This home movie documents the Hall and Hennen families celebrating the Christmas holiday. The film begins with a Hall family Christmas gathering in Millsap. Family members socialize and pose for the camera in a front yard. Young boys wear cowboy outfits and shoot toy guns at the camera. Visible in the footage are advertisements for Coca Cola, Dr. Pepper, and a Clark Service & Grocery (00:00-01:34). Also included is footage of Seventh Street in Forth Worth shot from a moving car (01:34-01:48) and a Hennen family Christmas gathering in Sherman (01:48-03:48).

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.

This home movie compilation reel documents the daily lives and activities of the Cochran family including milestones celebrated with their first child Dennis Cochran and family vacations. The film includes footage of Dennis' second birthday party, Dennis in a bucket and playing with a puppy, family posing for the camera, tornado damage (possibly in South Carolina) including overturned cars and a mattress hanging from a telephone pole, playing in snow, family vacations in Galveston, taking off in Delta airplane, and an unknown statue and state building. The film also includes what appears to be the 1956 Cotton Bowl Classic that paired Texas Christian University (TCU) with Mississippi. This footage includes the exterior of the stadium and a parade. Footage shot within the stadium is out of focus.

This home movie documents the Nelson family's trip to Galveston, Texas. Footage includes the family riding on a large boat, playing in the ocean and on the beach, driving down a palm tree lined road, and a little boy waving an American flag.

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 …

The film begins with footage of Virginia McNeill, pregnant with her first child, and her husband Charlie Wayne McNeill playing with a dog and cat at the home of Charlie’s parents, F.C. “Clarence” McNeill and step-mother Gladys McNeill, on Mission Street in Denton. Charlie wears a Tyler Junior College letterman jacket. A car arrives carrying F.C. and Gladys McNeill and Glen and Anna Key (00:00-01:21). At their home on Bernard Street, Virginia and Charlie play with a dog (01:21-02:00). In the next scene, Virginia’s nephew Ted McNeill plays outdoors with his mother Nina McNeill and his father Ned McNeill (02:43), Charlie, and Virginia (02:00-04:02). Virginia and Charlie spend Christmas at F.C. and Gladys McNeill’s home (04:02-07:39) with the Ted and Nina McNeill family. Virginia and Nina receive childrens shirts that read “North Texas State 19??" (04:47) . The group sits on the couch (left to right), F.C. and Gladys, Charlie, Nina, and Ned (07:09). In the next scene, Virginia is outdoors at her home on Bernard Street with her brother Jack Ball, his wife Nancy Ball, and her nephew Michael Ball (07:39-08:59). Michael and Jack play with Virginia’s dog. The next scene includes footage of St. Andrew Presbyterian Church and …

This home movie documents a high school football game between the Pilot Point Bearcats and Sanger High School. Pilot Point is the home team. The last shot of the score board shows Pilot Point with 31 points and Sanger with 0. The label on the case indicates that Pilot Point won the game 53 to 16.

This home movie documents Donna Ray celebrating her fifth birthday with other children at a park in Bryan, Texas.

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 …

This home documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family including birthdays and vacations. The film begins with footage of a man gardening while another poses for the camera and smokes a pipe (00:00-01:10) followed by footage of the Galveston sea wall (01:10-01:31). Young Helen Riley plays outdoors with an umbrella (01:31-02:29), rides a train--possibly the Texas Eagle--with her family (02:29-03:05), celebrates her birthday (03:05-05:11), and rides a pony (05:11-05:34).

This home movie documents the Hennen family celebrating Easter in Denton, Texas. Footage includes a child hunting Easter eggs and family socializing in a front yard.

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.

This home movie documents the Keith family's daily lives and activities including being at home with two young daughters. This footage includes family grilling outdoors and washing dishes as well as shots of Fort Worth filmed from a moving car with the Continental National Bank (CNB) building seen.

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including a construction site and swimming.

This home movie documents Margaret Stewart's debut at the 1976 Idlewild Debutante Ball.

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).

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including work at a construction site in Dallas and family members posing for the camera.

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.

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including a Stewart family member riding a horse and a Christmas celebration,

Photograph of the filming of the promotional film, “TEXAS BOUND: The County Records Inventory Project” (1975). This photograph documents, from left to right, an unidentified man and John England working with a motion picture film camera and director Henry Kaplan holding a film camera on the steps of an unidentified building. A sign over the building's door reads "Fallout Shelter."

Photograph of Henry Kaplan and 16mm motion picture film camera during the production of an unidentified film.

Photograph of the crew for the promotional film, "North Texas Now." From Left to Right: Henry Kaplan, Jansen Pierce, Spencer Williams.

This informational pamphlet produced in association with the Archives Division of the Texas State Library outlines the goals, procedures, and benefits of the County Records Inventory Project. The pamphlet also describes related instructional audiovisual materials including a film and slides with an accompanying sound cassette. The project director is listed as Mary Pearson.

This film includes raw footage from the film project, "Sunset on Film," and includes students in classrooms and gymnasium of Sunset High School.