415 Matching Results

Search Results

[News Script: Sid Caesar]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival in Dallas of television actor Sid Caesar, on his way to San Antonio.
Date: March 30, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[Hill Family Films, No. 7 - Air Shows]

Description: This home movie documents the Roy E. Hill family attending the National Model Airplane Championship at the Naval Air Station in Dallas, Texas in 1956 and an Air Show of full sized air craft at Hensley Field (later Naval Air Station Dallas and Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex) on May 22, 1955.
Date: 1955/1956
Duration: 10 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Hill, Roy E.
Partner: UNT Media Library

[News Script: Airport]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 50 West Texans going on a tour of Europe to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Rotary International.
Date: March 11, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Grouchomarx]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about comedian and television star Groucho Marx stopping over in Dallas while flying home to California. Marx refuses to leave the plane and insults autograph seekers in his trademark style.
Date: March 17, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Ameliea Earhart Day]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas celebrating Amelia Earhart Day, 15 years to the day of her disappearance.
Date: January 7, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Leaflets showered on cities of area]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a campaign in North Texas by the Civil Air Patrol, dropping leaflets from airplanes over towns in the area soliciting donations for the Radio Free Europe project.
Date: February 22, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News briefs -- airport]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a plane stopping over at Love Field in Dallas carrying actor Jack Webb and his wife, en route to New Orleans for a film shoot. Also on board is actress Susan Hayward, en route to Miami for a film premiere.
Date: February 27, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Two men unhurt in light plane crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the crash of a light aircraft that struck a power line shortly after takeoff. The plane smashes through a chicken coop and comes to rest behind a house, with neither the pilot nor his passenger injured.
Date: February 16, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Four escape Love Field plane crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a small plane crash landing at Love Field after a mishap involving landing gear. All four passengers aboard escaped injury.
Date: February 6, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Carswell plane crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a B-36 plane crashing at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, killing two airmen.
Date: February 9, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Officials arrive for plane preview]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Lieutenant General Isaac D. White, commander of the 4th Army, and Assistant Secretary of the Army, Frank H. Higgins, ariving in Fort Worth for Bell Aircraft's unveiling of the XV-3 Convertiplane
Date: February 9, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Uranium]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Utah uranium mining company owner, Burrell Tibbs, returning to Dallas to pick up a U.S. Army surplus plane he plans to use for scouting uranium ore deposits from the air.
Date: February 4, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Plane tips over on Love Field runway]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a small airplane tipping over onto its nose after the pilot braked to avoid a city dump truck that appeared in his path during takeoff.
Date: February 22, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Airport]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Love Field Airport in Dallas hosting two entertainment celebrities.
Date: March 24, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Plane]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an emergency landing of a plane by a student pilot, in a field in Mesquite.
Date: March 24, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[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
captions transcript

[News Clip: Byrd]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a visit to Dallas by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, a well-known explorer preparing for a trip to Antarctica.
Date: November 25, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
Back to Top of Screen