In 1993, Texas Country Reporter, the Dallas-based TV
program, did a feature story about Frank Hendricks of Pedernales
Place. Here is a clip of that show. It runs about six minutes
and features both the extraordinary art and craft of Frank, and our
beautiful Pedernales River. The friend who helped transfer this video
clip from a VHS tape observed that if this were Japan, Frank
Hendricks would have been declared a National Treasure.
Frank's
wife, Virginia, said host Bob Phillips was not there. The
location crew admitted they had not been enthusiastic about traveling
to the sticks outside Austin to photograph guns. They were soon
captivated by the art of Frank's work and enchanted by the wild
beauty of Pedernales Place. The film crew ended up shooting all day
and leaving late. They probably missed their flight out of
Austin!
To play this video clip, you will need a multimedia
player for your computer operating system. A previous version of
Media Player (mplayer) comes with Windows. A previous
version of Quicktime Player comes with Mac OS. You
should be able to use those. To download a newer multimedia
player, left click on one of these links::
All three of the above multimedia players are available for
several Windows and Mac operating systems.
I
recommend that you save the video file on your local hard disk drive
and then play the video clip from there. Two steps will perform
better than trying to play the video directly from the Web. To save
the file, right click on one of these file links and then left
click on Save Target As... or Save Link
Target As... in the popup menu. A dialog box will
appear which will allow you to choose where to save the file. Make
note of the file name and the location of the folder where you save
it.
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Please let me know if you have success or problems downloading and
playing these video clips.
mailto:webmaster@pedernalesplace.org
Sincere
gratitude to Dr. Leslie Cortes for providing resources, time, and
expertise to capture this video from VHS tape and digitize it for our
use. Thanks to the producers of Texas Country Reporter for
graciously permitting the reproduction of this video for
noncommercial, not for profit rebroadcast.