1930s

10,000 Turks Protest Axes A look at Texas Turkey Trot parades in Cuero celebrating the Thanksgiving season.	$10,000,000 Snow Blanket Covers Texas Dust Bowl
Auto Demolishes Store Front! "Occupants narrowly escape death in queer crash,” reads the caption for this Universal Newsreel.	425 Children Die as Gas Explosion Shatters School Universal Newsreel coverage of the New London School Explosion that occurred on March 18, 1937.
Beauty Crown Goes to Miss Belgium! Universal Newsreel footage of 1931 Miss Universe Anita Netta Duchateau of Belgium posing after winning her crown.	Bars 'Babe' From Golf Test
Black Blizzard	Better Housing News Flashes No. 9 aka Low Price Homes Produced by the Federal Housing Administration (1934-1939), this film illustrates the possibility of an average American citizen to own his/her own home -- even in the midst of the Depression Era.
Border Patrol Nabs Vicious Smugglers in Surprise Attack An early look at the border patrol in action.	Black Blizzards Rage Again Over the Southwest
Brownsville, Texas - Storms and Floods Cause Great Havoc Along Gulf Coast Donor: N/A	Breeders Show Fat Cattle Donor: N/A Prize livestock specimens from a 1934 Fort Worth exhibition.
Dalhart Dust Storm	Civilian Conservation Corps Fights Erosion A look at the 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps working to alleviate soil erosion on farmland.
East Texas Oil Fields Donor: Hamon Arts Library - SMU Silent film documenting the development of new wells on the East Texas and Van Oil Fields between 1929 - 1932.	Drink All You Can with Beer at 60 Cents a Guzzling Hour Donor: N/A
FDR Battles Big Tarpon	Explosion Starts Oil Fire Dramatic footage of an oil well fire.
Four of a Kind Win Air Trip to College Quadruplet celebrities of the early 20th century begin their higher education at Baylor University in Waco.	Fort Hancock, Texas: U.S.- Mexican Border Bridge Pact Dooms Gay Peon Weekends An early documentation of border regulation between the U.S. and Mexico.

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