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The Ouida Whitaker Dean Collection, no. 24 – Scene from Hollow Rock Mountain (1976)

By wp_registryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Ouida Whitaker Dean Collection1970s, a person who wanted to record an event off of the television could do so by pointing the film camera towards the screen. Events captured in this manner tend to be significant world events that the fil, and go about everyday life. The films date from the early 1940s through the 1980s. This home movie features siblings Sean and Whitney playing in the backyard and riding bikes. Whitney's pet turtle als, and important moments in the lives of children, and Pet Turtle, another Mardi Gras event, are broadcast. In the era before VCRs and DVRs, behind-the-scenes, Canada where they visit Parliament Hill and the Tulip Garden and finally end up at the International and Universal Exposition in Montreal. The Wittenborn Family hails from Austin, holiday and birthday celebrations, Hollow Rock, Hollow Rock Mountain, home movie, home movies, landscape, library, nature, produce, production, rural, Shelby County, student, student film, student films, students, teen, teenage, teenager, teenagers, teens, TFC, Timpson, woods, youth, youths

This footage captures several takes of a scene from a fiction student film, Hollow Rock Mountain. The film was made in 1976 by students from Timpson High School, shot at various locations around Timpson and Shelby County.

The Ouida Whitaker Dean Collection, no. 20 – The Making of Hollow Rock Mountain

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This film from 1976 captures scenes from the making of a fiction student film named Hollow Rock Mountain. The footage begins with a photo montage of the Timpson High School student cast and crew during production, followed by footage of the group both preparing for their shoot and filming at the location.

Behind-the-Scenes at Filming of Route 66

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In February 1963, an episode of the popular television program “Route 66” was filmed on-location in Galveston, Texas (Season 3, Episode 24.) This home movie captures a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of the episode, in which the show’s stars, Martin Milner and Glenn Corbet, cruise the island in their iconic Corvette convertible and get […]