[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 1 - Baby's First Birthday] captions transcript

[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 1 - Baby's First Birthday]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Fisher family including a baby's first birthday.
Date: August 8, 1958
Creator: Fisher, Jerald
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The John Covington Family Films, No. 9 - A Trip to Disney World] captions transcript

[The John Covington Family Films, No. 9 - A Trip to Disney World]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Covington family including a trip to Disney World. Most of the footage appears to have been shot from a tram or monorail. Footage includes Cory, Carmen, and John posing for the camera in Mickey Mouse shirts, Cinderella's Castle, and Mickey Mouse waving at the camera with Carmen and Cory.
Date: August 1981
Creator: Covington, John
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Smith Family Films, No. 15 - Dallas-Fort Worth Airport Dedication Ceremony] captions transcript

[Smith Family Films, No. 15 - Dallas-Fort Worth Airport Dedication Ceremony]

This home documents the daily lives and activities of a family. The film begins with family members on vacation feeding chipmunks, hiking, and gathering wood. The film concludes with the dedication ceremony of the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on September 22, 1973 (02:19-04:24). Footage of the ceremony begins with a speech by former Dallas Mayor Erik Jonsson (02:19-02:25), followed by former Governor of Texas John Connally (02:26) and footage of guests on the stage. It appears that Congressman Jim Wright is seated to Connally's right (02:32). Connally introduces the current Governor of Texas, Dolph Briscoe, Jr. (02:37), who speaks to the crowd. Governor Briscoe's speech is followed by footage of an unidentified man speaking (02:44) as well as the large crowds, television news crews, and North Texas State University marching band. Other unidentified men speak (03:29) followed by more footage of the crowds and footage of the airport shot from a moving car. The film ends with members of the NTSU marching band posing for the camera (04:03-04:24). Members of the Smith family, Barney Smith and cousin Leslie Pruitt, were in the North Texas State University Band and performed as part of the ceremony.
Date: 1973-08/1973-09-22
Creator: Smith, Cordell & Smith, Elizabeth
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Hennen Family Films, No. 3 - Vacation in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1952] captions transcript

[The Hennen Family Films, No. 3 - Vacation in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1952]

This home movie documents the Hennen family's vacation in Las Vegas, Nevada. The footage begins with a woman posing for the camera and a shot of the Hangman's Tree in Placerville, California (00:00-00:16) and includes a cattle drive (00:16-00:52), neon signs on the Las Vegas strip (00:52-01:08), a Santa Fe Railroad train accident (01:24-01:53), family socializing in a front yard (01:53-02:55), and boys petting a horse and riding a tractor (02:55-03:47).
Date: August 1952
Creator: Hennen, Lowell & Hennen, Belva
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Seabass Collection, No. 5 - Cuban family reunion] captions transcript

[The Seabass Collection, No. 5 - Cuban family reunion]

This home video documents Cuban family members visiting and socializing in Dallas, Texas.
Date: August 25, 1995
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Pangburn Family Videos, No. 16 - A Trip to Corpus Christi] captions transcript

[Pangburn Family Videos, No. 16 - A Trip to Corpus Christi]

This home movie excerpt documents the family's trip from Oklahoma to Corpus Christi. The video begins with the family visiting the Waco Suspension bridge and stopping to play with a tarantula. The family then views artifacts at the Texas Rangers Museum and stays in a campground in Schulenburg, Texas. The family is next at a campground on Padre Island where they take a ferry boat to Port Aransas. There they see the USS Lexington and the Texas State Aquarium. That evening they eat dinner at Landry's Restaurant and observe the city and USS Lexington after dark. The following day, the family plays at the beach and goes swimming.
Date: 1997-08-05/1997-08-08
Creator: Pangburn
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Pangburn Family Videos, No. 17 - The Pangburn Children Home From School] captions transcript

[Pangburn Family Videos, No. 17 - The Pangburn Children Home From School]

This home movie excerpt documents Eric, Travis, and Brittany Pangburn walking to the family home after getting off the school bus.
Date: August 28, 1997
Creator: Pangburn
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Saniei-Santos Family Videos, No. 13 - Patricia and Michael in New Orleans] captions transcript

[Saniei-Santos Family Videos, No. 13 - Patricia and Michael in New Orleans]

This home movie excerpt documents Saeed (Michael) and Patricia Saniei's vacation in New Orleans, Louisiana. Footage includes the couple eating on a balcony overlooking the French Quarter, a street musician, and a trolley ride.
Date: August 25, 1993
Creator: Saniei
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Pangburn Family Videos, No 18 - The Pangburn Family Goes Camping] captions transcript

[Pangburn Family Videos, No 18 - The Pangburn Family Goes Camping]

This home movie excerpt documents a family trip with the Pangurn family and the Jim and Teresa Beard family near Coleman, Texas. Activities include cooking, fishing, and shooting guns.
Date: August 30, 1997
Creator: Pangburn
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Bigler Family Videos, No. 15- At Home with Baby Christopher] captions transcript

[Bigler Family Videos, No. 15- At Home with Baby Christopher]

This home movie excerpt documents baby Christopher Bigler at home with his family. Much of this footage is duplicated on other videotapes in this collection.
Date: August 1988
Creator: Bigler
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Sammonds Family Videos, No. 1 - Laurel, David, and Joseph Make a Movie] captions transcript

[Sammonds Family Videos, No. 1 - Laurel, David, and Joseph Make a Movie]

