[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
Object Type: Video
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
Object Type: Video
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
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Riley Family Films, No. 18 - Family Gatherings and Holidays] captions transcript

[Riley Family Films, No. 18 - Family Gatherings and Holidays]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family including an outdoor family gathering (00:00-01:49), Easter egg hunting (01:49-03:53), men and women gathered at an unidentified train station for the 1952 convention of the Southland Life Insurance Company of Dallas, Texas (03:53-05:52), and another Easter celebration (05:52-09:32).
Date: 195X
Creator: Riley, Sam
Object Type: Video
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
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Blaine Dunlap Collection - 1970 State Fair of Texas Midway] captions transcript

[The Blaine Dunlap Collection - 1970 State Fair of Texas Midway]

This short film documents scenes at the Midway of the 1970 State Fair of Texas including carnival games and food vendors.
Date: October 1970
Creator: Dunlap, Blaine
Object Type: Video
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
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Blaine Dunlap Collection - Outtakes from "Sunset on Film"] captions transcript

[The Blaine Dunlap Collection - Outtakes from "Sunset on Film"]

This short film contains elements from a larger work, a student film titled "Sunset on Film" which documents activities at Sunset High School in the North Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas. The film opens with a close up of a lemon with the words "20th Century Lemon" written on it. The story begins with students arriving at school on bicycles, in cars, and by bus and includes interiors of the school, a girl posing with a lemon, and band practice with some fast-motion photography. The second portion of the film, titled "Instant Annual," juxtaposes close up images from a still group photograph with live action of girls dancing, a girl jumping in slow-motion, and a title card that reads, "Does Mrs. Ross Sleep with a Night Light?" The film ends with the Sunset High School marching band and drill team performing in a parade. Although credits indicate a soundtrack, none exists for this film.
Date: 1970
Creator: Dunlap, Blaine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Blaine Dunlap Collection - Outtakes from "Sunset on Film"] captions transcript

[The Blaine Dunlap Collection - Outtakes from "Sunset on Film"]

This short film contains elements from a longer student film titled 'Sunset on Film" which documents activities at Sunset High School in the North Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas. An unidentified man displays title cards which read "Sunset on Film," and "In widescreen Super 8." The film begins with a large crowd of students in front of Sunset High School and the students entering the building. The film continues with a girl playing tennis in slow-motion, students walking down hallways, students and office workers in an administrative office, students in a typing classroom, a man fixing an exterior building window, a pep rally shot from the stage and back of the auditorium, an orchestra performing, students in the cafeteria, girls performing a choreographed song and dance routine, boys playing basketball, the cameraman reflected in a mirror, and boys marching. The film is shot largely in black-and-white with brief segments shot in color. Although credits indicate there is a soundtrack, none is available for this film.
Date: 1970
Creator: Dunlap, Blaine
Object Type: Video
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
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Cochran Family Films, No. 2 - Holidays and Vacations, 1961] captions transcript

[Cochran Family Films, No. 2 - Holidays and Vacations, 1961]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Cochran family including holidays, parades, road trips, and family vacations. The film begins with the family on Christmas morning (0:00-03:49) and a Christmas parade featuring floats related to nursery rhymes and fairy tales, drill teams, a beauty queen, and KRLD-TV Channel 4 television personality and star of "Party Time" Officer Friendly and his puppet Jimmy the Duck (03:49-06:54). The family then poses in front of a house (06:54-10:07) and children play in the snow (10:07-11:18). The family goes on a road trip to the desert including footage of the McDonald Observatory and Summit of Mount Locke, a roadside hotel, riding on an aerial tramway (possibly the Sandia Peak Tramway) with a view of the Million Dollar Museum, and a ride on the Sad Monkey Railroad in Palo Duro State Park (11:18-16:07). The family goes swimming and attends a child's birthday party (16:07-18:46), goes on a boat ride and fishes at a boat house (18:46-20:16), the Cochran children pose in their Easter clothes (20:16-21:00), and the family goes boating and swimming (21:01-22:58). The film ends with the Cochran family, including Cheryl and David, at the grand opening of the Six …
Date: 1961
Creator: Cochran, Jay
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Cochran Family Films, No. 12 - Holidays and Community Events] captions transcript

[Cochran Family Films, No. 12 - Holidays and Community Events]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Cochran family including vacations, holidays, and community events. The film begins with the family fishing and boating on Possum Kingdom Lake (00:00-03:06), Cheryl (Cherry) Cochran celebrating her first birthday (03:06-07:38), fishing on what may be Black Lake in Louisiana (07:38-08:00), Cheryl (Cherry) celebrating her second birthday with her family and a kitten (08:00-11:32), and Christmas with the Cochran family (11:32-15:27). Footage also includes Cheryl (Cherry) and brother Dennis playing outdoors(15:27-18:53), a family gathering (18:53-19:22) Cheryl and Dennis playing in the snow (19:22-21:18), a hot air balloon (21:18-22:17), a family gathering at a park (23:15-24:33), and Cheryl and Dennis playing in a sprinkler (24:33-25:27). The family attends the Dallas Christmas Parade and participants include Herb Shriner, Christmas floats, a man in a 1903 Oldsmobile with a sign that partially reads "Patty Ann Gerrity," nursery rhyme or storybook themed floats, and a drill team (25:27-26:58). The film concludes with a Christmas (26:58-30:14) celebration and Dennis Cochran's birthday in 1958 (30:14-30:56).
Date: 195X
Creator: Cochran, Jay
Object Type: Video
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
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Cochran Family Films, No. 8 - Holidays and Community Events, 1959] captions transcript

