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[News Clip: Dolittle raid]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: [1942..1980]
Duration: 8 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Television History Special]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: 1948
Duration: 28 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Golf Matches at the Colonial Country Club

Description: Footage of two golf matches at the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, TX. The first is an exhibition match featuring Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson vs. Toney Penna and Henry Ransom. The second is from the 1940 National Open. No sound.
Date: 1940
Duration: 10 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: The Texas News

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering news highlights from 1949-1950. This year in review presents excerpts from news stories covered in Texas and across the United States, including airplane crashes, human interest stories, politicians, "Texas Personalities," sports, and the Korean War.
Date: 1949
Duration: 13 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Peabody Award and Seesaw Puppet Show]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, is an episode of the WBAP-TV children's television program "See Saw Zoo," hosted by Dean Raymond.
Date: 1949
Duration: 15 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Assam (Garo Hills)

Description: Video of life in Assam villages featuring landscapes, the Brahmaputra river, wild elephants, traditional houses, cotton fields, and scenes from the marketplace.
Date: October 31, 1944
Duration: 12 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Ferger, H. R.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Arteries of Progress

Description: A film on transportation in Venezuela.
Date: 1949
Duration: 20 minutes 10 seconds
Partner: UNT Media Library
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Con Salud Venceremos

Description: This film looks at health care and disease prevention in Venezuela.
Date: 1949
Duration: 20 minutes 10 seconds
Partner: UNT Media Library
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Hurricane Hunters

Description: In this film, USAF storm chasers track and study a hurricane and are able to warn a city about the approaching storm.
Date: 1947
Duration: 14 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: United States. Air Force.
Partner: UNT Media Library
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The Building of a Tire

Description: This film shows the process involved in the making of Firestone tires (in the 1940s). This film contains some animated sequences.
Date: 1945
Duration: 25 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: The Walt Disney Company
Partner: UNT Media Library
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Fortress of the Sky

Description: This film shows the work that everyone from Boeing researchers to factory workers put in to Boeing aircraft.
Date: 1943
Duration: 24 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Knox, Gordon; Burnside, Norman & Gudebrod, G. David
Partner: UNT Media Library
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Grumman at War

Description: This film covers the design, testing, production, and South Pacific combat record of Grumman F6F fighter aircraft.
Date: 1944
Duration: 39 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Leroy G.; Elwyn, Robert; Rodakiewicz, Henwar; Knox, Gordon & Nagel, Conrad
Partner: UNT Media Library
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Know Your Enemy - Japan!

Description: This American propaganda film from the 1940s sought to educate Americans on the Japanese people, their land, and their alleged plan to take over the Pacific.
Date: 1942
Duration: 14 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Eliot, George Fielding; Hall, Radcliffe & Knox, Gordon
Partner: UNT Media Library
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Son of the Conquistadors

Description: This film tells the story of Juan Martinez, a young man who leaves his family to join the US Air Force.
Date: 1944
Duration: 21 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Knox, Gordon
Partner: UNT Media Library
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Watson Wakes Up

Description: A film about a man named Walter Watson. Walter can barely seem to make ends meet until he realizes the secret to financial stability: saving money.
Date: 1946
Duration: 17 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Mathews, Norman; Herman, Justin; Knox, Gordon & Jason, Will
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Bank Day]

Description: This home movie documents an unknown event in the city of Denton. It appears that there was a contest to win $300. Seen in the footage are crowds of people on the Denton County Courthouse lawn and businesses of downtown Denton, Texas as well as cars with signage advertising a rodeo in Ponder, Texaco gas, and the Jinx Show Plaza.
Date: 1940
Duration: 5 minutes 10 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Item 4A: Film Reel: Debutantes, Constance Owsley, 1947]

Description: Film of the Debutantes ball of 1947-48, held at the Idlewild Club of Dallas. The footage features young women in ball gowns being escorted around the room by men in tuxedos and dancing, as well as a still photo of the 7 debutantes and their escorts Constance Owsley is featured 7th in line at 05:40.
Date: 1947
Duration: 8 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Curry, Robert M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Easter Egg Hunt]

Description: This home movie includes footage of an Easter celebration and Easter egg hunt. Additional footage appears to show the North Texas State Teachers College campus.
Date: 1940~
Duration: 4 minutes 58 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[City Park #2]

Description: This home movie footage features an unidentified park.
Date: 1940~
Duration: 4 minutes 32 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Texomaland

Description: This news reel highlights the recreational activities available at Lake Texoma including swimming, water-skiing, and hunting.
Date: 1949~
Duration: 7 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Nationwide Pictures
Location: 33.894680 -96.674504
Partner: UNT Media Library
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1949 Homecoming Parade

Description: Video footage of the 1949 Homecoming Parade for North Texas State College.
Date: 1949~
Duration: 9 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: National Audiovisual Center
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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What is Modern Art?

Description: Filmed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Vladimir Sokoloff introduces a young woman to some examples of modern art by Picasso, Chagall, Dali, and others and explains the motivations behind some of the techniques developed by the artists.
Date: 1948
Duration: 20 minutes 01 second
Creator: Brentano, Felix; Riethof, William & Samuels, Spencer
Partner: UNT Media Library
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