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By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

NTCC’s Webb-Chapter-Award winning film, featured last fall in San Antonio, and this spring in Houston, is now available to the public through the film site of Honors ²ÝÁñÉçÇø at this link. 

The film on Big Oil and Texas politics, 1935 to 1980, was premiered last Friday on the NTCC campus. For a student film, viewers found the technical aspects of the film impressive, and much credit was given to director, Skylar Hodson, and editor, Yahir Garcia.  Viewers also mentioned the dazzling film score of regional composer, Kenny Goodson—who has now composed original soundtracks for five NTCC films, the novel acting performances of Luke McCraw, Noah Pettey, and Alison Majors, and the unique story line mediated by major Texas leaders of the twentieth century—Lyndon B. Johnson, Ralph Yarborough, and William Clements.  The film also covered new ground in illustrating the influence of leading Texas women such as Lady Bird Johnson, Opal Yarborough, and Rita Clements.

Previous Honors/Webb Society films can also be viewed from the above site including the story of the Morris-County-born father of prohibition--Morris Sheppard; the great Texas populist from Hughes Springs--Wright Patman; Harriet Potter Ames—perhaps the only woman in ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Texas with a monument (by Lake Caddo); Sam Houston, and the fall of the Texas Cherokee (For a generation in the early 19th century, Cherokee lived around present-day Cherokee County, Texas); the story of the great cosmetics CEO, Mary Kay; the story of future opera singer Barbara Conrad (from Camp County) and the University of Texas, 1956-57;  Adina De Zavala and the Making of the Alamo; the story of Bo Pilgrim; the Carroll Shelby Story; Texas Suffragette: The Minnie Fisher Cunningham Story; and the Traveling Preachers of Early Texas. The scripts, records of awards won, and the stories about how each film was made are also available on this site.