W.H. Tilley Collection, no. 5 - 1950s

Duration: 0:15:34

Year Published: 19571950s

Format: 16mm

Sound: silent

Description: This film includes 16mm footage shot in the 1950s by W.H. Tilley as well as a slideshow of family photos. A 1957 meeting of the Austin Horseless Carriage Club opens the film, with footage of the meet and the motorcar parade down Congress Avenue afterwards. The next, also in Austin, follows workmen’s activities and clean-up at the scene of a train derailment on West 5th Street. Following that is footage of Paul and W.H. (with unknown relations) in California, and the two brothers together in front of Paul’s Riverside house. The set concludes with a slideshow of Tilley family photos (each separated with W.H.’s captions) stretching as far back as the mid-nineteenth century. Slideshow subjects include, among others, Mrs. John Wesley Tilley (Paul and W.H.’s grandmother), Joseph Edgar Tilley & Millee Davis Tilley (Paul and W.H.’s parents), Helen Grist, and Wesley, Jr., along with photos of W.H. through his years as a filmmaker, musician, and family man.