1930s – Home Movie Registry

Home Movie: 98615: Unidentified

By hmregistryMarch 30, 2015Prelinger Archives1930s, camp, Emmaus Boys Camp, home movies, prelinger

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The Local Gang in Kidnappers Foil – Childress, TX, c.1936

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image1930s, act, acting, actor, actors, actress, actresses, applaud, applause, automobiles, bakery, Bette Davis, Betty Davis, birthday, boys, Butch, cars, cast, child, children, Childress, Childress County, comedy, credits, dad, dance, dancer, dancers, dancing, Ennis Melton Barker, family, father, film, filming, filmmaker, food, gang, Gate City Creameries, Gate City Ice Cream Parlor, girls, home, hometown, itinerant, itinerant film, itinerant films, kid, kidnap, kidnapper, kidnappers, Kidnappers Foil, kidnapping, kids, lines, Little Rascals, local, local talent, master of ceremonies, MC, Melton Barker, mom, money, mother, movie, music, nap, Our Gang, park, party, perform, performance, piano, police, ransom, rescue, reunite, reunited, reward, safe, Sanitary Bakery, script, show, sing, singing, sleep, sleeping, song, songs, Spanky, Spanky McFarland, star, starring, stars, talent show, talkie, talky, tap, The End, The Kidnappers Foil, Travel, traveling

This version of an Our Gang style itinerant film, made by Texan filmmaker Melton Barker, stars a local cast from Childress, Texas circa 1936. When their friend Betty Davis is kidnapped, the local children pull together to find her. Once the kidnappers are caught and turned over to the police, the gang celebrates with a

The Orris D. Brown Collection, no. 6 – Houston, Henderson, and FDR (1936)

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Orris D. Brown Collection"Stars Fell on Alabama", 1930s, 1936, accident, acknowledge, acknowledgment, acknowledgments, amateur film, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, attendance, baseball, bridge, Buffalo Stadium, church, Clara Mae Brown, contribute, contributed, contribution, convoy, corps, Darcas Class, diesel, drill, drilling, Eleanor Roosevelt, electric, elephant, F.D.R., family, FDR, field, fields, fireworks, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Green Bayou Wetlands, Greens Bayou, Harris County, Heights, Henderson, high bridge, home movie, home movies, Houston, Houston Heights, Houston Railway Post Office, Illinois Central, Illinois Central Railroad, intertitle, intertitles, Jesse H. Jones, Jesse Jones, June 1936, locomotive, Methodist, military, navy, neighborhood, news, newsreel, North Side, North Side Methodist Church, Northline, Northside, officer, officers, oil, Orris Brown, Orris D. Brown, Palooka Town, parade, pastor, picture, pictures, police, Pompeii, President, President of the United States of America, program, pump, pumps, rail, railroad, railway, Railway Post Office, reel, relative, relatives, religion, religious, Rev. G.Z. Sadler, Reverend G.Z. Sadler, rig, role, roles, Rusk County, sailor, sailors, Southern Pacific, Southern Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Transportation Company, sponsor, sponsored, sponsors, star, starring, station, stop motion animation, streamlined, Sunday School, thank, thank you, thanks, the Heights, track, tracks, train, TX, U.S. Navy, U.S.A., United States, United States Mail, United States Navy, United States of America, United States Postal Service, USA, W.M. Thomas, well, wells, worker, workers, wreck

This reel from the Orris D. Brown Collection contains footage from a number of events. The first part includes examples of early film credit techniques, footage of a then-modern, diesel electric streamlined train at Houston’s Railway Post Office, fireworks over Houston’s Buffalo Stadium, and scenes of Clara Mae Brown, Orris D. Brown’s mother, visiting family

The Orris D. Brown Collection, no. 1 – Dallas Centennial Exposition, A Holiday on Treasure Island (1936, 1937)

