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Historic Film Footage

PostPosted: Fri Feb 25, 2022 5:55 pm
by Topper
The Texas Film Archives has a few SMU related clips. This one is the oldest film of SMU football I have ever seen. 1928 football team and band went to Army. This website also has an old home movie reel of the SMU homecoming parade in 1963. A few weeks later the cameraman went to Love Field to meet the Kennedys. There is footage of the plane including a fantastic close-up of Jackie that I have never seen.

https://texasarchive.org/2015_00559

Re: Historic Film Footage

PostPosted: Fri Feb 25, 2022 7:00 pm
by Caballo
Thanks for sharing the link. I also found this film of us playing in Austin in 1968. I was at that game and was 8 years old.

Great footage of Hixon passing to Levias. Also at the end of the first half we had the ball inside their 10. Levias threw a halfback pass that was incomplete in the end zone. I forgot that he was left handed.

https://texasarchive.org/2011_00323

Re: Historic Film Footage

PostPosted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 6:46 pm
by NavyCrimson
Those were the best unis with big mustangs on the helmets.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:27 am
by ponyboy
That 1928 footage is incredible. Wow

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2022 4:17 pm
by Caballo
And check out this video footage of the SMU campus in 1953-54.

https://texasarchive.org/2012_01987

Re: Historic Film Footage

PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 9:02 am
by ponyboy
Unreal. My father started school as a freshman in 1955. So that’s the campus he saw. Didn’t realize that the area from Dallas Hall south to the boulevard was so vastly different. There was even a road in front of Dallas Hall?!

Re: Historic Film Footage

PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:11 am
by Charleston Pony
ponyboy wrote:Unreal. My father started school as a freshman in 1955. So that’s the campus he saw. Didn’t realize that the area from Dallas Hall south to the boulevard was so vastly different. There was even a road in front of Dallas Hall?!


My understanding was that all the shrubbery in front of Dallas Hall and the "main quad" was removed after a rape that occurred in that area

Re: Historic Film Footage

PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 11:20 am
by PonyTime
Caballo wrote:And check out this video footage of the SMU campus in 1953-54.

https://texasarchive.org/2012_01987


I'm pretty certain that the Homecoming parade theme that year was "Gone with the Wind"