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[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
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
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Cochran Family Films, No. 3 - Holidays and Vacations, 1963] captions transcript

[Cochran Family Films, No. 3 - Holidays and Vacations, 1963]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Cochran family including vacations and holidays. The film begins with footage shot from an aerial tramway in an unidentified location (00:00-01:25), Jay Cochran posing with his children Cheryl and David in front of a Texas sign (01:25-02:33), and antique or classic cars parked in front of a hotel (02:33-02:42). The family then celebrates Cheryl's birthday and fishes at a boat house(02:42-05:21), poses in front of their home decorated for Christmas (03:55-05:21), and observe a snow-covered residential neighborhood (05:21-06:11). Cheryl, David, and their mother pose n their Easter clothes (06:11-07:10). The family then goes on vacation, possibly to the Houston area, where they observe ships and a river and swim at a hotel (07:10-11:45). They then observe airplanes taking off and landing at an unidentified location, possibly Dallas Love Field Airport (11:45-13:16). Children feed ducks and the family poses in their Easter clothes (13:16-14:22), goes fishing, and Dennis mows a lawn (14:22-15:48). The family then goes on vacation to an unidentified location, possibly Colorado, with footage of an aerial tramway, a Wild West tourist town, and swimming in a pool (15:48-26:09). The film ends with footage of the children mowing …
Date: 1963
Creator: Cochran, Jay
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 19 - Lake City, Colorado] captions transcript

[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 19 - Lake City, Colorado]

This home movie documents the Fisher family at home and in Lake City, Colorado. The footage includes grapes growing on a trellis, children in a front yard, and people gathered around cars.
Date: July 1963
Creator: Fisher, Jerald
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Cochran Family Films, No. 5 - Colorado Vacation] captions transcript

[Cochran Family Films, No. 5 - Colorado Vacation]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Cochran family including fishing trips and vacations in Colorado. The film begins with footage of the family socializing and fishing at a boat house and a trip to what appears to be New Mexico where the children swim in a hotel pool (00:00-03:57). The remainder of the film takes place during the family's Colorado vacation (03:57-23:09). The family rides go carts at Pagosa Hot Springs, boards the Denver & Rio Grande train in Durango where they observe Native Americans performing for tourists, and shoot footage from the moving train. This footage includes a man making his own home movies from the roadside of the train passing (13:16) and a man riding a horse alongside the train. The family next stops at the Manor Hotel and visits a marker dedicated to the Reverend Marvin and his children Amelia and Pauline Hudson. They observe Bear Creek Falls and Mount Abrams in the Uncompahgre National Forest, the Continental Divide at Monarch Pass, and end the film with a stop at an old West town likely in Colorado Springs where they watch a gun fight performance.
Date: 1963?
Creator: Cochran, Jay
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 24 - Vacation in Denmark] captions transcript

[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 24 - Vacation in Denmark]

This film documents tourists sites in Copenhagen, Denmark including the Tivoli Gardens amusement park. Footage includes a parade, a ballet performance, the park lit up at night, and fireworks.
Date: 1963
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 23 - Holidays] captions transcript

[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 23 - Holidays]

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including David Stewart's birthday party, an outdoor family gathering with food and swimming, Thanksgiving dinner, and a Christmas celebration.
Date: 1963
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Sprague Family Collection, No. 3 - A Trip to the Beach] captions transcript

[The Sprague Family Collection, No. 3 - A Trip to the Beach]

This home movie documents a family's trip to the beach, including fishing from a pier.
Date: 1963/1964~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Story of North Texas State University (MP 232.c2) captions transcript

The Story of North Texas State University (MP 232.c2)

This promotional film created by the United Students of North Texas Senate tells the story of life at North Texas State University (NTSU) from the time a student arrives on campus through graduation with exploration of the various academic, athletic, and extracurricular activities available to students. The film begins with aerial footage of the Dallas Expressway, the Denton County courthouse, and the NTSU campus. The narrator introduces the viewer to the processes of registration, moving into dormitories, and attending orientation assembly. Footage includes students on campus and in classrooms, the university library, and the various departments including the college of arts and sciences, business administration, education, industrial arts, home economics, and music. Footage also includes extracurricular and recreational activities such as student organizations, the homecoming parade, sororities and fraternities, the debate team, theater, the yearbook and newspaper, R.O.T.C., athletics, and religious organizations. The film concludes with the various research activities conducted by university faculty and students in the departments of history, sociology, home economics, musicology, business, psychology, chemistry, and nuclear and atomic physics.
Date: 1963
Creator: North Texas State University
System: The UNT Digital Library