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Title: Natural Gas to the North, Natural Gas to the North
Identifier: e_bb_5358
Creator: Bailey, Bob (Producer/Photographer)
Contributor: Michigan-Wisconsin Pipeline Company
Dates: circa 1950-1970
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: Produced film documenting the planning and construction of a natural gas pipeline running from the Hugoton Gas Field to Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. Focuses on solutions to terrain challenges, spotlighting specialized equipment including pocket ditchers, mormon boards, a Pipeline Inspection Gauge, and the Pearson fault inspector. Title card at beginning of film reads, "American Natural Gas Company through a subsidiary Michigan-Wisconsin Pipeline Company." Color picture with sound. Projector lost loop due to damage from advanced vinegar syndrome, causing many audio drop-outs, pauses in the picture and image flutter at points where projector stopped. An unprocessed version [e_bb_5358_unprocessed] is available for verifying the fidelity of the digitized copy to the original film.

Title: Port of Houston, 1 of 2, Port of Houston, 1 of 2
Identifier: e_bb_5038
Creator: Bailey, Bob (Producer/Photographer)
Dates: circa 1951-1956
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: Produced film promoting the Port of Houston, with a brief history of the port and its use by the cotton, wheat and oil industries. Contains footage of the "Steel Surveyor" ship pulling into port, a meeting of the Houston Port Commissioners, and the newly built Wharf 9. Credits include a list of the Board of Navigation and Canal Commissioners: Vernon Bailey (Director of Port Operations), W. F. Heavey (General Manager), W. S. Bellows, W. L. Walker, Sewall Myer, Lawton E. Deats and Robert Hemphill. Color picture with sound. Ends abruptly, with a hole for synchronization that likely goes with part 2.

Title: Sam Houston [ship] and monorails, Sam Houston [ship] and monorails
Identifier: e_bb_5359
Creator: Bailey, Bob (Producer/Photographer)
Dates: circa 1953-1958
Resource: Bob Bailey Studios photographic archive
Description: A combination of unapparently-related clips of produced films and raw footage spliced together on the same reel by the creator. Includes clips on the christening of a ship named "Sam Houston," a Houston monorail system (with title cards in Japanese or Korean), workers on a construction site, workers at a switchboard and footage of Houston-area buildings and landmarks, including USS Texas, the Washburn Tunnel, and buildings of KNUZ-TV, City National Bank, Ezekiel W. Cullen and the University of Houston. Color and black-and-white picture with sound. Some segments are upside-down and backwards in relation to others. Pub version flips upside-down and backward segments.