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[The Art Greenhaw Collection, No. 25 - Christmas with the McWhorter-Greenhaw family] captions transcript

[The Art Greenhaw Collection, No. 25 - Christmas with the McWhorter-Greenhaw family]

This home movie documents the McWhorter-Greenhaw family celebrating Christmas and Art Greenhaw playing the piano. The film concludes with footage of Art playing with his toys.
Date: {1957-12-25,1958-02-11}
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Art Greenhaw Collection, No. 22 - Art Greenhaw plays musical instruments] captions transcript

[The Art Greenhaw Collection, No. 22 - Art Greenhaw plays musical instruments]

This home movie documents young Art Greenhaw playing musical instruments including a guitar, trombone, trumpet, and piano. Also included is footage of Art's third birthday and a funeral for two infants (1 min, 34 sec. - 2 min., 08 sec.)
Date: 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 11 - Thanksgiving and Christmas] captions transcript

[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 11 - Thanksgiving and Christmas]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations. The family dines and opens presents together. Mrs. Stewart reads her children stories, says prayers with them, and puts them to bed.
Date: 1957
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 12 - Ford Tractors] captions transcript

[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 12 - Ford Tractors]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including Mr. Stewart driving a Ford 851 diesel tractor, an unidentified man posing with the tractor, and Mr. Stewart's tractor business.
Date: 1957~
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Riley Family Films, No. 11 - Birthdays and Holidays, 1957-1958] captions transcript

[Riley Family Films, No. 11 - Birthdays and Holidays, 1957-1958]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family in 1957 and 1958 including Jean's third birthday (00:00-01:29), children playing on a teeter totter (01:29-02:08), Christmas lawn decorations (02:08-02:28), a family gathering with children playing outdoors (02:28-04:16), family posing with fish (04:18-04:58), Helen on an inner tube in the ocean (04:58-06:22), and a Christmas celebration with the Riley girls posing with dolls and toys (06:23-10:38).
Date: 1957/1958
Creator: Riley, Sam
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 10 - Birthdays and Holidays] captions transcript

[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 10 - Birthdays and Holidays]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including holidays and birthdays. The film begins with Elizabeth Stewart's sixth birthday party (00:00-01:41) and includes footage of the family swimming and playing outdoors (01:41-03:34), a birthday party with carnival and pony rides (03:34-05:11), a wedding reception (07:13-08:18), and a Christmas celebration (08:18-13:58). The Christmas footage begins with each of the Stewart children--David, Margaret Catherine, Alan, Peter Bruce, and Elizabeth--hanging their stockings one by one on the mantle (08:18-09:13). On Christmas Day, the stockings are filled and the children enter the room to open presents (09:13-13:58).
Date: 1957~
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Hill Family Films, No. 3 - Life with the Hill Family, Summer 1957] captions transcript

[Hill Family Films, No. 3 - Life with the Hill Family, Summer 1957]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Roy E. Hill family in the summer of 1957. The film begins with a title card containing a sketch of a hunter and the title "The Deer Hunt." This segment includes footage of men on a hunting trip with shots of the camp site, dead deer, men playing cards and drinking beer, and wildlife (00:00-07:52). The next segment shows the Hill family and friends preparing for a trip to Grapevine Lake, water skiing, and picnicking on the shore. The segment ends with the cards "Grapevine Lake July 27, 1957" and "Ina's Lawn Party July 4, 1957." The film continues with children playing with a water hose (09:52-10:48), the family feeding animals at a zoo (10:48-11:46), and the family driving to a lake for recreational activities (11:46-15:11). The film ends with family and friends at an outdoor gathering. Children swim in a small pool, Roy Hill grills chicken, and people socialize (15:11-17:13).
Date: 1957
Creator: Hill, Roy E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[McNeill Family Films, No. 3 - Holidays and Family Gatherings] captions transcript

[McNeill Family Films, No. 3 - Holidays and Family Gatherings]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the McNeill Family including birthdays, holidays, and family gatherings. The film begins with Virginia, Pam, and Charlie at Charlie’s aunt Grace McNeill Robertson’s home in Floydada, Texas for a family reunion celebrating Charlie’s grandmother Luann “Honey” Honea. They escort Charlie’s cousin Barbara Ann to a bus station (00:00:42). Virginia and Pam play in front of a fountain in Grace’s yard and four generations of McNeills--Luann Honea, F.C. McNeill, Charlie, and Pam--pose for the camera (00:42-01:00). Family attending the reunion file past the camera (01:01) and Grace waters her garden (01:58), Virginia and Pam practice walking (02:03), and a group of men gather around a car (02:50). The film continues with Pam McNeill celebrating her first birthday in July 1957 (04:06-05:03) and playing at home with her mother (05:03-07:02). Virginia introduces Pam to farm animals including a donkey, pigs, and horses, and F.C. and Gladys McNeill’s home on Mission Street in Denton (07:02-08:04). The film continues with the McNeill family celebrating Christmas 1957 (08:04-14:37) and children and family members gathered outdoors (14:37-16:04). The McNeills bring newborn baby Steve home from the hospital in November 1958 (16:04-20:06) followed by footage of the …
Date: 1957/1959-07
Creator: McNeill, Virginia & McNeill, Charlie Wayne
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scenes in Fort Worth captions transcript

Scenes in Fort Worth

This silent film is a compilation of a number of different scenes and appears to be news footage from an unknown news agency. In the first scene a man interviews a family in their kitchen, a small child eats while seated on the counter, and a group of young people are gathered next to what appears to be a police car or ambulance. In the second scene, men and women dressed in western or cowboy attire eat breakfast at an unknown event in Fort Worth. The story includes a close up of bacon frying, an unidentified man on horseback, a man in a police uniform being led into a jail in what appears to be a joke, a parade of men on horseback with a sign for Seymour's White Front Store in the background, and a close up of a man drinking a cup of coffee. In the third scene, the Moslah Shrine Chanters are seen at a train station and boarding a train. In the fourth, a man demonstrates the use of a piece of equipment for another man which appears to be a FCDA CD-V700 radiation survey meter or radiation detector. The fifth and final scene is preceded …
Date: 1957~
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library