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In celebration of this year’s State Fair of Texas, the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection put together this compilation of clips. Taken from several months of the archive’s 16mm WFAA Newsfilm Collection, this twenty-three minute piece largely without sound showcases the evolution of the fair throughout the 1960s, highlighting the attendees and fair grounds, the food and the games, and the attractions and parades as each evolved over the course of a tumultuous decade of cultural and political change, while still remaining fundamentally the same, as it does even to this day.
To see similar footage (and other archive highlights), please follow us on Twitter @smujonesfilm and at the G. William Jones Film & Video Collection Group page on Facebook.
Image: Film still of the entrance to the rides at the Midway, State Fair of Texas, G. William Jones Film & Video Collection, SMU, 1960s
Blog post: Courtesy of Jeremy Spracklen, Moving Image Curator, Hamon Arts Library