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Akron Ohio USA 1942 stock footage and images

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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
Various sculptors and craft items made by artist Donn Drumm in the United States.

Artist Donn Drumm in the United States. A large steel sculptor made by artist Donn Drumm at a plaza in Akron,Ohio. Artist Donn Drumm makes sculptors. He talks about his background which helped him to work on a massive scale. A sign on a sculptor reads 'Drumm'. Several sculptors made by Drumm. A sculptor on the wall of a building. Donn Drumm takes out hot melting iron from a container and puts it on the sculptor. Various crafts items made by the artist Drumm. He can make any design with any melted metal. He has worked on wood, steel, brass, aluminum-- any metal which can give shape and texture. The sculptor and craft items made up of various metals on display.

Date: 1974
Duration: 4 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021548
Workers in the rubber heel manufacturing unit in Windsor Vermont in United States.

Manufacturing of rubber heels for the soles of U.S. soldiers' boots at a Goodyear plant in Windsor, Vermont. Men and women emerge from rubber heel manufacturing facility in Windsor Vermont. Workers wash uncured rubber heels and keep them to dry so as to prevent them from sticking. Man puts rubber heels in molds for nailing. Each nailed heel passes through vulcanization machines. Woman checks the vulcanized rubber heels and puts them together. Women pass completed heels through an X-ray machine and check for defects. In Akron, Ohio, a U.S. Army soldier stands in front of the statue of Charles Goodyear, the founder of Goodyear rubber company, and the discoverer of vulcanization. (World War II period).

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030565
Lieutenant Wayer descends from USS Akron (ZRS-4) to a hooked-up N2Y-1 training plane and secures it to the airship

N2Y-1 training plane, with trapeze-hook gear, successfully hooks up to the USS Akron (ZRS-4) airship. Akron crew member, Lieutenant Wayer, descends a ladder from USS Akron. He makes sure airplane is securely fastened to the Akron. He climbs into the airplane, which is then hoisted into the USS Akron.

Date: 1932, July 25
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031703
Consolidated N2Y-1 airplane flies under the USS Akron, in flight, and attempts to hook on to it.

Consolidated N2Y-1airplane tries to hook-on to USS Akron (ZRS-4) Zeppelin Dirigible, at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States. USS Akron in flight. Consolidated N2Y-1makes repeated attempts to hook on to USS Akron. A Consolidated N2Y-1 hooks onto the airship and releases. Another succeeds in hooking to and releasing from the Akron.

Date: 1932
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031707
Sailor dangles on cable beneath the U.S. Navy Zeppelin, USS Akron, following a mooring accident

View from the U.S. Navy Zeppelin, USS Akron (ZRS-4) as Sailor Charles (Bud) Cowart secures his position, suspended on a cable from the airship, 2000 feet above the ground following a cable ring failure that left three sailors dangling beneath the Akron, at Camp Kearny, San Diego, California.(The other two fell to their deaths.) Large group of sailors stand on ground below, watching. Crew of the Akron reel in the cable carrying Cowart and pull him aboard. View of Cowart, inside the Akron, calmly speaking of his experience.

Date: 1932, May 16
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070494