1937 Class 1A Texas State Championship Longview Lobos High School vs Wichita Falls High School

About this film

I want to thank David Cotham for allowing this film footage of the 1937 Texas State High School Football Championship game to be shared with the followers of Forgotten Now Found. The film was found by Mr. Cotham and his son Jeremy while doing research for the book Friday Night Howl. It was shot by the family of Frank Lebus, who was the quarterback for the Longview Lobos.

To learn more here is a link to a great article about the book.

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Here is a link to a story about the film.

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How did you digitize this film?

We are losing more history every day. The longer you wait to digitize that home movie of your grandparents at prom or your mom’s first car the more it degrades. I use the Wolverine 8mm and Super 8 Film Reel Converter Scanner to digitize what you see here.

It is easy to set up and operate and stores the files onto an SD card so you can quickly transfer files to your PC. If you have more than 10 films to scan this is definitely going to be cheaper than paying for someone to do it for you, and you’ll have the results quickly about 30 minutes scan time per standard 8mm reel.

I bought this to scan a trove of old family movies and it works great. It is easy to set up and operate and stores the files onto an SD card so you can quickly transfer files to your PC. If you have more than 10 films to scan this is definitely going to be cheaper than paying for someone to do it for you, and you'll have the results quickly (about 30 minutes scan time per standard roll of Super 8).

Incredible Machine - It did my 66 (14 five inch reels and the rest were 50-foot reels) 8mm movies with only 5 five mistakes where there was some jitter and the recordings needed to be made again. These were 70-year-old reels in not so good of condition and it only completely failed on one tape where the drive track had many holes. It is a marvel of engineering. I had a few jams on bad parts of the film and it did not seem to hurt anything. Great Machine!

This machine works very well for converting old 8 and supper 8 films. I am very satisfied with the quality even though it takes a long time to convert a 250-foot reel. My biggest gripe is the small switch that sets it to 8 or super 8. This switch can easily be switched unknowingly which will create a tracking problem if not set to the proper film type. If you get one of these, set the switch to the position you want and put a piece of tape over it.