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American aviator Howard Robard Hughes flying Northrop Gamma 2G (NR-13761) from Chicago to Los Angeles

American aviator Howard Hughes at an airfield in Chicago Illinois. Hughes poses in front of his parked, rented Northrop Gamma 2G (NR13761), as he prepares to set a new flight speed record from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California. Men stand nearby. Airport terminal buildings in the background. Hughes boards the airplane. Hughes in the cockpit of the Northrop Gamma 2G aircraft. Several men stand near the airplane. The airplane taxis and takes off and in flight overhead. It reached Los Angeles in 8 hours and 10 minutes, setting a new speed record for east-to-west flight between Chicago and Los Angeles.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1936, May 14
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070375
Hunter brothers fly the City of Chicago aircraft setting new endurance flight record over Northbrook, Illinois

The airborne "City of Chicago" airplane circling the Sky Harbor Airport, at Northbrook, Illinois, setting a new flight endurance record. A large number of people gathered at the airport looking skywards. Stinson SM-1 aircraft, known as "Big Ben," flown by their brothers Albert and Walter, refuels City of Chicago in mid air. After refueling is complete, the hose is seen to drop free from the "City of Chicago." One of the Hunter brothers on the nose of "City of Chicago" as he inspects an engine. Civilians look at the sky.

Location: Northbrook Illinois United States USA
Date: 1930, July
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059964
Industrial machines manufacture various consumer and packaged goods and products; Marina City in Chicago USA

Industrial factory production in the late 1960s United States. Factory machine prints sheets of can labels. Canned goods emerge from a large machine. Glass bottles and toilet paper rolls move along conveyor belt inside a factory. A machine producing and releasing a newly created yellow plastic bottle into a pile of yellow plastic bottles. Packaged food machine manufactures crust and pies for packs of Sara Lee frozen pies. View of the Marina City building (300 N State St, Chicago, IL 60654, United States) in downtown Chicago, Illinois USA.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1968
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080423
French General Charles de Gaulle is feted in Chicago during his visit to the United States in 1945

Film opens showing people in an American city (possibly Chicago) celebrating the Allied victory over Japan on VJ Day, August 15th, 1945. Scene shifts abruptly to Chicago, Illinois, where French General Charles de Gaulle is seen saluting in a reviewing stand at Victory Plaza near Lasalle Street entrance to City Hall. (On August 24th, he had accepted an invitation from Mayor Edward Kelly to stop in Chicago on August 27-28, 1945, during his visit to the U.S. and Canada.) Next, general de Gaulle and Mayor Kelly are seen in an open car in a motorcade amidst crowds of well-wishers. Enthusiastic spectators run along side their car. Glimpse of a dense crowd of people, including a contingent of sailors in dress whites. Final scene shows General de Gaulle speaking with reporters and photographers near a sign reading "W-G-N." (A Chicago radio station). (World War II period).

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1945, August 28
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022066
Obstetrician O'Donnell along with nurse walks in slum areas of Chicago during Great Depression.

Chronicles a young obstetrician's training in slum areas of Chicago, Illinois, where he is part of a Chicago area maternity center. Doctor O'Donnell along with nurse walks in slum area of Chicago. Slum area buildings during the Great Depression. Woman collects necessary things from garbage and drags it in a small cart on road. A woman with a small child in a wagon rummages for usable refuse. Men, women, and children scavenging for food and household items on the streets of Chicago and outside factories and plants. Obstetrics Doctor O'Donnell converses with a man.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023077
Franklin Roosevelt (FDR), presidential candidate for Democratic Party, arrives in Chicago after Democratic Party National Convention to speak to convention.

American Airways Ford Trimotor carrying Democrat New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt in flight on the way to Chicago, Illinois for the 1932 Democratic Party National Convention. American Airways plane approaching to land in Chicago Municipal Airport (5700 S Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60638, United States). Democrat supporters crowd airplane at Chicago Municipal Airport airfield to see Franklin Roosevelt after flight lands. Franklin Roosevelt speaking to the convention afterwards, saying, "the 18th Amendment is doomed" and "I pledge myself to a New Deal for the American people."

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1932, July 2
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079081
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