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[Ray Family Films, No. 8 - Manor Downs Chili Cookoff] captions transcript

[Ray Family Films, No. 8 - Manor Downs Chili Cookoff]

This home movie documents the Manor Downs Chili Cook Off. Footage includes a stick pony race, "The Louisiana Chili Team," women and children dancing in Native American costumes, Billy Bob Oafley's Human Juke Box, the Rooster Poot Wranglers Chili Club of Fort Spunky, Texas, "The Original Texas Chicken Ranch," and the "Piedras Negras Municipal Jail."
Date: 197X
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Anderson Family Collection, No. 6 - Holidays and Vacations] captions transcript

[The Anderson Family Collection, No. 6 - Holidays and Vacations]

This home movie documents the Anderson family celebrating holidays and traveling in Texas. The film begins with the family celebrating Christmas and continues with adults and children playing in a club house in Longview, Texas (1 min., 48 sec.), children playing (2 min., 54 sec.), a wedding (10 min., 25 sec.), a trip to Fair Play, Texas (10 min., 25 sec.), children riding bicycles (11 min., 31 sec.) and a baby shower (11 min., 56 sec.)
Date: 1970/1971
Creator: Anderson, James
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Goree Family Videos, No.  29 - Lago Vista, Texas] captions transcript

[Goree Family Videos, No. 29 - Lago Vista, Texas]

This home movie excerpt documents the Goree family vacationing at a home in Lago Vista, Texas.
Date: 1994
Creator: Goree
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History

["None but the Lonely Heart" at the Varsity Theater]

Photograph of the exterior of the Varsity Theatre in Austin, Texas. The marquee advertises Cary Grant and Ethel Barrymore in "None but the Lonely Heart."
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Anderson Family Collection, No. 4 - Weddings and Vacations] captions transcript

[The Anderson Family Collection, No. 4 - Weddings and Vacations]

This home movie documents the Anderson family attending weddings and vacationing in Texas. The film begins with the wedding of Bill and Sue Willits and family decorating their honeymoon car. The film continues with the rehearsal dinner and wedding of another couple and their departure for their honeymoon (6 min., 19 sec.). This couple swims on their honeymoon (9 min., 57 sec.), tours the Johnson Space Center (10 min., 36 sec.), swims in the ocean (13 min 38 sec.), watches seals and dolphins perform at Sea-Arama of Texas (15 min. 35 sec.), rides a ferry (18 min., 41 sec), poses with oil wells and visit the San Jacinto Monument (21 min., 22 sec.), and tours the Battleship Texas (23 min., 11 sec).
Date: unknown
Creator: Anderson, James
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History