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The Ouida Whitaker Dean Collection, no. 7 – Interview With the Barnhart Family (1976)

By wp_registryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Ouida Whitaker Dean Collection1970s, amateur, bale, bales, child, children, cotton, cotton picking, crop, crops, daughter, daughters, Dean, dice, families, family, home brew, home movie, home movies, ice, ice block, ice blocks, ice truck, ice trucks, ice-cream, interview, interviews, kid, kids, laugh, laughing, laughs, laughter, man, men, mother, mothers, Nacogdoches, oral histories, oral history, Ouida Whitaker, Ouida Whitaker Dean, parties, party, Shelby County, shoot dice, shooting dice, shoots dice, smoke, smokes, smoking, soap, stories, story, storytelling, talk, talking, talks, TFC, washing powder, woman, women

This home movie interview conducted in 1976 captures a conversation with the Barnhart family. The eldest members of the family, the grandmother and grandfather, call up memories from their childhood, from making ice cream with their neighbors to picking cotton.

The Ryan Battle Collection, no. 5 – Family and Pets at the Lakehouse (1978)

By wp_registryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Ryan Battle Collection1970s, adolescent, aunt, aunts, back yard, back yards, cat, cats, child, children, cigar, cigarette, cigarettes, cigars, cocktail, cocktails, cousin, cousins, dad, daughter, deck, decks, dog, dogs, drink, drinking, drinks, families, family, father, fetch, fetches, fetching, fur collar, fur collars, grandfather, grandmother, grandparent, grandparents, home movie, home movies, kid, kids, lake, lake-house, lakehouse, lakes, lawn, lawns, mom, mother, parent, parents, pet, pets, pipe, pipes, play, playing, plays, porch, porches, scenic, sibling, siblings, sister, sisters, smoke, smokes, smoking, teenager, teenagers, TFC, uncle, uncles, yard, yards

This home movie captures scenes of the Battle family in 1978 as they relax in the backyard of a house backing up to a lake. The family plays with their dog and happily enjoys cocktails with friends.

The Ryan Battle Collection, no. 1 – Amarillo Tri-State Fair and Rodeo Parade

By wp_registryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Ryan Battle Collection1950s, Amarillo, Amarillo High School, American, band, bands, barbecue, barbeque, bbq, boyfriend, business, businesses, celebrate, celebrates, celebration, child, children, Christmas, chuck wagon, chuck wagons, cigarette, cigarettes, couple, couples, covered wagon, covered-wagons, cowboy hat, cowboy hats, Dallas, Dallas County, dance, dances, daschund, date, dates, decorate, decorates, decorating, dinner, dog, drive, drives, driving, fair, fairs, family, flag, flags, front-yard, gift, gifts, girlfriend, hamburger, hamburgers, high-school, holiday, holiday party, holidays, home, home movie, home movies, horse, horseback, horses, hotel, hotels, house, kid, kids, leisure, livestock show, lounge, March, marches, marching, marching band, motel, motels, Panhandle, parade, parades, party, pet, pets, picnic, pool, pools, Potter County, present, presents, prom, puppies, puppy, recreation, ride, rides, riding, rodeo, rodeos, saddle, saddles, Sales Manager, senior prom, Shriner, shriners, Shriners Club, smoke, smokes, smoking, swim, swimming, swimming pool, swimming pools, swims, teenager, teenagers, Texan, TFC, Thanksgiving, Travel, traveling, Traveling Texans, travels, tree, Tri State Fair and Rodeo, trip, turkey, U.S. 75, U.S. Route 75, uniform, uniforms, US 75, US Route 75, vacation, wagon, wagons, West Texas, Will Rogers Range Riders, X-mas, Xmas, yard

This home movie captures scenes of the Battle family living and traveling in Texas in the 1950s, most notably attending a parade in Amarillo celebrating the Tri-State Fair and Rodeo. Members of the Battle family go swimming, attend senior prom, participate in marching band, have family picnics, celebrate the holidays at home and with co-workers. […]

