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[Nelson Family Films, No. 5 - Vacation in Galveston]
This home movie documents the Nelson family's trip to Galveston, Texas. Footage includes the family riding on a large boat, playing in the ocean and on the beach, driving down a palm tree lined road, and a little boy waving an American flag.
Date:
1954?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Hill Family Films, No. 6 - Vacation in Galveston]
This home movie documents the Roy E. Hill family vacationing in Galveston and at Lake Texoma in the summer of 1956. The road trip begins with title cards that read "R.E. Hill Presents," "1956," "Filmed and Edited by Roy E. Hill," and "Helen, Art, and Bonita." This first segment begins with footage shot from their moving car as they pass through Houston and Texas City on their way to Galveston. Footage includes the Texas Heroes Monument, exteriors of homes, boats on the water, businesses including the Omar Khayyam Club (04:28), and docked tourists boats the "Yacht Garmencita" and "Miss Texas" (04:29). The family visits Fort Crockett (04:44), plays on the beach and in the ocean, observes boats on the water, and swims at the hotel pool. This segment concludes with the title card "The End" (11:17). In the next segment, there is a shot of the Dave Hicks Company, Inc., a woman picking up a child at the Young Texan School (12:06), a small airplane being worked on in a driveway (12:06-12:58), children riding bicycles (12:58-13:30) and family visiting the zoo (13:30-15:16). The film concludes with a family trip to Denison Dam and Lake Texoma with the family driving to …
Date:
July 1956
Creator:
Hill, Roy E.
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[McNeill Family Films, No. 1 - Holidays and Family Gatherings]
The film begins with footage of Virginia McNeill, pregnant with her first child, and her husband Charlie Wayne McNeill playing with a dog and cat at the home of Charlie’s parents, F.C. “Clarence” McNeill and step-mother Gladys McNeill, on Mission Street in Denton. Charlie wears a Tyler Junior College letterman jacket. A car arrives carrying F.C. and Gladys McNeill and Glen and Anna Key (00:00-01:21). At their home on Bernard Street, Virginia and Charlie play with a dog (01:21-02:00). In the next scene, Virginia’s nephew Ted McNeill plays outdoors with his mother Nina McNeill and his father Ned McNeill (02:43), Charlie, and Virginia (02:00-04:02). Virginia and Charlie spend Christmas at F.C. and Gladys McNeill’s home (04:02-07:39) with the Ted and Nina McNeill family. Virginia and Nina receive childrens shirts that read “North Texas State 19??" (04:47) . The group sits on the couch (left to right), F.C. and Gladys, Charlie, Nina, and Ned (07:09). In the next scene, Virginia is outdoors at her home on Bernard Street with her brother Jack Ball, his wife Nancy Ball, and her nephew Michael Ball (07:39-08:59). Michael and Jack play with Virginia’s dog. The next scene includes footage of St. Andrew Presbyterian Church and …
Date:
1955/1957
Creator:
McNeill, Virginia & McNeill, Charlie Wayne
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Home Movie: Pilot Point High School v. Sanger High School]
This home movie documents a high school football game between the Pilot Point Bearcats and Sanger High School. Pilot Point is the home team. The last shot of the score board shows Pilot Point with 31 points and Sanger with 0. The label on the case indicates that Pilot Point won the game 53 to 16.
