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[The XH-40 Flight Demonstration]

Description: Video footage of Bell Helicopters' XH-40 flight demonstration for the U. S. Army. The XH-40 is a six-place, turboshaft-powered light helicopter, designed with the primary mission of battlefield medical evacuation. Operated by one or two pilots, it could carry four passengers. Bell Aircraft Corporation Chief Pilot Floyd W. Carlson and Chief Experimental Test Pilot Elton J. Smith made the first flight of the Bell Model 204 (designated XH-40-BF serial number 55-4459 by the United States Army) at B… more
Date: October 20, 1956
Duration: 5 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Principal Product

Description: A "public service presentation of Chrysler Corporation" that shows a humorous story of a journalist who is sent to photograph the new line of Chrysler cars at an auto show in Detroit. The journalist's photographer doesn't make the trip so he warily hires a six-year-old photographer, Junebug Clark, who saves the day. A schoolteacher, standing at a blackboard, introduces the story and talks about Detroit's reputation as a car manufacturing town or "Motor City." The conclusion of the video reveals… more
Date: 1956
Duration: 13 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Chrysler Corporation
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[The Fisher Family Collection, No. 20 - Birthday and Hunting]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Fisher family including a seventh birthday party and hunting. Footage includes people posing with dead deer.
Date: 1956
Duration: 4 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Fisher, Jerald
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Hill Family Films, No. 6 - Vacation in Galveston]

Description: This home movie documents the Roy E. Hill family vacationing in Galveston and at Lake Texoma in the summer of 1956. The road trip begins with title cards that read "R.E. Hill Presents," "1956," "Filmed and Edited by Roy E. Hill," and "Helen, Art, and Bonita." This first segment begins with footage shot from their moving car as they pass through Houston and Texas City on their way to Galveston. Footage includes the Texas Heroes Monument, exteriors of homes, boats on the water, businesses includi… more
Date: July 1956
Duration: 17 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Hill, Roy E.
Location: 29.299478 -94.794313
Partner: UNT Media Library
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Southwest Conference Highlights

Description: Presented by the Humble Oil & Refining Company, this production reviews college football highlights from the Southwest Conference during the 1956 season. Narrator Kern Tips recaps regular season conference games between the Baylor University Bears, Texas Tech University Red Raiders, University of Arkansas Razorbacks, Southern Methodist University Mustangs, Rice University Owls, University of Texas at Austin Longhorns, Texas A&M University Aggies, and Texas Christian University. It also takes a … more
Date: 1956/1957
Duration: 27 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Humble Oil & Refining Company
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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[News Clip: Walt Williams]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the death of Walt Williams, a civil war veteran.
Date: November 2, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 7 - Vacations and Ford Tractors]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including a Ford Tractor event and a trip to the Bahamas. The Ford event features a speaker at a podium, signs that read "Win with Ford Farmer's Choice, "Vote the Ford Farm Ticket," and "1956 Sel'Lection Campaign." Members of the audience wave both Confederate and Ford flags (00:00 - 00:35). The family's vacation in the Bahamas begins and ends with footage shot from an airplane and includes the family on … more
Date: 1956
Duration: 17 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 8 - Holidays and Community Events]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family from December 1956 through late 1957 and includes their participation in holidays and community events. The film begins with the family celebrating Christmas Day 1956 (00:00-01:46) followed by footage of men bailing hay on Ford tractors (01:46-04:11), and picking up a young woman at a train station (04:11-04:26). The family then takes a trip to the 1957 State Fair of Texas in Dallas where they board a Tex… more
Date: 1956-12-25/1957-10
Duration: 11 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
Location: 32.777461 -96.758909
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 9 - Vacations and Holidays]

Description: This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Peter Pauls Stewart family including holidays, birthdays, and vacations during the period of 1956 through 1957. The footage begins with a trip to Disneyland (00:00-02:03) followed by Washington, D.C. (02:03-11:59). In Washington, D.C., the family watches a military parade led by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon. The parade includes footage of the MIM-3 Nike Ajax (06:01), Martin MGM Matador (06:39), … more
Date: 1956/1957
Duration: 47 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Stewart, Peter Pauls
Location: 33.812092 -117.918974
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[News Clip: $4,000 Taken From Church by Burglars]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a burglary at a church in Fort Worth resulting in damages and $4,000 stolen for the office safe.
Date: December 17, 1956
Duration: 25 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: 4-H club week]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about 4-H club members demonstrating some of the things they've learned in observance of 4-H club week.
Date: March 9, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: 4-H Clubs]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the annual 4-H award ceremony, which takes place at the WBAP-TV studio. Top awards go to Yvonne Newton and Bruce Ray Carlin.
Date: November 18, 1956
Duration: 59 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: $10,000 Bond Set on Bank Robber]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Yancy A. Batie being held at $10,000 bond for robbing a bank and taking close to $3,000.
Date: December 22, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 26 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: 16 Left Homeless In Residence Fire]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a two-alarm fire that destroyed a duplex leaving two families homeless.
Date: December 26, 1956
Duration: 55 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: 19 PORT ARTHUR FIRMS PICKETED]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story. No corresponding script found. Video footage depicts a strike by employees of different companies.
Date: November 17, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 21 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: 30-day term given on pinball charge]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Fort Worth tavern owner Homer Chokas being sentenced to 30 days in jail for allegedly making payoffs on a pinball machine in his tavern.
Date: May 16, 1956
Duration: 57 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: 30 million dollars in bonds are burned]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the city of Dallas burning 30 million dollars worth of municipal bonds that have been paid off.
Date: March 9, 1956
Duration: 52 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: $60,000 in Jewels Missing from Vault]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about $60 thousand dollars worth of jewels, which went missing from the Statler-Hilton hotel in Dallas. 39 police officers work on the case.
Date: November 23, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 57 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: $100,000 Bond Reset for Fraud Suspect]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Andrew George William Frederick, a man accused of jumping a thousand-dollar bond on mail fraud charges in Washington. In Fort Worth, he is given a one-hundred-thousand-dollar bond to assure he returns to Washington for a federal trial.
Date: January 25, 1956
Duration: 1 minute
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: 1918 Fliers Honored at Memorial Service]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the annual memorial service of the World War I Fliers Club for Canadian servicemen who died while training in the Fort Worth area. The Canadian fliers are buried in a section of Greenwood Cemetery.
Date: November 12, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 06 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: A. B. A. President]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about E. Smythe Gambrell, president of the American Bar Association, speaking about his tour of the Soviet Union.
Date: August 21, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes 01 second
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: A&M thumps Raiders, 40-7]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a football game between the Texas A & M Aggies and the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Texas A & M wins.
Date: October 7, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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