Production Number 11
Production Title: 1950 Homecoming Events and miscellaneous historical footage.
Production date: 1950 and ?
Color / Black and White / no sound
Total running time: 00:15:50
There are no production or other credits included.
Derived from 16 mm film.
Available in VHS, DVD, and Sony DV-cam.
This consists of two films with the first one in color showing campus scenes, the 1950 Homecoming Parade and some other events. The second film is in black and white with a potpourri of campus scenes (buildings, students).
Contents
0:00 Campus buildings
Entrance to UF Campus (brick wall)
Tigert Hall
Flavet Village sign
Leigh Hall
Florida Union (now Dauer Hall)
Women's Gym
Stadium (construction shown)
Churches near campus
Wesley Foundation of the Methodist Church (sign and building)
2:20 Cows - various scenes
3:35 Building of Division of Music (former the "New Gym")
Sign
Building
4:06 Three men walk out of a building
Billy Matthews to the right
4:27 Homecoming parade
Dignitaries on cars (in one car a woman holds a small Confederate flag)
ROTC
Bands
Cheerleaders
Floats (one has a turning ferris wheel with a woman in each car)
Spectators
Horses and horse drawn carriage
Viewing stand
Clowns
7:55 Group of men in suits
George A. Smathers
8:25 Swimcapades
Sign by pool - Swim Capades 1950
Gymnasts on bar in pool
Women in red suits and red caps with horns do a dance by poolside
Feats on the trampoline by the pool
10:30 Florida Field
Bands and band member formations
Card section - spell out "Go Gators"
10:37 Blank screen
10:42 Black and white film
Campus scenes
Various buildings
Dorms
Stadium
Building I (temporary building) - students descend outside stair
Construction at two sites
Field
Stadium building at Florida Field
Tigert Hall
Students
12:56 Classroom scenes
Lecture
Test situation (students work in cubicles)
Tigert Hall
Dorms (old and new)
Florida Gym
Stadium (completed with the press area)
Florida Union (now Dauer Hall)
Dorms
Library East (now Smathers Library)
First floor reading room in Library East
Grand reading room in Library East
Woman at one of the tables in the grand reading room - Holbrook's mural on the wall behind
15:50 The End