Date:
1987?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Ray Family Films, No. 10 - Donna's Fifth Birthday]
This home movie documents Donna Ray celebrating her fifth birthday with other children at a park in Bryan, Texas.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cochran Family Films, No. 13 - At Home with Dennis Cochran]
This home movie compilation documents the daily lives and activities of the Cochran family including holidays and milestones in the life of young Dennis Cochran. Footage includes Christmas with baby Dennis (00:00-01:56), Dennis playing piano and spending time with his mother (01:56-03:54), Christmas with baby Dennis (03:54-05:51) who wears a TWA airlines uniform (05:03), unidentified members of the Cochran family playing with a baby (05:51-07:49), young Dennis helping at a suburban home construction site (07:49-08:24), Dennis and unidentified family members riding amusement park rides on the midway at Fair Park in Dallas (08:24-11:41), Dennis showing off his toys including a telephone and rocking horse (11:41-13:39), Dennis wearing cowboy hat with toy gun in a holster on Christmas (13:39-15:38), Dennis and unidentified children playing in a backyard (15:38-16:55), unidentified men fishing from a boat (16:55-17:01), Dennis dressed as a cowboy (17:01-17:16), Dennis and his mother on Easter (17:16-17:53), Dennis playing with toys including a swing set, wagon, and rocking horse (17:53-19:30), Dennis playing with water hose (19:30-20:27). Dennis' first birthday (20:27 - 22:27), Dennis and unidentified family members in a pool (22:27-23:27), a trip to the zoo (23:27-23:52), Dennis and his mother on Easter (23:52-26:20), and Dennis at home with family …
Date:
195X
Creator:
Cochran, Jay
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Hennen Family Films, No. 4 - Vacation in Lake Tahoe, 1952]
This home movie documents the Hennen family's vacation to Lake Tahoe, California and includes footage of family members sunbathing, swimming, and fishing.
Date:
1952
Creator:
Hennen, Lowell & Hennen, Belva
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[ Riley Family Films, No. 3 - Vacations and Birthdays]
This home documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family including birthdays and vacations. The film begins with footage of a man gardening while another poses for the camera and smokes a pipe (00:00-01:10) followed by footage of the Galveston sea wall (01:10-01:31). Young Helen Riley plays outdoors with an umbrella (01:31-02:29), rides a train--possibly the Texas Eagle--with her family (02:29-03:05), celebrates her birthday (03:05-05:11), and rides a pony (05:11-05:34).
Date:
1952?
Creator:
Riley, Sam
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Riley Family Films, No. 10 - Vacations, 1955-1956]
This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family including vacations. The film begins with a family vacation to Charleston, South Carolina. Footage includes the "Bill Bom's Canoe Country Outfitters" storefront, men and women fishing from boats, a garden, a lighthouse, the exterior of a home, a bear, the grave of John Caldwell Calhoun, and Eugene Graham's Deep Sea Fishing building. Footage also includes women buying bananas at a market in an unidentified city (08:01-08:47). The film ends with the family at home celebrating a birthday (08:47-09:33), children playing outdoors (09:33-10:08), men fishing (10:08-11:24) and children playing in the snow (11:24-12:16).
Date:
1955/1956
Creator:
Riley, Sam
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Hennen Family Films, No. 32 - Vacations and Family Gatherings]
This home movie documents the activities and daily lives of the Hennen family including various stops and family gatherings while driving to Arizona. The footage includes a family in their backyard (00:00-02:19), an outdoor family gathering with people eating large slices of watermelon (02:19-03:29), young boys playing (03:29-05:28), fixing a flat tire on the side of the road and driving toward Donner Summit (05:28-07:31). The film continues with a woman hanging laundry (07:31-08:55), Denison Dam and Lake Texoma (08:55-09:34), a family and young children at home (09:34-10:51), Easter egg hunting (10:51-11:35), and more scenes of family and children playing at home (11:35-12:52). The family's road trip continues with a visit to Sutter's Fort (12:52-13:48), desert landscapes shot from a moving car (13:48-15:02), packages inspected at the State of California Department of Agriculture Inspection Station (15:02-15:38), neighborhood children boarding a bus and playing outdoors (15:38-18:20), a sign for the Painted Desert Inn and desert landscapes (18:20-19:39), family outdoors posing for the camera and tossing a football (19:39-21:09), entering a snow covered Flagstaff, Arizona (21:09-23:42), and more footage shot from a moving car including a sign for the "Largest Rattlesnake in the World" and a horse-drawn wagon (23:42-25:29).
Date:
1967?
Creator:
Hennen, Lowell & Hennen, Belva
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Hennen Family Films, No. 16 - Easter in Denton, Texas, 1978]
This home movie documents the Hennen family celebrating Easter in Denton, Texas. Footage includes a child hunting Easter eggs and family socializing in a front yard.
