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Pilot study on Freeway Control System to prevent traffic congestion on Gulf Freeway, Texas United States.

Pilot study on Freeway Control System for controlling the pressure of increasing traffic on roads. Elevated almost aerial view of a busy city cross road intersection in downtown Houston, Texas, with private cars, cabs and trucks and view of city as seen from a skyscraper. As camera view widens showing more of the downtown Houston skyline, the sign for the Texaco company is seen atop a skyscraper building, and the rotating Gulf oil company sign is seen atop another skyscraper. The Gulf Freeway six lane road busy with cars, and trucks. Increasing lanes and controlling entry of cars to control traffic situations. Cars enter main highway from sideways one after the other. Policemen on a signal control entry of cars and allow calculated number of cars to enter the highway. A driver of car with an equipment. Close circuit cameras mounted on highways. Monitors at Freeway Surveillance System head office. Scientists at work, observe camera videos and take readings from meter panel. Capacity Demand and Gap Acceptance methods to control traffic congestion.

Location: Texas United States USA
Date: 1977
Duration: 5 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036618
News stories of 1958 including polar cruise of USS Nautilus and statehood of Alaska

Aerial view of the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine, underway on the surface and then submerging. View of helmsman below in the Nautilus. Aerial view of frozen arctic ocean with deep crevasses, as narrator mentions the Nautilus traveling submerged, beneath the North Pole on August 3, 1958. The boat's Captain, Commander William R. Anderson, is seen in uniform. More views of the Nautilus moving on the surface, including one with crew members standing on deck. Next, a newspaper headline is shown, announcing Alaska's statehood. Small boy and girl sitting in the grass holding a flag displaying map of Alaska and reading: "Alaska 49th State." Automobile traffic driving into Anchorage, Alaska. Banner stretched across the road reads: "Anchorage. All-America City." Pedestrians jam the sidewalks as the city celebrates its new statehood. A float displaying a huge moose has sign on its side reading: "49th. Hey Texas. Now I'm the biggest Bull..." Young Alaskans ride in a convertible automobile. A huge 48-star American flag covers the front of a building. It has a large extra star appended to it. Closeup of the flag.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1958
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047397
Report from Texas about the state's contribution to World War II.

Report from Texas: Texas' contribution to World War II on both battlefield and home front. Horsemen gallop across the terrain. Man on horse with cattle. Texas increases its production of synthetic rubber, magnesium, sulphur and agricultural products. Factories and industries. Construction work underway. An airfield. Soldiers march. Views of Dallas, Houston, Fredericksburg, Hotel Nimitz, Ft. Worth, Kerrville, Pampa, San Antonio, Kilgore, El Paso, Beaumont, Wichita Falls, San Angelo and Austin.

Location: Texas United States USA
Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020831
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.

Location: Houston Texas USA
Date: 1965, February 11
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061781
Modernization of the cities of Southwest region of the United States in the early 1940s.

Animation shows six cities in South Western region of the United States. These are the cities with more population. The cities are Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Ft Worth, Dallas, San Antonio and Houston. Modernization of the cities. Views of Main Street in Fort Worth Texas, with shops and traffic. Views of Main St in Ft. Worth facing both south and north, with the north facing view showing the Tarrant County Courthouse building and its clock tower in the distance. Business signs include Goldstein Bros Jewelry, Olenn Bros Furniture Company, Imperial Hotel, North Music, and other hotels and jewelry stores. Cars pass on the street. People walk on the street. Workers clearing brush from land to turn it into farm land. A farm in the area. Women herding sheep. Ruins of an old fort or of old native American Indian buildings in a desert area. Cattle graze on a field. An industrial factory or farming facility. The Alamo site building in San Antonio, Texas. View again of downtown Forth Worth, Texas.

Location: Texas United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028178
Apollo Mission scenes, Apollo 11 world tour, Launch Complex 34

Consoles in the Mission Operations Control Room 2, the flight control room of the first crewed moon landing (the Apollo 11), at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Closeups of console labels read “CAP COMM”, “Flight Director 02”, “Life Systems Officer”, “Flight Dynamics Officer”, and “Guidance Officer”. Craters on the moon surface during Apollo 8. Famous "Blue Marble" view of the earth as seen from the moon. Apollo 9 astronaut Dave Scott exiting hatch of capsule for his extravehicular activity. Apollo 9 lunar module “Spider” moving across moon surface. The Apollo 10 Command and Service Module in orbit around the moon. View of empty mission control, Houston. Boy Scouts carrying flags of the United States in a parade. Drum in marching band. A window displays a photo of Buzz Aldrin, under the words “Our Hero”. Buzz Aldrin waves to cheering spectators. Michael Collins smiles. An Indian bagpipe band marching. French dignitary awards Michael Collins. Asian Boy Scouts cheer and women dance during the three astronauts’ international “Giantstep Apollo 11 Presidential Goodwill Tour." A masked native dancing. Neil Armstrong waves at people as he sits with Amsterdam mayor Ivo Samkaldenfrom in a boat sailing in Amsterdam’s canals. Dutch people waving at Neil Armstrong from a bridge. Ticker tape parade in honor of Apollo 11. Balloons flying over parade. Apollo launch site. Emergency phone numbers sign posted at Cape Kennedy. View of the remains of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34, the site of the Apollo 1 cabin fire that killed Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee—and destroyed the command module (CM).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1969, July
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078853
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