 Kartemquin's first film in 1966, "Home for Life"—a chronicle of two elderly people entering a home for the aged—established the direction the organization would take over the next four decades.After the initial success of the late 1960s films Kartemquin evolved into a film collective producing films such as "The Chicago Maternity Center Story" and the "Taylor Chain" films.However, after these and a some other films were released the collective disbanded in the late 1970s due to differing opinions on the direction the company should head.