[The Light Crust Doughboys Collection, No. 13 - The Star of Tomorrow Contest (Narrated)] captions transcript

[The Light Crust Doughboys Collection, No. 13 - The Star of Tomorrow Contest (Narrated)]

This home movie, narrated by Light Crust Doughboys (LCD) member Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery with descriptive title cards, documents the Light Crust Doughboys on tour in Texas for the Star of Tomorrow Contest in January through May 1952. The entire film is out of focus. The film begins with the group traveling on their tour bus for the first round of the contest with stops in Marshall, Gladewater, Kilgore, Greenville, Longview, Jacksonville, Lufton, Nacogdoches, Rusk, Henderson, and then La Porte on March 4, 1952. Footage includes the LCD at the La Porte Theatre performing at segregated schools, visiting with Johnny Hicks, and touring the San Jacinto Monument (02 min., 10 sec.). The tour continues with stops in Baytown, Woodville, Winnie, and then Port Arthur on March 25-27, 1952. Footage includes the LCD at the Strand Theatre and spending time by the water (5 min., 45 sec.). The tour continues with stops in Nederlands, Beaumont, Port Neches, and Mineola on April 3, 1952. Footage includes the LCD performing at the grand opening of the Silver Creek Creamery in Mineola and friends and family of the LCD (07 min., 58 sec). The tour continues in Orange on April 8 and 9, 1952 with …
Date: 1952-01-08/1952-05-15
Creator: Montgomery, Marvin ("Smokey")
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shooting Straight with Tim Holt captions transcript

Shooting Straight with Tim Holt

Film of Tim Holt educating his young friend, Porky, on guns and gun safety. Part two covers sighting techniques, target practice, and techniques for loading a Kentucky Rifle. Includes a brief history of the John James Audobon and the habitate of a variety of birds.
Date: 1953
Creator: National Rifle Association of America (NRA)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shooting Straight with Tim Holt captions transcript

Shooting Straight with Tim Holt

Film of Tim Holt educating his young friend, Porky, on guns and gun safety. Part one covers the history of rifle use by early American settlers, including Buffalo Bill, and displays a matchlock rifle and a Springfield breechloading rifle.
Date: 1953
Creator: National Rifle Association of America (NRA)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Lally Family Videos, No. 31 - Leave it to Lally] captions transcript

[Lally Family Videos, No. 31 - Leave it to Lally]

This home movie was prepared by Mark and Linda Lally as part of an invitation to friends and family who would travel to the Dallas-Fort Worth region for their June 1988 wedding. Featuring friend and cameraman Mike Romer, Mark's former secretary Lucy Payne, friend Ellen, and current secretary Terri McMillan, "Leave it to Lally," shows the sights and activities available to guests in Dallas and Denton, Texas. The tour begins with Mark at a Jim Craft home subdivision. The first stop is A-1 Mobile Homes in Mesquite followed by a drive into Dallas. Along the way, Mark points out various sites of interest including the Hyatt Regency hotel and Union Tower. The next stop is the Dallas Fort Worth Airport Marriott where he picks up his fiancee Linda and continues on to the site of their upcoming marriage ceremony, the Marriott Mandalay Hotel in Las Colinas. The group returns to Dallas that evening and begins by stopping at the John F. Kennedy Memorial, the school book depository, and the grassy knoll. They then head to the West End Market Place where they pass by Dick's Last Resort and the Old Spaghetti Warehouse. They then move on to Greenville Avenue where …
Date: November 1987
Creator: Lally
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Saniei Family Videos, No. 32 - Iranian New Year] captions transcript

[Saniei Family Videos, No. 32 - Iranian New Year]

This home movie excerpt documents the Saniei family celebrating the Iranian New Year. Guests include Saeed (Michael), Patricia, Ahmad, Abbus (Sonny), Susan, Gayle, and an unidentified man. The dialogue spoken in this footage is largely in Farsi. Footage includes the table setting (Haft-Seen) and men eating food and conversing in Farsi, sawing a log, playing cards.
Date: March 20, 1993
Creator: Saniei
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Grapevine, Texas: 1993 Grape Fest] captions transcript

