View from side of railroad track as steam locomotive passes pulling a long passenger train at high speed. A freight train passes at the same time in opposite direction on parallel track. Split screen presentation shows automobile traffic, pedestrians, and street cars on Woodward Avenue, in Detroit, and a ferry boat plying a river on the other screen. The ferry boat appears to converge onto the avenue, as if to collide with a trolley car.
Scenes from game 7 of the World Series in 1934: Detroit Tigers, of Detroit, Michigan play against the St. Louis Cardinals from St. Louis, Missouri, at Navin Field in Detroit Michigan. The players include Frankie Frisch, Mickey Cochrane, Dizzy Dean and Joe "Ducky" Medwick. The players playing the game. Notable persons watching the game include: Henry Ford, son Edsel Ford, Will Rogers and R Judge Landis (Kenesaw Mountain Landis), the first Commissioner of Major League Baseball. A large crowd of spectators watch the game in the stadium. Fans throw pop bottles and fruit onto the field in the 6th inning of game 7 after Cardinals star Ducky Wucky Medwick slides into the Detroit 3rd baseman Marv Owen. Medwick is removed from the game by Commissioner Landis. St. Louis Cardinals with its infamous "Gashouse Gang" win the game and the series. From a "25 years ago today" retrospective in a UN newsreel, dated September 24, 1959.
Sun over harbor and view of skyline in Detroit, Michigan. Detroit Financial District buildings visible. Steamship ferry boat leaves dock. View of skyline and waterfront. Several steamship ferry boats at a dock. Ore freighters in harbor and on river. View of the Michigan Central Station in Detroit (or Michigan Central Depot, MCS) with passengers coming and going through the railroad train station main entrance. Cars parked in front of the railroad station. Views of city from elevated area. Workers build a house. Vehicular and pedestrian traffic in business district, including streetcars and automobiles. Shops and businesses along downtown streets. A police officer directs traffic from a raised platform in the center of an intersection. Sidewalks crammed with pedestrians. Linked 2-car streetcars pass by on streets.
Baking bread at Hotel Statler in Detroit Michigan. Baker kneading dough and making rolls out of it. He places the rolls in a large brick oven. He takes out the baked rolls on a tray.
Foods being prepared in the kitchens of the Hotel Statler in Detroit Michigan. Vegetables cooked in large steamer. Woman places a tray of vegetables in the steamer. Man selects and cleans fish and lobsters. Soup boils in big copper pots. Butcher cuts turkey.
Views inside the food storerooms and kitchens of the Hotel Statler in Detroit Michigan. Men gather groceries and canned food stored in the hotel storeroom. Two men on the ladder placing cans on shelves. Woman oversees employees with a paper in hand. Hotel Statler chefs discuss matters while they drink and eat at a table..
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