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Angela Davis

Civil rights leader Angela Davis speaks at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University's Black History Month convocation

Gov. Bryant Addresses Commerce Committee

Gov. Bryant addresses the Senate…

Selma, Alabama Demonstration

Footage of the March 1965 voter registration…

St. Augustine Civil Rights Demonstrations

Footage of the St. Augustine civil rights demonstrations…

Equal Rights Amendment

A reporter discusses the history of the Equal Rights Amendment...

Wheelchair Basketball

University of Illinoise "Whiz Kids" participate in a benefit game sponsored by the Tallahassee Disabled Citizens of Action...

ERA Rally

This film has footage of a large pro-Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) demonstration at the Governor's Mansion...

Florida State Prison

Footage of the grounds and guard towers of a Florida state prison...

Action Center USA

This film shows a modern man of business and his lifestyle in Orlando, the action center of the fastest-growing state.

Bottled Sunshine: A Juicy Story

The story of Florida citrus cultivation.

Ivan Tors' Miami Studio

This film is a tour of Ivan Tors Studios, showing behind-the-scenes manufacturing, equipment, wardrobe, stages and special effects.

Taylor and Dixie County Logging

This rare home movie footage was shot in color by Charles L. "Buster" Borklund Jr. in Taylor and Dixie counties during the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Florida Cattle Ranch

This film has scenes on a cattle ranch, including cowboys on horseback.

Florida Seafare

This film shows the many types of commercially harvested seafood in Florida.

Apollo and Gemini

This film shows actual space footage, Cape Kennedy footage, and spacecraft construction footage.

Riverboats

A retired riverboat pilot sits on his front porch and talks about the old riverboat days, including his experience on the City Eufaula, the Callahan and the Chipola.

Bouncing Baby

This film is a one-reel comedy made in 1916 in Jacksonville.

FAMU: The 100 Before the World

Florida A&M University is the sole representative of the United States in France's 200th Bastille Day Parade in Paris.

Scenes of the Everglades

Homer Augustus Brinkley produced this film in 1928 to illustrate the exotic environment found in the Everglades.

Luna Plantation

Beautiful footage of the Luna Plantation in Leon County. This footage is composed of four combined short films.

Thanksgiving

This home movie begins with Thanksgiving dinner at the Russo's.

Astrology

A WFSU-TV reporter interviews a local astrologer.

City Christmas Lights/Tallahassee

This film shows the Capitol and downtown Tallahassee with Christmas decorations.

Buccaneer Conquest

Gasparilla Celebration, which began in 1904, as it was done in the 1950s.

Alligator!

Describes the alligator as a keystone species.

Florida Beaches: Paradise in Peril

Efforts to save Florida's "greatest natural resource," its beaches, from erosion.

Million Acre Playground

Maintaining the Everglades

Waters of Destiny

This film uses actual hurricane footage to show the damage from uncontrolled storm water, describing how the Army Corps of Engineers and the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District tamed the Everglades.

Water Hyacinth: The Silent Aggressor

An educational film about water hyacinth, the invasive aquatic plant that has become a nuisance to Florida waterways.

Hurricane Agnes

This film shows hurricane damage on the coast at Panacea, Shell Point and Alligator Point.

Beyond Disaster

Re-creation of the 1928 hurricane that tore apart the west coast of south Florida and killed over 2,000 people.

Lake Jackson

Aerial film footage of Lake Jackson and the surrounding area north of Tallahassee, Florida.

Florida Folk Festival 1958

Clips from the 1958 Florida Folk Festival held at the Stephen Foster Memorial in White Springs, Florida.

Florida Folk Festival 1958

Clips from the 1958 Florida Folk Festival held at the Stephen Foster Memorial in White Springs, Florida.

Florida Folk Arts Conference 1978

Footage of the 1978 Florida Folk Arts Conference held at the Stephen Foster Memorial in White Springs, Florida.

Florida Folk Festival 1955

1955 Florida Folk Festival scenes.

A portrait of Lucreaty Clark

Lucreaty Clark discusses the long tradition of basket making in her Jefferson county family.

CSX Crew Installing Track and Gandy Dancers

Railroad workers or "section hands" commonly referred to by the slang term "Gandy Dancers" demonstrating work songs used when laying rail track.

Stephen Foster's Footprints in Dream and Song

Dioramas, paintings and actors in costume all work together to tell the story of Stephen Foster

Gamble Rogers

Gamble Rogers plays a flattop acoustic guitar on a dock with cypress trees in the background.

Governor Charley Johns - LeRoy Collins

Debate between acting Governor Charley Johns and future governor LeRoy Collins was filmed from a television monitor (kinescope) and simultaneously broadcast throughout Florida on radio.

Governor H. Burns Walt Disney Press Conference

Governor Bryant addresses the Senate

Julio 26

The first six months and 26 days of Fidel Castro's rule of Cuba

President Kennedy on the Foreign Burden

President John F. Kennedy speaks at a Democratic fundraiser in Miami.

Wakulla Springs & WWII Troop Maneuvers

Army troops practice swamp slogging through cypress swamp, make a human chain across the river, crawl on their bellies, and use weeds and Spanish moss for camouflage.

Florida Rebuilds

Documentary about the Apalachee Correctional Institution, the camera follows staff member Paul McCarty, who plays an inmate at the facility.

Save the Capitol

This film shows the "Save The Historic Capitol Night."

Presidential Campaigning

Compilation of film clips involving presidential candidates.

Care and Feeding of a Mermaid

Young woman learning to be a mermaid at Weeki Wachee.

Governor H. Burns Walt Disney Press Conference

Gov. Burns introduces Walt and Roy Disney and Walt tells of their enthusiasm toward the new Disney facility in Florida.

Florida State University: Toward a Greater University

Jim Morrison in a public relations film

Ross Allen Reptile Institute

Ross Allen wrestles an alligator

Paradise Park

Was a segregated African-American resort located about a mile down the Silver River from the popular Silver Springs attraction near Ocala, Florida.

Florida: Moonport USA

Mercury launch sequence

Weeki Wachee

Bowl area at Weeki Wachee with swimmers and a jungle cruise boat

Springtime Tallahassee Parade

Footage of the 1978 Springtime Tallahassee Parade as it moves southward down Monroe Street.

Daytona 500

Scenes from the 1962 Daytona 500

Design for Winning

Steve Spurrier, Heisman Trophy winner and UF star

Ski Champs in Action

This film shows many water skiing tricks

Their Game is Golf

Some history of the LPGA is given at the beginning

Florida Derby

1963 Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale

Jake Gaither

A tribute to Jake Gaither, ex-head football coach at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee.

Bobby Bowden

Football coach Bobby Bowden comments on his first season as head coach of Florida State University's football program

Bonifay Rodeo

Viewers see bronco busting, calf roping, bull riding and rope twirling