Elaine Patton 07/05/2012

Today I worked on creating descriptions of news clips from digitized KHOU news reels, completing:

• box 6701, reels 8, 21, 22
• box 6902, reels 2, 12, 15

This batch was pretty straightforward except for a pair of clips in 6902-02 that corresponded with titles that had  no relation to the actual content, though I think that's only really been a problem once before. This batch contained several clips relating to Muhammad Ali's draft evasion (which stood out to me since I had watched the 2001 film Ali just a few days ago, conveniently enough) and various Apollo missions, ranging from memorial service for the Apollo 1 astronauts to preparations for the Apollo 10 mission.

I also encountered footage of the jogging race between Judge Hofheinz and Mayor Welch at the Astrodome (6902-12, "Jog-In"), which I had previously seen in photographs elsewhere online while verifying their identities in clips I worked on previously. The last several seconds of this clip include a bunch of young people running across the field laughing, which gave a neat little overview of late '60s fashion. I also spotted an amazing bouffant in another clip, as well...how hairstyles change! Heard some incredible Southern accents once again, too, the likes of which generally just don't exist these days.