This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Cochran family including holidays, parades, road trips, and family vacations. The film begins with the family on Christmas morning (0:00-03:49) and a Christmas parade featuring floats related to nursery rhymes and fairy tales, drill teams, a beauty queen, and KRLD-TV Channel 4 television personality and star of "Party Time" Officer Friendly and his puppet Jimmy the Duck (03:49-06:54). The family then poses in front of a house (06:54-10:07) and children play in the snow (10:07-11:18). The family goes on a road trip to the desert including footage of the McDonald Observatory and Summit of Mount Locke, a roadside hotel, riding on an aerial tramway (possibly the Sandia Peak Tramway) with a view of the Million Dollar Museum, and a ride on the Sad Monkey Railroad in Palo Duro State Park (11:18-16:07). The family goes swimming and attends a child's birthday party (16:07-18:46), goes on a boat ride and fishes at a boat house (18:46-20:16), the Cochran children pose in their Easter clothes (20:16-21:00), and the family goes boating and swimming (21:01-22:58). The film ends with the Cochran family, including Cheryl and David, at the grand opening of the Six …

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Hennen family and includes footage of children playing outdoors.

This home movie documents the activities and daily lives of the Hennen family including a track and field event (00:00-02:50) . Footage also includes small children at home and a baby being pulled in a wagon (02:50-04:27).

This home movie documents theHennen family celebrating Easter. The family poses for the camera in the front yard and hunts Easter eggs.

Video of an interview with photographer Joe Clark, known as the "Hillbilly Snapshooter." The video appears to have been produced by a Detroit news station, possibly WJBK, although there is no identifying information. Clark is known for his images of his native Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Many images of rural life in Tennessee taken by Clark are featured throughout the interview with instrumental music, including a surf-rock interpretation of a traditional song, played as accompaniment.

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including a member of the Stewart family playing football. One of the teams is playing for the Dallas Town North Lions Club.

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family including sledding and playing in the snow (00:00-01:23), family members riding horses and ponies, boating and canoeing, family posing with a baby, children playing outdoors, a motel on Route 66, and a family gathering.

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of family members including fishing, riding bicycles, children playing with pet dogs, and a young woman in a party dress.

This film captures a football game between the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs and the University of Texas at Austin Longhorns. (TCU players are wearing white jerseys.) The Southwest Conference match-up was played on November 18, 1961, at Texas Memorial Stadium (now known as Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium) in Austin. Although the top-ranked Longhorns make several trips to the red zone, they fail to score, ultimately losing to 24-point underdog TCU in a 0-6 upset. The shocking defeat spoiled not only the Texas’ hopes of winning its first national title but also the Heisman dreams of star players such as halfback Jimmy Saxton. Texas Head Coach Darrell K Royal, so upset about the loss, later compared the Horned Frogs to cockroaches. “It’s not what they eat and tote off,” he said, “it’s what they fall into and mess up that hurts.” TCU ended the season with a 3-5-2 record, while Texas finished 11-1 with a win over Mississippi in the 1962 Cotton Bowl Classic.

Following the 1960 presidential election, a special election was held to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. This live telecast from March 1961 captures a rally for candidate Jim Wright at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth. (Wright was then serving in the United States House of Representatives from Texas’ 12th congressional district.) The election drew a field of 71 contenders, with Republican John G. Tower narrowly defeating interim appointee and Democrat William Blakely in a runoff election. (As a result, Tower became the first Republican senator from Texas since Reconstruction.) Wright finished in third place.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story about a truck catching fire en route to El Paso.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story about an Easter Sunday wedding in Dallas that ended in a shooting.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a house fire in the Fort Worth suburb of Forest Hill.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about vandalism at the Worth Hills golf course in Fort Worth.