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Andrew Higgins designs and supervises construction of boats in New Orleans, Louisiana.

A tribute to Andrew H. Higgins and his workers in developing and producing invasion boats in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Navy's need for landing crafts. Landing crafts at sea. Soldiers climb a cargo net. Landing crafts head towards a beach. Soldiers disembark from the landing crafts and move towards a sandy beach. Exterior of a building in New Orleans. Andrew Higgins works in his office. He talks over a phone. He makes a rough sketch of a sample boat. Andrew Higgins and his workers discuss and look at designs of an invasion boat. A Higgins tug boat at a canal. Higgins supervises construction of a boat. Ship builders work night and day. Navy officers get off from vehicles and meet Higgins. They inspect an LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel). An army tank being driven aboard the LCVP. Higgins and officers board the LCVP. The ramp of the LCVP is closed. It gets underway at sea. It stops at a shore. Higgins and the officers disembark from the LCVP. They climb up a flight of steps and talk. Higgins receives rush orders from the navy. Ship builders at work. Workers build a boat. They assemble the parts of the boat and paint it. LCVPs are transported. Exterior of a boat building plant. Constructed LCVPs and ships. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 8 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071818
The future Houston Astrodome under construction, June 1964

Views of what would become the Astrodome in Houston Texas while under construction in 1964. Aerial shots show the current, open-air stadium of the Houston Colts baseball team (soon to be renamed the Astros) and the new domed stadium being built a short distance away. Announcer notes the structure covers nine and a half acres. Views of the translucent roof. Views of construction crews working inside the unfinished stadium, which at this point has no grass or turf on the playing field and none of the seating installed. Man in hardhat speaks into walkie-talkie. Worker lifts beam on crane. Welder works on pipe.

Date: 1964, June 4
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071844
Mine workers wheel carts filled with vanadium and uranium ore in a radium mine in Slick Rock, Colorado.

A radium mine in Slick Rock, Colorado. The mine country and hilly terrain. A sign 'Radium Mine'. Interior of the mine. Mine workers wheeling wheel carts filled with vanadium and uranium ore.

Date: 1949, March
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071848
Mine workers drill and load a wheel cart with ore in a radium mine in Slick Rock, Colorado.

A radium mine in Slick Rock, Colorado. Interior of the mine. Drilling being done. Mine workers load a wheel cart with ore. A mine worker with a pick axe. Mine workers are wheeling wheel carts filled with vanadium and uranium ore. A worker uses a pick axe.

Date: 1949, March
Duration: 4 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071849
Chuan-Kwang Yang participates and sets mark in 10 events of decathlon at Walnut, California.

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA ) champ Chuan-Kwang Yang sets mark in 10 events of decathlon at Walnut, California. Chuan-Kwang Yang smiles. He exercises. The decathlon events include the 1500 meter run, the 100 and 400 meter dashes, high hurdles, pole vault, javelin, discus, high jump, shotput and broad jump. Yang wins five events and adds other points with fine performances in the other five. He is greeted and receives trophy.

Date: 1963, May 2
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071884
Army kicks for a point and misses and Navy team makes a touch during a football match in Philadelphia.

An Army-Navy football match in Philadelphia. Army cadet making touch down. Army kicking for point and missing. Navy team makes a touch down and gains extra points by a kick. Crowds jam the stands, and cheer for the Navy. Score board reads Navy 7, Army 12. Crowds come down from stands on the grounds. Middies sitting in stands. Army Band parading on the field, cadets follow. The band and cadets in the field. The Annapolis Middies seated in the stands.

Date: 1933
Duration: 7 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071895