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The Ryan Battle Collection, no. 12 – Florida Trip in the Airstream

By wp_registryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Ryan Battle Collection1970s, air stream, air stream trailer, airstream, amusement park, amusement parks, beach, cannon, cannons, car, car trip, car trips, cars, Castillo de San Marcos, Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, coast, deer, FL, Florida, goat, goats, home movie, home movies, iron horse, Jungle Land, leisure, Louisiana live oak, Louisiana live oaks, moss, mountain, mountains, National Monument, national monuments, ocean, Oldsmobile, Oldsmobiles, park, parks, petting zoos, petting-zoo, road trip, road trips, sand, scenic, setting sun, shore, sight, sight see, sights, sightseeing, Silver Springs, site, site see, sites, siteseeing, Spanish moss, St. Augustine, sun set, sun sets, sunset, sunsets, TFC, theme park, theme parks, tombstone territory, tour, tourism, tourist, tourists, tours, trailer, Travel, traveling, Traveling Texans, trip, vacation, view, views, waves

This home movie captures scenes of the Battle family road tripping across the south to Florida. With an Air Stream in tow, they visit Silver Springs, the Castillo de San Marcos, a theme park called “Jungle Land” and, of course, the beach.

The Coltman Family No. 19 – The Lonely Beach Ball, Ostrich Farm

By wp_registryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Coltman Collectionamateur film, amateur films, bathing-suit, bathing-suits, beach, beach ball, beach balls, carriage, carriages, child, children, cloud, clouds, coast, dig, digging, egg, eggs, families, family, feather, feathers, graze, grazing, herds, hill, hills, home movie, home movies, kid, kids, leisure, ocean, ostrich, ostrich racing, ostrich-farm, ostriches, pasture, picnic, picnics, play, playing, plays, race, racing, recreation, roll, rolling, sand, sand dune, sand dunes, shore, sky, sunset, sunsets, swim, swim suit, swim suits, swimming, swims, swimsuit, swimsuits, TFC, tour, towel, towels, trip, trips, turtle, turtles, umbrella, umbrellas, vacation, vacations, walk, walking, walks, wave, waves

This home movie includes the Coltman-made amateur film

The Bursley Collection, no. 1 – Air Show and Rockets

By wp_registryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Bursley Collection1970s, adult, adults, air shows, air-show, aircraft, airplane, airplanes, airshow, airshows, alcohol, attire, aviation, booze, boy, boys, celebration, celebrations, child, children, clothes, clothing, desert, deserts, drink, drinking, drinks, drop zone, drop zones, dropzone, dropzones, EAA, El Paso Skydivers, El-Paso, El-Paso-County, event, events, Experimental Aircraft Association, fall, falls, families, family, fashion, field, fields, flight, flights, flying, footage, friend, friends, gathering, gatherings, get together, get togethers, girl, girls, group, groups, home movie, home movies, hot pant, hot pants, kid, kids, landing, landing zone, landing zones, landings, leg, legs, light aircraft, light sport aircraft, little boy, little boys, little girl, little girls, movie, movies, onlooker, onlookers, outfit, outfits, parachute, parachute landing, parachute landings, parachutes, parachuting, parties, party, performance, performances, performer, performers, pilot, pilots, plane, planes, raw footage, recreation, recreational sport, recreational sports, reel, reels, rocket, rocket launch, rocket launches, rockets, short shorts, shorts, show, shows, skydiver, skydivers, skydiving, Skydiving El Paso, spectator, spectators, sport, sports, sunset, sunsets, TFC, trick, tricks, unedited, viewer, viewers

This home movie captures scenes shot by Philip Bursley of a group of friends having a party in the El Paso desert in the late 1970s. After a skydiver makes a parachute landing at the start of the film, the friends watch an impromptu air show and launch rockets.

The Ryan Battle Collection, no. 11 – Picnicking and Beach Camping

By wp_registryMarch 8, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Ryan Battle Collection1950s, alcohol, babies, baby, back yard, back yards, beach, beaches, beer, beer can, beer cans, beers, booze, brother, brothers, camp ground, camp grounds, car camp, car camping, car camps, child, children, couple, couples, couples dancing, cousin, cousins, cute, dad, dance, dances, dancing, daughter, dog, dogs, drink, drinking, drinks, eat, eating, eats, families, family, family reunion, family reunions, father, flies, fly, flying, home movie, home movies, horse shoe game, horse shoes, hotel, hotels, idyllic, kid, kids, leisure, liquor, man, men, mom, motel, motels, mother, motor hotel, motor hotels, motor inn, motor inns, ocean, parent, parents, partner dancing, Pearl, Pearl beer, Pearl beer can, Pearl beer cans, pet, pets, picnic, picnicking, picnics, puppies, puppy, recreation, sand, scenic, seagull, seagulls, sibling, siblings, sister, sisters, son, sunset, sunsets, swim, swimmer, swimmers, swimming, swimming pool, swimming pools, swims, teenager, teenagers, tent, tents, TFC, two step, two stepping, uncle, waves, Weimeraner, Weimeraners, woman, women, yard, yards

This home movie captures idyllic scenes of a Texan family in the 1950s. They swim and picnic together, camp out on the beach, play horseshoes, and dance in the sand, all in beautiful locations.