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The Ouida Whitaker Dean Collection, no. 19 – The Young Life of Jeffery Sullivan

By wp_registryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Ouida Whitaker Dean Collection1970s, adolescent, adolescents, animal, animals, aunt, aunts, bicycle, bicycles, bike, bikes, boat, boats, child, children, conversation, conversations, crayon, crayons, crop, crops, Dean, dog, dogs, drawer, drawers, drawing, drawings, edit, edited, families, family, family member, family members, farm, farmer, farmers, farms, field, fields, flower, flowers, foliage, grandfather, grandfathers, grandmother, grandmothers, grandparent, grandparents, grass, harvest, hog, hogs, home, home movie, home movies, homes, horse, horses, house, houses, interview, interviewee, interviewees, interviewer, interviewers, interviews, Jeffery, Jeffery Sullivan, kid, kids, livestock, Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, nap, naps, nature, nephew, nephews, Ouida Whitaker, Ouida Whitaker Dean, outdoors, pen, pens, pet, pets, pig, pigs, plant, plants, play, playing, ponies, pony, profile, profiles, run, runner, runners, running, rural, sleep, sleeper, sleepers, sleeping, snore, snoring, Sullivan, TFC

This home movie from the 1970s captures scenes of a day in the life of Ouida Whitaker Dean’s grand-nephew, Jeffrey Sullivan. After introducing himself, Sullivan shows us around his home in Nacogdoches, strolling through the crops and visiting the livestock. He also plays with his pets and hangs out with his family. This film charmingly […]

The Dennis Family Films, no. 5 – Chronicle of Family Adventures

By wp_registryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Dennis Family Filmsax, bear cubs, bears, bears at picnic, blindfolded, Buzz Saw Battle, camel, Castle Film, catch, church, classic-cars, Cooke County, costumes, country road, country side, cowboy, cutting wood, dancing, dead bodies, diving-board, dog, Donald Duck, elephant, elephants, fake camel, flamethrower, flowers, football, Frisbee, Frisbee throwing, Gainesville, HI Ho Theatre, home movie, home movies, Hopalong Cassidy, horseback-riding, horses, hotrods, kitten, Las Vegas, Mickey Mouse, newsreel footage, performance, piano, piano playing, picnic, Prairie Vengeance, racing, running, Sands hotel, scenes from an old movie, shoes, skit, snow cones, sound cards, squirrel, squirrels, swimming pool, TFC, three legged race, three stooges, two hand touch, two hand touch football, VW bus, Walt Disney, war footage, wheelbarrow racing, wooden cross, zoo

Using clips from commercially available films to narrate and punctuate the events captured in the home movies, this film from the Dennis Family collection chronicles a family trip and the activities of the children, especially with what appears to be a church youth group. Among the events caught on film are a trip to the […]

The Ouida Whitaker Dean Collection, no. 23 – Playing Twister at Timpson High

By wp_registryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Ouida Whitaker Dean Collection1970s, African Americans, African-American, athlete, athletes, athletics, board game, board games, campus, campuses, charade, charades, class, classes, classroom, classrooms, climb, climber, climbers, climbing, decorate, decorating, decorations, edit, edited, editing, equipment, field, fields, film, films, football, football player, football players, football practice, game, games, hall, halls, hallway, hallways, high schools, high-school, high-school-football, home movie, home movies, nature, outdoors, parlor game, parlor games, period, periods, player, players, practice, practices, race, races, reel, reels, run, running, school, schools, Shelby County, sidewalk, sidewalks, sport, sports, student, students, teen, teenager, teenagers, teens, TFC, Timpson, Timpson High School, tree, tree-climbing, trees, twister, walk, walking, walks, walkway, walkways, youth, youths

This home movie from the 1970s captures Timpson High School students messing around on campus, happily climbing trees and playing games of Twister.

1937 Sun Carnival Parade and Sun Bowl

By wp_registryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image1930s, American, armed forces, audience, automobile, automobiles, band, baton, Border Conference, car, cars, child, children, classic, classic car, classic-cars, coach, coaches, color guard, corps, costume, costumes, crowd, crowds, drum, drum major, drum majors, drumming, drums, El Paso High School, El Paso High School Stadium, El-Paso, El-Paso-County, family, father, field, flag, flags, float, floats, football, game, half-time, Hardin Simmons Cowboys, Hardin Simmons University, home movie, home movies, horse, horseback, horses, HSU, instrument, instruments, kid, kids, March, marching, marching band, military, Miners, mother, music, musical, New-Mexico, pageant, parade, performance, player, players, run, running, score, stadium, Sun Bowl, Sun Carnival, Sun Carnival Parade, Sun Duchess, Sun Duchesses, Sun Queen, tackle, TCM, TCM Miners, team, teams, Texan, The Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy, touchdown, truck, trucks, twirl, twirlers, twirling, uniform, uniforms, University of Texas at El Paso, UTEP, weapon, weapons

This home movie captures scenes of the second annual Sun Carnival parade and Sun Bowl in El Paso on January 1, 1937. Floats, marching bands, and military corps parade through downtown El Paso, many carrying pageant queens, including the Sun Queen. Following are scenes of the Sun Bowl, in this early year still played at […]

The Lamar B. Kelly Collection, no. 4 – Texas Relays (1955)

