[Cochran Family Films, No. 2 - Holidays and Vacations, 1961]

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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 (06:54-10:07) and children play in the snow (10:07-11:18). The family goes on a road trip to the desert including footage of the … continued below

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1 film (30 min., 43 sec.) : si., col. ; standard 8 mm.

Creation Information

Cochran, Jay 1961.

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  • Main Title: [Cochran Family Films, No. 2 - Holidays and Vacations, 1961]
  • Added Title: Case Label: 3-2, Xmas 1961, Xmas parade 1961, 6 flags opening

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 (06:54-10:07) and children play in the snow (10:07-11:18). The family goes on a road trip to the desert including footage of the McDonald Observatory and Summit of Mount Locke, a roadside hotel, riding on an aerial tramway (possibly the Sandia Peak Tramway) with a view of the Million Dollar Museum, and a ride on the Sad Monkey Railroad in Palo Duro State Park (11:18-16:07). The family goes swimming and attends a child's birthday party (16:07-18:46), goes on a boat ride and fishes at a boat house (18:46-20:16), the Cochran children pose in their Easter clothes (20:16-21:00), and the family goes boating and swimming (21:01-22:58). The film ends with the Cochran family, including Cheryl and David, at the grand opening of the Six Flags Over Texas amusement park in Arlington, Texas (22:58-30:43).

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1 film (30 min., 43 sec.) : si., col. ; standard 8 mm.

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Spotlight on North Texas

Digitized materials from "Spotlight on North Texas," a community history and regional media preservation project, include home movies, television news footage, and photographs that document activities in the state of Texas and beyond. This project was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage grant program.

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  • 1961

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  • Dec. 16, 2016, 7:14 p.m.

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  • April 12, 2018, 7:42 p.m.

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  • 34.937264, -101.647615
  • 30.671262, -104.022686
  • 32.756889, -97.07023

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Cochran, Jay. [Cochran Family Films, No. 2 - Holidays and Vacations, 1961], video, 1961; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc942566/: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Media Library.

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