Refine Your Search

Port-au-Prince Haiti 1963 stock footage and images

- Showing 2107 to 2112 of 2275 results
Mexican President Cardenas meets Cuban Colonel Batista, his family and other officials during their goodwill trip to Mexico.

Cuban Colonel Fulgencio Batista in Mexico. President of Mexico Lazaro Cardenas with Fulgencio Batista and his family and other Cuban officials who are on a goodwill trip. The officials standing and talking on a gangway at a port. The officials walk up the gangway to a vessel. Colonel Batista with his family members and other government officials inside the vessel. The vessel underway at sea

Date: 1939, February 1
Duration: 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070057
U.S. Army 106th Engineers constructing a warehouse at waterfront in Brest, France during World War I.

U.S. Army 106th Engineers in the Port de Commerce (commercial harbour) of Brest, France during World War 1. This site is adjacent to L'arsenal de Brest (Arsenal of Brest) military and naval installations on the river Penfeld. U.S. Army 106th Engineers are constructing a warehouse in the area of Basin 5. View of Engineers raising a completed section of trusswork for the warehouse, by means of cables. Engineer using power drill on sections of new trusswork being assembled on the ground. German prisoners of war using two-man saw and hammers as they cut and install wooden joists in the construction. The working prisoners are monitored by U.S Army officer. German prisoners excavating at entrance of the building. Wider view of construction site, showing rail cars nearby and construction material everywhere. A barge plying waters of River Penfeld in background, and a variety of vessels tied up in the harbor. A bridge in the backgound. Engineers tending a large steam-driven machine sheltered in a shed.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070083
U.S. Army 501st and 529th Engineers excavate for a reservoir and repair roads in vicinity of Brest, France during World War I.

U.S. Army 501st and 529th Engineers in Brest, France during World War 1. First segment: Excavation for a reservoir underway. The name of the reservoir is Kerguillo (sometimes written Kerguillau). It is located in the commune of BOHARS, near Brest. Houses beside the excavation site. Second segment: In downtown Brest, African American soldiers of African American U.S. Army 501st Engineers dig with pick axes on the Rampe du port de commerce (road access to the commercial harbour). A staircase in the background that provides walking access to the commercial harbour. People standing above them on the Cours Dajot and watching. Third segment: A few men of U.S. Army 529th Engineers doing electrical work in a street. One of them at the top of a ladder leaning against a pole in front of a building. Another soldier supporting the base of the ladder.

Date: 1918, February 5
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070084
U.S. President Kennedy addresses American people about the buildup of arms in Cuba by Soviets.

Events held in the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. Top advisors of U.S. President John Kennedy arrive at the White House. Americans buy newspapers. President Kennedy makes a TV announcement about the crisis and what has been happening. He states that a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated to halt offensive buildup of nuclear arms. He says that all ships of any kind bound for Cuba from whatever nation and port , if found to contain cargoes of offensive weapons, will be turned back. This quarantine will be extended, if needed, to other types of cargo and carriers. He further states that it shall be the policy of the United States to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union. Exteriors of the White House. An electronic billboard flashing news. Americans being interviewed by newsmen along a street.

Date: 1962, October 22
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070171
Images showing progression of ship steam propulsion from coal-fired to oil-fired to nuclear powered ship NS Savannah

Brief view of model of the original USS Savannah steam powered sidewheeler ship of 1819. View of steam plant inside a newer ship. Pistons driving crankshaft. Fireman stoking boiler with coal. View of oil storage tanks. The USS United States steamship underway. Cargoes being loaded aboard a freighter at a pier. Grain being loaded into a cargo vessel. A foreign port. An ocean liner. Engineers discussing nuclear power. Animation of atoms in motion. An early nuclear power plant installation in the United States. An open view of fuel rods in a nuclear reactor (referred to as an atomic furnace by the narrator). View of Control room in nuclear power plant with many lit dials, levers, buttons, and controls. Engineers placing cutouts of reactor on diagram of ship. Model of the NS Savannah. President Eisenhower speaking.View of U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. Marine architects of George G. Sharp incorporated, working on design of the NS Savannah. Cutaway model showing position of reactor inside the ship.

Date: 1956
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070684
The NS Savannah undergoes final sea trials including operation at full power from its nuclear reactor

The Nuclear Ship ( NS ) Savannah during its test trials in the United States. The NS Savannah leaving the New York Shipbuilding Corporation yards at Camden New Jersey, enroute to Yorktown, Virginia, is seen passing the Delaware Memorial Bridge, as she cruises along the Delaware River. views of spray blowing across the ship underway. View of reactor control room, where increasing levels of power are demanded until full (100%) power is set on April 14, 1962 and the Savannah achieves a speed of 22 knots. The NS Savannah docks at her home port of Savannah, Georgia.

Date: 1962, April 14
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070690