Скачать или смотреть Tyler Roses | Segment from "Tyler, Texas - Where life is Enjoyable" (1955)

Produced by the Tyler Chamber of Commerce, this 1955 promotional film displays Tylers strengths in industry and natural beauty, as well as other hallmarks of the towns’ culture. This segment focuses on the local rose industry. At the time of filming, much of the land around Tyler was dedicated to the growth and harvest of roses, contributing to half of the nation's rose supply and giving the town the nickname of "America's rose garden." The harvest of the roses every October is celebrated with the annual Texas Rose Festival, which hosts thousands of spectators to parades of floral clad floats and other events.

Please note, these segments depict individuals waving the Confederate battle flag. Historians point out that the Confederate battle flag largely disappeared after the Civil War, reemerging in 1948 among Southern Democrats protesting federal civil rights initiatives. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the flag subsequently acquired a strong association with racial segregation and white supremacy. The Texas Archive of the Moving Image does not condone such racial prejudice, but presents the film as it was originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as to claim this ideology never existed.

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Contributed to the Texas Film Commission’s Texas Moving Image Archive by the Tyler Public Library.