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Orris D. Brown Collection100, 100th, 1930s, 1936, 1937, Amelia Earhart, American, amusement, amusements, animatronic, anniversary, art, art deco, attraction, attractions, band, beach, bear, bears, Bexar-County, Black Forest, Bowen Bus, brachiosaurus, Brown, brown bear, brown bears, Browns, Bruin, Bruins, building, buildings, Callawae, Callawaes, camp, carriage, celebration, centennial, Centennial Expo Building, central exposition, child, children, Click, Clicks, coast, confederacy, Confederate States of America, corps, Dallas, Dallas County, dinosaur, dinosaurs, Emma Gordon, expo, exposition, expositions, fair, fair grounds, Fair Park, families, family, FDR, fight, fighting, fish, fishing, flag, flags, Ford, fountain, fountains, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Frankling Delano Roosevelt, French, Galveston, Galveston-County, Georgia Carroll, Ginger Rogers, grounds, hall, Hall of State, holiday, ice skate, ice skating, Independence, independence day, instrument, instruments, jetty, Jose Martin, July 4th, Kay Kaiser Band, kid, kids, leisure, March, marching, memorial, memorials, Mexican, military, mural, murals, music, musician, musicians, ocean, officer, officers, Orris Brown, Orris D. Brown, pageant, park, peanuts, performance, photograph, photography, piano, pier, pole, poles, police, pool, reflection pool, Republic of Texas, ride, rides, San-Antonio, sand, sculpture, sculptures, Sinclair, Six Flags, Six Flags Over Texas, Six Ladies of Fair Park, skate, skating, Spanish, Spirit of the Centennial, State of Texas Building, stegosaurus, swimsuit, swimsuits, T. Rex, Tejas Warrior, Texan, Texas Centennial Exposition, Texas Revolution, Texas State Fair, Texas State Fair Grounds, tourist, tourists, Treasure Island, TX, tyrannosaurus rex, uniform, uniforms, water wheel, wheel, world's-fair

This home movie from the Orris Brown Collection captures scenes of the Texas Centennial Exposition at the Texas State Fair Grounds in Dallas in 1936. It was the first world’s fair south of the Mason-Dixon Line. At a cost of $25,000,000, the central exposition was built, occupying fifty buildings, including The Hall of Negro Life,

HP Wells Family Films – Texas Cowboy Reunion (1939)

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015HP Wells Family Films, Texas Archive Of The Moving Image1930s, 1939, ball, boat, bucking bronco, calf, calf wrangling, canoe, child, cold, compete, contest, cowboy hat, cowboys, cowgirls, dad, event, family, father, game, girl, golf, golf club, golf-course, Haskell County, hat, home, home movie, horse, house, hug, jacket, Jones County, jump, kid, lake, lake-house, lasso, men, mom, mother, nature, outdoors, outside, paddle, play, river, rodeo, rope, rough, run, sail, sailboat, sailor, Stamford, swing, TFC, toddler, tough, water, windy, women, wrangle

This home movie from the HP Wells Family Films opens on the Stamford Rodeo, also known as the Texas Cowboy Reunion, in 1939. Men and women ride horses in a cloverleaf pattern, and men ride bucking broncos and wrangle calves. The film also includes scenes of a game of golf, a father playing outside with

The Bentsen Film Collection, no. 9 – Panorama of House and Yard

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Bentsen Film Collection1930s, Bentsen, brick, driveway, family, flower, flowerbed, flowerbeds, flowers, garden, Hidalgo County, home, home movie, home movies, house, landscaping, Mission, South-Texas, TFC, tree, trees, TX, yard

This home movie from the Alton Collection documents the family’s newly completed home, located on North Conway in Mission, Texas.

The E.B. Hopkins Collection, no. 15 – Texas Oil Fields (1937)

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The E.B. Hopkins Collection1930s, American Maracaibo Company, Casa de Palmas Hotel, Clayton, Cochran County, derrick, drilling, Ector-County, Edgar, Edgar Clayton, gas, Hidalgo County, home movie, hotel, Hotel Casa de Palmas, industry, machinery, McAllen, Midland, Midland County, natural gas, oil, oil and gas field, oil derrick, oil drilling, oil field, oil industry, oil well, Panhandle, Panhandle Field, petroleum, Renaissance Casa de Palmas, Renaissance Casa de Palmas Hotel, Rio-Grande-Valley, Sam Fordyce oil and gas field, Sam Fordyce Oil Field, tea room, Texas Panhandle Oil and Gas Field, TFC, West Texas

This home movie from the 1930s captures scenes of various Texas oil fields. The film begins with a look at the Panhandle field, as oilman E.B. Hopkins checks out a number of wells. Next, he visits the Sam Fordyce oil and gas field in Hidalgo County. While in nearby McAllen, Hopkins stays at the Casa

The E.B. Hopkins Collection, no. 9 – Family Celebrations and Texas Happenings (1937-38)

