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[Cordina Family Films, No. 8 -  Model Rocket Launch] captions transcript

[Cordina Family Films, No. 8 - Model Rocket Launch]

This home movie documents the Cordina children launching a model rocket and preparing for a Miles of Smiles bicycle race. The children ride their bicycles and tricycle in the parking lot of the Sanger Harris Department store in Highland Park Village.
Date: April 1981
Creator: Cordina, Joe
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Cordina Family Films, No.  17 - Kathryn's Track Meet] captions transcript

[Cordina Family Films, No. 17 - Kathryn's Track Meet]

This home movie documents Kathryn Cordina competing in a track and field meet in Richardson, Texas and children posing with fish.
Date: June 1984
Creator: Cordina, Joe
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Grand Prairie, Texas: Watersports, Horseracing, and Flea Market] captions transcript

[Grand Prairie, Texas: Watersports, Horseracing, and Flea Market]

This film is unedited television footage regarding events and sites in Grand Prairie, Texas. In the film, a group of men play golf, and then they are asked by the crew filming them to discuss the game over sandwiches. Groups of people play recreational watersports at Joe Pool Lake, including: parasailing, fishing, boating on PWCs (personal watercraft), motorboats, and fishing boats. The next scenes cover Louis Tussaud's Palace of Wax, horseracing at Lone Star Park, and the flea market at Traders Village. Other notable images include a wild skunk on the golf course and the freeway near the Belt Line Rd. exit.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Hennen Family Films, No. 19 - Justin F. Kimball High School Track and Field] captions transcript

[The Hennen Family Films, No. 19 - Justin F. Kimball High School Track and Field]

This home movie documents the Hennen family attending track and field events for the Justin F. Kimball High School in Dallas, Texas and snow or ice-covered landscape.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hennen, Lowell & Hennen, Belva
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Hill Family Films, No. 7 - Air Shows] captions transcript

[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.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Holt Family Collection No. 1 - Nativity Pageant] captions transcript

[The Holt Family Collection No. 1 - Nativity Pageant]

This home video documents Mary Katherine Holt participating in a nativity pageant at the Kessler Park United Methodist Church.
Date: December 15, 1992
Creator: Holt, Linda
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Lally Family Videos, No. 1 - Mark and Linda Lally's Wedding Celebration, Tape 1] captions transcript

[Lally Family Videos, No. 1 - Mark and Linda Lally's Wedding Celebration, Tape 1]

This home movie documents the wedding ceremony of Linda and Mark Lally at the Marriott Mandalay Hotel in Las Colinas, Texas and the reception at the same location. Included is footage of guests arriving, the exchange of vows, a mariachi band performing, guests eating and dancing, the wedding party arriving, and toasts to the newly married couple.
Date: June 25, 1988
Creator: Lally
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Lally Family Videos, No. 2 - Mark and Linda Lally's Wedding Celebration, Tape 2] captions transcript

[Lally Family Videos, No. 2 - Mark and Linda Lally's Wedding Celebration, Tape 2]

This home video is the second of two videotapes documenting the wedding reception of Linda and Mark Lally at the Marriott Mandalay Hotel in Las Colinas, Texas. Footage includes the bouquet toss and dancing.
Date: June 25, 1988
Creator: Lally
System: The Portal to Texas History
[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
System: The Portal to Texas History

[The Light Crust Doughboys Collection, No. 4 - Good Morning Texas]

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This video documents the Light Crust Doughboys performing "Faded Love" and being interviewed about their group's history on Good Morning Texas.
Date: July 17, 1996
Creator: Good Morning Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History

[The Light Crust Doughboys Collection, No. 5 - Good Morning Texas]

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This video documents the Light Crust Doughboys performing with James Blackwood on Good Morning Texas. Blackwood is interviewed by the show hosts.
Date: January 6, 1997
Creator: Good Morning Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History

[The Light Crust Doughboys Collection, No. 8 - Good Morning Texas]

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This video documents the Light Crust Doughboys performing with James Blackwood on Good Morning Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: Good Morning Texas
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
System: The Portal to Texas History
[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
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Light Crust Doughboys Collection, No. 12 - The Doughboys on Tour 1952 - 1959] captions transcript

[The Light Crust Doughboys Collection, No. 12 - The Doughboys on Tour 1952 - 1959]

This home movie documents the Light Crust Doughboys (LCD) on tour and performing in Texas and the Southern United States in 1952 - 1959. Footage includes performers at the Bob Wills Ranch House in Dallas, Texas on November 27, 1951 (3 min., 06 sec.); a performance in Houston, Texas on June 25, 1952 that includes actors Tim Holt and Preston Foster (6 min, 44 sec.); a visit with actor Noah Beery, Jr. on September 30, 1952 in Little Rock, Arkansas (8 min, 07 sec.); a trip to historic sites in Vicksburg, Mississippi (8 min., 58 sec.); the exterior of the WFAA studio (11 min., 48 sec.); pianist Knocky Parker and guitarist Zeke Campbell playing together in 1954 (12 min, 07 sec.); a trip to the Port of Beaumont (12 min., 36 sec.); a stop in Lubbock for a parade and performance with Jack Perry at the ABC Rodeo (13 min., 40 sec); the LCD in Cedar Ridge recording studio (15 min., 48 sec.); the LCD and other performers filming a television show at Cross Road Store in May 1957 (16 min., 24 sec.); another performance at the ABC Rodeo in Lubbock in May 1957 (17 min., 47 sec.); the LCD …
Date: 1952/1959
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 1 - Life with Elizabeth] captions transcript

