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Bridgeport Connecticut USA 1940 stock footage and images

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Church and parishioners in Polish section of Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1941

Film opens showing Saint Michael's Archangel Church (310 Pulaski St, Bridgeport, CT 06608, United States) in the Polish section of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Snow is seen on some church stairs. But the main entrance is cleared, and some parishioners are entering there. Many others are emerging from other exits. (The Marchlinski brothers, Joseph and Anthony, have been identified walking towards the left at TC: 00:24 through 00:27.) Various views of parishioners leaving the church. All are in winter clothes. Closeups of some as they pass the camera. View of church cornerstone displaying the date: September 2, 1907 and St. Michael Church (in Polish). Closeup of men conversing on sidewalk near the church. Most wear fedora hats. But one, who seems somewhat elderly, wears a bowler hat. Ladies and gentlemen are seen wearing hats.

Date: 1941, February
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065919
Colonel Charles A Lindbergh pilots Sikorsky S-42 flying boat during a test flight at Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States.

Pan Am Clipper technical advisor, Colonel Charles A Lindbergh, pilots 32-passenger Sikorsky S-42 Flying Boat during test flight. S-42 Pan Am Clipper aircraft on land just before test at Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. It was built by the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division of the United Aircraft Corporation in Stratford, Connecticut. View of Charles Lindbergh on land before flight. View from land or nearby ship as the passenger aircraft takes off with boats sailing in the background. Aircraft just above water surface. Juan Trippe, founder of Pan America World Airways, and Charles Lindbergh seated in passenger cabin. Colonel Charles Lindbergh in cockpit at controls, inside aircraft cockpit during flight. Aerial view of Sikorsky S-42 flying boat in flight.

Date: 1934, July 4
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022428
'Community Advisory Service Center' established in Bridgeport, Connecticut after World War II.

Film 'Community Advisory Committee' shows American people finding employment after World war II. People work in American factories and mills. A group of men and women work on operating machines. A train gives departure signal. People walk on a street. Officials in a meeting discuss the re-employment problem in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Social agencies deal with personal problems of the people. The Mayor of the city shows a plan for the city's development during a meeting. 'Community Advisory Service Center' board at the entrance of a building. People walk in and out of the building. A machine operator comes for help and is interviewed by a councilor at the Community Advisory Service Center. He gives a conduct test at the center.

Date: 1949
Duration: 8 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043774
Workers work inside a lumber company plant in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

A lumber plant in Bridgeport, Connecticut. 'City Lumber Company' written on the plant. Man loads and unloads lumber with the help of small transport vehicles. Workers lift section of lumber factory. Water pipe and plumbing being installed. Worker applies sheathing to lumber. Section being loaded on truck. Truck loaded with lumber comes out of parking area.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044071
Personnel look at a display of prefabricated houses in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

A lumber plant in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Crane conveying lumber onto truck. Display of prefabricated houses. Group of men get inside the house. Personnel look at a map in hand. Man points to the architectural plan of prefabricated houses.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044072
WWI Renault FT tanks tested in Bridgeport, Connecticut

Testing and demonstration of Renault FT tanks at Locomobile Automobile plant in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Three Renault tanks are tested (two without turrets). They maneuver about in a field and through mud and obstacles. Two enter a body of water. One, with a turret, manages to negotiate the water and climb out. The other, lacking a turret, must be pulled out with a tow line. One tank climbs a ramp to the top of a flat bed truck, which them pulls away. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048445