In 1926, Frederick Patterson, in cab of a Steam shovel, breaks ground for the construction of Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. Horses pull wagons past the steam shovel. Dedication of Wright Field at Dayton in 1928. Flag raising ceremony shows Mr Orville Wright pulling the rope which raises the flag upon the pole. In addition to Orville Wright, the event was attended by Secretary of War, Davis; Judge (and Baseball Commissioner) Kenesaw Landis; Assistant Secretary, F. Trubee Davison; Air Corps Chief General Patrick, and others. Artillery salute is fired at the ceremony. Squdrons of airplanes fly overhead.
U.S. Army Air Services maneuvers of First Provisional Air Brigade at Wilbur Wright field in Dayton , Ohio. U.S. Army Air Services MB-2s take off from the Wilbur Wright airfield to bomb the bridges across River Ohio in Cincinnati. Brigadier General James Fechet on the flight line. He takes his position ion the rear cockpit of O-1 and leaves the aircraft. Aircraft taxis and takes off. Aircraft including MB-2s in flight.
A documentary on occurrence of a tornado in the United States, during Super Outbreak of tornadoes in April 1974 that hit regions in many states, including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and New York; and also the Canadian province of Ontario. Focus of clip is on areas of Xenia Ohio and Dayton Ohio. Exterior of a building. Interior of National Weather Service office. A man talking over a radio. Other men at a broadcast station warning about the tornado. Radars trying to locate the positions of the tornado. Information about the center of the tornado and the areas towards which the tornado is heading is shown. A train on a railway track. The tornado hits the train. Ambulances and rescue workers working to help them. Men in discussion. Cars driving on the street. The rescue workers searching for wounded and dead people. The tornado heading towards other areas. Men locating the areas of the tornado on a map. Warning being given out in other areas about the tornado. The wounded being taken to a hospital. Doctors treating the injured. A man plotting the location of the tornado on a map.
Title Slate reads: "Science and Engineering." This is followed by World War II scenes of American industrial sites, including some dominated by smoke stacks and railroad connections. Men are seen walking at a major shipping port where ships are being loaded and unloaded by large cranes. Sign above one building reads:"Ford." Views inside that plant of ford automobiles being assembled. Mechanics climb a ladder to access a Douglas DC-3 transport plane parked outside a hangar. View of aircraft radial engines being worked on inside a manufacturing plant. young men working in a machine shop are described by narrator, as "Students." and notes that they are engaged in a work-study program that shifted toward the defense industry during World War 2. A member of the Antioch faculty is seen working with a student at a drafting table in a war plant. Closeup of an engine part design on the drafting table. Antioch student, Norman Lawson, works fabricating a giant searchlight for use in the war. He turns the light on to test it. Other students are seen working in a chemistry laboratory, using typical glass equipment and precise balances. A student is seen pouring molten material from a furnace into a crucible. Views of dials being adjusted and belt-driven machinery. A student operating a drill press in a machine shop. A glimpse of the Antioch College campus. A group of students engaged in discussions in their dormitory. Several first year students in a journalism class. Students in an accounting class. View of Antioch's Science building, donated by Charles Kettering (Head of Research at General Motors Corporation), who is pictured. Students conducting research in photosynthesis as well as physics and chemistry in the building. A student studying a book on philosophy.
Students of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio take up various courses and on the job training to learn skills. A college student girl looks after a young child and helps him to put on a Native American Indian costume during play time. A day nursery in Cleveland Ohio where children play around a table and a young boy smiles while he finger paints. Students working at the Sigma Gamma Hospital in Detroit (also called Memorial Orthopedic Hospital, and later St. John North Shores Hospital) tend and treat children suffering from paralysis from polio. A young woman assists a boy in removing his leg braces. She then carries him to an indoor swimming pool and gently sets him down in the water, where the two of them play with a toy boat. Next scene shows a boys' club in Dayton, Ohio where young boys play table tennis (ping pong) and others look on. Students of Antioch College supervise athletics near Chicago, as a group of young women college students practice hand stands and . At the college the students gain first hand experience in child study. A woman at the Bells Research Institute of Antioch College works with a boy who is disabled (possibly polio). Girls look after children and do case work for children in need.
Street sign in a small city reads 'Main Street'. Cars drive along a wide street. Men confer on sidewalk outside a building. Many cars are parked along the curb. Man with a package "jay walks" across a street causing difficulty for drivers who must avoid him. He, in turn, rails at the drivers. Pedestrians on sidewalk look over unpaved roadway. Man, on upper porch of a building, looks out over cars driving on the street below. A woman cleans window of Hotel upon which "Hotel Dayton, Under New Management," is painted (presumably in Dayton, Ohio).
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