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[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
[The Art Greenhaw Collection, No. 29 - Mesquite rodeo parade] captions transcript

[The Art Greenhaw Collection, No. 29 - Mesquite rodeo parade]

This home movie documents the 1965 Mesquite Rodeo Parade in downtown Mesquite, Texas. The footage includes Art Greenhaw playing guitar and singing with a band in the back of a truck advertising the McWhorter Greenhaw hardware store.
Date: 1965
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Stephen Boyd and Beverly Adams at grand opening of Westwood Theatre]

Photograph of actors Stephen Boyd and Beverly Adams at a publicity event for the grand opening of the Westwood Theatre in Richardson, Texas. Boyd and Adams pose in front of a poster covered in Western Union telegrams from Hollywood.
Date: June 1965
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rosemary Forsyth, Phillip Alford, and James Stewart at public relations event]

Photograph of the "Shenandoah" stars Rosemary Forsyth, Phillip Alford, and James Stewart attending a public relations event at Clear Lake.
Date: 1965
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Advertisement for "The Ipcress File" at the Majestic Theatre]

Photograph of unidentified man placing an advertisement for a screening of the film "The Ipcress File" at the Majestic Theatre on a vehicle.
Date: 1965
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History