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Ford Tri-Motors assembled in United States.
Ford Tri-Motors assembled. Pictures taken from a moving overhead crane. Workers work in an assembly area. A worker climbs up portable stairs to move on the wing of a plane. Workers lift motor onto a plane with a crane. Workers lift sections of wing into place. A man checks controls in the interior of a cabin. Rear view of the interior of the plane. The man walks through the passenger section of the plane. View of motor. Workers work on the motor.
Philip Hauser briefs George Stone on U.S. census from 1820 to 1931 in USA; also some Wall Street depression scenes
George Stone and Dr Philip Hauser at the presentation of U.S. census around 1960. A slide of U.S. map appears on the screen. 1820 and population figures are marked on part of the map inhabited at that time. The reasons for the increase in the population are discussed by George Stone and Dr Philip Hauser. In the next slide census figures of 1830 appears. Concern for the handicapped lead to including of deaf, dumb and blind category in this census is shown. Dr Philip Hauser shows cartoons appearing in newspapers of that time to George Stone. In the next slide, census figures of 1850 and 7 classes of occupation of people are seen. A percentage representation of various occupations in the population is given in the next slide. The stress on accuracy of 1850 census is seen in the next slide. A comparison of number of occupations of males and females from 1840 to 1870 is shown in the next slide. Census of 1930 is mentioned in the next slide. 1931 is shown as a Special Unemployment Census. Newspaper headlines about stock market crash is seen. Around clip timecode 8:13 are images of Wall Street New York Stock Exchange floor near time of stock market crash. Wall Street region in New York City filled with people and views of lines or queues for homeless, unemployed, or food relief during the Great Depression.
History of the circus in North America, and scenes of early circus circa 1920s and early 1930s arriving and performing in a town
History of the circus in North America. Scenes of drawings, sketches, still photographs, and newspaper clippings regarding the circus. Cites George Washington donating a horse to the circus. Discussion of18th Century English circus organizer, John Bill Ricketts, and a newspaper clipping promoting his circus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sketch of his circus hall in Philadelphia. Scenes and information about P.T. Barnum and the famous elephant Jumbo, and singer Jenny Lind, known as "the Swedish Nightingale." Drawing of men with rings standing on stools. Drawing of a cab in front of a building. Promotional sign for the Central Park Menagerie and International Circus Company. Vintage footage with scenes of a Ringling Brother Barnum and Bailey circus train arriving in a city circa late 1920s, pulled by a steam locomotive. Circus performers. Crowds of circus visitors milling near a Side Shows entrance sign. A clown inflating the clothes of another clown to a giant size. Chimpanzee rides an elephant and a donkey stands near its foal. Lions, hippos, giraffes, dogs in the circus. Large crowd present during the circus viewing elephant, horse and lion show of the circus. Scenes of the circus parade processing around the big top tent. A tamer handling a female lion (tamer appears to be Clyde Beatty). A male lion walking on high wire parallel tightrope.
Pan American Congress of Journalists view development in the automobile and road system in United States.
Delegates of Pan American Congress of Journalists travel and learn about the United States. A map depicting the route of the group from Washindton DC to New York, then to Detroit and again come back to New York. They observe gradual development in the automobile and road system. Cabs and caravan of buses pass under a bridge. Views of herd of gazing animals,people on horsebacks, a man ploughing the field with his horse,men using tools and men making wooden barrels.
A Ford tri-motor passenger aiplane in flight, landing, and passengers exiting plane in the United States.
Aerial view of a Ford tri-motor plane in flight and passengers sitting in the cabin. Logo "Stout Air Lines" visible on the plane. Views of plane cabin interior. Children standing on their seats and look out through the window glass. The plane lands and a man walks on the airfield. Passengers leave their seats and exit the plane.
Process of lumbering at a sawmill in United States.
Two lumberjack men cutting a tree in a snow covered forest. The tree falls down. The man stand by in knee-deep snow. Felled trees loaded on Fordson tractor-driven sled and taken to sawmill. Logs being moved on the conveyor belts in the sawmill and then passed through the band cutter.