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Historic Videos

The first video is the making of the ball field in St. Paul, Bernard and Betty Dyer's Wedding in Old Monroe and the 1951 St. Paul Baseball Team.

 

This is the 2nd video from the Gene Kopp films. In it you will see from 1950 a Corpus Christi celebration, Lucille Emge and Bernard Sommer wedding, the graduation of the 8th graders from St. Paul School with their diploma carriers and Viola Sommer and John Dunard wedding.

 

3 weddings starting with Bud and Arcella Vomund's, then Rose Ann Burkemper and Oscar Henke followed by Gene and Rosemary Dames all from 51-52.

 

This is number 4 of the #GeneKoppfilms. We start at the Precious Blood convent in O'Fallon with sister Emge and Sister Vogelgesang, the Sigmund Schleuter wedding, the 1951 St. Paul baseball team, School graduation of 1951 and a couple of locals that you should recognize stuck in the middle of the movie.

 

Number 5 from the #genekoppfilms has the St. Paul School Kids playing on the NEW playground equipment at the Ballpark, a look at the picnic grounds in 1951, and the wedding of Clete and Esther Swagman.

 

In the number 6 entry from the #genekoppfilms we have Harold and Betty Groeblinghoff wedding in Flint Hill, the 1st communion class of 52 and Bob and Doris Sigmund wedding in 52 as well.

In 1950, a gentleman from St. Paul named Gene Kopp (Debbie Mueller's uncle) started filming the major events around St. Paul. He filmed on a 16mm camera which was a higher quality than most people who shot regular 8mm film. Larry Groeblinghoff came upon this box of films in the basement of St. Paul School and took them to Channel 4 where he worked at the time. He copied them and they were ok but he always thought they could look so much better. Just recently he had the films copied at a professional transfer business and the results are amazing. These 70 year old movies look like they were shot yesterday. There is about 4 hours of video to be broken down to 5 minute clips.

We are very thankful to Larry for making it possible for us to share these videos with you.