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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
[The Seabass Collection, No. 2 - A baby shower] captions transcript

[The Seabass Collection, No. 2 - A baby shower]

This home video documents family members attending a baby shower.
Date: October 5, 1996
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Seabass Collection, No. 3 - Eva's Quinceañera] captions transcript

[The Seabass Collection, No. 3 - Eva's Quinceañera]

This home video documents family members celebrating the quinceañera of Eva Hernandez.
Date: September 14, 1996
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Seabass Collection, No. 1 - A family gathering] captions transcript

[The Seabass Collection, No. 1 - A family gathering]

This home video documents a family gathering. Family members play games, dance the limbo, and socialize.
Date: July 27, 1996
Creator: unknown
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

[Tercio de Varas]

Photograph of a bullring during the Tercio de varas (the lancing third) segment of a bull fight. The focus is on the bull and a picador. Taken in Venezuela during the time that the Princeton Film Center crew filmed the series, Venezuela on the March.
Date: [1947..1949]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Princeton Film Center Crew Outside the Museo De Bellas Artes]

Photograph taken at the time that the film series, Venezuela on the March, was filmed in Venezuela by crew of the Princeton Film Center.
Date: [1947..1949]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
[The Seabass Collection, No. 6 - A birthday party] captions transcript

[The Seabass Collection, No. 6 - A birthday party]

This home video documents family members celebrating Julio's birthday.
Date: 199X
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Arteries of Progress captions transcript

Arteries of Progress

A film on transportation in Venezuela.
Date: 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Con Salud Venceremos captions transcript

Con Salud Venceremos

This film looks at health care and disease prevention in Venezuela.
Date: 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teaching Reading to Spanish Speakers (MP 1544) captions transcript

Teaching Reading to Spanish Speakers (MP 1544)

This educational film concerns educational techniques for teaching Spanish-language kindergarten students how to read in English. Techniques include teaching children to read in Spanish before learning to read in English. The film discusses a 3-year pilot program to teach these techniques at the Lamar School in Edinburg, Texas, which began in 1969. Kindergarten and first grade teachers Marcelia Reyes, Ninfa Guerra, Eva Corona, and Christina Chavez discuss their positive experiences with the bilingual education method discussed in the film. The narrator introduces Jacinto Lopez, a child who came from Mexico not knowing any English, went through the program, and now tested at the third grade level on the California Achievement and SPACHE tests. The film concludes with other students involved in the pilot program and their scores on the CAT and SPACHE tests.
Date: 1975
Creator: Region One Education Service Center of Edinburg, Texas
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teaching English in Kindergarten (MP 1543) captions transcript

Teaching English in Kindergarten (MP 1543)

This educational film demonstrates educational techniques for teaching English to Spanish-speaking students in Kindergarten with a focus on students of Mrs. Guerra at the Ford Elementary School in Pharr, Texas. These techniques can be found in the teacher's manual, "Teaching English Early," which is part of the set of materials in the Region One Curriculum Kit (ROCK). This film shows the students and Mrs. Guerra participating in language exercises.
Date: 1975
Creator: Region One Education Service Center of Edinburg, Texas
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Venezuela Elige su Destino: Narracion Fotografica de las Elecciones de 1947 captions transcript

Venezuela Elige su Destino: Narracion Fotografica de las Elecciones de 1947

This Spanish language film explores Venezuela and Venezuela's 1947 presidential elections.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Snow Birds: A Film By Andrea G. Merrim (open access)

Snow Birds: A Film By Andrea G. Merrim

Pamphlet describing the film "Snowbirds," the filmmaker, and a written companion piece that provides context to the film titled, "Los Veijitos del Valle."
Date: 1982
Creator: North Texas State University. Media Library.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Brownsville, Texas: Gladys Porter Zoo, the Battle of Palo Alto, and South Padre Island] captions transcript

[Brownsville, Texas: Gladys Porter Zoo, the Battle of Palo Alto, and South Padre Island]

This film is unedited television footage regarding events and sites in Brownsville, Texas. The video begins in Brownsville's Gladys Porter Zoo and Wildlife Sanctuary, where the camera crew films: lemurs, lions, giraffes, antelopes, tortoises, chimpanzees, monkeys, hummingbirds, gorillas, a Texas Sable Palm jungle, and flamingos. The zoo's Deputy Director Zoologist, Pat Birchfield, and the Sanctuary Manager, Rose Farmer, discuss wildlife in the region. Next, Heritage Historian Walter Plitt lists and describes various sites of historical importance in the Brownsville area, including the Battlefield of Palo Alto, where his interview takes place. He discusses the battle which took place there--the first of the Mexican-American War--and the strategic movements of the Mexican Army, led by Gen. Mariano Arista, and the U.S. Army, led by Gen. Zachary Taylor, during the course of the battle. The video ends on South Padre Island, and this last segment of video shows the Queen Isabella Memorial Causeway, Port Isabel lighthouse, and the resort and market activity of the city of South Padre Island. Other footage in the video includes Brownsville Museum and the Southern Lines Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot building.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[McAllen, Texas: Rio Grande River and Reynosa, Mexico] captions transcript

[McAllen, Texas: Rio Grande River and Reynosa, Mexico]

This film is unedited television footage regarding events and sites in McAllen, Texas. The first segment of the film includes Tony Roma’s restaurant of McAllen, a couple being filmed inside, and an interview with its General Manager and CEO, Richard D. Guerra. Guerra describes McAllen as the “home of the Texas Ruby Red grapefruit” and “square dancing capital of the world”. During the interview with Guerra, an off-camera female crew member says that she is shooting footage for “Discover America” and mentions the show’s producer. Throughout the footage in this film, the crew talks casually off-camera while filming panoramas of the city and its town square. The next segment of the video follows a group of senior citizens visiting sites near the Mexican border. They walk through an open air market, they approach border crossing to Reynosa, Mexico, they watch orioles and other birds at the Bentsen Rio Grande Valley State Park of the Texas Park and Wildlife Department, and then they leave the park in an RV. Next, a female crewmember appears on camera and poses as a visitor to a mission, as the crew film shots of the mission interior and grounds. The film ends at the Rio …
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History