Lady Bird Johnson Home Movies, Home Movie #25: Fall-Winter 1953. Footage of the Johnsons and friends spending time together at the LBJ Ranch. This is a silent, color film with retrospective narration by Mrs. Johnson. Following is a scene by scene description, courtesy of the Audio Visual Archives at the LBJ Library.
This film opens with a view of the ranch house from across the river. Lyndon B. Johnson poses with a Hereford bull in the pasture. This same bull grazes in the field. Mrs. Johnson pets the bull.
Sisters Lynda Bird and Luci Baines Johnson sit on hay bales in the pasture. We see various pasture scenes and hay bales in the fields. Luci pets dogs Beagle and Laddie(?) (Luci’s dog). LBJ rides on horseback herding cattle into pens near the house. Scenes play of cattle in the pens. LBJ and A.W. Moursand look at the cattle. The foreman of the ranch and a Lindig(?) boy doctor a calf. Ernest Stubbs, a banker from Johnson City, observes the cattle. We see scenes of the cattle in the pens. LBJ stands next to a horse and talks to Melvin Winters, whose ranch the Johnsons used while theirs was being built. LBJ relaxes and plays with the Beagle near the house. LBJ and Congressman Homer Thornberry ride horses near the house. Ernest Thompson (of the Texas Railroad Commission), Gene Lasseter, and Mary Rather talk and sit under trees.
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