Texas Archive of the Moving Image

The Raiford H. Burton Collection, no. 4 - Camp Mystic Home movie scenes of Bettie Burton and friends participating in outdoor activities at home and at Camp Mystic

Thinking of our fellow Texans. #CampMystic has so much history in the Lone Star State. This archival footage is from 1952.

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The power of the Guadalupe River is real. We searched the archives and discovered this footage, showing the Army National Guard responding to flooding in 1978.
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Front yard time with the Cook Family, 1960s
Possibly San Antonio area.

So Texas.
Indoor BB gun practice for boys by the Jaycees.
Odessa, 1967

From our KOSA-TV Collection.

A Texan favorite... H-E-B!
1960s, possibly San Antonio 🛒
From our Michael Cook, Jr. Collection.

An afternoon with the Burtons, 1930s

From our Raiford H. Burton Collection, no. 3
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Nothing beats a Lions Club Pancake Breakfast🥞🥞🥞

📺Footage from KOSA-TV
Midland Downtown Lions Club, 1967

Rainy day driving on North Lamar, Austin
1975
From KVUE-TV📺

✨Cinco De Mayo✨
Students perform traditional Mexican dances as part of a school Cinco de Mayo celebration in the 1970s, location unknown.
🎥: From our Richard A. Sepko Family Collection

Galveston Tourism Film, 1966
Stay for the cute surfer girl🏄

Good times on the water.📽️
Location unknown, 1939

📽️: HP Wells Family Films

Poolside, 1950
From our Ryan Battle Collection. See more at loom.ly/xaz971U

Meet the 1938 Aqua Dulce High School women's volleyball team.
📽️This footage is from our Arthur J. Higgins Collection. Higgins was an itinerant filmmaker who would spend several days in towns recording scenes of daily life. The film was then typically shown at a local theater.

Amateur radio operators in Odessa, 1966

From our KOSA-TV Collection📻
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Tennis anyone? 🎾
From our Yount-Manion Family Films Collection, the 1970s.

Texas grandmas make the BEST lifeguards.❤️
Necessity, TX

From the Burwell Collection - J.D. Cox Farm (1974)

Ranch life, 1961
Wichita Falls, TX

Y'all notice? The bluebonnets are HERE!

📽️Home movie of Lady Bird Johnson, 1943

Sound on! This is a clip from "That's The Last Straw", an itinerant film directed and shot by Dallas-area filmmaker Melton Barker. Barker traveled the U.S. making movies featuring local children. This is from the talent show portion of the film.
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Did you know 75% of Texas teachers are women?
We love this silent footage of a classroom from 1963🍎
Location unknown

📽️From our Maxie Davie Collection
#womenshistorymonth #texasteachers #teachers

Making neon signs, 1965
West Texas
From our KOSA-TV Collection.

"Let Everyone Dance" event in Odessa, 1966.
This footage was silent, unfortunately.
📺From our KOSA-TV Collection

Front yard time with the kiddos.
From our Michael Cook, Jr. Collection, 1960s.
Possibly the San Antonio area.

Dallas, 1950s

Local women competed in the Miss Photoflash Pageant, judged by members of the Houston Gulf Coast Press Photographers Association in 1962.
📽️: From our KPRC-TV Collection

We love this one🐓
From our Ludeke Family Collection, 1950s
James and Joreen Ludeke settled in Wichita County in 1954. They raised their 6 children on their ranch on the former site of the Four Sixes Horse Ranch and the North West oil field.

Garden Club Pilgrimage, 1938
Location unknown🌸🌹

📽️: Austin History Center

◾Black History Month◾
This silent 1960s home movie captures African American schoolchildren before and after they receive what's most likely First Communion, at their Catholic school in Beaumont.
#BlackHistoryMonth
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February 1940, the last day street cars operated in Austin. By that June, most of the tracks had been torn up and paved over. The last tracks were removed in 1942, providing 50,000 pounds of steel for use in World War II.
📽️: Henry Kuempel Collection