El-Paso – Home Movie Registry

The Marcellus Hartman Collection, no. 26 – Trip to West Texas, 1956

By hmregistryMay 29, 2020Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Marcellus Hartman CollectionAlpine, automobile, Brewster-County, bullfight, cacti, cactus, camp, camping, campsite, car, Conestoga-wagon, El-Paso, El-Paso-County, family, Fort-Stockton, home movie, home movies, landmark, landmarks, landscape, leisure, Mexico, mountains, Pecos-County, picnic, pool, road trip, site-seeing, Sul-Ross, swimming, swimming pool, tent, TFC, tourism, trip, vacation, wagon

Captured in this home movie is the Hartman family’s road trip to West Texas where they take in the historic sites and rugged landscape. They stop along the way in Fort Stockton and El Paso, attend a bullfight in Juarez, Mexico, visit to Sul Ross State College in Alpine, and camp in Big Bend National

The Ernest M. Hunt Family Film Collection, no. 1 – El Paso Trip, 1939

By hmregistryMay 29, 2020Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Ernest M. Hunt Family Film Collection03/26/39, 1939, aerial-footage, airfield, airplane, airplane-wing, airplanes, airport, ambulances, American-Airlines, artillery, Bronc-riding, bull-riding, calf-roping, calf-tying, carriage, cars, cattle, cavalry, cavalry-review, child, children, classic-cars, cow, cowboy, cowboys, desert, driving, driving-footage, El-Paso, El-Paso-County, family, Flagship-Skysleeper, Fort-Bliss, Fort-Selden, Ft.-Bliss, gallop, galloping, generations, golf, golf-course, golfing, home movie, home movies, horseback-riding, horses, jeeps, landscape, lasso, March, military, mountain-road, mountains, procession, rodeo, ruins, saddle, Sam-Watkins-Livestock-Trading-Post, Southern-Transcontinental-route, stables, TFC, trucks

Beginning at a seemingly sparse airfield in El Paso, this footage from the Ernest M. Hunt Family Film Collection, provides a glimpse into a trip by the family that included visiting Fort Bliss for a military review of mounted cavalry, playing golf, and horseback riding. Particularly noteworthy sections of this film include rodeo events, aerial

Home Movie: 10807: Vacation to El Paso, Los Angeles and San Francisco

By hmregistryMarch 30, 2015Prelinger Archivesbuses, California, El-Paso, home movies, Los-Angeles, prelinger, San Francisco, Texas, transit, trolleys

Can labeled: Vacation to El Paso, L.A. & S.F. 3-11 to 20-61 II.

Home Movie: 97450: Xmas 1963

By hmregistryMarch 30, 2015Prelinger ArchivesEl-Paso, home movies, prelinger, Virginia

To come.

The Ravel Films, no. 1 – Vacation in Mexico with the Aaronsons

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Ravel FilmsAaronson Brothers, Abe Aaronson, bay, beach, community, department store, Dr. Vincent Ravel, El-Paso, El-Paso-County, home movie, home movies, hotel, Jewish, lake, landscape, leisure, M.D., Mexico, ocean, pond, pool, resort, scenic, swim, swimming, swimsuit, TFC, Travel, traveling, vacation, Vincent Ravel, waterfall

This home movie captures scenes of Dr. and Mrs. Ravel vacationing in Mexico with Abe Aaronson, owner of Aaronson Brothers department store in El Paso.

The Tony-Lupe Marquez Collection, no. 1 – Toys for Joy (1999)

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Tony Lupe Marquez Collectionblankets, carol, carols, charity, Chihuahua, child, children, Christmas, donate, donation, donations, El-Paso, El-Paso-County, Español, families, family, fire station, fire-department, firefighter, firefighters, food, friends, gifts, home movie, home movies, Juarez, kid, kids, Mexican American, Mexico, sing, singing, Spanish, TFC, toys, X-mas, Xmas

This home movie from December of 1999 captures footage of the Marquez family and friends working at a donation center they organized at the “Bomberos” (Firefighters) Fire station in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico for Juarez families in need to receive gifts, blankets, and food. The items were donated by citizens of Alamagordo, New Mexico; El Paso,

The Rogelio D. Quinones Collection, no. 1 – Visit to Charlie Steen and His Utah Mines

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Rogelio D. Quinones Collectionaerial, airplane, airplanes, airport, bridge, bridges, cal uranium, Charles August Steen, Charles Steen, El-Paso, El-Paso-County, family, flight, friends, home movie, home movies, landscape, Mi Vida Mine, mine, mineral, minerals, mining, mountains, music, piano, plane, planes, play, playing, property, San Juan County, scenic, Small Fry Mine, terrain, Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy, TFC, University of Texas at El Paso, Utah, UTEP, Utex Exploration Co., Utex Exploration Company, visit, West Texas

This home movie captures an El Paso family’s travels to San Juan County, Utah to visit family friend Charlie Steen. Steen was a graduate of the Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy (now the University of Texas at El Paso) who owned Utex Exploration Company and several mines in Utah. Charlie takes the family to