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American Cities in the 1950s

Americans listen to a chamber string quartet playing music on stage. Vintage views of various famous American cities in the 1950s. Sweeping wide views of American wilderness with mountains in distant background. Elevated view of a river in America. A railroad marshaling yard with skyline of Chicago Illinois in the distance. Close view of two railroad trains passing in opposite directions in downtown Chicago with skyscraper in background. A city street in downtown Detroit Michigan with 1950s cars on the road. View of the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis Minnesota and the city skyline in background. View of Saint Paul Minnesota with river, bridge, and some nearby factories. View of Saint Louis Missouri as seen from an anchored position on the Mississippi River. The city skyline of New Orleans from a distance. View of Pittsburgh skyline with the West End Bridge over the Ohio River in the foreground. People walk on the grounds of Liberty Island in New York, with the Statue of Liberty seen towering above. Aerial view of New York city's skyline, skyscrapers and New York harbor. Camera view panning from ground to top of Empire State Building in Manhattan. Aerial view of Washington DC and Potomac River. Ground view of Jefferson Memorial. The Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument and U.S. Capitol seen together. Steps of Lincoln Memorial and view of statue of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln inside the memorial. An eastern American mountain view, witha lake or river in the foreground. View of Half Dome peak in Yosemite National Park seen from a moving vehicle. Elevated view of a dense forest in the western United States. Pacific coast scene of surf washing onto rocks in a rocky area with nearby cliffs and mountains.

Date: 1953
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025223
Daily activities of an automobile worker's family at their house in Detroit, Michigan.

A film about workers in automobile factories in Detroit, Michigan. A 1950s father sits in a living room chair. He is reading a paper as boys in the family run in and jump on him. The boys take the paper. He gets up and takes the boys towards a bed room. The father puts a small boy in a crib and tucks him in. He kisses the boy and walks out as the light goes out. The little boy in the crib fakes sleep and opens eyes. The boy jumps around the crib. The father puts the small boy in the crib and switches off a light. He walks back to the boy jumping in the crib. He tucks the boy in and walks out. The mother in the family is seen reading a newspaper. A girl reads sitting on a floor. Other girl sits by a radio turning the dial. The husband walks in and approaches his wife.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067510
Automobile workers work in a factory in Detroit, Michigan.

The film 'Auto Workers in Detroit' about workers in automobile factories in Detroit, Michigan. Street traffic in Detroit. Various 1940s vehicles seen including Ford, Chevrolet, GMC. A trailer truck carrying new cars takes a turn. Exteriors of automobile factories. A trolley car comes to a stop. Workers get out of trolley car. A car pulls into a parking lot. A man gets out and walks to the factory. Men walk towards and into a factory. They punch time cards. Interiors of an auto plant. A worker pulls levers that start various machines. An automobile engine on an overhead hook dollied towards a car then lowered into position. A man works near the door of a Ford Custom 2 door sedan on the assembly line. Wheel and rim on the overhead hook dolly are placed into position.

Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067507
View of banks, church, public park, Belle Isle, busy streets and Bob-Lo steamship SS Columbia leaving dock in Detroit, Michigan

In Detroit Financial District, people in front of First State Bank Building at 751 Griswold at Lafayette in Detroit, Michigan. (The building was designed by Albert Kahn and Corrado Parducci, and later housed the Olde Discount Corporation). Interior of First State Bank Building, Detroit. Street view of First National Building under construction at 660 Woodward Avenue in Detroit (for First National Bank and other tenants). Automobile traffic on streets of Detroit. People leave Sweetest Heart of Mary, Roman Catholic Church, located on Russell Street at the corner of East Canfield avenue, in a historic Polish parish. (The neighborhood at the time was predominantely Polish.) In the distance is another Polish parish and Saint Josaphat Church located on East Canfield at the corner of Hastings Street (which is now the I 75 freeway). Heavy traffic on a main boulevard. Children play in playground on swings and slides. People and pigeons in a park. Heavy traffic on a street. Large crowd on shore and others in canoes in water at Belle Isle. Crowd streams through gate at dock to board the steamship ferry "Columbia" of the Detroit, Belle Isle and Windsor Ferry Company, with sign "Bob-Lo Route" on the side. Boblo Steamship SS Columbia (designed by Frank Kirby) filled with passengers underway on the Detroit River bound for Bob-Lo Island in Ontario Canada.

Date: 1921
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030156
Workers work in an automobile factory and line up at a cashier's window before leaving from work in Detroit, Michigan.

A film about workers in automobile factories in Detroit, Michigan. A long line of cars in an assembly line. A die maker checks blue prints and instruments. He walks over to another worker. He points something out to him and walks to his position. He picks up a tool and works on a machinery. A man hands him papers. A girl opens a file drawer. She walks to a man at a desk and gives him cards. A man takes a fender of a stamping machine and hangs it on a moving overhead hook. Workers lined up at a cashier window to receive pay check. Men punch time cards at time clock.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067508
A worker spends time with his family and has dinner after working in an automobile factory in Detroit, Michigan.

A film about workers in automobile factories in Detroit, Michigan. A man walks to his car in a parking lot. He gets in and drives off. Two little boys, the man's sons, play beside a residential street. The man pulls up to them in his car. The children run to the car. The father puts them in and drives off. The car pulls up at a curb. The man gets out lifting one child and carries another to the house. Inside, woman housewife and two girls are seen working in the kitchen to prepare dinner. The father walks in and kisses the wife and the girls. He puts the youngest boy on the floor and walks out. The father in an undershirt washes up. The two girls set the dining table. The family at the dining table as the father walks in. They say grace and eat. The two girls wash dishes.

Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067509
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