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The Ford Reliability Tour of 1929

Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan on October 5, 1929. Film opens showing two aviators in ten-gallon hats standing next to some airplanes parked on the Ford Airport in Detroit Michigan. The pilot on the left is E. W. Cleveland, known for his ten-gallon hat, which is filled with autographs and other written memorabilia pertaining to aviation. Camera shows several formations of biwing training airplanes flying over the field, and then focuses on the Texaco number 13 aircraft with pilot Frank M. Hawks in the cockpit shaking hands with someone seeing him off. Closeup of Hawks sitting upright in the cockpit. Next, his wife Edith Bowie Hawks is seen standing next to his airplane. He playfully touches her cheeks. Next a man is seen wearing a heavy fur coat with hood. He smiles for the camera and then heads into an airport building. The wind (natural or from propellers turning) causes some of the men to hold onto their hats. Views of several men and women and a child gathering in front of the corrugated fuselage of a passenger airplane. Film ends showing two men smiling and chatting with May Halzlip, one of the three women pilots in the tour, who is dressed in flying gear with helmet and goggles on top.

Date: 1929, October 5
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066166
Baseball - Detroit Tigers opening day 1929 at Navin Field

The opening day of the 1929 baseball season in Detroit, Michigan. View of the large crowd in the stands at Navin Field. Ford Model A car parked by the stands inside the stadium. Detroit Tigers part-owner Walter Briggs talks to Tigers manager Bucky Harris on radio station WWJ. Henry Ford shakes hands with Harris and speaks into the microphone. Briggs and a Detroit player beside the Ford. A band, Tiger players, and the opposing Cleveland Indians march around the stadium. Ford and Briggs talking in the stands. Fords holds baseball, throws it out to unseen player on the field. The men talk and smile. Harris outside the dugout. Two other players sit inside the dugout. Several Detroit players stand just outside the dugout.

Date: 1929, April 24
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066190
U.S. President Herbert Hoover throws out first pitch on opening day of 1929 baseball season

Shot of packed stands at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. on opening day of 1929 baseball season. American flags hang from second deck. U.S. President Herbert Hoover arrives at his seat. Mostly male crowd, along with a few women, dressed in 1920s style overcoats and hats. Players of home team Washington Senators and the visiting Philadelphia Athletics line up on the field before the game. Senators manager and Hall of Fame pitcher Walter Johnson gives baseball to the president for the ceremonial first pitch. President Hoover releases strong throw; he and the crowd sit down.

Date: 1929, April 17
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044615
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.

Date: 1929, April 24
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071680
Henry Ford's work in the area of historic preservation. Construction of Ford Museum and Historical Greenfield Village

Henry Ford works on historical preservation project. McGuffey readers are seen. Sketch of Ford family farm in Springwells, Michigan. View of homestead at the farm, that Ford restores. He examines the farm's steam engine. The historic Wayside Inn, in Sudbury, Massachusetts, which Ford purchased to construct a community of historic buildings. View of the restored Botsford Inn,Detroit, Michigan, that Ford bought in 1924.View of Eagle Tavern, in Clinton, Michigan,before,and,after its purchase and restoration by Henry Ford. Concerned about need for additional buildings to house artifacts, Henry Ford consulting with Detroit architect,Robert O. Derrick (with mustache) and two other men. Derrick's plan for the Henry Ford museum is unrolled. It borrows from Independence Hall, Congress Hall, and the old City Hall in Philadelphia.Views of the Clock Tower and museum, as completed in 1929. A pictorial map of the Edison Institute Museum and Historical Greenfield Village, in Dearborn, Michigan. View of construction begun in 1927. Thomas A. Edison laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, that Ford acquired for Greenfield Village. On a windy September 17, 1928, Thomas A. Edison steps from a car, and pauses before entering the doorway of his restored laboratory, in Greenfield Village. Henry and Mrs.Ford step from their car to quickly join him in the building.Edsel Ford and his wife, also follow. Inside the building, Edison officially open the site by starting a steam engine in the laboratory. Ford and Edison converse (Ford speaking close to Edison's ear, because he is hard of hearing). Later, Edison, in a cornerstone ceremony, imbeds, a shovel contributed by Luther Burbank, and then writes in cement of the cornerstone.Newspapers show coverage of the formal dedication of the museum and Greenfield village, October 21, 1929. Workers rushing the Village toward completion for that event. The Smithcreek Railroad depot is moved to the Village. Workers preparing installation of the depot.

Date: 1929
Duration: 6 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068466
Pedestrian and vehicular traffic on the streets of Detroit, Michigan.

Pedestrian and street car traffic at intersection of a street in Detroit, Michigan (1920). View of road with hairpin curves (1916). Views of City Street with pedestrians, buses and automobile traffic in Detroit, Michigan (1929). Heavy automobile traffic on Miller Road in Detroit, Michigan (1929).

Date: 1929
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030094