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[Hill Family Films, No. 2 - Life with the Hill Family, 1955]
This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Roy E. Hill family in early 1955 through July 1955. The film includes title cards and begins with a card that reads “The Norman’s 1955” and a card indicating the movie was “filmed and edited by Roy E. Hill.” Footage includes children playing on a swing set, adults gardening, and a sunset (00:00-01:12). A title card reads “Sterline & A.P. Joyner” (01:12) and includes footage of adults and children in a house (01:12-01:37). A title card reads “Ft. Worth Zoo March 2, 1955” (01:37) and includes footage of the Hill family observing animals including elephants and birds at the Fort Worth Zoo (01:37-03:38). A title card reads “Gary in the Bath ad Out” (03:38). Footage of this portion of the film was removed from the online streaming version due to privacy concerns. A title card reads “E.Hill in his backyard April ‘55” and includes footage of family members posing for the camera and a boy swinging a golf club (03:42-04:29). A title card reads “A Visit with the J. R. Begrins April ‘55” (04:29) and includes footage of a people in a house posing for the camera and objects …
Date:
1955-03-02/1955-07-02
Creator:
Hill, Roy E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Coffee Family Collection, No. 2 - Christmas and Easter holidays]
None
Date:
1956~
Creator:
Coffee, J. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 20 - Birthday and Hunting]
This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Fisher family including a seventh birthday party and hunting. Footage includes people posing with dead deer.
Date:
1956
Creator:
Fisher, Jerald
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[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]
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
[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 Art Greenhaw Collection, No. 19 - Art Greenhaw's second birthday]
This home movie documents the second birthday of Art Greenhaw. Art blows out the candles on his cake with the help of his mother.
Date:
July 1956
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Hill Family Films, No. 6 - Vacation in Galveston]
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 …
Date:
July 1956
Creator:
Hill, Roy E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Art Greenhaw Collection, No., 24 - Christmas with the McWhorter-Greenhaw Family]
This home movie documents the McWhorter-Greenhaw family celebrating Christmas. The film begins with a nativity pageant and Santa Claus handing out presents to children and ends with the family celebrating Christmas at home.
Date:
December 1956
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[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
[The Art Greenhaw Collection, No. 22 - Art Greenhaw plays musical instruments]
This home movie documents young Art Greenhaw playing musical instruments including a guitar, trombone, trumpet, and piano. Also included is footage of Art's third birthday and a funeral for two infants (1 min, 34 sec. - 2 min., 08 sec.)
Date:
1957
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Hill Family Films, No. 3 - Life with the Hill Family, Summer 1957]
This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Roy E. Hill family in the summer of 1957. The film begins with a title card containing a sketch of a hunter and the title "The Deer Hunt." This segment includes footage of men on a hunting trip with shots of the camp site, dead deer, men playing cards and drinking beer, and wildlife (00:00-07:52). The next segment shows the Hill family and friends preparing for a trip to Grapevine Lake, water skiing, and picnicking on the shore. The segment ends with the cards "Grapevine Lake July 27, 1957" and "Ina's Lawn Party July 4, 1957." The film continues with children playing with a water hose (09:52-10:48), the family feeding animals at a zoo (10:48-11:46), and the family driving to a lake for recreational activities (11:46-15:11). The film ends with family and friends at an outdoor gathering. Children swim in a small pool, Roy Hill grills chicken, and people socialize (15:11-17:13).
