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Dearborn Michigan United States USA 1930 stock footage and images

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Ford Motor Company promotional film showing Niagara Falls and Ford Motor car plant in Dearborn, Michigan

Animated sequence shows wheel of a Ford car traversing map from Manhattan, New York, to the Niagara Falls on the Canadian border. Extensive views of the falls. A honeymooning couple sitting in a Ford convertible auto with top down. The woman doesn't appreciate Niagara Falls. Guided by their "V8" hood ornament (where the "8" in the "V8" transformed into an animated Ford character, that narrates the activities) they motor across Canada and back into the United States, to the Ford Motor Company Rouge Works in Dearborn, Michigan. Views of the sprawling Ford Motor Company factories at the Rouge Works. Contrasting view of the original Ford shop where he made his first automobile. Mr. Henry Ford steps out of the shop and looks at that first Ford car. He doffs his hat, examines a tire, and walks past the camera while waving his hand. Suddenly a new 1935 Ford car appears where the original first car stood. Narrator comments that a million of these could not be built in the humble first Ford shop. Accordingly, scene shifts to views of the vast Ford Rouge plant. Numerous buildings, bridges,conveyer systems, pipes, and smoke stacks are seen (a cluster of 8 appear in one view). Molten steel being poured into crucibles, as the honeymoon couple watch from their car. Glowing hot ingots slide in troughs into a rolling mill, where they are reduced. Parts being forged by a power hammer. Engine blocks moving on a conveyer. Molten iron being poured into a mold to form an engine block.Coking ovens discharging their product. Ford ships in a port. Iron ore being unloaded from ships.

Date: 1935
Duration: 4 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029868
United States Navy Dirigible Los Angeles (ZR-3) attached to a mooring tower

United States Navy Dirigible Los Angeles (ZR-3, and originally LZ-126) attached to a mooring tower, at Ford Airport, Dearborn, Michigan.. Views down the length of the flying airship Los Angeles with 'US Navy' written on it in large letters, and "Los Angeles" on it in smaller letters near the tail. Huge crowd gathered at base of the tower.

Date: 1924
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023589
U.S. buzz bomb being produced and static tests being conducted in the United States during World War II.

Production and testing of buzz bomb in the United States. United States buzz bomb being produced. Fuselage being assembled in a factory in Toledo, Ohio. Men work to assemble the jet engine of the aircraft in a factory in Dearborn, Michigan. Buzz bomb being tested as President of Ford Motor company Henry Ford II and Raymond Blough watch the operations. Static test of jet engine of U.S. buzz bomb. Us buzz bomb takes off leaving behind a vapor trail. Bomb detaches from the aircraft and explosion occurs.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078191
A man and a woman talk in the light of a kerosene lamp in the United States. Also shows the 1893 DeWitt Clinton replica locomotive and train in operation.

The world struggle for oil is depicted. Use of components of oil in homes and in railroads in the United States is shown. A dramatization shows the effect of a kerosene lamp on social life. A woman seated in a chair near a table in a room. A kerosene lamp in a corner. A man opens the door of the room and walks in. The woman gets up and welcomes the man. They both walk to a seat and sit down. Another woman enters the room. The man stands to greet her. She increases the light of the lamp and then leaves the room. The man decreases the light of the lamp. The man and the woman talk. The 1893 replica of the 1831 DeWitt Clinton steam locomotive is shown in operation with its three carriage train, in New York City. The DeWitt Clinton was the first railroad locomotive to operate on the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad in New York. The reproduction seen here was built in 1893 by the New York Central Railroad for the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This footage was shot on July 17, 1921 when the DeWitt Clinton train was preparing for a trip to another exposition in Chicago. On this day it ran several times from 96th to 116th streets in New York City. New York Central employees are seen on the drain, dressed as passengers would have been in 1831. This replica was later displayed at Grand Central Terminal in New York City, and is is now on display at The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn Michigan. It was acquired by Henry Ford in 1934, in an agreement with the New York Central that it would continue to travel to events on occasion.

Date: 1921, July 17
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050526
Dayton Ohio street, Wright home, workshop, the Wright Museum and the first glider flight of the Wright brothers in the United States.

A film 'We saw it happen' about the history of aviation in the United States. In Dayton, Ohio: Houses seen along Hawthorn Street. A still picture shows the Wright brothers in their youth. View down Hawthorn Street with several 1940s and early 1950s cars parked along the Dayton street. Exterior view of 7 Hawthorn Street, home of the Wright Brothers. Interiors of the Wright home in Dayton. The workshop of the Wright brothers. Machines in the workshop. The "Wright Cycle Co" and Wright Museum (moved from Dayton to Greenfield village in Dearborn, Michigan.) A powered engine prepared in the workshop. Sweeping view of windswept beach area of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina where the Wright brothers conducted test flights in 1900-1902. Another view of Hawthorn Street in Dayton. A boy on the sidewalk. View of the 4 cylinder airplane engine first designed by the Wright Brothers. Narrator speaks of December 17, 1903 Wright Brothers flight. View of the Wright Flyer in flight overhead. Scene changes to aerial side view of Boeing B-52 Stratofortress aircraft in flight (this is aircraft YB-52,the second XB-52). The B-52 banks left and away.

Date: 1953
Duration: 3 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068444
Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford at Ford Airport, and biplanes during the Airplane Reliability Tour in United States.

Biplanes at the Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport, Dearborn, Michigan, United States. View of a biplane on the airfield at the Ford Airport at the Airplane Reliability Tour. Number '6' written on the rudder of the aircraft. 'Niles' written on the side of the aircraft. A few men beside a building in the background. Another biplane on the airfield. A part of the biplane beside the wheel. 'Travel Air Mfg. Co. Inc. Wichita Kansas' written on the rudder of the biplane. Another biplane on the airfield. 'Ford Airport' written on a board on the building in the background. Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, seated in a vehicle. A few men standing outside the vehicle. A few men posing in front of a building on the airfield. A few of them standing and a few of them sitting on the ground.

Date: 1926
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066203