Bea McKinney Film Collection

Item

Identifier: Coll-277

Staff Only

This is a small collection of film on reels that includes some cityscapes and experimental shorts. It also has two DVDs of the material that has been digitized.

Dates

Date of DVD digitization

Creator

McKinney, Belitha ("Bea"), Co-Founder - Vice President - Press Contact, 1945- (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions

Conditions Governing Use

This material is made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to taking precautions against infringement of copyright and respecting the publication rights of reproduced materials. All rights are reserved and retained regardless of current or future development or laws that may apply to fair use standards. Any materials used should be fully credited with their source according to the example given in the Preferred Citation note. Requests for assistance with citations and images of publication quality should be directed to specialcollections@tamucc.edu

Extent

26 Reels

Abstract

This is a small collection of film on reels created by Bea McKinney and her students at Richard King High School in Corpus Christi that includes some cityscapes and experimental shorts.

Biographical / Historical

Bea McKinney grew up on a farm in Yorktown, Texas. She taught filmmaking classes at King High School in Corpus Christi and hosted the Texas Student Film Festivals. She co-founded the software company Seaside Software with her husband, Melvin “Mack” McKinney, who developed the software for the freeform database askSam.

Arrangement

This collection is organized by two series with twenty-seven items (reels) and one folder.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was acquired in 2014 from Bea McKinney.

Related Materials

230 Melvin H. (Mack) McKinney Seaside Software (dba askSam Systems) Records

Processing Information

This collection was arranged by Eric Christensen, Librarian of Archive Processing for Texas A&M University– Corpus Christi’s Special Collections & Archives Department.