[Cochran Family Films, No. 8 - Holidays and Community Events, 1959]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Cochran family including holidays and community events. The film begins with an Easter celebration including hunting eggs and rides at a small carnival (00:00-01:20) and the family picnicking at a lake and children swimming in a small pool (01:20-03:52). The family then observes a December 1959 parade celebrating the opening of the Stemmons Freeway in Dallas. The parade includes marching bands and drill teams, actress Yvonne de Carlo, KRLD-TV's "The Sky King," children in Native American costume, clowns, antique cars, a military tank, the Dallas Sheriff's Posse, and a float with a large Interstate 35 (I-35) sign (03:52-07:23). The family then views an outdoor Christmas exhibit (7:23-7:47) and celebrates Christmas (07:47-15:39). The Cochran children receive jumpsuits advertising their father's business which read "Plumbing by Jay."
Date: 1959
Creator: Cochran, Jay
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Blaine Dunlap Collection - Outtakes from "Sunset on Film"] captions transcript

[The Blaine Dunlap Collection - Outtakes from "Sunset on Film"]

This short film contains elements from a longer student film titled 'Sunset on Film" which documents activities at Sunset High School in the North Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas. The film begins with the title "The Hope of the Sunset Athletic Department" followed by footage of crowds watching young women playing powder puff football or flag football. A young man takes out the trash with the school newspaper, "The Sunset Stampede" in one of the cans and two boys fold an American flag. A series of close ups of the school bell is followed by students rushing fast-motion out of the building through an open window. Other students are seen leaving school more slowly through the front of the building. Students leave campus on foot, in car, and by bus. A movie theater on Jefferson Boulevard, The Vogue, can be seen in the background. The film ends with students leaving through a darkened hallway and a sunset over the neighborhood.
Date: 1970
Creator: Dunlap, Blaine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Blaine Dunlap Collection - Outtakes from "Corn Flakes"] captions transcript

[The Blaine Dunlap Collection - Outtakes from "Corn Flakes"]

This film includes raw footage of an unfinished film, "Corn Flakes," and documents street scenes in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. Shooting from West Jefferson Boulevard, the filmmaker captures residents and local businesses including Bonner Appliance, the Charco Broiler Restaurant, and Ward Drugs. The film ends with the film's protagonist wrestling with a television dinner tray on his bicycle.
Date: 1971
Creator: Dunlap, Blaine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Cochran Family Films, No. 13 - At Home with Dennis Cochran] captions transcript

[Cochran Family Films, No. 13 - At Home with Dennis Cochran]

This home movie compilation documents the daily lives and activities of the Cochran family including holidays and milestones in the life of young Dennis Cochran. Footage includes Christmas with baby Dennis (00:00-01:56), Dennis playing piano and spending time with his mother (01:56-03:54), Christmas with baby Dennis (03:54-05:51) who wears a TWA airlines uniform (05:03), unidentified members of the Cochran family playing with a baby (05:51-07:49), young Dennis helping at a suburban home construction site (07:49-08:24), Dennis and unidentified family members riding amusement park rides on the midway at Fair Park in Dallas (08:24-11:41), Dennis showing off his toys including a telephone and rocking horse (11:41-13:39), Dennis wearing cowboy hat with toy gun in a holster on Christmas (13:39-15:38), Dennis and unidentified children playing in a backyard (15:38-16:55), unidentified men fishing from a boat (16:55-17:01), Dennis dressed as a cowboy (17:01-17:16), Dennis and his mother on Easter (17:16-17:53), Dennis playing with toys including a swing set, wagon, and rocking horse (17:53-19:30), Dennis playing with water hose (19:30-20:27). Dennis' first birthday (20:27 - 22:27), Dennis and unidentified family members in a pool (22:27-23:27), a trip to the zoo (23:27-23:52), Dennis and his mother on Easter (23:52-26:20), and Dennis at home with family …
Date: 195X
Creator: Cochran, Jay
Object Type: Video
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.
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Cordina Family Films, No.  2 - At Home with the Cordina Family] captions transcript

[Cordina Family Films, No. 2 - At Home with the Cordina Family]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Cordina family including footage of children riding a bicycle in the street of their residential neighborhood and a tractor in front of an empty field at sunset.
Date: 1976?
Creator: Cordina, Joe
Object Type: Video
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
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[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
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Videos, No. 1 - Idlewild Debutante Ball] captions transcript

[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Videos, No. 1 - Idlewild Debutante Ball]

This home movie documents Margaret Stewart's debut at the 1976 Idlewild Debutante Ball.
Date: 1976
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
Object Type: Video
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
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 50 - Sun Study No. 2] captions transcript

[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 50 - Sun Study No. 2]

This home movie uses time-lapse photography to document the Thanks-Giving Chapel in Thanks-Giving Square. A handwritten title indicates that the film was shot from 6:30 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.. at 1 frame per 15 seconds. Image on film ends after 3 min., 43 sec.
Date: July 30, 1985
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History