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This 1940s home movie captures St. Edward's University students and faculty doing various activities around the Austin campus, from enjoying a banquet dinner together to dancing with live music from a country band. A humorous scene with a skeleton casually smoking a cigarette is given context when the camera reveals students in class, studying the bones of the human body. Students and faculty later play an informal game of baseball together, with a crowd of spectators in attendance.

This 1952 promotional film seeks to entice potential students by highlighting the university's many offerings. It opens with an introduction by the university president, Brother Edmund Hunt, before highlighting the religious services provided by the university. Subsequent scenes from several of the classes offered at the time, such as religion, engineering, and economics, provide viewers with an impression of what the school was like in the 1950s. The film also highlights Hilltopper varsity sports (basketball, baseball, tennis, and golf) and other extracurricular activities, including an amusing scene with the publications editor providing minimal guidance to his photographer. Off-campus, students hang out at local Barton Springs Pool. Footage from the Senior Ball dance and graduation commencement close out the film.

This 1958 home movie captures the dedication of Andre Hall, with clergy from the Congregation of Holy Cross present. The hall was named after Brother André Besette, who was later canonized as Saint André of Montreal by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010. The building cost $300,000 to construct, serving as a residence hall until the 1970s. It was demolished in 2019.

This 1960s home movie captures scenes around campus, including exterior shots of several of buildings and a graduation procession. Later, students participate in a casual game of flag football. The sunny day brings out a sizable crowd of spectators.

This 1960s captures St. Edward's University students participating in horseback riding. In an extended sequence, one young man brushes a horse as part of its daily grooming, where dirt, hair, and other materials are removed to the benefit of the horse's skin and coat.

This 1960s home movie features scenes from a graduation ceremony and the academic procession as it moves around campus. The footage opens outside of the former Library & Administration Building.

This 1963 home movie captures University students from several Hilltopper athletics teams practicing across campus. It opens with the equestrian drill team on their horses before cutting to a group casually playing catch. The remainder of the film shows student athletes serving and returning at the tennis courts, before others engage in a baseball game at the Lucian-Hamilton Baseball Field.

This television broadcast captures a 1969 theatrical production of The Death and Trial of Pope Formosus at St. Edward's University. The drama, written by student Joseph Dispenza, is a fictionalization of Pope Formosus's brief reign, including his posthumous trial, where his exhumed corpse was brought to the papal court for judgment. University students and faculty serve as the players. This filmed performance was produced as part of the Texas Educational Microwave Project, a program that used microwave channels to create a closed circuit television system, linking together institutions of higher learning in the central Texas region.

This 1970s home movie captures scenes around campus, from casual observations inside the classroom to panning shots of building exteriors. Students can be seen playing tennis, learning how to type on manual typewriters, and using an IBM card sorter, which sorted punched cards into a specific order as a means of processing the data on them (represented by the hole punches in the cards). The presence of both male and female students in the classroom dates the film to 1970 or later, when St. Edward's absorbed the all-female Maryhill College to become co-educational. In addition to exterior shots of the grand Main Building and the Mary Moody Northen Theatre, the film also captures the downtown Austin skyline at the end of the film, zooming in from the hilltop.

Produced by Austin's KLRU-TV, this 1990s television documentary tells the story behind the historic Main Building. Built by famed Galveston architect Nicholas Clayton, the building has served as its centerpiece since its original construction in 1889. After summarizing its architectural features, the film highlights the Main Building's complete reconstruction after a devastating fire in 1903, and its subsequent weathering of a tornado in 1922. Following the feature is a message from St. Edward's University President, Dr. Patricia Hayes, advocating for public broadcasting and imploring viewers to make a donation to KLRU.

This pair of local television news segments report on the presentation of the Mission Award to former First Lady Barbara Bush on May 24, 1996. Bush was chosen for the honor for "her commitment to the disadvantaged and to advancing literacy." The former first lady founded the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy in 1989, which seeks to improve literacy among children in the United States. The Mission Award recognized individuals whose words and actions reflected the St. Edward's mission statement, which calls for students and faculty to recognize their larger responsibility to the world community.

This 1999 television commercial promotes St. Edward's University in Austin. The advertisement appeals to prospective students by highlighting the benefits of a St. Edward's education, such as smaller classes that allow for more individualized attention.