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The E.B. Hopkins Collection1930s, aisle, altar, American seal, American-flag, Amy Longcope, Amy Longcope Hopkins, architecture, arrival, arriving, Austin, beach, bluebonnets, boarding house, boarding school, bouquet, bridal party, bride, bridesmaid, building, Capitol, capitol-building, castilleja, Cavalcade of Texas, celebration, centennial, Centennial Building, Centennial Exposition, ceremony, college, Congress Ave, Congress Avenue, Dallas, Dallas County, daughter, dress, E.B., E.B.-Hopkins, Edwin-Butcher, Edwin-Butcher-Hopkins, entrance, esplanade, fair, Fair Park, family, family gathering, Fat-Tuesday, father of the bride, flag, float, flower arrangement, flower bouquet, fraternity, Galveston, Galveston-County, graduate, graduation, Greek, Greek life, groom, groomsman, guest, gulf, Gulf of Mexico, Hall of State, heritage, history, Hockaday School, home movie, Hopkins, Hotel Galvez, Humble's Hall of Texas History, indian paintbrush, Jerry, Jerry Jones, Jones, Littlefield Fountain, Louise, Louise Hopkins, marching band, Mardi-Gras, Martha, Martha Musser, mural, Musser, pageant, parade, party, prairie fire, procession, processional, round up, RoundUp, school, seal, seating, seawall, service, son, sorority, State of Texas Building, street, submarine, table, Texas Centennial, Texas Centennial Exposition, Texas flag, Texas-State-Capitol, Texas-State-Capitol-Building, TFC, The Centennial Building, The University of Texas, The University of Texas at Austin, Travis County, United States flag, university, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas Round Up, University of Texas Tower, University-of-Texas, usher, UT, UT Tower, veil, water, wedding, wedding ceremony, wedding dress, wedding guest, wildflowers, world's-fair

This home movie features a number of Hopkins family celebrations and happenings around Texas in 1937 and 1938. The film opens with the wedding of E.B. Hopkins’s eldest daughter, Amy, to Ted Fitch. Next, E.B. Hopkins tours the Texas Centennial Exposition in Dallas’ Fair Park, focusing on buildings such as the Hall of State, the

A. M. Harper, 1948

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015A. M. Harper Collection, Texas Archive Of The Moving Image1930s, Alaska, Albert-Morris-"A.M."-Harper, animals, bears, boats, fish, home movie, home movies, hunting, Kodiak Guides, landscape, Larsen Bay, TFC, whales

This home movie contains footage from an Alaskan hunting trip with intertitles describing different locations and events. Also included are shots of Harper and hunting companions field dressing a bear after a hunt.

The E.B. Hopkins Collection, no. 13 – Trips to the Wider Caribbean Region

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The E.B. Hopkins Collection1920s, 1930s, abroad, airplane, airport, Arlington, arrival, Atlantic-Ocean, Barranquilla, bird, boat, boat-deck, Camaguey, capital, Caracas Country Club, Caribbean, Caribbean Sea, Cartagena, Central-America, Charleston, Charleston Airport, charter flight, charter plane, Chicago Flyer, church, city, clipper ship, coast, coastline, Colombia, Colon, course, Cuba, Curaçao, D.C., DC, deck, deck steward, departure, dive, diver, diving, dock, docking, Dutch-Caribbean, egret, El Morro Castle, ferry, ferry boat, flight, Florida, fly, flying, Fort de France, fortress, golf, golf-course, golfer, golfing, harbor, Havana, heron, home movie, horse, horse race, horse racing, Hudson River, hydroplane, international, intertitles, island, La Guaira, local, Los Caobos Park, Manhattan, Martinique, Miami, monument, Morro Castle, Mount Pelee, native, nature, New York City, New-York, ocean, ocean-liner, outdoors, overhead view, Pacific Ocean, palace, Palacio de las Garzas, Pan American, Panam, Panama, Panama Canal, Panama Canal Administration Building, Panama Canal Zone, park, plane, port, Puerto Colombia, Puerto Rico, race, race horse, race track, racetrack, ruins, S.S. Caracas, Saint Thomas, San Juan, sea port, ship, sightsee, sightseeing, South America, South Carolina, statue, steward, street, TFC, tourism, tourist, town, track, train, train tracks, travelogue, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States Virgin Islands, US Virgin Islands, USVI, Venezuela, view, village, Virginia, Washington, Washington Airport, Washington DC, West-Indies, Willemstad

This home movie captures scenes of trips to various South and Central American countries between 1926 and 1934, including Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Martinique, and the United States Virgin Islands. In addition to sightseeing footage, the film highlights the means of transport to these destinations, from ocean liners to trains