Houston Chronicle, 1970s
Cinema Bomar Films was donated and curated by the 16mm film collective, Cinema Bomar, which highlights local Houstonian home movies, camera tests, as well as promotional and industrial films created for Pennzoil, the Houston Chronicle, Monsanto, and IBM 1800. Of special interest is the Kennedy Assassination – Chronicle, 1963, film created by August Galiano, an amateur filmmaker and father of collection donor, Elizabeth Nelson, which depicts Galiano’s day working at the Houston Chronicle when the news broke of President JFK’s assassination. Other items of interest are Shopping in Houston, MFAH at night, 1966-09-10, Smoggy Houston, 1966, and Chronicle Footage, which show historic buildings and sites of Houston’s past.
The collection consists of 53 16mm films, 2 Super 8mm films, and 5 quarter inch open reel audio tracks and predominantly consists of films related to the Houston Chronicle. Gaps in the numbering of split screen film rolls indicate that some films and audio tracks may be missing. Digitized versions of A Penzoil Day, Pennzoil in Perspective, and The Chocolate Bayou Story, can be found online at Texas Archive of the Moving Image.
Dates
- 1970s
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Open for research.
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Extent
From the Collection: 60 Item
Additional Description
General
Description taped on film: 1970s Materials related to Houston Chronicle TV Advertising. Young couple reading Daily Texan, old guy reading Houston Chronicle, newspaper vanishes -- surprised man, man reading tabloid w/lurid headlines, man reading Wall Street Journal, man and child reading Houston Chronicle dated 1970, Exterior Houston Chronicle Building, Exterior Foleys, Sears, Weingarten sign, magazine rack, accidental footage, guys working with mainframe, lots of shots of printer and computer controls, accidental footage, man at drafting boards, woman at drafting boards, shoe ads, interior computer room, magazine rack -- pan titles (1970s), inking a decorative border, man and woman both working on a design, pan across artist materials to woman at drawing board, more decorative border, another woman working in art dept. Woman w/toddler reading, Houston Chronicle - headline "2 Jewish Temples Hit by Bomber", multiple takes, Boy reading Mad Magazine, Man wearing helmet, Woman wearing helmet. Car with confederate flag. Men at business lunch, skyline in background. Aerial shots of Mecom Fountain, Sam Houston statue. Other Notes: No sound, Head EH-1. Jim Culberson Associates.
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- From the Collection: Cinema Bomar (Organization)
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Repository Details
Repository Details
Part of the University of Houston Libraries Special Collections Repository
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
MD Anderson Library
4333 University Drive
Houston TX 77204-2000 USA
713-743-9750