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Dayton Ohio USA 1946 stock footage and images

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Students of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, outside of Dayton, Ohio, take up jobs in science and engineering during World War II

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.

Date: 1942
Duration: 5 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059212
Students of Antioch College learn practical lessons in child study and child care in the United States.

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.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059211
Street scenes in U.S. small city during 1920s.

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).

Date: 1923
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065211
The Army Air Forces demonstrate a new method of towing gliders in Dayton Ohio.

The Army Air Forces demonstrate a new method of towing gliders in Dayton Ohio. A tow-bar is used in place of the longer cable. A man attaching tow-bar to glider. Plane takes off towing the glider.

Date: 1947, October 23
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034466
Joseph Lockes, of Chicago with a model plane at 4th Annual Model Airplane Tourney in Dayton, Ohio.

Two men hold a model plane at 4th Annual Model Airplane Tourney in Dayton, Ohio. The plane takes off and flies successfully. Joseph Lockes, of Chicago with a model plane. Crowd surrounds a model plane of Joseph Ehrhardt of St. Louis. A plane takes a round and crashes. A man tries to repair it.

Date: 1931, July 13
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035125
Wright brothers' bike shop with signboard on its entrance reads 'Wright Cycle Co.', in Dayton, Ohio.

Wright brothers' bike shop in Dayton, Ohio. A two story building near road. Signboard on its entrance reads 'Wright Cycle Co.'. Trees and lamp post near the shop. A bicycle built by Wright brothers. equipment and parts near the cycle.

Date: 1951, November
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036835