This home movie excerpt documents Laurel, David, and Joseph playing hide-and-seek. Ron Sammond awards most believable performance in the movie to a tree and then interviews the group about what they did over the summer.
Date: August 22, 1987
Creator: Sammonds, Ron, Jr.
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Saniei Family Videos, No. 43 - A Trip to Cancun, Part 2 of 2] captions transcript

[Saniei Family Videos, No. 43 - A Trip to Cancun, Part 2 of 2]

This home movie excerpt documents Patricia and Saeed (Michael) Saniei's vacation in Cancun, Mexico, and includes footage of the couple on the beach and swimming.
Date: August 20, 1992
Creator: Saniei
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Goree Family Videos, No. 18 - At Home with Baby James Curtis Goree] captions transcript

[Goree Family Videos, No. 18 - At Home with Baby James Curtis Goree]

This home movie excerpt documents baby James Curtis Goree at home with his family.
Date: August 16, 1993
Creator: Goree
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Saniei Family Videos, No. 16 - Dinosaur Valley State Park] captions transcript

[Saniei Family Videos, No. 16 - Dinosaur Valley State Park]

This home movie excerpt documents Patricia, Saeed (Michael), Jasmine, and baby Ali at Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, Texas. The family views the dinosaur statues and watch deer cross a river.
Date: August 18, 2001
Creator: Saniei
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Saniei Family Videos, No.  42 - A Trip to Cancun, Part 1 of 2] captions transcript

[Saniei Family Videos, No. 42 - A Trip to Cancun, Part 1 of 2]

This home movie excerpt documents Patricia and Saeed (Michael) Saniei's vacation in Cancun, Mexico and includes footage of the couple on the airplane, the hotel room, shopping, views of the beach, tourists bungee jumping, riding a Carnaval Cancun boat to a beach with live musicians, indigenous people, and the couple dancing.
Date: 1992-08-17/1992-08-19
Creator: Saniei
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Saniei-Santos Family Videos, No. 14 - April's Birthday Party] captions transcript

[Saniei-Santos Family Videos, No. 14 - April's Birthday Party]

This home movie excerpt documents April's birthday party. The children hit a "Barney" piñata, sing birthday greetings in English and Spanish, watch April open presents, and jump in a bounce house.
Date: August 29, 1993
Creator: Saniei & Santos
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Sammonds Family Videos, No. 13 - The First Day of School] captions transcript

[Sammonds Family Videos, No. 13 - The First Day of School]

This home movie excerpt documents Dave and Laurel Sammonds on their first day of school. Ron Sammonds asks Dave about his first day of the sixth grade and Laurel about the classes she will be taking in the eighth grade.
Date: August 21, 1989
Creator: Sammonds, Ron, Jr.
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Saniei Family Videos, No. 40 - Baby Jasmine Saniei at Home With Family] captions transcript

[Saniei Family Videos, No. 40 - Baby Jasmine Saniei at Home With Family]

This home movie excerpt documents a newborn baby Jasmine Saniei at home with her mother and father.
Date: 1994-08-01/1994-08-11
Creator: Saniei
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Saniei Family Videos, No. 17 -  At Home with Ali Saniei] captions transcript

[Saniei Family Videos, No. 17 - At Home with Ali Saniei]

This home movie excerpt documents the Saniei family at home with baby Ali Saniei.
Date: August 31, 2001
Creator: Saniei
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Divin Family Videos, No. 4 -  Cruser's Angels] captions transcript

[Divin Family Videos, No. 4 - Cruser's Angels]

This video is a spoof of the "Charlies Angels" television series starring three recording industry employees--Holly Gongob, Sheryl Divin, and Kristy Kelly-- who receive an assignment from Cruser to achieve "total market coverage." The video follows the women as they prepare for their assignment, ask a music store clerk to play Audio Dynamite, and as they display marketing materials at the store. The women choose between posters of Ozzy Osbourne, Pearl Jam, Neil Diamond, Riders in the Sky, Collin Raye, Shelby Lynne, Doug Stone, and Joan Jett.
Date: August 27, 1991
Creator: Divin
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Goree Family Videos, No. 19 - At Home with Baby James Curtis Goree] captions transcript

[Goree Family Videos, No. 19 - At Home with Baby James Curtis Goree]

This home movie excerpt documents baby James Curtis Goree at 7-weeks old observing himself in a mirror.
Date: August 18, 1993
Creator: Goree
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Bigler Family Videos, No. 9 - At Home with Baby Christopher] captions transcript

[Bigler Family Videos, No. 9 - At Home with Baby Christopher]

This home movie excerpt documents baby Christopher at home in his playpen and eating in his high chair.
Date: August 27, 1988
Creator: Bigler
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Saniei-Santos Family Videos, No. 12- Walt Disney World] captions transcript

[Saniei-Santos Family Videos, No. 12- Walt Disney World]

This home movie excerpt documents Saeed (Michael) and Patricia Saniei's vacation at Disney World and Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. The footage contains recordings of interactive exhibits, performances, and a parade.
Date: August 23, 1993
Creator: Saniei & Santos
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Goree Family Videos, No. 17 - At Home with Baby James Curtis Goree] captions transcript

[Goree Family Videos, No. 17 - At Home with Baby James Curtis Goree]

This home movie excerpt documents baby James Curtis Goree at home with his family.
Date: August 16, 1993
Creator: Goree
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History