Video
The Center for American History's moving image collection consists of a variety of film, videotape, and digital formats dating from the 1930s to the present. These range in subject matter from University of Texas instructional materials, UT Office of Public Affairs videos, collegiate sports, and KLRU-produced music and other programs to numerous documentary projects from many collections that are Texas-based or global in reach.
|  Houston Rodeo Parade
Source: Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive
Gene Autry and Glenn McCarthy, along with marching bands and cowboys, parade through downtown Houston, Texas. |  Containment and Recovery of an Offshore Oil Spill
Source: Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive
Produced by Spiltrol, a division of Oceaneering International, and by Bennett Pollution Control. A Bob Bailey Production. Takes
place at an oil rig fire off-shore of Louisiana. |  Boots ’n Coots: Oil Well Fighters and Blowout Specialists
Source: Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive
Documentary filmed by a French production company about a day in the life of the oil-well firefighter, Asgar ("Boots") Hanson. The
film follows Boots as he and his crew extinguish an oil fire in Southern Louisiana, just outside of Baton Rouge. Original French-language title: Profession: Pompier du
Petrole. |  Airless Sprayed Coating [Composite], Clemtex
Source: Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive
Film demonstrating how to use Clemtex’s airless sprayed coating product. Composite version of sound and picture from e_bb_5006,
e_bb_5007 and e_bb_5008. Color picture with sound.
| |  Cameron Iron Guidelineless Drilling System [Composite]
Source: Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive
Animated film demonstrating the technology of an underwater guidelineless drilling system. Composite version of A and B roll
picture from e_bb_5011 and e_bb_5012. Assembled by Briscoe Center staff using synchronization punch holes. Color picture, no sound.
|  Devil’s Cigarette Lighter [Composite]
Source: Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive
Account of Paul "Red" Adair and company’s (Red Adair Oil Well Fires & Blowouts Control Company) infamous fight in 1961-’62,
with an oil-well fire in the Gassi Touil natural gas field in Algeria, nicknamed the Devil’s Cigarette Lighter. Includes footage of Boots Hansen and Coots Matthews. Composite version of sound
and picture from related files, with color inverted.
|  Capline….Oil For the Midwest
Source: Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive
Film documenting the planning and construction of the Capline Pipeline, a United States pipeline transporting crude oil from the
South to the Midwest. Participating companies include Ashland Oil and Refining Company, Marathon Oil Company, Standard Oil Company, Sun Oil Company, Shell Oil Company, Clark Oil and Refining
Corporation, Union Oil Company of California and Texaco, Inc. Color picture with sound.
|  Four-in-One Quadruple String Completion
Source: Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive
A promotional film documenting the installation of the first quadruple string completion, in oil well #CH [C8?]. Includes in-depth
instruction on assembling device using stingers, packers, tubing and solid block trees. Presented by Brown Oil Tools and Cameron Iron Works, with acknowledgment of the CATC Group, Continental
Oil Company, Atlantic Refining Company, Tidewater Oil Company and City Service Production Company. |
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Texas city fire and disaster
Apartments; Atherton-Clements Inc., original color ed. [edit], no sound, print
