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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

The Ludeke Family Collection, no. 11 – Easter in Seymour, TX

By hmregistryMay 29, 2020Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Ludeke Family Collection1950s, 266th U.S. Army Band, amusement parks, animals, automobiles, Blue Ridge Parkway, cameras, cars, children, Copperas Cove, Copperas Cove Pioneer Days, Copperas Cove Trinity Lutheran Church, Coryell County, Cove State Bank, family, farms, Fort Hood, Gap Creek, gardens, Georgia, home movie, home movies, landscape, livestock, Lutheran Women's Missionary League, marching bands, Middle Fork Baptist Church, Morris Bell, National Forest Service, North Carolina, parades, picnics, Pisgah National Forest, plants, Stone Mountain, Thunder Hill, trains, Travel, Tweetsie Railroad, Walter Bell, Wendell Bell

James and Joreen Ludeke settled in Wichita County in 1954 and raised their 6 children on their ranch located on the former site of the Four Sixes Horse Ranch and the North West Oil field. Their film collection features scenes of farm life set against a backdrop of North Central Texas prairie, the Red River,

Home Movies: Wathen Collection: San Francisco, Yellowstone, Colorado, Illinois

By hmregistryMarch 30, 2015Prelinger Archives, Wathen Collectioncities, Detroit, landscape, Michigan, urban geography

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 Ryan Battle Collection, no. 3 – Italy Vacation

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Ryan Battle Collectionaerial, aerial view, aerial views, airplane, airplanes, airport, architecture, camera, cameras, flies, flying, fountain, fountains, garden, gardens, hills, hillside, historic, home movie, home movies, Italia, Italy, landscape, landscapes, leisure, photograph, photographing, photographs, picture, pictures, plane, planes, renaissance, renaissance architecture, renaissance garden, ruins, scenic, sculpture, sculptures, sight, sight see, sights, sightseeing, site, site see, sites, siteseeing, TFC, Tivoli, tour, tourism, tourist, tourists, tours, Travel, traveling, Traveling Texans, travels, trip, vacation, view, views, Villa D'este

This home movie captures scenes of the Battle family in Italy as they visit the countryside and the beautiful fountains and gardens of Villa d’Este in Tivoli.

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

The Ouida Whitaker Dean Collection, no. 24 – Scene from Hollow Rock Mountain (1976)

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image, The Ouida Whitaker Dean Collection1970s, a person who wanted to record an event off of the television could do so by pointing the film camera towards the screen. Events captured in this manner tend to be significant world events that the fil, and go about everyday life. The films date from the early 1940s through the 1980s. This home movie features siblings Sean and Whitney playing in the backyard and riding bikes. Whitney's pet turtle als, and important moments in the lives of children, and Pet Turtle, another Mardi Gras event, are broadcast. In the era before VCRs and DVRs, behind-the-scenes, Canada where they visit Parliament Hill and the Tulip Garden and finally end up at the International and Universal Exposition in Montreal. The Wittenborn Family hails from Austin, holiday and birthday celebrations, Hollow Rock, Hollow Rock Mountain, home movie, home movies, landscape, library, nature, produce, production, rural, Shelby County, student, student film, student films, students, teen, teenage, teenager, teenagers, teens, TFC, Timpson, woods, youth, youths

This footage captures several takes of a scene from a fiction student film, Hollow Rock Mountain. The film was made in 1976 by students from Timpson High School, shot at various locations around Timpson and Shelby County.

Smile, Laugh, Cry (2013)

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image2000s, archival, archive, archives, Austin, barbecue, barbeque, bbq, beer, border, border culture, borders, boundaries, boundary, brother, brothers, cousin, cousins, culture, cultures, documentaries, documentary, extended family, families, family, farm, farmer, farmers, farming, farmland, farms, father, fence, fences, field, fields, footage, freedom, grandfather, grandmother, grandparents, grill, grilling, grills, Guanajuato, heritage, home movie, home movies, land, landscape, Mexican, Mexican American, Mexican Americans, Mexicans, Mexico, mother, narrate, narrates, narrating, narrator, parent, parents, Rio Grande, Rio Grande River, river, rivers, rural, Saltillo, scenic, sibling, siblings, societies, society, soundtrack, state, states, student film, student films, taco, tacos, Texas Mexico Border, TFC, Travis County

This student film, made by Charlie Sanchez, uses archival footage from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image to explore the experience of growing up with family on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border. The film examines how the border divides two societies, but Sanchez, through the experience of getting to know his family in

Fatal Car Wreck I (2013)

By hmregistryMarch 9, 2015Texas Archive Of The Moving Image2000s, accident, accidents, accomplish, accomplished, accomplishes, accomplishment, accomplishments, adventure, adventures, archival, archive, archives, Austin, automobile, automobiles, bicycle, bicycles, bicycling, bike, bikes, biking, bride, brother, brothers, car, cars, childhood, death, deaths, die, documentaries, documentary, drive, drives, driving, drove, dying, family, fatal, fatalities, fatality, father, flashback, flashbacks, footage, groom, home movie, home movies, hunter, Hunter Rowe, landscape, landscapes, LIFE, lives, love, marriage, memories, memory, moment, moments, mother, narrate, narrates, narrating, narrator, parent, parents, regret, regrets, Rowe, Santa-Claus, scenic, soundtrack, student film, student films, TFC, time, Travel, traveled, traveling, travels, Travis County, wedding, wreck, wrecks

This student film, made by Hunter Rowe, uses archival footage from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image to tell the story of a man reflecting on his death and life after a fatal car crash. The film uses picturesque home movie scenes as the narrator speaks about his life–what he did and what he