athletes – Home Movie Registry

[HOME MOVIES — BROOKS, RICHARD. 01 / GEORGE AND IRA GERSHWIN; BASEBALL GAME WITH SATCHEL PAIGE PITCHING; TENNIS AND MORE / CA. 1936 – 1948]

By Kate DollenmayerAugust 8, 2018UncategorizedAfrican Americans, airplanes, Arthur Freed, athletes, baseball, California, dams, Dinners and dining, E. Y. Harburg, Executives, Gene Bearden, George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin, Louis B. Mayer, Motion picture producers and directors, Nevada, Pitchers (Baseball), Racetracks (Horse racing), Rouben Mamoulian, Satchel Paige, Simone Simon, tennis, Wagers, William Goetz

[HOME MOVIES — BROOKS, RICHARD. 01 / GEORGE AND IRA GERSHWIN; BASEBALL GAME WITH SATCHEL PAIGE PITCHING; TENNIS AND MORE / CA. 1936 – 1948]

The Arch Campbell Family Films, no. 4 – Texas Open, 1950

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Arch Campbell Family FilmsArch Campbell, athlete, athletes, athletics, Bexar-County, Brackenridge Park Golf Course, Brackenridge-Park, championship, Ft. Sam Houston, Ft. Sam Houston Golf Course, golf, golf tournament, golf-course, Green, home movie, PGA, PGA Tour, putting, putting green, Sam Snead, San-Antonio, spectators, sport, sporting event, sports, Texas Open, TFC, tournament, Valero, Valero Texas Open

This home movie from the Arch Campbell collection captures footage of the 1950 Texas Open Golf Tournament, now known as the Valero Texas Open. The tournament began in 1922 and over the decades has been played at a number of San Antonio area golf courses. The 1950 Texas Open was held February 9-12 and played

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

By hmregistryMarch 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.

The Ouida Whitaker Dean Collection, no. 21 – In the Bleachers (1975)

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Ouida Whitaker Dean Collection1970s, adolescent, adolescents, African Americans, African-American, athlete, athletes, athletics, audience, basket, basketball, basketball court, basketball courts, basketball game, basketball games, basketball player, basketball players, basketball team, basketball teams, baskets, bleacher, bleachers, child, children, court, courts, crowd, crowds, edit, edited, fan, fans, footage, foul, foul shot, foul shots, fouls, free throw, free throws, game, games, goal, goals, gym, gymnasium, gymnasiums, gyms, high school sport, high school sports, high schools, high-school, home movie, home movies, hoop, hoops, kid, kids, movie, movies, opponent, opponents, player, players, raw footage, ref, referee, referees, refs, school, schools, score, scoreboard, scoreboards, scores, Shelby County, shot, shots, spectator, spectators, sport, sporting event, sporting events, sports, sports teams, sports-team, stand, stands, student, students, team, teammate, teammates, teams, teenage, teenager, teenagers, TFC, three pointer, three pointers, Timpson, Timpson High School, uniform, uniforms, women's basketball, women's sports, youth, youths

This home movie from 1975 captures scenes of students and community members in the stands at a women’s basketball game at Timpson High School in East Texas. Rather than the game, the film focuses on the lively spectators as they hang out with friends and react to the game.

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

By hmregistryMarch 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 Easterwood Family Films, no. 8 – Junior Coffey and Wheat Fields (1961)

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Easterwood Family Films1960s, African Americans, African-American, All American, all state, athlete, athletes, Atlanta Falcons, automobile, automobiles, beetle, bobcat, Bobcats, bug, car, cars, Castro County, cereal grain, classic car, classic-cars, Coffey, crop, crops, defense, defensive, DHS, Dimmitt, Dimmitt Bobcat, Dimmitt Bobcats, Dimmitt High School, farm, farmer, farmers, farming, field, fields, football, grain, grains, Green Bay Packers, high-school, home movie, home movies, Huskies, Junior, Junior Coffey, Junior Lee, Junior Lee Coffey, linebacker, linebackers, New York Giants, offense, offensive, player, players, running back, running backs, stalk, stalks, sway, swaying, TFC, University of Washington, UW Huskies, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Beetle, Volkswagen Bug, Volkswagen Type 1, wheat, wind

This home movie captures scenes of professional football player Junior Coffey at the Easterwood farm, followed by images of wheat fields. In his senior year at Dimmitt High School, the year before he began his football career at the University of Washington, Coffey throws around a football with Paul Easterwood in the yard. The first

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

By hmregistryMarch 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.

Workman Family, No. 1 1948- Parade, Zoo

By hmregistryMarch 8, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, Workman FamilyAfrican-American, animals, athletes, automobiles, B P Motor Sales, baboons, bands, bears, Bee County, Beeville, Bexar-County, bicycles, Boy Scouts of America, cars, cheerleaders, children, dancing, elephants, family, flamingos, floats, football, Gardenia Club, Gerald Workman, home movie, home movies, horses, Jr., lions, Lions Club, Lone Star, majorettes, marching bands, Mary McCarty Workman, Mathis High School, meals, musicians, parades, parrots, Pioneer White Wings Enriched Flour, Richard Workman, Sam M. "Mack" Workman, San-Antonio, scouts, square dancing, TFC, Veterans of Foreign Wars, VFW, Webelos, Woodsboro High School Band, zoos

The materials donated by Richard Workman depict the years when he and his brothers, Gerald Jr. and Sam M. (“Mack”), were growing up in Beeville, TX with their parents Gerald M. and Mary McCarty Workman. The films present everyday play scenes, family gatherings, parties, and trips to Mathis, Corpus Christi, and the San Antonio Zoo.