By wp_registryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Lamar B. Kelly Collection1950s, athlete, athletes, athletics, Austin, boy, boys, coach, coaches, coaching, compete, competing, competition, dash, event, events, high-school, home movie, home movies, hurdle, hurdles, hurdling, meet, Memorial Stadium, meter, meters, race, races, racing, relay, relays, run, runner, runners, running, runs, sport, sports, sprint, sprinting, sprints, stadium, student, students, team, teammate, teammates, Texas Relays, TFC, The University of Texas, The University of Texas at Austin, timed, times, timing, track, track & field, track and field, track meet, track meets, Travis County, UT, UT Austin

This home movie captures scenes of the 1955 Texas Relays track meet, likely the high school division, held at Memorial Stadium at the University of Texas at Austin. The Texas Relays are an annual track and field competition hosted by the University of Texas. They began in 1925, and are now the second largest track […]

The Michael Cook, Jr. Collection – Football Practice and Family Life

By wp_registryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The J.R. Nelson Jr. Collection, The Michael Cook1960s, African-American, baby, Bexar Co, Bexar-County, boy, car, catch, classic car, crawling, crying, dad, daughter, drills, family, father, football, football drills, football practice, formal-wear, front porch, girl, grocery store, H.E.B., high-school, home movies, kids, mail truck, man, market, mom, mother, park, parking lot, Post Office, postman, river bank, running, running plays, San Antonio River, San-Antonio, scrimmage, slides, smoking, son, sports, store, suits, supermarket, swing-set, swings, tackling, Texas, TFC, Thomas Jefferson High School, toddler, TX, walking, water, waving, woman

This home movie captures scenes of football practice at Thomas Jefferson High School in the 1960s. It also includes images of Mr. Cook and his coworkers at the post office, an afternoon with Mrs. Cook by the San Antonio River, and the family’s children playing in front of their home.

The Ewen Collection, no. 3 – Backyard Birthday, Winter Snow (1959-60)

By wp_registryMarch 8, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Ewen Collection1950s, 1960s, American Indian, backyard, bicycle, bicycles, bike, bikes, birthday, boy, boys, Canton, car, cars, child, children, classic car, classic-cars, craft, crafts, dog, Ewen, family, father, game, games, gift, gifts, headdress, home, home movie, home movies, homes, indian, kid, kids, Midland, Midland County, mother, mothers, Native-American, neighborhood, party, pet, pin the tail on the donkey, present, presents, race, racing, run, running, snow, snowball, snowballs, snowing, snowman, TFC, tricycle, unwrap, unwrapping, Van Zandt County, William B., William B. Ewen, winter, yard

This home movie captures scenes of Billy, Mike, and Jimmy Ewen from 1959-60 celebrating a birthday in their Midland backyard, where they play Pin the Tail on the Donkey. Scenes of the boys riding bikes in the neighborhood and playing in the snow in the front yard are also included.

The Porter Click Family, no. 7 – Soccer in the 1970s

By wp_registryMarch 8, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Porter Click Family1970s, athlete, athletes, athletics, ball, boy, boys, child, children, coach, Dallas County, dribble, dribbling, family, father, field, game, Garland, home movie, home movies, kick, kicking, kid, kids, little league, mother, parents, player, players, recreation, run, running, score, soccer, speech, sports, sportsmanship, team, teammate, teammates, TFC, uniform, uniforms

This home movie captures scenes of a little league soccer game played in by Byran and Carla Click in the late 1970s.

The Chambliss and Britton Collection, no. 11 – Field Day at Wayland Baptist College

By wp_registryMarch 8, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Chambliss and Britton Collectioncampus, chicken fight, chicken fights, crawl, crawling, crawls, game, games, Hale County, home movie, home movies, invitational, jump, jumping, jumps, leisure, mud, obstacle, obstacle course, obstacles, outdoor, outdoors, Plainview, play, playing, plays, potato sack, potato sacks, race, races, recreation, relay, relays, run, running, runs, shoulder wars, social, student, students, TFC, three legged race, trough, water, Wayland Baptist College, Wayland Baptist University

This home movie captures scenes of a field day at Wayland Baptist College, now Wayland Baptist University, in Plainview. Students take part in three-legged races, potato sack races, shoulder wars, and an obstacle course set up on campus.

Austin Aquatic Club Goes to Corpus Christi (1966)

By wp_registryMarch 5, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image1960s, AAC, Aransas-County, Austin-Aquatic-Club, barbecue, bathing-cap, bathing-suit, beach, bikini, boys, burying-in-sand, carrying, children, Corpus-Christi, dancing, digging, field-trip, flexing, girls, goggles, grill, grilling, hamburgers, home movie, home-video-footage, horsing-around, jumping, jumping-jacks, kids, Kleberg-County, Longhorn-Aquatics, muscles, Nueces County, ocean, pier, playing, posing, road trip, running, San-Patricio-County, sand, sand-dollar, screaming, scuba-mask, smiling, speedo, splashing, summer, swim-cap, swimming-cap, swimming-trunks, swimsuit, teenagers, teens, Texas-Film-Commission, TFC, vacation, Wally-Pryor:-Wallace-Pryor, water, waves, waving, youngsters, youth

An Austin Aquatic Club visit to a Corpus Christi beach is captured in this 1966 home movie footage. The Austin Aquatic Club, now known as Longhorn Aquatics, was coached and directed by former All-American Longhorn water polo swimmer, Wally Pryor from 1953 to 1975. This mob of candid youths mug for the camera and take […]