Mexia Home Movies 1920s Part 1

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A few rare moving pictures made in Mexia in the 1920s were preserved long enough to be coverted to some other media that had survived into the age of YouTube.

The Ellis/Henson Families in Mexia is a clip of a much longer film that may or may not still exist.

The first minute is the Henson family in May 1926, with a few shots of their street




Minute 1:00 - 3:28 is even more rare, as it was shot indoors, and is entitled Kindergarten Play: The King and Queen, with John Sanders as king and Christine Bond as queen

  (the children in the play would be nearly 100 years old now)








At 3:29 the title card is of Jim Threatt, the manager of the Mexia Country Club. 



at 3:42 another family appears in the frames, not titled, perhaps the Ellis family?







At 5:08 we move out to the oil fields and I can't quite work out the full name on the rig. Anyone?

W.B. S...ser? et al

The remainder of the film pans around the oil field work





At the very end, it appears we are back at the home where the unnamed family had been standing, with smoke off in the distance before the film cuts off.


A follow up piece, which is focused on the 60s, does contain a few seconds of 1920s footage





the rest of that clip ends with the family out on what appears to be the same house porch as the 20s, with the house number now visible (408) and likely some of the young'uns of he 20s are now here 40 years older with grown kids of their own
































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