Francais
Deutsch
Italiano
Refine Your Search
+"Detroit Michigan USA" +1931 stock footage and images
- Showing 1 to 6 of 7 results
Announcement of 20 millionth Ford automobile. Brief glimpses of first Ford workshop and automobile
Animated opening sequence with view of Ford Automobile factory in Dearborn, Michigan. A 1931 Ford Model A races toward foreground of screen with its Ford Emblem completing the on-screen phrase, "The twenty millionth Ford". An announcer bows and steps behind a microphone (that hides his face) and speaks. Scene shifts to the original Ford workshop at the back of his home, 58 Bagley Avenue,Detroit, Michigan. His first automobile, a two cylinder machine (Quadricycle) made in 1896 is seen near the small brick building. It is viewed from several angles and shown with its engine running. Snow is on the ground.
Pilot Lowell Bayles dies in crash of the GEE BEE race plane during an attempt on the world landplane speed record.
Crash of Gee Bee Z Super Sportster airplane at the Wayne County airport in Detroit, Michigan, on Dec. 5th 1931, during attempt to break the world landplane speed record. Ground crew and one of the Granville brothers, who built the airplane, roll the Gee Bee out of a hangar. The aircraft displays tail number NR 77Y and has large numeral 4 painted on fuselage. City of Springfield is painted on front of the airplane. Pilot, Lowell Bayles, climbs into the cockpit and starts the engine. Crew chief places canopy over the pilot's cockpit. The aircraft takes off with modest rate of climb and makes slow banking turn to the left. Camera next shows the Gee Bee descending rapidly as Bayles dives the race plane at high speed into the officially timed sea level course. Camera captures view of wing breaking off and aircraft rolling and crashing in flames. Witnesses rush to the crash site and emergency equipment responds. Views of smoldering wreckage. (According to some sources, the accident began when the gas cap loosened in the slipstream and blew through the pilots canopy hitting pilot Bayles in the face, either stunning or killing him.) His reaction on the controls pitches the plane up sharply causing a catastrophic structural failure of the right wing. The plane then snap rolled into the ground and explodes into a blaze alongside railroad tracks bordering the airport. Bayles' body was thrown 300 ft. as the huge radial engine broke loose and was hurled hundreds more feet. (Recent experiments with a reproduction of the aircraft also indicate that wing flutter would develop at speeds above 240 mph on the Gee Bee Z Super Sportster.) Part of the building shown at 1:52 still exists today in the far northeast corner of the airport near all the rental car companies. The railroad tracks still exist as well. The plane appears to start to break apart over what is now the intersection of Middlebelt & Wick Roads (1/4 mile south of I-94) in Romulus, MI.
Motherless piggies thrive on cow milk in Detroit,Michigan
Newsreel titled 'Cow milk for orphaned porkers' shows motherless porkers drink cow milk from bottles in Detroit,Michigan.
President Hoover addresses the American Legion Convention and urges not to overtax government treasury in Detroit, Michigan.
United States President Herbert Hoover at the American Legion Convention in Detroit, Michigan. President Hoover stands next to a woman as he waves. The President addresses a large gathering of war veterans at the convention at Olympia Hall. The President asks the veterans against over taxiing the government treasury. A large crowd gathered in the street as men in cars drive past them during an annual parade.
A Czech inventor comes up with a 6-wheeled car for rough terrain in Detroit, Michigan.
A Czech inventor introduces a 6-wheeled car for rough terrain in Detroit, Michigan. People stand around the 6-wheeled car. The bonnet of the car is closed. The car is driven through rough terrain during its test drive. It is driven on railway tracks.
Commodore A A Gus Schantz greets and receives racer Kaye Don as he arrives for speedboat racing in Detroit, Michigan.
Challengers arrive for speedboat racing in Detroit, Michigan. A group of men walks out of Michigan Central Station (same as Michigan Central Depot or MCS) railroad train station. Cars parked outside the station building. Commodore A A Gus Schantz greets and receives powerboat racer Kaye Don. Kaye Don gives a vote of thanks. Kaye Don meets American speedboat racer Garfield Wood. They stand on the steps of the City Hall. Schantz and other men stand in the background.