This home movie documents the Hall and Hennen families celebrating the Christmas holiday. The film begins with a Hall family Christmas gathering in Millsap. Family members socialize and pose for the camera in a front yard. Young boys wear cowboy outfits and shoot toy guns at the camera. Visible in the footage are advertisements for Coca Cola, Dr. Pepper, and a Clark Service & Grocery (00:00-01:34). Also included is footage of Seventh Street in Forth Worth shot from a moving car (01:34-01:48) and a Hennen family Christmas gathering in Sherman (01:48-03:48).

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Bells, a small Texas town, hosting a fundraiser to rebuild the local Methodist church after a fire.

This home movie documents the Light Crust Doughboys (LCD) on tour in New Mexico and Texas in 1953 - 1955 and performing for various events including the March of Dimes in Lovington, New Mexico and a labor convention in El Paso, Texas. The film begins with band members boarding the Flagship San Antonio airplane and includes footage of Midway Airport and Carswell Air Force Base (01 min., 08 sec.); Paul Blount, Lefty Perkins, "Big Bill" Lister, Joe Bill, Johnny Hicks, Claude King, Bobby Williamson, Mr. and Mrs. Al Turner, Mr. and Mrs. George McCoy, Carol Hubbard, and Gene Bradley aboard an airplane (01 min., 30 sec.); aerial footage of Sweetwater, Texas (03 min., 03 sec.); arrival and takeoff at an airport in Midland, Texas (03 min., 30 sec.); arrival and interviews at the Lea County Airport in Hobbs, New Mexico (05 min., 17 sec.); actor Johnny "Mack" Brown (05 min., 47 sec.) and singers Tommy and Goldie Hill (06 min., 20 sec.) talking to news reporters; LCD band members and friends (Jim Boyd, Elizabeth Ann Boys, Bob Shelton, Johnny Gimble, Zany Blainy, Carol Hubbard, Paul Blount, Red Kidwell, and Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery) traveling to a labor convention in El Paso, …

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the Shell Oil Company drilling wells in Lake Texoma in an attempt to find oil while the water level is low due to drought.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a plane crash near Sherman, Texas that killed five employees of the Magnolia Petroleum Company.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Tang, the dog who saved the lives of children by pushing them out of the path of oncoming cars.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Rolla C. Vestal being named mother of the year.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Denison Collie named Tang honored at the Centennial Cavalcade of Texas Teaching convention in Dallas. Tang is credited with saving the lives of several children.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a railroad bridge collapsing near Denison, sending nine cars off the tracks. The accident was caused by a car crashing into one of the train cars and sending it into the bridge. A man and woman in the car were injured.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a U.S. Air Force jet pilot parachuting successfully from his F-86 after it caught fire during flight.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Austin College football team traveling to Mexico for a game against Mexico City University.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a toddler named Cindy Inman of Sherman traveling to East Orange, New Jersey, to be fitted for artificial legs.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Roy Rogers going on a week-long trip down the Red River and Mississippi to New Orleans.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the induction of Edward Thomas Murphy into the army. He is personally accompanied by Colonel Morris B. Schwartz, the State Director of Selective Service, because Murphy is the one-hundred-thousandth draftee in Texas since the Korean War.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a homemade tree-saving device, created by Fort Worth police detective T. M. Wood; Captain Charles Walker, a student pilot from Perrin Air Force Base, who crashed his T-33 jet training plane and died; the brief appearance of singer Patty Page in Dallas, Texas, en route to marry movie director Charles O'Curran; the salty drinking water in Dallas, which comes from the Red River; the arrest of teenager Sonny Evans, who was found in a car near the scene of a tavern where somebody had torn off the back screen, supposedly in a burglary effort; disagreements between conservative democrats and liberal democrats in Fort Worth; and the arrival of a 16-pound baby girl gorilla, from New York, at Forest Park Zoo in Fort Worth, Texas.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering the weekly news report about the NAACP, visiting senators, bank refund, a gas explosion killing two in Southmayd, Texas, court cases, a man murdered by a 14 year old, and two plane accidents.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the offices of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad secretly moving from Kansas and St. Louis to Denison.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story covering the major news stories of the past week, including ongoing flooding across Tarrant, Collin, and Grayson Counties, the shooting death of a Fort Worth plumbing executive after a man caught him with his wife, and an explosion during a fire at a house in Fort Worth that was later explained as unrelated to the fire and actually caused by a jet overhead breaking the sound barrier.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the rape trial of two youths accused of assaulting a Denison high school girl.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the birthplace of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Denison.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the joint conference of the American Rocket Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers with guest speaker Wernher Von Braun.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Austin College in Sherman opening its 109th year with a convocation and dedication of the new Wynne Chapel, donated by the Toddie Lee Wynne family of Dallas. Doctor Harold Muller directs the Austin College choir in the dedication anthem "Onward Ye Peoples." Dr. Elliot then turns the key over to the schools president John D. Moseley. Then in the chapels steeple, the Sam Houston Bell is wrung as it was a gift from the Texas patriot. The address is given by House Speaker Rayburn of Bonham, praising the constitution of the United States saying 59 men locked in a room wrote the greatest document in history and none of its fundamentals have changed.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.