UTB/TSC Archives - Media
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Creation Date
6-1986
Description
This 1986 compilation film, narrated by Fred [Frederick Joseph] and Marjorie [Marjorie Ann Martin] Celaya, preserves home-movie footage primarily shot in the late 1920s by Fred’s father, Joe [Jose] Celaya, and later by Charlie [Charles] Celaya. The reels document everyday family life at the Celaya home at 614 East Washington Street in Brownsville, Texas, along with relatives, neighbors, and local scenes in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
The footage captures the Celaya children (Joe, Albert, T.W. [Thomas William], Fred, and Lucy Ruth) playing in the yard, riding in the family’s Model T and other early automobiles, and gathering on the front porch with their parents and grandmother. It also includes extended family and neighbors such as the West family (including Mickey West), members of the Champion, Fernandez, and Tate families, and friends from the neighborhood. Additional sequences show a bankers’ convention in Monterrey during Prohibition, visits to the Las Norias section of the King Ranch (where Uncle Tom Tate worked as a foreman), early aviation scenes at the Brownsville and Port Isabel airports, local parades and football games, and streetscapes of Brownsville and Rio Grande City.
Later segments from the 1940s recreate earlier family moments with the next generation.
Physical Description
.MP4, 01:19:21, 3.40 GB
Recommended Citation
UTB/TSC Archives - Media, UTRGV Digital Library, The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley. Accessed via https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/utbmedia/
