| ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF STATES PARADE | ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF STATES PARADE | | Festivals
Parades
Promotional films | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF STATES PARADE
- Date
- n.d.
- Description
- This film is a short piece of the Annual Mid-Winter Festival of States Parade in St. Petersburg with Gov. and Mrs. Spessard Holland. It is an incomplete film.
- Collection
| Bonifay Rodeo | Bonifay Rodeo | | Bull riding
Calf roping
Parades
Rodeos | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/BA027.jpg |
Bonifay Rodeo
- Date
- 1948
- Description
- Viewers see bronco busting, calf roping, bull riding (some in slow motion) and rope twirling. The film starts with a parade through town, which includes a young man riding a bull. More of the same event is in BA118.
- Collection
| Bonifay Rodeo '48 No. 2 | Bonifay Rodeo '48 No. 2 | | Bull riding
Calf roping
Parades
Rodeos | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/ba118.jpg |
Bonifay Rodeo '48 No. 2
- Date
- 1948
- Description
- Viewers see bronco busting, calf roping, bull riding (some in slow motion), and rope twirling. More of the same event is in BA027.
- Collection
| Buccaneer Conquest | Buccaneer Conquest | | Ceremonies
Festivals
Parades
Promotional films
Tourism | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/DA058.jpg |
Buccaneer Conquest
- Date
- 1950 (circa)
- Description
- This film shows the Gasparilla Celebration, which began in 1904, as it was done in the 1950s. The pirates invade and a wonderfully colorful event follows. Businessmen are made up as pirates and lose all inhibitions as they participate in the parades and pageants. Emmett Kelly, as Weary Willie, appears in the film and an amphibious tank escorts the ship into the harbor. A high-wire artist walks between the ship's masts. This was filmed in Kodachrome.
- Collection
| Buccaneer Conquest of Tampa | Buccaneer Conquest of Tampa | | Ceremonies
Festivals
Parades
Promotional films
Tourism | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/ba069.jpg |
Buccaneer Conquest of Tampa
- Date
- 1967 (circa)
- Description
- In this film, "pirates" capture hostages, hoist a jolly roger and start the Gasparilla Celebration in Tampa. Viewers see "pirates" being made up. Some attack the Goodyear Blimp and the rest ride into town aboard the three-masted ship Jose Gaspar. There is a parade and the crowning of the new "King Gasparilla." Produced by Creative Film and Sound.
- Collection
| Cedar Key Seafood Festival | Cedar Key Seafood Festival | | Festivals
Fish
Water skiing
Water sports
parades | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/aa215.jpg |
Cedar Key Seafood Festival
- Date
- 1970 (circa)
- Description
- This film features footage from the Cedar Key Seafood Festival in the 1970s. Scenes include a fish fry, water ski show, a parade with the Williston High School marching band and special guest Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Doyle Conner.
- Collection
| Confederate Veterans Convention | Confederate Veterans Convention | | Civil War
Parades
Sons of Confederate Veterans (Organization) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/veterans.jpg |
Confederate Veterans Convention
- Date
- 1914
- Description
- This film was produced with titles, and shows the meeting of 40,000 Confederate war veterans in Jacksonville.They dance to fiddle music and many cars, horses, bands and flags are shown. The veterans are shown dining together in a mess tent. An electric street car goes by during a section titled "Sons of Confederate Veterans Parade." An African-American loyal to the Confederacy is shown, as well as the "youngest vet." Produced by Mackey and Coutant Film Co.; sponsored by Florida Commercial Sound Films of Jacksonville.
- Collection
| FIESTA OF FIVE FLAGS | FIESTA OF FIVE FLAGS | | Automobile racing
Blue Angels (Flight squadron)
Boating
Celebrations
Festivals
Fishing
Pageants
Parades
Recreation | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
FIESTA OF FIVE FLAGS
- Date
- 1963
- Description
- This is footage of a Pensacola civic celebration. There are reenactments, costumes, pageants and parades. The film shows an open house at the Naval Aviation Museum, an air show including Navy Skydive Demonstration Team "The Shooting Stars" under round parachutes, and the Blue Angels. There is also a sports car race and fishing with Ted Williams and Roy Martin. A speedboat race and water ski show follow. There is another parade at the end.
- Collection
| Fifteen Years with 4-WTVJ | Fifteen Years with 4-WTVJ | | Aerospace industry
College sports
Cuban revolution
Gambling--Florida
Governors--Florida
Hurricanes
Parades
Politics
Presidents--United States
Space program
Space race
United States Senate
Cold War | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/wtvj.jpg |
Fifteen Years with 4-WTVJ
- Date
- 1964
- Description
- Host Ralph Rennick shows footage and stories that Miami TV station WTVJ collected in its first 15 years on the air. Mitchell Wolfson, co-host, founded the station, as well as Wometco Enterprises.
There are scenes of the 1951 Orange Bowl Parade, the 1951 Senate Crime Hearings in Dade County on gambling, the 1954 LeRoy Collins - Charlie Johns debate, the 1957 Cape Canaveral Satellite launching, the death of an Italian boat racer at the Orange Bowl Regatta, Castro's arrival in Havana after taking power, Hurricane Donna in 1961, Orange Bowl football, return of soldiers from the Bay of Pigs, and President John F. Kennedy's visit to Miami in 1963.
- Collection
| Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University: Buildings and People | Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University: Buildings and People | | African American
College sports
Florida A & M Rattlers (Football team)
Football coaches, African American
Higher education
Historically black colleges and universities
Interviews
Marching bands
Parades
Promotional films | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/da067.jpg |
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University: Buildings and People
- Date
- 1972-1982
- Description
- This film shows Florida A&M University's band practicing, led by Dr. William Foster. It also shows footage of football, a parade, campus grounds, the stadium, Muhammad Ali at a FAMU football game, the Black Archives and the FAMU dance company. It ends with an interview with Coach Rudy Hubbard. There is some sound in the final segment, but it is bad. Produced by WFSU-TV.
- Collection
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