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Armin Massin wins the 60 mile Elgin to Chicago bicycle race in Chicago,Illinois.
60 mile bicycle race in Chicago,Illinois. The 60 mile Elgin to Chicago bicycle race begins. Riders ride through a field and streets. Armin Massin wins the race. Winner poses with the trophy.
Monuments, buildings and men and women working in factories in Chicago, Illinois; railroad train car manufacturing facilities near Chicago
Film about the city and industry of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Automobile and pedestrian traffic on the roads and streets in Chicago. Skyscrapers and the Wrigley Building on Michigan Avenue. Exterior of the Merchandise Mart building. Interiors of a factory in Merchandise Mart. Hot metal being lifted from a furnace. Steel manufacturing plant scenes. Material being heated in a furnace. Men work to assemble parts of a machine in a factory. Women work assembling new typewriters in a factory. Men paint and prepare a Pullman Palace Car railroad car at the Calumet Works near Lake Calumet - the railroad train car's main manufacturing plan. It is marked as being for the New York Central railroad. The assembly line of diesel railroad locomotive trains in La Grange. A newly manufactured locomotive pulling train cars as it exits the factory area.
Commercial passengers fly Stout Airlines from Detroit Michigan to Cleveland.Ohio
Opening slate refers to developing scope of commercial air operations in late 1920s. A bus parks at the Detroit office of Stout Airlines at Ford Airport, Detroit, Michigan. Passengers leave the bus and enter the office to obtain tickets for a flight to Cleveland. They are nicely dressed in the fashion of the day, men in suites and ties and women in Cloche hats.. Many spectators stand behind a fence at the airport to watch the activities. Passengers leave the office and head toward a parked Ford Tri-motor passenger plane parked on the ramp. One woman is accompanied by three small boys. Next, a man is seen passing the passengers' luggage through the plane's entrance door to a male steward inside. Scene shifts to the uniformed steward loading the baggage into large overhead bins in the roof of the passenger compartment. He closes and secures the storage bins and then heads outside the plane where he assists passengers in boarding. He climbs aboard. The aircraft is then seen taxiing toward the runway for takeoff. As it passes the camera, a sign painted on its side is visible reading: "Stout Airlines, Detroit-Cleveland" (and Chicago added below). (Note: they did not operate to Chicago until 1929) The aircraft takes off heading close to the camera, near its lift off point, and heads off into the sky.Scene shifts to inside the passenger cabin where the passengers (unrestricted by seat belts) chat with one another as the cabin steward watches over them from the front of the cabin. View of ground from passenger cabin window. View of the Ford Trimotor from another aircraft flying nearby. More views inside the passenger cabin with people looking out the windows. View of what may be a suspension bridge under construction across the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland. More views of passengers enjoying the views through their cabin windows. Aerial view of trimotor descending toward destination over cityscape. The aircraft taxis into the Cleveland Hopkins airport ramp and parks. Passengers are seen departing, from inside their cabin and then stepping onto the airport ramp.
1917 World Series game one: The Chicago White Sox versus the New York Giants from Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois.
Scenes from the 1917 baseball World Series. Game 1 in Chicago, Illinois. A large crowd gathering at Comiskey Park to watch the game. Fans lined up in front of sign for bleacher seating with sign "Bleachers 50 cents". Scenes from the field before the game. Managers Pants Rowland of the White Sox and John McGraw of the Giants reviewing ground rules. Pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Slim Sallee during warm-ups. White Sox dugout is seen with Happy Felsch on the far left, John "Shano" Collins beside him, then Fred McMullin and Reb Russell (just past the big baseball). Joe Jackson and Nemo Leibold may be standing outside the dugout, with Eddie Cicotte in the background and Chick Gandil and Byrd Lynn in front of Cicotte. African American man on the Giants bench around one-minute mark may be J. L. Mackall, the team's trainer. Manager John McGraw is sitting in front of the dugout, with Art Fletcher on his right and Red Murray on his left. Scenes from the game in progress, and view of cheering fans in the packed stadium. At about 1:43: Bottom of the 3rd. Single by S. Collins, and Cicotte is thrown out at 3rd base. The next play seen is a double by McMullin scoring S. Collins, who had taken 2nd base on the throw that got Cicotte out. At 2:13: Top of the 5th inning. Single by Sallee scoring McCarty from 3rd base. White Sox win game 1 over the Giants by a score of 2 to 1. Scene changes to New York, with Giants fans jammed in the streets of New York City watching the large scoreboard being updated during the game, mounted on the building of the New York American Newspaper offices. Cars and trucks pass slowly by in the area jammed with baseball fans.
Howard Hughes flies a Northrup Gamma airplane from Chicago to Los Angeles in less than half a day
A newsreel titled 'Lunches in Chi. Hops to L.A. For his dinner.' Howard Hughes, famed industrialist and aviator, is seen dressed in a suit and tie, seated in a Chicago restaurant having lunch. He finishes and leaves. The next scene shows nose of a Northrop Gamma 2G airplane with engine running. A brief glimpse of Hughes,still in suit and tie, wearing leather flying helmet with goggles pushed up on his forehead. With Hughes piloting, the airplane taxis and takes off from Chicago. It is seen in a gentle left bank as it departs. Later, Hughes is seen landing at Union Air Terminal in Burbank, California. Hughes is seen in opened cockpit as he taxis in to the parking ramp. He taxis past a Stinson hangar, parks, and climbs down from the aircraft. He is accompanied by a number of men as he walks across the parking ramp. (Note: Howard Hughes is flying a modified Gamma 2G airplane, number NC13761,that he leased from famous woman aviator, Jacqueline Cochran, who ordered it powered by a liquid-cooled 700-hp Curtiss Conqueror engine,driving a two-blade propeller. Hughes modified it with a 1000-hp Wright SR-1820-G2 radial engine, driving a three-blade constant speed propeller, and used it to set a new transcontinental nonstop record, flying from Burbank, California to Newark, New Jersey in 9 hours 26 minutes 10 seconds with an average speed of 259 mph, on 13-14 January 1936. The flight shown here set a speed record of 8 hours and 10 minutes from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California.)
Obstetrics doctor assists in the delivery of a baby in Chicago area slum home.
Chronicles a young doctor's training in obstetrics at maternity center in city of Chicago, Illinois. During the Great Depression in Chicago, a cat scavenges on garbage lying outside building. Dr O'Donnell assists in preparation for and delivery of a baby in Chicago slum area home. Doctor cleans woman's head with water. Another doctor writes in a note book. He lifts bed cover from baby's head and checks woman's temperature. The baby cot is placed next to mother on bed. Man arrives with two children in the room. Doctor O'Donnell along with nurse walks on street. View of poor, indigent children of a family eating food around a table. A mother bathing a child in a wash basin. Child removes clothes and climbs into bed. Views of sleeping young children, one with a fly and other insects disturbing his sleep. Man loading a truck with boxes in a nearby alley.
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