Part 3

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Theophilus ©2017 • click photos to enlarge

The photos below are stills from Theophilus' movies that were digitized in 2017 by the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. We greatly appreciate their work and highly recommend sharing your old Texas movies with the organization. We'd digitized our movies 30 years ago when the technology was not near as good. This conversion really brought the movies to a new  level. Then in 2020 we used Kodak transfer services to digitize another 10 7" reels of film. The stills were captured from the digitized videos. Chris also had two reels which were digitized and may be viewed at this link.

Please let us know if you want us to identify someone that we haven't noted in the photos and we'll add the information.

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1948 Movie Peggy, Martin (Buddy), Peg and Ollie Theophilus, Margaret and George Crerar • view video 

I (Martin) was born in 1946. My grandparents, Margaret and George Crerar moved from Cleveland, Ohio to Alpine in 1947. They lived in a house behind our main house and grew vegetable gardens, grape vines, peach trees, fig bushes and raised chickens. My grandfather worked as the Alpine Country  Club golf course caretaker. My grandmother worked for the First Presbyterian Church. My Mom taught private art classes and my Dad was an accountant for LaBeff Motors.

                                

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1950 snow in Alpine, Texas • view video

Swimming at Balmorphea and at the Sul Ross State College swimming pool • Crerars • view video

1947 Ohio Visit with Sally (Olllie's Sister) & Don • View Video

1947 Alpine Scenes

Grandma Crerar taking train to Ohio for visit

Ollie returning from his Mom's Ohio funeral October 1947

Martin (Buddy) & Susie

1947 Peg Sul Ross Geology Field Trip • Theophilus Baton Rogue trip • view video

1947 Theophilus Halloween Party, Alpine Halloween parade • view video

Theophilus backyard • LaBeff/Ritter Motors promo • Alpine train depot • Presbyterian Church Rev Rogers • Easter egg hunt • view video

1948 Ohio trip to see relatives - Sally & Don • View Video 

Truman campaigning by train in Alpine 1948

1948 Alpine, Texas Snow • View Video

1948 movie shot by the Theophilus' shows another heavy snow. There are some scenes around the Theophilus property including the Central School where the gym had not arrived. There are scenes with Bill Dunn, Mrs. Dunn and other family friends. The Sul Ross swimming pool is also in one scene.

                           

Martin (Buddy) El Paso for surgery 1949 • View Video

In 1949, Martin (Buddy) fell off the swing ladder in the family;s backyard. His Mom and Dad took him to Dr. Lockhart, who said there was more going on in addition to the fall. He referred the family to Dr. Deter at El Paso's Southwestern General Hospital where they found Martin had a Welm's tumor and they removed it and his left kidney. The surgeons were cautiously optimistic that they's found all the cancer. However they also noted that often Welm's tumor patients did not have longevity and predicted High School graduation would be success. The doctors were elated when they received an invitation to Martin's college graduation. Martin and his parents made return train trips to El Paso regularly for the next couple of years for checkups. He had a taxi driver that always met them at the train to take Martin to the hospital. This movie shows scenes at and around El Paso's hospital.

                  

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Back home

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Buster Diamond and his Dad visiting from Michigan • LaBeff Motors • Peggy Rainbow Theophilus backyard

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More Alpine, Texas parades • view video

                            

Peggy as witch • Alpine parade (family took lots of parade footage (:-)

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1949 Easter Egg Hunt and Roadside Park Picnic • View Video

                                     

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1949 Parade of the Wooden Soldiers • Michigan Relatives visit • View Video

                     

1950 Theophilus family friends • Central School movie making • view video

1950 Barney & Buster Deyman (Grandma Crerar's Sister Ina's family Michigan) Alpine visit • view video   

1952 Theophilus home • view video

1954 Fort Davis Centennial • view video

1955 Martin's family trip to Cincinnati (Ollie's Sister) and Baton Rogue (Ollie's Brother) • view video

Part 3

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photos above by Martin Theophilus ©2017 • click photos to enlarge