[Grapevine, Texas: 1993 Grape Fest]

This film is unedited television footage regarding events and sites in Grapevine, Texas. The film covers the 7th Annual Grape Fest wine festival held on September 10th, 11th, & 12th, 1993. At the festival the camera crew films the festival grounds, vendors’ booths, craftspeople, musicians, children and adults eating fair food, a classic car show, a grape stamping contest, and Grape Fest’s black-tie gala. Festival visitors sample wines from the Texan wineries of Schoppaul Hill, Piny Hill Country, Ste. Genevieve, and Preston Trail. The film crew interviews Alfred Fleece, owner of Piny Hill Country Wines, who talks about the winery’s muscadine and fruit wines. Vendors sell pewter, ceramics, local honey, children’s toys, and jewelry; craftspeople are filmed at length while in the process of bootmaking, quilting, forming clay busts, spinning pots on a clay wheel, tooling leather, and whittling; tapdancers and squaredancers perform; and a musical group plays on a stage using a zither, acoustic guitar, and tall floor drum. The camera crew tells a man from a Texas NBC affiliate that the footage in this film is intended for a national CNBC show called "Discover America.” The last scene of the film includes footage of Lake Grapevine, sailboats, and …
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Light Crust Doughboys Collection, No. 9 - The Light Crust Doughboys at the Mesquite Folk Festival] captions transcript

[The Light Crust Doughboys Collection, No. 9 - The Light Crust Doughboys at the Mesquite Folk Festival]

This video, presented by Eastfield College and the Dallas County Community College District, documents a Light Crust Doughboys performance at the 1983 Mesquite Folk Festival.
Date: 1983
Creator: Eastfield College of Communications
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
What is Modern Art? captions transcript

What is Modern Art?

Filmed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Vladimir Sokoloff introduces a young woman to some examples of modern art by Picasso, Chagall, Dali, and others and explains the motivations behind some of the techniques developed by the artists.
Date: 1948
Creator: Brentano, Felix; Riethof, William & Samuels, Spencer
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Building America captions transcript

Building America

Film on US infrastructure development, with topics including homes of the future, the role of lumber dealers in home building, the importance of home maintenance, and the importance of urban development. This film includes animated sequences.
Date: unknown
Creator: Price, Sherman
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Saniei Family Videos, No. 30 - Iranian New Year] captions transcript

[Saniei Family Videos, No. 30 - Iranian New Year]

This home movie excerpt documents the Saniei family celebrating the Iranian New year including Patricia and Saeed (Michael), Abbus (Sonny) and Rosa, Ahmad and Gayle, Susan, and other children. The spoken dialogue and songs are largely in Farsi. The footage features a table setting (Haft-Seen), the Saniei men preparing food, the family socializing, photographs of family, and Susan waving an Iranian flag.
Date: March 20, 1992
Creator: Saniei
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Art Greenhaw Collection, No. 14 - The Country Church] captions transcript

[The Art Greenhaw Collection, No. 14 - The Country Church]

This video documents a church service and musical performances at The Country Church in Garland, Texas. Performers include the James Blackwood Quartet.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Saniei Family Videos, No. 1 - At Home with Jasmine Saniei] captions transcript

[Saniei Family Videos, No. 1 - At Home with Jasmine Saniei]

This home movie excerpt documents 8-month-old baby Jasmine Saniei at home with her family including mother Patricia and father Saeed. Jasmine plays with toys with Luis Miguel and "Barney" in the background.
Date: 1995-02-09/1995-02-10
Creator: Saniei
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Saniei Family Videos, No.  64 - Saniei Children on the Swingset] captions transcript

[Saniei Family Videos, No. 64 - Saniei Children on the Swingset]

This home movie excerpt documents the Saniei family at home. In this footage, Jasmine plays on a swing set with her father and relatives, the extended family eats a meal and socializes, and children watch television.
Date: April 1996
Creator: Saniei
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Liquid Fire captions transcript

