Film clips of test flights and product tests for the XH-40 helicopter with a XT53 turbine engine. Narration provides technical details about the tests performed and the features of the XH-40.

Video footage of Bell Helicopters' XH-40 flight demonstration for the U. S. Army. The XH-40 is a six-place, turboshaft-powered light helicopter, designed with the primary mission of battlefield medical evacuation. Operated by one or two pilots, it could carry four passengers. Bell Aircraft Corporation Chief Pilot Floyd W. Carlson and Chief Experimental Test Pilot Elton J. Smith made the first flight of the Bell Model 204 (designated XH-40-BF serial number 55-4459 by the United States Army) at Bell’s helicopter factory in Hurst, Texas.

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 …

Presented by the Humble Oil & Refining Company, this production reviews college football highlights from the Southwest Conference during the 1956 season. Narrator Kern Tips recaps regular season conference games between the Baylor University Bears, Texas Tech University Red Raiders, University of Arkansas Razorbacks, Southern Methodist University Mustangs, Rice University Owls, University of Texas at Austin Longhorns, Texas A&M University Aggies, and Texas Christian University. It also takes a break from game highlights to feature several members of the 1956 All-Southwest honor team. At the conclusion, the film follows Southwest Conference champion TCU to the Cotton Bowl Classic game against Syracuse University.

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the death of Walt Williams, a civil war veteran.

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).

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 …

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a burglary at a church in Fort Worth resulting in damages and $4,000 stolen for the office safe.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about 4-H club members demonstrating some of the things they've learned in observance of 4-H club week.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the annual 4-H award ceremony, which takes place at the WBAP-TV studio. Top awards go to Yvonne Newton and Bruce Ray Carlin.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Yancy A. Batie being held at $10,000 bond for robbing a bank and taking close to $3,000.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a two-alarm fire that destroyed a duplex leaving two families homeless.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story. No corresponding script found. Video footage depicts a strike by employees of different companies.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Fort Worth tavern owner Homer Chokas being sentenced to 30 days in jail for allegedly making payoffs on a pinball machine in his tavern.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the city of Dallas burning 30 million dollars worth of municipal bonds that have been paid off.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about $60 thousand dollars worth of jewels, which went missing from the Statler-Hilton hotel in Dallas. 39 police officers work on the case.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Andrew George William Frederick, a man accused of jumping a thousand-dollar bond on mail fraud charges in Washington. In Fort Worth, he is given a one-hundred-thousand-dollar bond to assure he returns to Washington for a federal trial.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the annual memorial service of the World War I Fliers Club for Canadian servicemen who died while training in the Fort Worth area. The Canadian fliers are buried in a section of Greenwood Cemetery.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about E. Smythe Gambrell, president of the American Bar Association, speaking about his tour of the Soviet Union.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a football game between the Texas A & M Aggies and the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Texas A & M wins.

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

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an investigation into an emergency landing made by an American Airlines passenger plane. One person, D. E. Hampton, received burns on his hands as he exited the plane on an emergency chute.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two children who were left at a movie by their mother, who promised to return. When she did not return, the children were taken to the Lena Pope home, where their mother picked them up the next morning.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Garland Lee Creed, a Fort Worth house painter who pleads guilty to charges of assault with intent to rape a six-year-old girl.