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Fantastic Tulsa Films Volume 1

Fantastic Tulsa Films - Volume 1

Fantastic Tulsa Films consists of many old film clips and home movies rescued from attics and garages, including some of the oldest home movies taken in Tulsa. Even though many of the old movies were taken by amateurs, they give viewers a fascinating look into the city’s colorful past.

Jack Frank has been collecting and preserving archival movie films of the city for a decade, and in this show, he brings viewers the best of what he has found.

Video Gallery - Watch short clips from the show!

Historic home movies give us a fascinating look at Swan Lake in the 1920's.

The city's first big "airport" was a grass landing strip at Admiral and Sheridan.

See downtown when it was the city's main shopping area, and truly the "heart of Tulsa"

Construction of the Civic Center downtown was a big project in the 1950's and 60's

It has been a Tulsa tradition for a century. Check out how the fair looked in the early years

Tulsa celebrated Oklahoma's 50th Birthday celebration in 1957, by burying a Plymouth time capsule.

What's in Fantastic Tulsa Films - Volume 1

1920s views of Tulsa ice skating in 1920s on Swan Lake Brown Airport at 51st and Sheridan Commercial Airport at 61st and Yale 1957 footage of the Plymouth Belvedere buried at the Courthouse ice skating and boxing at the Tulsa Coliseum before it was destroyed by fire clips of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart visiting Tulsa

shopping downtown in the 1960s including Dorothys Dress Shop clips of baseball games at old Oiler Park on the Fairgrounds Riverside Drive in the 1920s old films of 1940s-era Tulsa State Fairs Miss Oklahoma contestants parade through downtown in the 1960s Bunion Derby race through Tulsa 1920s TV anchorman Jack Morris explaining a vote for Arkansas River improvements

bonus material on DVD:

• extended interviews of footage of the 1957 buried Plymouth Belvedere
• a 3-minute 1920s film showing Tulsas skyline and downtown buildings
• 10 of Jack Franks Tulsa Memories stories from television

"Fantastic Tulsa Films" is made possible by Arvest Bank.

In this show

Did you know there was at airport at 61st and Yale?

See some of the oldest film clips ever shot in Tulsa

Did you know there was once a baseball stadium where The Home Depot is downtown?

Discover the history of the Golden Driller

In the 1920s, a frozen Swan Lake attracted dozens of ice skaters

Jack Frank takes you on a fasinating look at Tulsa's past using old film footage.

Watch previews of the show here

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