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Houston, Charles S. Collection
55) 1515.0041
[Oscar R. Houston—home movies] Reel 41
Two shots of wreaths placed in front of a building. A shot of women carrying baskets on their back. A shot of a bridge. A shot of a statue. A few shots of a pond. Footage o...
16) 1515.0042
[Oscar R. Houston—home movies] Reel 42
A shot of three men holding large, dead game birds. A shot of workers and pack mules carrying large, wooden poles. Footage of ruins, including a few bridges and shots along th...
17) 1515.0043
[Oscar R. Houston—home movies] Reel 43
A shot of people loading a horse-drawn cart. Footage of ruins, including an amphitheater, with a shot of a cafe in between. A shot of an old building. Footage shot from a boa...
2) 1515.0044
[Oscar R. Houston—home movies] Reel 44
Footage of people eating a meal at a dinner table, including shots of the centerpiece. A few shots of people socializing, drinking and eating around a small table. Footage of ...
30) 1515.0045
[Charles S. Houston—home movies] Reel 45
A few shots of men and women around a Christmas tree, including a young girl looking into a kaleidoscope. Footage of a man and a boy playing with toys, including a toy fort. A...
18) 1515.0046
[Oscar R. Houston—home movies] Reel 46
A shot of clouds and water taken from a plane. Intertitle: “A glimpse of the mountains and the sea on the South Coast of Kyushu” A few shots of a garden pond and the surroundi...
60) 1515.0047
The Mechanical Heart
The Mechanical Heart contains footage of a demonstration of an early artificial heart and contains lengthy title cards explaining what is being shown. Intertitle: “THE MECHANIC...
57) 1515.0049
[Charles S. Houston—home movies] Reel 49
A few shots of a small child asleep on a blanket in a field. A few shots of a makeshift tent with several children under it. Footage of children playing on tire swings and in ...
45) 1515.0050
[Charles S. Houston—home movies] Reel 50
Footage of a few men and women at desks and a baby in a crib in a very small room with a chalkboard. A few shots of seated men and women with notebooks in a small room. Donor ...
6) 1515.0051
[Charles S. Houston—home movies] Reel 51
Footage of men and women with notebooks in a room seated at desks and chairs. Donor Notes: "India: Peace Corps Doctor Training #3"
47) 1515.0052
[Charles S. Houston—home movies] Reel 52
Footage of men and women sitting at a long table with several microscopes. The men and women look at slides through their microscopes as men in lab coats walk around the table....
8) 1515.0053
[Charles S. Houston—home movies] Reel 53
A few shots of a young boy helping a man put steaks on a small grill as another boy and a woman watch. Footage of a few adults and children hitting balls with a bat in a parkin...
21) 1515.0054
[Charles S. Houston—home movies] Reel 54
Footage of a woman and two boys exploring a fort, including one of the boys climbing a wall. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tughlaqabad_Fort] Donor Notes: "India: Peace Corps Tu...
59) 1515.0055
[Charles S. Houston—home movies] Reel 55
Footage of a woman cooking at a stove while a young girl watches and man samples the meal. Donor Notes: "India: Peace Corps, 2 reels unlabeled"
10) 1515.0056
[Charles S. Houston—home movies] Reel 56
Footage of men collecting branches and logs in the snow and throwing the branches into a fire next to a log cabin. The footage includes shots of snow covered mountains in the d...
52) 1515.0057 - 1515.0065
Operation Everest II
"Operation Everest II" (3/4 in., CSH) NHF notes: per Jane Beal, a series of nine tapes, original footage is 3/4" videotape. Studies on the effects of high altitude on human phy...
25) 1515.0066
[Charles S. Houston—home movies] Reel 66
Reel 66 contains footage that was used for Charles S. Houston’s series of talks, “Fifty Years of Going Higher,” which relates to a study on the effects of high altitude on human...
7) 1515.0067
[Charles S. Houston—home movies] Reel 67
Reel 67 contains footage that was used for Charles S. Houston’s series of talks, “Fifty Years of Going Higher,” which relates to a study on the effects of high altitude on human...
199) 1515.0068
[Charles S. Houston—home movies] Reel 68
Reel 68 contains footage that was used for Charles S. Houston’s series of talks, “Fifty Years of Going Higher,” which relates to a study on the effects of high altitude on human...
5) 1515.0069
[Charles S. Houston—home movies] Reel 69
Reel 69 contains footage that was used for Charles S. Houston’s series of talks, “Fifty Years of Going Higher,” which relates to a study on the effects of high altitude on human...
201) 1515.0070
[Charles S. Houston—home movies] Reel 70
Reel 70 contains footage that was used for Charles S. Houston’s series of talks, “Fifty Years of Going Higher,” which relates to a study on the effects of high altitude on human...
2) 1515.0071
Operation Everest
Operation Everest is a film documenting Dr. Charles S. Houston’s study of the same name conducted in 1946 for the United States Navy that used a pressure chamber to study the pr...
16) 1723.0001
K2 1953 Lecture Film
K2 1953 Lecture Film contains footage that was used for a lecture given by Charles S. Houston related to an expedition to reach the summit of K2 that he led in 1953. Two shots ...
18) 1911.0001
Exploring the Heights
This footage was compiled as part of a live presentation with accompanying narration given by Charles S. Houston in 2002. A few still images of mountains. A shot of a newspape...
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