The Liquid Fire

This is a dramatization of the life of labor leader Samuel Gompers.
Date: 1962
Creator: Hoade, Martin; Ann, Doris & Vlahos, John
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[The Light Crust Doughboys Collection, No. 10 - Bill Oliver at the Mesquite Folk Festival] captions transcript

[The Light Crust Doughboys Collection, No. 10 - Bill Oliver at the Mesquite Folk Festival]

This video documents musician Bill Oliver performing at the 1983 Mesquite Folk Festival
Date: 1983
Creator: Amidon, David & Kennedy, Rod
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Grumman Gulfstream captions transcript

The Grumman Gulfstream

This film discusses the Grumman Gulfstream airplane, its construction, and the qualities that make it useful, specifically for traveling business men
Date: unknown
Creator: Milligan, Richard & Joyce, William F.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Backfire captions transcript

Backfire

"This story is based upon the actual classroom experiences of Thomas J. Shelly, teacher of Economics and History in the Yonkers High School, Yonkers, New York. The American Economic Foundation is happy to present this example of how common sense combats economic fallacies" - from film.
Date: unknown
Creator: Knox, Gordon; Elwyn, Robert & Lyon, Sumner
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[The Tincher Family Collection, No. 6 - Wedding of John and Patricia] captions transcript

[The Tincher Family Collection, No. 6 - Wedding of John and Patricia]

This home video documents the wedding of John and Patricia Tincher, including musical performances by the newlyweds and their friends.
Date: 1987
Creator: Tincher, John
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Lally Family Videos, No. 19 - Lauren's Third Birthday Party] captions transcript

[Lally Family Videos, No. 19 - Lauren's Third Birthday Party]

This home movie excerpt documents Lauren Lindsey's third birthday party. The camera follows Lauren through the house documenting her interactions with the various family members attending the party. Footage also includes Lauren blowing out her birthday candles, opening presents, and eating birthday cake. There is a close up of the family computer with a screensaver that reads "Happy birthday Lauren." A clown entertains the children with face painting.
Date: November 17, 2001
Creator: Lally
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Saniei Family Videos, No.  45 - The Wedding Ceremony of Abbus (Sonny) and Rosa Saniei] captions transcript

[Saniei Family Videos, No. 45 - The Wedding Ceremony of Abbus (Sonny) and Rosa Saniei]

This home movie excerpt documents the preparations and wedding ceremony for Abbus (Sonny) and Rosa Saniei. The footage includes men drinking alcohol, Patricia Saniei getting in a car, the bride putting on her dress, and the ceremony.
Date: October 10, 1992
Creator: Saniei
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wings of the Future captions transcript

Wings of the Future

This film discusses helicopters and looks at how inventors and innovators like Igor Sikorsky, Juan de la Cierva and Arthur Young helped to make helicopter flight possible.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Bradley Family Videos, No. 7 -  Katie's Third Birthday Party] captions transcript

[Bradley Family Videos, No. 7 - Katie's Third Birthday Party]

This home movie excerpt documents Katie's third birthday party. Footage includes Katie celebrating at school by playing with her friends and blowing out the candles on her cake. An unidentified musician entertains the children with his guitar, singing, and puppets. The video concludes with Katie opening birthday presents at home.
Date: May 8, 1992
Creator: Bradley
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Princeton Film Center scrapbook (open access)

Princeton Film Center scrapbook

A scrapbook compiled by the Gordon Knox family containing materials (press releases, newspaper and journal clippings, advertisements, trade notices and other ephemera) about and related to the Princeton Film Center and Gordon Knox film productions. The items contained in the scrapbook were produced between 1941 and 1961.
Date: unknown
Creator: Knox
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Saniei-Santos Family Videos, No.25 - Saeed (Michael) Plays Soccer] captions transcript

[Saniei-Santos Family Videos, No.25 - Saeed (Michael) Plays Soccer]

This home movie excerpt documents Saeed (Michael) Saniei playing soccer.
Date: May 6, 1993
Creator: Saniei & Santos
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History