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Detroit Michigan USA 1956 stock footage and images

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Gaby Tobian, the defending champion, wins the National Outdoor AAU Diving Championship in Detroit in the United States.

A documentary titled 'Sports' in Detroit in the United States. Spectators seated on stands around the swimming pool at the National Outdoor AAU Diving Championship in Detroit. View of the spectators seated in rows. Gaby Tobian, the defending champion, dives from the platform int the pool. Five other contestants dive into the pool from the platform. Gaby Tobian takes another dive, winning the championship. Gaby Tobian smiling.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1956, July 30
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066317
Cleveland Police department overwhelms UAW strikers at Fisher Body factory. UAW delegates protest police brutality in Detroit. Farmers union supports strikers with food.

Views of General Motors (GM) Fisher Body factory in Cleveland Ohio, where United Auto Workers (UAW) union members are picketing as uniformed policemen monitor them. Strikers next to a large chalk board announcing that "GM renews negotiations at 10 AM today." Closeup of Union news flyer announcing that "GM bows to union, negotiations underway." Sign reads: "Department of Industrial Relations, Fisher Body Corp." on a building where strikers are picketing. A large group of uniformed policeman, including some on motorcycles, and mounted on horseback, move toward picketing strikers. Change of scene shows UAW leaders leaving a building in Detroit, Michigan, on their way to appeal to the Detroit City Council, to protest against police brutality. Union President R.J.Thomas, and Secretary, George F. Gaddes, are seen on a porch of the building, wishing them well, with words of advice and encouragement. The union delegation is seen entering Detroit City Hall. Inside an office door is labeled: "Common Council Chamber." The delegation is seated in chairs, as they appeal to Council members. Union members and women auxiliary members are seen preparing meals for strikers and their families. View of the CIO-UAW headquarters next to the Hotel Paul Revere, in Detroit. Men and several union auxiliary women enter cars to drive into the country, at the invitation of the Farmer's union, to obtain donations of food from them. The motorcade of cars is seen driving through the streets of Detroit, with flags flying from each, and later out in the countryside. At a farm, a union member presents his UAW membership card to a farmer. Other do the same with a different farmer. Next, the union members are seen carrying bushel baskets provided by the farmers, and picking vegetables from a field. Farmer on tractor drives in adjoining field. Closeup of a union auxiliary woman picking green beans. A bushel basket being filled with green beans. Men loading full bushels of vegetables into the cars, and driving away, as farm families wave farewell.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 6 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048191
Tourists in buses to tour the Ford River Rouge Plants in Dearborn, Michigan. Aerial views of the Plants.

Ford Motor Company film about the Rouge River Plants in Dearborn Michigan. Aerial view of Detroit Michigan, showing major city buildings and waterfront, with ships tied up. steam locomotive pulls a long passenger train along track passing through industrial area. Sidewalk scene in front of a hotel in Detroit, Michigan, where tourists are boarding a tour bus to take them to the Ford Company plants. The bus drives along streets of Detroit. Scene shifts to tour buses arriving at the Ford Motor Company Administration Building. The tourists leave their buses and walk to entrance of the Building. Visitors are seen seated inside the building as a tour guide addresses them. They all leave and reboard their busses. Aerial views of the Rouge River plants are seen from a low flying airplane (not shown). Smoke rises from numerous factory stacks. Ships and barges load and unload raw materials and waste products. A Stout Airlines Ford Trimotor airplane flies past the camera plane.It displays the number 12 on its tail. Views of electrified rail yard with an electric locomotive pulling freight cars. A steam locomotive moving backwards on a different track.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1928
Duration: 4 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030157
Band and baseball players march on field and Detroit Mayor John C. Lodge poses with Detroit Tigers players in Detroit Michigan

Detroit Tigers baseball team on their home field in Detroit Michigan (likely opening game of 1929 home season on April 24, 1929). Band parades on baseball field before grandstand. Baseball players march following the band. Spectators in box seats. Detroit Mayor John C. Lodge poses and throws out the first pitch. Detroit Tigers baseball players in dugout. Batter in the box with spectators in grandstand as background. Views of ballplayer, 'D' on cap. Ford automobile on ball field. Announcer interviews players for radio station WWJ. Mayor John Lodge shakes hands with the players while he is interviewed and poses with players for photographer. Coach and Ford official with automobile on baseball field. Band and players march across field with Marine honor guard.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1929, April 24
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071680
Detroit Lions win against Los Angeles Rams by a score of 10-7 during the National Football League in Detroit, Michigan.

National Football League between Detroit Lions and Los Angeles Rams in Detroit, Michigan. The Detroit Lions strike first. Spectators watch and cheer during the match. Bobby Layne gives a 25 yard field goal. The Detroit Lions win against the Los Angeles Rams by a score of 10-7.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1957, October 13
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063707
Kaye Don aboard Miss England II wins the first lap of speedboat racing against Garfield Wood in Detroit, Michigan.

International speedboat racing for the Harmsworth Trophy on the Detroit River in Detroit, Michigan. Aerial view of the Detroit Yacht Club and the Detroit River. Kaye Don and a mechanic aboard speedboat Miss England II. Aerial view of the first lap of the race. Boats underway during the race. View of a bridge in the background. Garfield Wood congratulates Kaye Don after the first lap of the race. The second lap of the race begins. Speedboat Miss England II takes a turn. Other boats pick up Don and crew. Prow of the speedboat above water.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1931
Duration: 4 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073336
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