Mr. White, Sr. started taking silent motion pictures of local events in the 1920s and his son continued this practice. In the 1970s, Richie White, Jr., created a version of this footage that dealt with public rather than family activities through the 1940s. He showed this film at local civic clubs, and it included parades, the country club, Columbus Centennial, swimming, the collapse of the bug house in the 1930s, Fort Benning, Phenix city, Alabama and the major fire at St. Luke Methodist Church in the 1940s. In 1982, he showed the film in a local history class at Columbus College and his narration was taped; this is also available in the Archives.