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Akron Ohio USA 1936 stock footage and images

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Giant doric column in Put-In-Bay, Ohio, is commemorated, celebrating victory in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812

Newsreel: "Put-in-Bay Ohio Dedicate great Perry Memorial! Giant shaft commemorates immortal victory in Battle of Lake Erie". Shows ceremonies for the tall monument that commemorates the Battle of Lake Erie in which Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry won a great naval battle during the War of 1812. The memorial also celebrates enduring peace between the UK, Canada, and the United States after the war. The memorial is observed from distance. Whole height of the column is observed. Close view of Ohio Governor George White beside another civilian dignitary, with several U.S. Navy and U.S. Army military officers flanking and behind them. Official dedication is celebrated. Dignitaries are seen above the stairs. Governor George White giving a speech. The Doric column -- the world's largest at 352 feet -- was officially named in 1936 by President Franklin Roosevelt as: Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial National Monument.

Location: Put-In-Bay Ohio USA
Date: 1931, July 31
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040718
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.

Location: New Jersey United States USA
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.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
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'.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
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.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
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.

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