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[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 17 - Hunting in Colorado and Celebrating Christmas]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Fisher family including a Colorado hunting trip and Christmas celebration. A young girl, dressed as a cowgirl in front of the Christmas tree, draws her toy gun on the cameraman (02:17) and the family opens presents.
Date: 1962-10/1962-12
Duration: 4 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Fisher, Jerald
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Riley Family Films, No. 18 - Family Gatherings and Holidays]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family including an outdoor family gathering (00:00-01:49), Easter egg hunting (01:49-03:53), men and women gathered at an unidentified train station for the 1952 convention of the Southland Life Insurance Company of Dallas, Texas (03:53-05:52), and another Easter celebration (05:52-09:32).
Date: 195X
Duration: 9 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Riley, Sam
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 1 - Life with Elizabeth]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of Peter Pauls Stewart and Elizabeth May Exall Stewart with their oldest daughter Elizabeth Stewart Wally in Dallas, Texas. The footage begins with Elizabeth as a baby with her mother and father and includes a title card which reads " Dallas June 1946 (04:16). The film ends with Elizabeth celebrating her third birthday in 1946 (10:18). Also included in the film is footage of two unidentified women standing in front of a home on Hurst Stre… more
Date: 1943/1946
Duration: 11 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Ray Family Films, No. 8 - Manor Downs Chili Cookoff]

Description: This home movie documents the Manor Downs Chili Cook Off. Footage includes a stick pony race, "The Louisiana Chili Team," women and children dancing in Native American costumes, Billy Bob Oafley's Human Juke Box, the Rooster Poot Wranglers Chili Club of Fort Spunky, Texas, "The Original Texas Chicken Ranch," and the "Piedras Negras Municipal Jail."
Date: 197X
Duration: 3 minutes 47 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Smith Family Films, No. 6 - A Trip to Washington, D.C.]

Description: This home movie documents a family's trip to Washington D.C., with stops along the way to visit relatives and tourist destinations. The film begins with the family at Hawk's Nest overlook in West Virginia and children riding ponies and a train in an unidentified park. During their trip to Washington, D.C., the family observes the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a military funeral, site of the Battle of First Manassas, Little Hogback Overlook in Shenandoah National Park, Michie's Tavern in Charlott… more
Date: 1965
Duration: 15 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Smith, Cordell & Smith, Elizabeth
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 38.120667 -81.121676
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[The Hennen Family Films, No. 26 - Knotts Berry Farm]

Description: This home movie compilation documents the activities and daily lives of the Hennen family including a trip to Knott's Berry Farm amusement park with footage of a nativity scene, an Old West town, children riding a stagecoach and train, and an Old West actor pointing a gun at the camera (00:00-02:33). Also included is footage of the Livermore Rodeo in California (02:33-04:00).
Date: 195X
Duration: 4 minutes 01 second
Creator: Hennen, Lowell & Hennen, Belva
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 33.844304 -118.000226
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Smith Family Films, No. 5 - Summer Camp]

Description: This home movie documents a family's daily lives and activities including their annual attendance of Camp Fire summer camp at Camp Val Verde in Waco, Texas. Footage includes people riding in a jeep, women in white uniforms raising an American flag, children doing art projects and playing tennis, a woman in a Texas Aggies shirt, women purchasing goods from a store, adult women costumed in sombreros and fake mustaches, and people swimming and fishing.
Date: 1964?
Duration: 7 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Smith, Cordell & Smith, Elizabeth
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[The Hennen Family Films, No. 33 - Track and Field]

