FFA Livestock Shows and Governor Allan Shivers in Beeville Parade (1952)

Duration: 0:15:50

Year Published: 1952

Format: 16mm

Sound: silent

Description: This footage begins with scenes of FFA Livestock shows in Crosby and Dayton in 1952, followed by scenes of a family picnic on a farm to celebrate a birthday. Later, a parade proceeds down the streets of Beeville, Texas and features, among other floats, Governor Allan Shivers riding in a convertible. The producer of this film, Jim W. Keeland, was a photographer and videographer in the Houston area for sixty years. He took photographs and films for Houston's NBC affiliate, KPRC-TV, from 1948 until 1961, worked for the Houston Post from 1951 to 1982 as a printer, and was a freelance photographer of agricultural subjects.