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[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. 8 - Holidays and Community Events] captions transcript

[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 8 - Holidays and Community Events]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family from December 1956 through late 1957 and includes their participation in holidays and community events. The film begins with the family celebrating Christmas Day 1956 (00:00-01:46) followed by footage of men bailing hay on Ford tractors (01:46-04:11), and picking up a young woman at a train station (04:11-04:26). The family then takes a trip to the 1957 State Fair of Texas in Dallas where they board a Texas & Pacific Train advertised as "T&P's New Modern Train" (04:29-04:40) and visit a Ford Motor Company exhibit featuring the Ford Typhoon Tractor (04:40-07:12). The Stewart children eat cotton candy and ride carnival rides on the midway including a carousel and Ferris Wheel (07:12-09:10). The film ends with footage of a youth football game (09:10-09:31) and children playing outdoors (09:31-11:49).
Date: 1956-12-25/1957-10
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
Principal Product captions transcript

Principal Product

A "public service presentation of Chrysler Corporation" that shows a humorous story of a journalist who is sent to photograph the new line of Chrysler cars at an auto show in Detroit. The journalist's photographer doesn't make the trip so he warily hires a six-year-old photographer, Junebug Clark, who saves the day. A schoolteacher, standing at a blackboard, introduces the story and talks about Detroit's reputation as a car manufacturing town or "Motor City." The conclusion of the video reveals that Junebug Clark is one of the students in the teacher's class.
Date: 1956
Creator: Chrysler Corporation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Conference Highlights captions transcript

Southwest Conference Highlights

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.
Date: 1956/1957
Creator: Humble Oil & Refining Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
U. S. Army XH-40 Helicopter Development Program, Progress Report #2, USAF Contract 33 (600)-30229 captions transcript

U. S. Army XH-40 Helicopter Development Program, Progress Report #2, USAF Contract 33 (600)-30229

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.
Date: 1956~
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Undated Homecoming] captions transcript

[Undated Homecoming]

Video footage of a Homecoming event for North Texas State College/North Texas State University. The first half of the film is underexposed and difficult for viewing.
Date: [1956,1960]
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[The Weisberg Family Collection, No. 3 - Holidays and Celebrations] captions transcript

[The Weisberg Family Collection, No. 3 - Holidays and Celebrations]

This home movie documents the Weisberg family celebrating holidays including Christmases, birthdays, and Halloween. Footage includes children on playing on pogo sticks, swimming, playing football, and riding bicycles.
Date: 1956/1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The XH-40 Flight Demonstration] captions transcript

[The XH-40 Flight Demonstration]

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.
Date: October 20, 1956
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
System: The UNT Digital Library
Your Fair Share captions transcript

Your Fair Share

This film represents an appeal for donations to the Newark, N.J. area Community Service Association. Presents the stories of individuals with health or social problems who need assistance and then suggests community programs that could help.
Date: 1956
Creator: Carey, Macdonald; Rodakiewicz, Henwar & Turner, Howard
System: The UNT Digital Library