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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
People at the Illinois State fair and various sporting and entertainment events in Illinois, United States, in the late 1940s

Film about the state of Illinois in the United States. People enter a building for the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Illinois. People in the fair. Amusement rides, swings and people in a bus. Farmers walk with cattle. Children participate in 4-H club livestock competitions. A farmer near his blue ribbon winning cow. A girl near her sheep who won a blue ribbon. Children on a miniature train. Harness racing at a horse racing track in Illinois. Sports cars driven during an automobile race on a dirt track. Interior view of upper deck in double decker passenger train car with passengers enjoying the view through windows and a conductor punching tickets; Abraham Lincoln birth home cabin; View of statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois State Capitol building. The SS City of Grand Rapids ferry ship of the Cleveland & Buffalo Steamship Company passing by on Lake Michigan with Wrigley Building in background.

Location: Illinois United States USA
Date: 1949
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067577
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
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