[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 1 - Life with Elizabeth]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of Peter Pauls Stewart and Elizabeth May Exall Stewart with their oldest daughter Elizabeth Stewart Wally in Dallas, Texas. The footage begins with Elizabeth as a baby with her mother and father and includes a title card which reads " Dallas June 1946 (04:16). The film ends with Elizabeth celebrating her third birthday in 1946 (10:18). Also included in the film is footage of two unidentified women standing in front of a home on Hurst Street (03:40-04:16).
Date: 1943/1946
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 2 - Family Life] captions transcript

[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 2 - Family Life]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of Peter Pauls Stewart and Elizabeth May Exall Stewart with their oldest daughter Elizabeth Stewart Wally in Dallas, Texas. Because of damage to the film, only this brief excerpt was able to be digitized. Footage includes Peter and Elizabeth and unidentified family members posing with young Elizabeth on the hood of a car and also in front of an unidentified home.
Date: 1946
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 3 - North Central Expressway] captions transcript

[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 3 - North Central Expressway]

This home movie documents members of the Stewart family driving on the North Central Expressway (U.S. Highway 75). Footage shot from the moving car and from the roadside includes road signs (Manderville and Northaven Road, Henderson Avenue, and Fitzhugh Avenue), Mrs. Baird's Bread plant, the Dallas skyline, Superior Lanes Bowling Alley, Republic National Life, and Turtle Creek.
Date: 1950
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 4 - Vacations and Holidays] captions transcript

[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
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 5 - Helicopter and Railroad Rides] captions transcript

[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 5 - Helicopter and Railroad Rides]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including a helicopter ride with footage of newly constructed roadways and North Dallas and Mr. Stewart awaiting the arrival of a train at White Rock train station.
Date: 1955~
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 6 - Holidays and Community Events] captions transcript

[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 6 - Holidays and Community Events]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including the groundbreaking ceremony for a Dallas building with the Gibralter building in the background (00:00 - 02:07; children painting birdhouses and playing football (02:07 - 04:07); a birthday celebration (04:27 - 06:43), billboards for the Santa Fe railroad service to Dallas (06:43 - 07:07); a Ford Farming building in the snow (07:07 - 11:45); a family vacation to Paradise Valley Country Club in Arizona (11:45 - 15:59); aerial footage (15:59 - 16:25); family members at an airport (16:51 - 17:03); an Easter celebration (17:03 - 20:15); Mr. Stewart boarding the Texas Chief train at the start of Santa Fe's rail road service to Dallas (20:15 - 21:12); a Christmas celebration with presents including a large Ford Tractor toy (22:12 - 03:31); aerial footage (31:30 - 32:04); a new baby coming home from the hospital (32:04 - 34:31; the family boarding a small airplane and sitting in the cockpit (34:31 - 35:58); a baptism (35:58 - 38:14); swimming at home (38:14 - 40:29); a first birthday party (40:29 - 45:45); and the 1956 State Fair of Texas (48:10 - 52:48). Fair footage includes the Stewart …
Date: 1955/1956
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 7 - Vacations and Ford Tractors] captions transcript

[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 7 - Vacations and Ford Tractors]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including a Ford Tractor event and a trip to the Bahamas. The Ford event features a speaker at a podium, signs that read "Win with Ford Farmer's Choice, "Vote the Ford Farm Ticket," and "1956 Sel'Lection Campaign." Members of the audience wave both Confederate and Ford flags (00:00 - 00:35). The family's vacation in the Bahamas begins and ends with footage shot from an airplane and includes the family on a sailboat, at the beach, and at the Emerald Beach Hotel (00:35 - 15:22). The film concludes with brief footage of a mural (15:22 - 15:32) and a new baby at home (15:32 - 17:50).
Date: 1956
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 9 - Vacations and Holidays] captions transcript

[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 9 - Vacations and Holidays]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including holidays, birthdays, and vacations during the period of 1956 through 1957. The footage begins with a trip to Disneyland (00:00-02:03) followed by Washington, D.C. (02:03-11:59). In Washington, D.C., the family watches a military parade led by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon. The parade includes footage of the MIM-3 Nike Ajax (06:01), Martin MGM Matador (06:39), Hughes AIM-4 Falcon (06:43), the Lockheed Starfighter (06;47), tanks (09:37), and the PGM-11 Redstone Missile (09:49). Back at home in Dallas, the family celebrates Easter (11:59-13:59), Thanksgiving (15:59-21:50), and Christmas (21:50-23:49). Also included is aerial footage, shot from a Helix helicopter that includes road construction (23:49-24:48) and underexposed night aerial footage (23:49-25:36). Community input suggests that this aerial footage shows the construction of the Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike (now I-30) as the helicopter flies into downtown Fort Worth. Community input also suggests that the helicopter lands on a helipad near the Texas and Pacific (T&P) Station and the Williamson-Dickie Company building close to the intersection of Vickery Boulevard and Jennings Avenue. Additional footage at home includes Elizabeth and her brother (25:36-25:47), Christmas (25:47-27:45), Elizabeth’s third birthday …
Date: 1956/1957
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 11 - Thanksgiving and Christmas] captions transcript

[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 11 - Thanksgiving and Christmas]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations. The family dines and opens presents together. Mrs. Stewart reads her children stories, says prayers with them, and puts them to bed.
Date: 1957
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
System: The Portal to Texas History