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[Riley Family Films, No. 8 - Holidays and Vacations, 1955]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley familyincluding the Riley children celebrating their birthdays (00:00-02:04, 06:18-08:25, 08:25-10:32), children playing outdoors on a large swing set 02:04-05:26), homes under construction (05:26-06:18), a gathering with family playing croquet and children on a swing set (10:32-12:24), and children on the beach playing in the ocean (12:24-14:33).
Date: 1955
Duration: 13 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Riley, Sam
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Riley Family Films, No. 9 - Birthdays and Holidays, 1955]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family including the first birthday of the Riley family's youngest daughter with Helen helping her blow out the candles and eat the cake (00:00-02:34), children playing outdoors and posing for the camera (02:34-06:23), and a Christmas celebration with footage of the tree and Christmas toys and family posing with cards and gifts.
Date: 1955
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Riley, Sam
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Riley Family Films, No. 10 - Vacations, 1955-1956]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family including vacations. The film begins with a family vacation to Charleston, South Carolina. Footage includes the "Bill Bom's Canoe Country Outfitters" storefront, men and women fishing from boats, a garden, a lighthouse, the exterior of a home, a bear, the grave of John Caldwell Calhoun, and Eugene Graham's Deep Sea Fishing building. Footage also includes women buying bananas at a market in an unidentified city (08:… more
Date: 1955/1956
Duration: 12 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Riley, Sam
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 6 - Holidays and Community Events]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including the groundbreaking ceremony for a Dallas building with the Gibralter building in the background (00:00 - 02:07; children painting birdhouses and playing football (02:07 - 04:07); a birthday celebration (04:27 - 06:43), billboards for the Santa Fe railroad service to Dallas (06:43 - 07:07); a Ford Farming building in the snow (07:07 - 11:45); a family vacation to Paradise Valley Country Club in … more
Date: 1955/1956
Duration: 54 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
Partner: UNT Media Library

[News Script: Veteran]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Walter W. Williams observing his 113th birthday.
Date: November 15, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Triplets have early birthday party]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Deanna, Debra, and Denise Oddewalt, a set of triplets from Illinois, visiting their aunt and uncle in Fort Worth, who threw them an early birthday party.
Date: June 10, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Ma Ferguson feted on 80th birthday]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Miriam A. "Ma" Ferguson, the only women at the time to have been governor of Texas, celebrating her 80th birthday in Austin.
Date: June 14, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: "Old woman in shoe" observes birthday]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the 80th birthday of Fort Worth woman H. E. Seyster, who had 15 children.
Date: May 22, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Fire]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Church of Christ orphanage in Quinlan burning down.
Date: May 25, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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