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Baseball's Houson Astros practice in the newly-built Astrodome, 1965

Newsreel clip on the opening of the Astrodome in Houston Texas. View of the seats inside the new $30 million covered stadium. Houston Astros players and coaches work out on the field. A pitcher throws a practice pitch to a catcher. Judge Roy Hofheinz is among several men in suits on the edge of the field, watching, in the background. Camera pans across the Astrodome's translucent roof, 20 stories above the playing field. Announcer notes the 45,000 seats are upholstered and the building is air conditioned so baseball and football fans can watch games in comfort. Astros players #21 Al Spangler and #14 Bob Aspromonte take swings as coach pitches batting practice.

Date: 1965, February 11
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061781
Various U.S.naval aircraft operating at Navy airfield on Ford Island in Pearl harbor, Hawaii

Naval aircraft operations at Navy airfield on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after U.S. entry into World War Two. A biplane Grumman J2F utility plane taxis. Two of them take off. A USN PBY-5A Catalina taxis on the airbase. Two Navy ground crew seated on a bench at the airbase, watching the airplanes. A land version of OS2U-3 Kingfisher, with fixed landing gear, taxis in and several ground crew help it to park. Also shown are new Brewster F2A-3 fighters.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061838
U.S. Military Policemen guard the U.S. Embassy and check the cars passing nearby in South Vietnam.

Activities of United States Military Police in Saigon, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Military Policemen on guard at the U.S. Embassy. They check the cars entering the embassy grounds. Joint MP patrol of the US, New Zealand, Australia and South Vietnam leave Provost Marshal headquarters, Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) and tour downtown streets.

Date: 1965, August 5
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061975
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge presents the Distinguished Flying Cross to Charles Lindbergh in Washington D.C.

American aviator Colonel Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris. Colonel Lindbergh returns to the United States after completing his flight on June 11. A large crowd gathers in Washington D.C. to greet him. U.S. President Calvin Coolidge arrives at the ceremony to welcome him. President arrives at the podium. Crowd applauding. He addresses the people and speaks about the flight of the aviator. He talks about the history of airplanes and their flight. He states that the airplanes were first used for the purpose of transportation of passengers and for national defense. They had a limited flying radius in the beginning. But now the area has been extended. He states about the historic flights of many U.S. Navy personnels. Then he talks about another historic flight of Lindbergh and bestows the Distinguished Flying Cross upon him. People cheer and applaud as he makes the announcement. Lindbergh arrives at the podium and being greeted by the cheering crowd.

Date: 1927
Duration: 7 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062075
Views of Republican Army forces at the front lines during the Spanish Civil War.

Animated map shows the front line of battle, between Republican and Nationalist forces, curving North from Aranjuez, towards Madrid, during the Spanish Civil War. View from hilltop of shells exploding in distance. Closeup of Republican trenches and soldiers taking doors from a town, to reinforce them. The troops installing the doors in the sides of the trenches. Troops carrying supplies and gathering together for a meal behind a protecting hill. Soldiers eating and reading posted information and sharing newspapers inside their fortified positions. A soldier climbs steps into a truck equipped as a traveling barber shop, where he gets a shave and haircut. The mobile barbershop moves on to another location. A camouflaged military vehicle tows a huge loudspeaker out the gates of of a Republican army post. It drives to the front lines, where it broadcasts music for the Republican army troops. View inside the control trailer where the operator places a vinyl record album on a phonograph player. Sound of the broadcast transmitted in the area. Troops in trenches listening as they man their positions and maintain their weapons. An instructor reviews information about their weapons with a group of soldiers, who had little prior experience with firearms. These new recruits are being taught how to disassemble and reassemble a rifle.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062081
CG enlisted men work on the deck of a ship and chip and scrape the paint off the deck during World War II

U.S. Coast Guard (CG) enlisted men engaged in vessel maintenance during World War 2. Men wearing jeans use a scraper, a chipping hammer, and an electric wire wheel to prepare the deck for new paint on the stern of a Landing Ship Tank (LST). Another enlisted man welds a cleat to the deck of the LST while underway.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062154