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.