Video Collections

Scope and Contents Marianna, Florida in Jackson County celebrated a Satsuma Orange Festival on November 8-9, 1928 featuring parades, a selection of Satuma Queen, band concert, and other festivities.  This film was created by the Marianna Fruit Company and features scenes of downtown Marianna, the new Hotel Chipola with its miniature golf course, and first public address by newly elected Florida Governor Doyle Carlton.   The film is silent; it may have been shot in color originally but these have faded by the...

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Inside UWF with John Richardson and Sandra Averhart, January 18, 2006.  Featured are Margo Stringfield, UWF Archaeology Institute, and Stuart Hamilton, GIS coordinator for UWF Environmental Studies on the ground-penetrating radar project to locate and identify unmarked graves in St. Michael's Cemetery; with Mardi McDaniel-King of the Community-University Partnerships and Leisure Learning Society.  30 min.

Scope and Contents Inside UWF television program for February 22, 2006, with Jonathon Heide and Sandra Averhart.   Features include the Alternative Spring Break program with Jonathan Cellon, graduate assistant to Volunteer UWF and advisor to Alternative Spring Break; and Brandi Wahl, President, Alternative Spring Break about their coming efforts for Spring Break 2006 in helping the Ronald McDonald house in Charleston, South Carolina and volunteer work in Everglades National Park;  and discussion with UWF...

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Inside UWF television program for March 8, 2006 with Jonathon Heide and Sandra Averhart.   Features include discussion of the debate and speech activities at the 2006 Marks Invitational Tournament and the UWF Debate and Forensics team with Forensics Director Brendan Kelly; and the UWF Majors Fair sponsored by the Advising Center, discussed by Chat Sue and Jenna Kimbrough.

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Inside UWF television program for March 22, 2006, with John Richardson and Sandra Averhart.  Discussion covers Festival on the Green 2006, set for March 31-April 1, 2006, with Jeff Comeau and Connie Marsh, co-chairs; and with Danielle Pierandozzi, Venue Coordinator for the Children's Festival; also mentioned are other activities such as Honors Convocation and the visit of former Polish President Lech Walesa.

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Inside UWF television program for April 5, 2006, with John Richardson and Sandra Averhart.   Features include the 2006 men's and women's tennis program and highlights of past championships with Tennis Head Coach Derrick Racine and Assistant Head Coach German Dalmagro; and the programs of the Aquatic Center after its reopening March 13, 2006 following extensive damage from Hurricane Ivan in 2005, with Assistant Aquatic Director, Nancy Quina.

Scope and Contents Inside UWF television program for April 19, 2006, with John Richardson and Sandra Averhart.   Features include the new course offering in building codes, a collaboration of the UWF Building Codes Department and the Construction Engineering Program, with Glenda Mayo from Construction and Engineering, and Tam Landis, UWF Building Code Administrator; and report of the plans for the 2006 Division II National Championships Fall Festival to be held by the NCAA at UWF, with Richard Berg, Athletic...

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Andrew Young, former Ambassador to the United Nations and Mayor of Atlanta, spoke at the University of West Florida on February 21, 1997. His remarks covered Africa (notably Sudan and Nigeria), as well as civil rights in America. 60 min.

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A promotional video for his church by Dyllon Burnside, probably done at Pensacola beach.  2:52 minutes.

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Aerial drone footage of the University of West Florida's Emerald Coast Campus (former Fort Walton Beach campus of UWF), April 2017

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Video promotional ad for UWF's Festival on the Green, 2009

Scope and Contents Video of the Hawkshaw archaeology dig, May 1985, with commentary by Judy Bense, and interviews and commentary by Mrs. Samuel Carr, Woody Skinner, Alan Gantzhorne, and Eloise Gadus.  The archaeological project covered the area east of downtown Pensacola where Gulf Power was buildilng a new headquarters.  The Hawkshaw area is loosely defined as roughly 100 city blocks, taking its name in the 1920s and 1930s, and bordered by Alcaniz on the west, Gregory Street on the north, and Pensacola Bay to...

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Produced by Main Street Productions, this is a compilation of photographs and stories about historic homes, buildings, churches, and sites in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, touching on the history of the community, the Florida Chautauqua; it carries no copyright data or date though it does provide the names of the narrator. 31 minutes. Researchers should note that some of the data and businesses mentioned are no longer accurate as of the time of digitization (September 1, 2016).

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Dr. Judy Bense from the University of West Florida Department of Archaeology is interviewed on WSRE Television (Pensacola Junior College) on the archaeology program at UWF, by Dennis Printy, PJC Faculty on the program "Florida Land Report."  Included are artifacts and discussion along with film footage and photographs of digs going on at the time in Pensacola.

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Lecture on the history and genealogy of the Hyer Family of Pensacola, Florida, by Mary Veal.  While undated, this was probably a UWF Leisure Learning class where local individuals were invited to tell the history and genealogy of local families in Pensacola.  38 minutes.

Scope and Contents Nautilus News interviews and film concerning primarily the archaeological excavation of Old Christ Church to locate the three Rectors, identify them, with the reburial ceremony.  Individuals interviewed include Beverly Matt Currin, Rector of Christ Episcopal Church; Dr. Judy Bense, Archaeologist; and Dr. Morris Marx, President, University of West Florida.   Includes filming of the excavations under the church for Joseph Saunders (d. 1838), Frederick F. Peake (d. 1846), and David D. Flowers...

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Lectures on the Pace Family and Yonge Family of Pensacola, Florida; speakers unidentified. While undated, this was probably a UWF Leisure Learning class where local individuals were invited to tell the history and genealogy of local families in Pensacola. 1 hour, 23 minutes.