was when the showed the Cubs playing at Wrigley Field in what was probably 1945 -- the last time they went to the World Series.  My favorite part is when the narrator describes Northwestern University as having students from every "important" country in the world. Also, Chicago had special school "for the crippled," which is nice. And what ever happened to the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium?  And what's with that male golfer's FUPA at the 22:32 mark?