Date:
1978
Creator:
Hennen, Lowell & Hennen, Belva
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Hill Family Films, No. 7 - Air Shows]
This home movie documents the Roy E. Hill family attending the National Model Airplane Championship at the Naval Air Station in Dallas, Texas in 1956 and an Air Show of full sized air craft at Hensley Field (later Naval Air Station Dallas and Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex) on May 22, 1955.
Date:
1955/1956
Creator:
Hill, Roy E.
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Keith Family Films, No. 3 - At Home with the Keith Family]
This home movie documents the Keith family's daily lives and activities including being at home with two young daughters. This footage includes family grilling outdoors and washing dishes as well as shots of Fort Worth filmed from a moving car with the Continental National Bank (CNB) building seen.
Date:
July 1970
Creator:
Keith, George
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 56 - Construction]
This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including a construction site and swimming.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Stewart, Peter Pauls
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Videos, No. 1 - Idlewild Debutante Ball]
This home movie documents Margaret Stewart's debut at the 1976 Idlewild Debutante Ball.
Date:
1976
Creator:
Stewart, Peter Pauls
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 4 - Vacations and Holidays]
This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including an Easter meal and Easter egg hunt (00:00 - 08:54), children on a swing set and posing for the camera (08:54 - 09:57), fishing and boating at the Ferndale Club (09:47 - 12:29), Elizabeth's confirmation on April 26, 1953 (12:29-13:24; 32:50 - 35:04), a vacation in Mexico (17:52 - 19:13), rides and exhibits at the State Fair of Texas including a Texas & Pacific Train, Big Tex, and a Ferris Wheel (22:39 - 27:06), the family building a new house (27:06 - 27:35; 30:06 - 32:50), Bruce and Elizabeth swimming at the Brook Hollow Country Club (27:35 - 28:49), the first day of school (28:49 - 29:21), and children dressed in costume for Halloween (32:50 - 35:04). The film concludes with the Stewart family celebrating Christmas with meals and opening presents (35:04 - 45:31).
Date:
1953-04/1953-12
Creator:
Stewart, Peter Pauls
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 57 - Construction]
This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including work at a construction site in Dallas and family members posing for the camera.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Stewart, Peter Pauls
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 50 - Sun Study No. 2]
This home movie uses time-lapse photography to document the Thanks-Giving Chapel in Thanks-Giving Square. A handwritten title indicates that the film was shot from 6:30 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.. at 1 frame per 15 seconds. Image on film ends after 3 min., 43 sec.
Date:
July 30, 1985
Creator:
Stewart, Peter Pauls
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 30 - Christmas]
This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including a Stewart family member riding a horse and a Christmas celebration,
Date:
1970~
Creator:
Stewart, Peter Pauls
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Behind the Scenes of "TEXAS BOUND: The County Records Inventory Project" (1975) - Unidentified Scene]
Photograph of the filming of the promotional film, “TEXAS BOUND: The County Records Inventory Project” (1975). This photograph documents, from left to right, an unidentified man and John England working with a motion picture film camera and director Henry Kaplan holding a film camera on the steps of an unidentified building. A sign over the building's door reads "Fallout Shelter."
Date:
1975~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Henry Kaplan and Motion Picture Film Camera]
Photograph of Henry Kaplan and 16mm motion picture film camera during the production of an unidentified film.
Date:
1974~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Henry Kaplan, Jansen Pierce, and Spencer Williams]
Photograph of the crew for the promotional film, "North Texas Now." From Left to Right: Henry Kaplan, Jansen Pierce, Spencer Williams.
Date:
1974~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Bound: The County Records Inventory Project
This informational pamphlet produced in association with the Archives Division of the Texas State Library outlines the goals, procedures, and benefits of the County Records Inventory Project. The pamphlet also describes related instructional audiovisual materials including a film and slides with an accompanying sound cassette. The project director is listed as Mary Pearson.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
North Texas State University. Center for Community Services.
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Blaine Dunlap Collection - Outtakes from "Sunset on Film"]
This film includes raw footage from the film project, "Sunset on Film," and includes students in classrooms and gymnasium of Sunset High School.
Date:
1970~
Creator:
Dunlap, Blaine
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History