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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
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Smith Family Films, No. 19 - Road trips and Family Gatherings]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of a family including a road trip and family gatherings. Footage begins with the family climbing a rock formation at an unidentified desert location, a race car at a rest stop, an outdoor family gathering in a backyard, the family at a lake, and another outdoor family gathering with people playing croquet and posing for the camera and children climbing trees.
Date: 1966?
Duration: 4 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Smith, Cordell & Smith, Elizabeth
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Riley Family Films, No. 14 - West Coast Vacation, 1960]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family on their vacation to the West Coast of the United States. The film begins with the family in Arizona where they visit the Grand Canyon, hike, ride horses, and watch Native Americans perform for tourists. They then visit Yosemite National Park and observe the Grizzly Giant sequoia tree in the Mariposa Grove and waterfalls from the Yosemite Valley. They next travel to Oregon where they visit the capitol building in S… more
Date: 1960
Duration: 10 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Riley, Sam
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
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
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
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.
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 10 - Horseback Riding]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Fisher family including a family vacation. The film begins with children jumping on trampolines with a car exhibit and sign that reads "The Car of Yesterday" in the background. The film continues with family members riding horses, possibly in Colorado.
Date: 1960?
Duration: 4 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Fisher, Jerald
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Riley Family Films, No. 15 - West Coast Vacation, 1960]

Description: This home movie documents the activities of the Sam Riley family on their vacation to the West Coast of the United States. The film begins with the family at the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state and continues with them crossing the border into Canada. The family then travels to Yellowstone National Park where they observe moose, bison, bears, and Old Faithful. They then visit the state capitol building in Denver, Colorado and photograph Native Americans at a tourist stop.
Date: 1960
Duration: 9 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Riley, Sam
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Smith Family Films, No. 3 - Family Life]

Description: This home movie documents a family's daily lives and activities including gathering firewood in the snow, a family gathered outdoors in a front yard, a boy climbing a tree, and a boy playing basketball.
Date: January 1964
Duration: 4 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Smith, Cordell & Smith, Elizabeth
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Cochran Family Films, No. 2 - Holidays and Vacations, 1961]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Cochran family including holidays, parades, road trips, and family vacations. The film begins with the family on Christmas morning (0:00-03:49) and a Christmas parade featuring floats related to nursery rhymes and fairy tales, drill teams, a beauty queen, and KRLD-TV Channel 4 television personality and star of "Party Time" Officer Friendly and his puppet Jimmy the Duck (03:49-06:54). The family then poses in front of a house (06… more
Date: 1961
Duration: 30 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Cochran, Jay
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 12 - Easter Celebration, 1962]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Fisher family including an Easter celebration. The film begins with footage of family posing in their Easter clothing followed by footage of family members boating and canoeing on an unidentified lake.
Date: April 22, 1962
Duration: 4 minutes
Creator: Fisher, Jerald
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Riley Family Films, No. 17 - Family Gatherings and Vacations]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family including children playing outdoors and riding horses (00:00-01:38), family posing for the camera (01:38-02:19), the family vacationing in a coastal city (02:37-06:52), family riding horses (06:52-10:26) and boating (10:26-11:19), Helen Riley posing in her drill team uniform and performing on the football field (11:19-13:10), family riding horses (13:10-13:55) and swimming (13:55-14;31), men gathered under a tree (… more
Date: 1962?
Duration: 17 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Riley, Sam
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Smith Family Films, No. 21 - Family Life]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of a family including family playing outdoors with children on a swingset, wrestling, and riding bicycles (00:00-02:14), and a large Easter gathering with Easter egg hunting (02:14-03:44). The film concludes with footage of a girl and a boy posing for the camera in the front yard while a young boy tries to pin a corsage on the girl (03:44-04:00) and people playing with kittens and a dog.
Date: 1964?
Duration: 4 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Smith, Cordell & Smith, Elizabeth
Partner: UNT Media Library
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