The Mary and Morgan Jones Collection – Family Life

By wp_registryMarch 8, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Mary and Morgan Jones Collection1950s, babies, baby, birthday, birthday cakes, birthday-cake, birthdays, brother, brothers, cake, cakes, child, children, crawl, crawling, crawls, doll, dolls, families, family, father, fathers, flower, flowers, fur coat, fur coats, girl, girls, home movie, home movies, infant, infants, kid, kids, lawn, lawns, lieutet, lieutets, Lubbock, Lubbock County, man, men, mother, mothers, parties, party, pilot, pilots, pipe, pipes, play, playing, plays, sibling, siblings, sister, sisters, slide, slides, smoke, smokes, smoking, son, sons, swing, swing-set, swinging, swings, TFC, uniform, uniforms, woman, women, yard, yards

This home movie captures a variety of scenes of the Jones

Too Frightening (Part II)

By wp_registryMarch 8, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image“Grit”, 1970s, adventure, adventures, amateur film, amateur films, American-flag, automobile, automobiles, band, band leader, bandleader, bands, bank, bank robbery, barber, barber shop, bet, bets, betting, bill, bills, brother, brothers, building, bus, buses, car, car wash, cars, cash, chase, chased, chases, chasing, cheerleader, cheerleaders, child, children, Chuck Taylors, cigarette, cigarettes, city bus, claw hammer tuxedo, coin flipping, comedic, comedy, converse, converse all stars, count, counting, counts, cowboy, cowboys, Dallas, Dallas County, dance, dance party, dances, dancing, dinner, dollar, dollars, dynamite, employed, employee, employees, employment, family, fight, fighting, fights, gamble, gambles, gambling, gang, gangs, getaway, getaway car, getaways, guitar, guitarist, guitars, gun, guns, home, home movie, home movies, hoodlums, hostage, hostages, house, instrument, instruments, intertitle, intertitles, job, jobs, kid, kids, magic, mistaken identity, mother, musical, musician, musicians, newsboy, newsboys, newsman, newspaper, newspaperman, one man band, phoe booth, pins, pith helmet, POTUS, President, President of the United States of America, President-of-the-United-States, public, rebel, rebels, rob, robberies, robbery, robbing, robs, sell, selling, sells, show business, silent film, smoke, smokes, smoking, telephone booth, telephone booth stuffing, teller, tellers, TFC, title, titles, Too Frightening, toy-gun, toy-guns, transportation, trick, tricks, tuxedo, tuxedos, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Beetle, Volkswagen Bug, Volkswagen Type 1, VW bug, weeklies, weekly, work

This amateur film, made by a young Robert Frye, is titled

The Jimmy Mitchell Family Films, no. 7 – Swimming and Horseback Riding in the Yard

By wp_registryMarch 5, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Jimmy Mitchell Family Films1950s, babies, baby, baby-pool, baby-pools, bathing-suit, bathing-suits, Borger, brother, brothers, child, children, cigarette, cigarettes, cowboy, cowboys, daughter, dive, diver, divers, dives, diving, duck, ducks, family, father, garden, garden-hose, garden-hoses, gardens, geese, goose, grandfather, grandmother, grandparent, grandparents, gun, guns, home movie, home movies, horse, horseback, horseback-rider, horseback-riders, horseback-riding, horses, hose, hoses, Hutchinson-County, infant, kid, kids, lawn, lawn-ornament, lawn-ornaments, lawns, mother, newborn, newborns, pistol, pistols, pool, pools, ride, rider, riders, rides, riding, saddle, saddles, sister, sisters, smoke, smoker, smokers, smokes, smoking, son, swim, swimmer, swimmers, swimming, swims, swimsiots, swimsuit, TFC, toy-gun, toy-guns, water-hose, water-hoses, yard, yards

In this home movie, the Mitchell family goes swimming in a public pool, and in a baby pool at the house. The family rides a horse in the front yard of their house and through the neighborhood.