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[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 5 - The Fisher Family in Mexico, Part 2] captions transcript

[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 5 - The Fisher Family in Mexico, Part 2]

This home movie documents the Fisher family's vacation in Mexico. The majority of the footage is under-exposed and shaky footage shot from a moving car. The film includes a shot of a sign for Sta Catarina and pyramids.
Date: July 15, 1959
Creator: Fisher, Jerald
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 6 - The Fisher Family in Mexico, Part 3] captions transcript

[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 6 - The Fisher Family in Mexico, Part 3]

This home movie documents the Fisher family's vacation to Mexico. The majority of the footage is under-exposed. Shots include a movie theater marquee announcing Vittorio de Sica in "Responsabilidad Limitada" and family visiting pyramids or ruins.
Date: July 19, 1959
Creator: Fisher, Jerald
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 7 - The Fisher Family in Mexico, Part 1] captions transcript

[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 7 - The Fisher Family in Mexico, Part 1]

This home movie documents the Fisher family's vacation to Mexico. The majority of the footage is under-exposed. Shots include aerial footage taken from an airplane, the family arriving at an airport, and shots of an unidentified city, possibly Mexico City, with an F.W. Woolworth building.
Date: July 14, 1959
Creator: Fisher, Jerald
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Hill Family Films, No. 6 - Vacation in Galveston] captions transcript

[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
[Riley Family Films, No. 1 - Summer Vacation 1950] captions transcript

[Riley Family Films, No. 1 - Summer Vacation 1950]

This home movie documents the Riley family on summer vacation. Footage includes family members riding a ferry, a forested landscape with vacation homes located on the water's edge, family members fishing and posing with fish, family eating a meal in the forest, and children playing in the water.
Date: 1950-07/1950-08
Creator: Riley, Sam
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Art Greenhaw Collection, No. 19 - Art Greenhaw's second birthday] captions transcript

[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