[The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 6 - Holidays and Community Events]

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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 Arizona (11:45 - 15:59); aerial footage (15:59 - 16:25); family members at an airport (16:51 - 17:03); an Easter celebration (17:03 … continued below

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1 film (1 min., 16 sec.) : si., col. ; 16 mm.

Creation Information

Stewart, Peter Pauls 1955/1956.

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This video is part of the collection entitled: Spotlight on North Texas and was provided by the UNT Media Library to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 541 times. More information about this video can be viewed below.

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  • Main Title: [The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 6 - Holidays and Community Events]
  • Added Title: Case Label: N 56 _ Fair; 56
  • Added Title: Item Label: 1956 (some 1955)

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 Arizona (11:45 - 15:59); aerial footage (15:59 - 16:25); family members at an airport (16:51 - 17:03); an Easter celebration (17:03 - 20:15); Mr. Stewart boarding the Texas Chief train at the start of Santa Fe's rail road service to Dallas (20:15 - 21:12); a Christmas celebration with presents including a large Ford Tractor toy (22:12 - 03:31); aerial footage (31:30 - 32:04); a new baby coming home from the hospital (32:04 - 34:31; the family boarding a small airplane and sitting in the cockpit (34:31 - 35:58); a baptism (35:58 - 38:14); swimming at home (38:14 - 40:29); a first birthday party (40:29 - 45:45); and the 1956 State Fair of Texas (48:10 - 52:48). Fair footage includes the Stewart Company's Ford Tractor exhibit, "Ford Tractor & Implement Power Pow-Wow," which includes a Native American performance and footage of the new Traiblazer suspended monorail. The film concludes with a youth football game (53:59 - 54:48).

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1 film (1 min., 16 sec.) : si., col. ; 16 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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  • 1955/1956

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  • Sept. 19, 2017, 8:51 a.m.

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  • Sept. 27, 2017, 4:15 p.m.

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  • 33.531154, -111.942645

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Stewart, Peter Pauls. [The Peter Pauls Stewart Family Films, No. 6 - Holidays and Community Events], video, 1955/1956; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth882228/: accessed June 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Media Library.

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