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Detroit Michigan USA 1927 stock footage and images

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Henry Ford greets the group of Pan American Congress of Journalists in Detroit United States.

Delegates of Pan American Congress of Journalists visit Detroit United States. Civic industrials and officers welcome them. The group along with the civic industrials proceed to automobile companies for inspection. Henry Ford founder of Ford Company greets them all. Workers in manufacturing motor vehicles. Views of several factories where cars are produced.

Date: 1927
Duration: 4 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675030526
The Ford Tri-motor on pontoons tested on Detroit River, United States.

The Ford Tri-Motor tested on the Detroit River. The Ford Tri-Motor is commonly known as 'The Tin Goose'. The plane on the pontoons. The plane taxies on water and takes off. The plane in flight over the river. The plane lands on water.

Date: 1927
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021027
Detroit Public Library with streetcars, freighter sails along Detroit Riverfront.

Streetcars and vehicular traffic pass by the Detroit Public Library (5201 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202, United States) along Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. A freighter and two canoes sailing along Detroit Riverfront.

Date: 1921
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079945
General Motors (GM) engages Detroit police to stop UAW-CIO picketing during strike. GM then obtains State Court injunction against picketing.

Film begins showing signs in business establishment window supporting General Motors strikers of Local 235 UAW-CIO. A siren in heard as the camera pans over a large group of uniformed Detroit City police officers, some on motorcycles. Across the street, several striking picketers carry signs, as another large group of police officers stand nearby. Closeup of a black maria police van parked next to a formation of mounted police officers. Closeup glimpse of an officers gun belt and cartridges. Camera pans over the congregation of police. Street filled with strikers carrying signs. Police allow only 4 picketers, who cross from the street in which they are gathered, to the city of Hamtramick at the Detroit border. Camera pans over Police gathered at the corner, as a line of striking women snakes around a telephone pold at the Detroit-Hamtramick border, to picket in the latter city. A group of 10 pickets is allowed by police to enter Hamtramick from the Detroit street. Next, a number of strikers' children challenges the police to cross the intercity boundary. Closeup of a father and small son. Men, women, and children are finally seen picketing in Hamtramick. Slate reads: "Steering Gear." (Narrator says: "Chevrolet Gear and Axle remains closed.") Next, a court proclamation is read in rapid fire declaration by a crier in front of a court building where some strikers stand on the steps reading the announcement. Closeup of the State of Michigan court order prohibiting picketing and union members discussing it. Scene shifts to a union meeting room where members ask about the injunction and discuss its impact.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048190
Baseball - Detroit Tigers opening day 1929 at Navin Field

The opening day of the 1929 baseball season in Detroit, Michigan. View of the large crowd in the stands at Navin Field. Ford Model A car parked by the stands inside the stadium. Detroit Tigers part-owner Walter Briggs talks to Tigers manager Bucky Harris on radio station WWJ. Henry Ford shakes hands with Harris and speaks into the microphone. Briggs and a Detroit player beside the Ford. A band, Tiger players, and the opposing Cleveland Indians march around the stadium. Ford and Briggs talking in the stands. Fords holds baseball, throws it out to unseen player on the field. The men talk and smile. Harris outside the dugout. Two other players sit inside the dugout. Several Detroit players stand just outside the dugout.

Date: 1929, April 24
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066190
U.S. soldiers stand guard at entrance of the Detroit Police Department 10th Precinct building in Detroit, Michigan.

Aftermath of Detroit riots in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Two men walk down. A woman comes out from a building. Detroit Police Department 10th Precinct building. U.S. soldiers stand guard at entrance of the building.

Date: 1967, July 28
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071097