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[Smith Family Films, No. 30 - A Camping Trip] captions transcript

[Smith Family Films, No. 30 - A Camping Trip]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of a family including footage of a tree, cutting a tree and fishing while on a camping trip, and kittens.
Date: 1968?
Creator: Smith, Cordell & Smith, Elizabeth
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 17 - Hunting in Colorado and Celebrating Christmas] captions transcript

[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 17 - Hunting in Colorado and Celebrating Christmas]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Fisher family including a Colorado hunting trip and Christmas celebration. A young girl, dressed as a cowgirl in front of the Christmas tree, draws her toy gun on the cameraman (02:17) and the family opens presents.
Date: 1962-10/1962-12
Creator: Fisher, Jerald
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Smith Family Films, No. 19 - Road trips and Family Gatherings] captions transcript

[Smith Family Films, No. 19 - Road trips and Family Gatherings]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of a family including a road trip and family gatherings. Footage begins with the family climbing a rock formation at an unidentified desert location, a race car at a rest stop, an outdoor family gathering in a backyard, the family at a lake, and another outdoor family gathering with people playing croquet and posing for the camera and children climbing trees.
Date: 1966?
Creator: Smith, Cordell & Smith, Elizabeth
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Smith Family Films, No. 2 - Family Life] captions transcript

[Smith Family Films, No. 2 - Family Life]

This home movie documents a family's daily lives and activities including children posing with cats in a front yard and a woman showing off her flowers.
Date: 1964
Creator: Smith, Cordell & Smith, Elizabeth
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Riley Family Films, No. 14 - West Coast Vacation, 1960] captions transcript

[Riley Family Films, No. 14 - West Coast Vacation, 1960]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family on their vacation to the West Coast of the United States. The film begins with the family in Arizona where they visit the Grand Canyon, hike, ride horses, and watch Native Americans perform for tourists. They then visit Yosemite National Park and observe the Grizzly Giant sequoia tree in the Mariposa Grove and waterfalls from the Yosemite Valley. They next travel to Oregon where they visit the capitol building in Salem and pose with totem poles. The film ends with the family traveling to Orcas Island on the coast of Washington state.
Date: 1960
Creator: Riley, Sam
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Smith Family Films, No. 6 - A Trip to Washington, D.C.] captions transcript

[Smith Family Films, No. 6 - A Trip to Washington, D.C.]

This home movie documents a family's trip to Washington D.C., with stops along the way to visit relatives and tourist destinations. The film begins with the family at Hawk's Nest overlook in West Virginia and children riding ponies and a train in an unidentified park. During their trip to Washington, D.C., the family observes the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a military funeral, site of the Battle of First Manassas, Little Hogback Overlook in Shenandoah National Park, Michie's Tavern in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Marine Corps War Memorial, First Bull Run Monument, Monticello, a large unidentified church, Mehoopany, Pennsylvania, and a Hulburt/Hulbirt family cemetery with gravestones for Samuel J., Frank J. and wife Nora Spring, Harrison and wife Laura, Stephen, and Joseph S., the Blue Mountain and Kittatinny Tunnels, Fairview Park Methodist Church, and the Wabash River. The family also sunbathes, swims, launches a model rocket, and fishes at their campsites.
Date: 1965
Creator: Smith, Cordell & Smith, Elizabeth
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Smith Family Films, No. 9 - Children and Kittens] captions transcript

[Smith Family Films, No. 9 - Children and Kittens]

This home movie documents children playing with kittens.
Date: 1967
Creator: Smith, Cordell & Smith, Elizabeth
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Smith Family Films, No. 5 - Summer Camp] captions transcript

[Smith Family Films, No. 5 - Summer Camp]

This home movie documents a family's daily lives and activities including their annual attendance of Camp Fire summer camp at Camp Val Verde in Waco, Texas. Footage includes people riding in a jeep, women in white uniforms raising an American flag, children doing art projects and playing tennis, a woman in a Texas Aggies shirt, women purchasing goods from a store, adult women costumed in sombreros and fake mustaches, and people swimming and fishing.
Date: 1964?
Creator: Smith, Cordell & Smith, Elizabeth
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Hennen Family Films, No. 33 - Track and Field] captions transcript

[The Hennen Family Films, No. 33 - Track and Field]

This home movie footage documents the daily lives and activities of the Hennen family and includes footage of a track and field meet, family members posing with an unidentified government building, an outdoor family gathering, and what appears to be the Tyler, Texas Rose Garden.
Date: 1962
Creator: Hennen, Lowell & Hennen, Belva
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Keith Family Films, No. 27 - A Keith Family Gathering] captions transcript

[The Keith Family Films, No. 27 - A Keith Family Gathering]

This home movie documents the Keith family's daily lives and activities and includes footage of a family gathering with people drinking, eating, socializing. Much of this footage is out of focus.
Date: 1968
Creator: Keith, George
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Sammonds Family Films, No. 1 - Vacations and Family Gatherings, 1969-1971] captions transcript

