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Akron Ohio USA 1933 stock footage and images

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U.S. Navy pilots, in Consolidated N2Y-1aircraft, practice hooking up to the USS Akron in flight

Maneuvers of the USS Akron (ZRS-4), helium filled airship off the Jersey Coast in the United States. A Consolidated N2Y-1, with trapeze hookup equipment, in flight. The plane is released from a trapeze on the USS Akron. The airship in flight. An aircraft hooked to trapeze on the USS Akron. Another plane follows the USS Akron. The USS Akron with a plane hooked onto the trapeze. Another plane follows directly beneath it. Structure of the USS Akron in flight.

Date: 1932
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031710
Consolidated N2Y-1 training planes practice hooking up to the USS Akron (ZRS-4) off the coast of New Jersey, U.S.A.

USS Akron (ZRS-4), Navy Zeppelin dirigible in the United States. Consolidated N2Y-1 training plane, equipped for trapeze hookup, fastens to the USS Akron. It disconnects and flies away. Three planes beneath the USS Akron airship. Another N2Y-1 attempts to hook up, misses and flies off. Belly of USS Akron. One N2Y-1 hooked on and others in background. N2Y-1 hooked on, releases and flies away.

Date: 1932, January 19
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031700
Men and women stand on wobble meter to determine fatigue.

A woman stands on a wobble meter on table. Roy W. Brown, director of the engineering research laboratory at Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. in Akron Ohio, tests the woman's fatigue level on the wobble meter. Teenage boys and girls play a game of basketball. Legs of one of the athletes seen standing on wobble meter to determine fatigue. Man kisses woman. Man and woman stand on wobble meter.

Date: 1931, March 5
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051984
Girls check tape seams of rubber life saving rafts and men cutting rubber forms with hand machines at Goodyear factory (WW2)

Exteriors of Goodyear factory in Akron, Ohio. Sign reads 'War Industry, Don't Park'. Interiors of plant shows row of rubber life saving rafts. Girl checks tape seams and inspects rafts. Girls apply cement to rafts. Men cut rubber forms with hand machine. Girls carry raft in the background. Girls hand tacking seam on raft. World War II sign reads 'When You're AWOL You're Working For The Axis'.

Date: 1942, December
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052417
Women from Goodyear show use of Pliofilm bags to protect personal articles from water when swimming

Women from Goodyear rubber company show new use of Pliofilm in Akron Ohio. Man gives pliofilm bags to women. The pliofilm bags serve as waterproof purses for the women's things. Women in swimsuits walk towards the lake on a dock. They swim and then later apply make-up. They swing on a swing set above the water. Narrator describes how Pliofilm is also used for defense purposes, in parachutes, food packages and bandages.

Date: 1941
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030564
Promotion for Goodyear's "Protect Our Good Name" slogan campaign

Goodyear tire manufacturing plant In Akron Ohio. Employees gather and stand in line. A man instructs them. Men with goods carriers walk out. Two men hang slogan plate of Goodyear on the wall. 'Protect our good name' is written on slogan plate. One of these plates is seen near a water tap. Man drinks water from fountain and reads the slogan. Views of a another plaque with more text after the slogan. Narrator reads words on the plaque written by Goodyear's Mr. Paul Litchfield, Chairman and CEO of Goodyear. View of factory smoke stack with smoke coming out of it.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030572