Date:
1957
Creator:
Hill, Roy E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[McNeill Family Films, No. 3 - Holidays and Family Gatherings]
This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the McNeill Family including birthdays, holidays, and family gatherings. The film begins with Virginia, Pam, and Charlie at Charlie’s aunt Grace McNeill Robertson’s home in Floydada, Texas for a family reunion celebrating Charlie’s grandmother Luann “Honey” Honea. They escort Charlie’s cousin Barbara Ann to a bus station (00:00:42). Virginia and Pam play in front of a fountain in Grace’s yard and four generations of McNeills--Luann Honea, F.C. McNeill, Charlie, and Pam--pose for the camera (00:42-01:00). Family attending the reunion file past the camera (01:01) and Grace waters her garden (01:58), Virginia and Pam practice walking (02:03), and a group of men gather around a car (02:50). The film continues with Pam McNeill celebrating her first birthday in July 1957 (04:06-05:03) and playing at home with her mother (05:03-07:02). Virginia introduces Pam to farm animals including a donkey, pigs, and horses, and F.C. and Gladys McNeill’s home on Mission Street in Denton (07:02-08:04). The film continues with the McNeill family celebrating Christmas 1957 (08:04-14:37) and children and family members gathered outdoors (14:37-16:04). The McNeills bring newborn baby Steve home from the hospital in November 1958 (16:04-20:06) followed by footage of the …
Date:
1957/1959-07
Creator:
McNeill, Virginia & McNeill, Charlie Wayne
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 10 - Birthdays and Holidays]
This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including holidays and birthdays. The film begins with Elizabeth Stewart's sixth birthday party (00:00-01:41) and includes footage of the family swimming and playing outdoors (01:41-03:34), a birthday party with carnival and pony rides (03:34-05:11), a wedding reception (07:13-08:18), and a Christmas celebration (08:18-13:58). The Christmas footage begins with each of the Stewart children--David, Margaret Catherine, Alan, Peter Bruce, and Elizabeth--hanging their stockings one by one on the mantle (08:18-09:13). On Christmas Day, the stockings are filled and the children enter the room to open presents (09:13-13:58).
Date:
1957~
Creator:
Stewart, Peter Pauls
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[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
[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 12 - Ford Tractors]
This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including Mr. Stewart driving a Ford 851 diesel tractor, an unidentified man posing with the tractor, and Mr. Stewart's tractor business.
Date:
1957~
Creator:
Stewart, Peter Pauls
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Riley Family Films, No. 11 - Birthdays and Holidays, 1957-1958]
This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family in 1957 and 1958 including Jean's third birthday (00:00-01:29), children playing on a teeter totter (01:29-02:08), Christmas lawn decorations (02:08-02:28), a family gathering with children playing outdoors (02:28-04:16), family posing with fish (04:18-04:58), Helen on an inner tube in the ocean (04:58-06:22), and a Christmas celebration with the Riley girls posing with dolls and toys (06:23-10:38).
Date:
1957/1958
Creator:
Riley, Sam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Art Greenhaw Collection, No. 25 - At home with Art Greenhaw]
This home movie documents 4-year-old Art Greenhaw praying, playing with a toy bowling set, playing the drums and the piano, shooting a toy gun, and playing with a pet dog.
Date:
1958
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Hennen Family Films, No. 11 - Hennen Family Reunion, 1958]
This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Hennen family and includes footage of a large outdoor gathering for a family reunion.
Date:
1958
Creator:
Hennen, Lowell & Hennen, Belva
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No.13 - Vacation in New Mexico]
This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including a family vacation at Bishop's Lodge in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Activities include riding a ski lift, horseback riding competitions, cooking pancakes outdoors, and visiting cliff dwellings at Bandelier National Monument.
Date:
1958
Creator:
Stewart, Peter Pauls
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No.14 - Vacation in New Mexico]
This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including a family vacation at Bishop's Lodge in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Date:
1958
Creator:
Stewart, Peter Pauls
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Weisberg Family Collection, No. 4 - Holidays and Celebrations]
None
Date:
1958/1959
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[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
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Riley Family Films, No. 12 - Family Gatherings, 1958-1959]
This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family in 1958-1959 including family gatherings and vacations. The film begins with a family gathering where the children play, men pose with and clean fish, family members at picnic tables, and children ride ponies and horses (00:00-05:49). The footage also includes the Riley girls playing in the ocean (05:49-09:31), waiting at the airport in front of an American Airlines airplane (09:31-10:38), posing in front of flowers (11:27-11:47), and climbing a tree (11:47-12:48).
Date:
1958-09/1959-04
Creator:
Riley, Sam
System:
The Portal to Texas History