Description: This home movie footage documents the daily lives and activities of the Hennen family and includes footage of a track and field meet, family members posing with an unidentified government building, an outdoor family gathering, and what appears to be the Tyler, Texas Rose Garden.
Date: 1962
Duration: 3 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Hennen, Lowell & Hennen, Belva
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[McNeill Family Films, No. 2 - Holidays and Vacations]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the McNeill Family including birthdays, holidays, and vacations. Footage includes Pam helping her brother Steve McNeill celebrating Steve’s first birthday (00:00-01:06). The McNeill family then celebrates Christmas 1959 (01:06-07:45). James H. Cothran, who was hired to visit the McNeill home as Santa Claus, entertains Virginia and Steve (02:09) and the family opens presents at Virginia’s aunt Essie Ball’s home at 1813 West Hickory Stre… more
Date: 1959-11/1961
Duration: 28 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: McNeill, Virginia & McNeill, Charlie Wayne
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 33.214649 -97.152449
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Hill Family Films, No. 12 - Life with the Hill Family]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Roy E. Hill family including a trip to Disneyland (00:00-04:11) in California, family gatherings, a model rocket launch, a snow-covered neighborhood (06:20-07:43), a Christmas celebration (07:43-11:42), driving into Dallas for an unknown event (11:42-12:18), a child dressed in a sombrero and fake nose and mustache (12:18-13:48), a Native American performance (13:48-13:53), children at home riding bicycles and flying model planes (1… more
Date: 195X
Duration: 20 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Hill, Roy E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.776664 -96.796988
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Cochran Family Films, No. 7 - Holidays and Vacations, 1965-1972]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Cochran family including family vacations and holidays. The film begins with a vacation in Hot Springs, Arkansas, a ride on the Lake Hamilton Sky Ride, a plane ride above Arkansas, swimming in a hotel pool, stopping at scenic points and overlooks, horses, and riding in go-carts (00:00-15:38). The family celebrates Christmas (15:38-17:34) followed by footage of young girls outdoors carrying bouquets of flowers and a horse (17:35-18:… more
Date: unknown
Duration: 30 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Cochran, Jay
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Media Library
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Light a Flame of Thanksgiving

Description: Through the use of drawings, still images, and moving images, this film discusses the evolution of the Thanksgiving holiday as a tradition of acts of gratitude for life. The film traces the tradition of acts of gratitude back to Native Americans and takes a religious perspective. The film closes with footage of people visiting Thanksgiving Square in Dallas.
Date: unknown
Duration: 17 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: National Thanksgiving Commission
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.782665 -96.798534
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Sammonds Family Films, No. 1 - Vacations and Family Gatherings, 1969-1971]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sammonds family including vacations and family gatherings. The film begins with footage of the United States Airforce (USAF) academy. The film includes footage of a family gathering in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with family gathered outdoors playing Frisbee, and catch, and a shot of the Ronnie Sammonds TV repair service van. The film continues with man and a woman flying a kite, observing an unidentified monument, and joking around for… more
Date: 1969-05/1971-05
Duration: 31 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Sammonds, Ron, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 38.431109 -105.268880
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[The Blaine Dunlap Collection - Outtakes from "Sunset on Film"]

Description: This short film contains elements from a larger work, a student film titled "Sunset on Film" which documents activities at Sunset High School in the North Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas. The film opens with a close up of a lemon with the words "20th Century Lemon" written on it. The story begins with students arriving at school on bicycles, in cars, and by bus and includes interiors of the school, a girl posing with a lemon, and band practice with some fast-motion photography. The second por… more
Date: 1970
Duration: 10 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Dunlap, Blaine
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.746271 -96.854171
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Smith Family Films, No. 24 - Camping and Flooding in Denton, Texas]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of a family including a camping trip in Colorado with footage of fishing, landscape, a moving train, and birds flying in the sky. Image does not begin until 00:28 and much of this footage is underexposed. The film concludes with footage of flooded streets in the Hinkle Drive area of Denton, Texas. Footage includes a submerged car and people wading in the flooded streets with Texas Woman's University buildings seen in the distance (03:42… more
Date: 1972
Duration: 4 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Smith, Cordell & Smith, Elizabeth
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Hill Family Films, No. 5 - Hill Family Road Trip]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Roy E. Hill family including a boating trip and family vacation.The film begins with a family trip to a lake with boating, fishing, water skiing, swimming, and picnicking (00:00-05:58). Footage of the family vacation is introduced with a title card featuring a sketch of tableware with the words "Meal Time" (06:18) and begins with footage of "Roadside Park" and US 180 signs, the family eating at a roadside rest stop, and road signs… more
Date: 195X
Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Hill, Roy E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.175502 -104.363505
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[The Blaine Dunlap Collection - Outtakes from "Sunset on Film"]

Description: This short film contains elements from a longer student film titled 'Sunset on Film" which documents activities at Sunset High School in the North Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas. An unidentified man displays title cards which read "Sunset on Film," and "In widescreen Super 8." The film begins with a large crowd of students in front of Sunset High School and the students entering the building. The film continues with a girl playing tennis in slow-motion, students walking down hallways, studen… more
Date: 1970
Duration: 11 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Dunlap, Blaine
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.746271 -96.854171
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 2 - Family Life]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of Peter Pauls Stewart and Elizabeth May Exall Stewart with their oldest daughter Elizabeth Stewart Wally in Dallas, Texas. Because of damage to the film, only this brief excerpt was able to be digitized. Footage includes Peter and Elizabeth and unidentified family members posing with young Elizabeth on the hood of a car and also in front of an unidentified home.
Date: 1946
Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Media Library
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