[Sammonds Family Films, No. 1 - Vacations and Family Gatherings, 1969-1971]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sammonds family including vacations and family gatherings. The film begins with footage of the United States Airforce (USAF) academy. The film includes footage of a family gathering in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with family gathered outdoors playing Frisbee, and catch, and a shot of the Ronnie Sammonds TV repair service van. The film continues with man and a woman flying a kite, observing an unidentified monument, and joking around for the camera. A group of young men and women walk down the street of an unidentified city and pose for the camera. Family members then travel to the Royal Gorge in Colorado and view the bridge from a scenic overlook. The Sammonds family participates in an outdoor family reunion at an unidentified park. On a road trip, the Sammonds shoot footage from the side of the road and from a moving car including the Gateway Arch of St. Louis, Missouri. The film continues with footage of camping in a snow-covered area, wading in water, and visiting a zoo. A trip to San Francisco includesthe Golden Gate Bridge, a trolley car, and Union Square. They next drive through Seattle, Washington into …
Date: 1969-05/1971-05
Creator: Sammonds, Ron, Jr.
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 10 - Horseback Riding] captions transcript

[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 10 - Horseback Riding]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Fisher family including a family vacation. The film begins with children jumping on trampolines with a car exhibit and sign that reads "The Car of Yesterday" in the background. The film continues with family members riding horses, possibly in Colorado.
Date: 1960?
Creator: Fisher, Jerald
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Riley Family Films, No. 15 - West Coast Vacation, 1960] captions transcript

[Riley Family Films, No. 15 - West Coast Vacation, 1960]

This home movie documents the activities of the Sam Riley family on their vacation to the West Coast of the United States. The film begins with the family at the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state and continues with them crossing the border into Canada. The family then travels to Yellowstone National Park where they observe moose, bison, bears, and Old Faithful. They then visit the state capitol building in Denver, Colorado and photograph Native Americans at a tourist stop.
Date: 1960
Creator: Riley, Sam
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Smith Family Films, No. 3 - Family Life] captions transcript

[Smith Family Films, No. 3 - Family Life]

This home movie documents a family's daily lives and activities including gathering firewood in the snow, a family gathered outdoors in a front yard, a boy climbing a tree, and a boy playing basketball.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Smith, Cordell & Smith, Elizabeth
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Hennen Family Films, No. 23 - Justin F. Kimball High School Track and Field] captions transcript

[The Hennen Family Films, No. 23 - Justin F. Kimball High School Track and Field]

This home movie documents the activities and daily lives of the Hennen family including a track and field event (00:00-02:50) . Footage also includes small children at home and a baby being pulled in a wagon (02:50-04:27).
Date: 1961
Creator: Hennen, Lowell & Hennen, Belva
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 16, Easter Celebration, 1963] captions transcript

[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 16, Easter Celebration, 1963]

This home movie documents the Fisher family celebrating Easter. Children hunt Easter eggs and the family eats outdoors.
Date: April 14, 1963
Creator: Fisher, Jerald
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Hennen Family Films, No. 24 - Easter 1961] captions transcript

[The Hennen Family Films, No. 24 - Easter 1961]

This home movie documents theHennen family celebrating Easter. The family poses for the camera in the front yard and hunts Easter eggs.
Date: 1961
Creator: Hennen, Lowell & Hennen, Belva
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 14 - Easter Celebration, 1963] captions transcript

[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 14 - Easter Celebration, 1963]

This home movie documents the Fisher family celebrating Easter. The family poses for the camera and hunts Easter eggs.
Date: April 14, 1963
Creator: Fisher, Jerald
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
[The Hennen Family Films, No. 8 - At Home with the Hennen Children] captions transcript

[The Hennen Family Films, No. 8 - At Home with the Hennen Children]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Hennen family and includes footage of children playing outdoors.
Date: 1961
Creator: Hennen, Lowell & Hennen, Belva
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 12 - Easter Celebration, 1962] captions transcript

[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 12 - Easter Celebration, 1962]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Fisher family including an Easter celebration. The film begins with footage of family posing in their Easter clothing followed by footage of family members boating and canoeing on an unidentified lake.
Date: April 22, 1962
Creator: Fisher, Jerald
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Riley Family Films, No. 17 - Family Gatherings and Vacations] captions transcript

[Riley Family Films, No. 17 - Family Gatherings and Vacations]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family including children playing outdoors and riding horses (00:00-01:38), family posing for the camera (01:38-02:19), the family vacationing in a coastal city (02:37-06:52), family riding horses (06:52-10:26) and boating (10:26-11:19), Helen Riley posing in her drill team uniform and performing on the football field (11:19-13:10), family riding horses (13:10-13:55) and swimming (13:55-14;31), men gathered under a tree (14:31-15:26), and horseback riding and poodles performing tricks (15:26-17:45).
Date: 1962?
Creator: Riley, Sam
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Smith Family Films, No. 20 - Dia at School and Fishing] captions transcript

[Smith Family Films, No. 20 - Dia at School and Fishing]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of a family including brief shots of a sign for Montoya, young Dia at school, and a boy fishing.
Date: 1964?
Creator: Smith, Cordell & Smith, Elizabeth
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Smith Family Films, No. 21 - Family Life] captions transcript

[Smith Family Films, No. 21 - Family Life]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of a family including family playing outdoors with children on a swingset, wrestling, and riding bicycles (00:00-02:14), and a large Easter gathering with Easter egg hunting (02:14-03:44). The film concludes with footage of a girl and a boy posing for the camera in the front yard while a young boy tries to pin a corsage on the girl (03:44-04:00) and people playing with kittens and a dog.
Date: 1964?
Creator: Smith, Cordell & Smith, Elizabeth
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History