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[News Clip: Football]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the start of football practice for the Carswell Air Force Base Bombers team. The footage shows the players receiving their equipment and running football drills.
Date: August 17, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: OPS chief]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a story about the strengthening of the Office of Price Stabilization. The footage features Edward Morgan describing the changes made in the economic control act.
Date: August 17, 1951
Duration: 2 minutes 01 second
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Chute shop]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a parachute packing and repair shop at Carswell Air Force Base. Various airmen are shown making, testing, and packing parachutes for future use.
Date: August 15, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Outdoor circus]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story about the 22nd Community Circus at LaGrave air field in Fort Worth. Various acrobats are shown performing, such as Evelyn Kapps on the rope, trampoline artists Barbara Gallaher and Joe Slocum, and the acrobatic Bud Lucas troupe. There is also footage of Geneva McQuinn being crowned queen of the circus in a earlier pageant.
Date: August 15, 1951
Duration: 3 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Fish tales]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Paul Blackwell catching some large kingfish. The footage shows him describing to his friends Walter Glaze, Russell Young, and Paul Longley, how big the fish he caught were. He then proceeds to show them the fish.
Date: August 15, 1951
Duration: 39 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: German doctor]

Description: Video footage fromthe WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Doctor Elfriede Mueller, an educator of women in Germany, meeting with Janet Straiton and Inge Patterson in Fort Worth. The footage shows Dr. Mueller meeting with other women, and being interviewed.
Date: August 21, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Cool job]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Ernest Burden, a Fort Worth man who runs an ice cream factory, enjoying recent hot weather.
Date: August 17, 1951
Duration: 56 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: News Briefs (Boy Essay Winner)]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a story covering a news story about Charles Young winning a trip to New York City by writing an essay about the importance of baseball. Title from script.
Date: August 17, 1951
Duration: 28 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Yell school]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a "yell school" for female cheerleaders at Southern Methodist University. The footage shows feats including pyramids, rolling, and various attempts at balancing.
Date: August 21, 1951
Duration: 49 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Snake hunting hobby of curator]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Lawrence Curtis, reptile curator for the Dallas Fair Park Aquarium, hunting for snakes in Dallas.
Date: August 21, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 33 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Gossett honored]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story about a dinner to honor Congressman Ed Gossett on his retirement in Denton after twelve years of representing Texas' 13th congressional district. The footage features a good portion of Representative Gossett's speech with sound.
Date: August 15, 1951
Duration: 2 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Official feud]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about tension in the Dallas County Court after an office fistfight between County Commissioner John Rowland and County Judge Lew Sterrett over road and bridge programs.
Date: August 16, 1951
Duration: 26 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Football Giants]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a story about the New York Giants playing an exhibition football game in Dallas. The footage shows several plays during practice and features Tom Landry punting the ball.
Date: August 21, 1951
Duration: 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Wash Day]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth police recovering wet clothes lost by someone. The footage shows traffic officer L. W. Spinks bringing lost clothes to the property room where property room officer McClanahan hangs them to dry and even irons them.
Date: August 15, 1951
Duration: 36 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Heat strike]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a strike by Fort Worth telephone switchboard employees due to a lack of air conditioning in telephone offices during a heat wave. The footage shows switchboard employees standing in lines outside, and images of fans blowing over ice cubes.
Date: August 16, 1951
Duration: 24 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: News Briefs (Fire)]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a story covering a news story about a fire that damaged the Wade Hotel in downtown Fort Worth. The footage shows firemen putting out the blaze, and an ambulance driving away from the scene. Title from script.
Date: August 17, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 03 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Ladies day]

Description: Video footage from from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Powder Puff Derby, an annual all-female air race. The 1951 race began in Santa Ana, California and the entrants raced to Detroit, Michigan. This clip shows the racers making a mandatory stop at Meachum Field in Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: August 16, 1951
Duration: 29 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Golden girls]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a beauty contest at Texas League ballparks around the state, celebrating the golden anniversary of minor league baseball in America. The footage shows the ladies exiting a plane, then recieving honorary deputy sheriff papers.
Date: August 21, 1951
Duration: 51 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: New State Fair Building]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about construction starting on a new livestock building for the State Fair. The footage shows the buildings installing giant wooden beams.
Date: August 15, 1951
Duration: 44 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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