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Formal dedication of the Edison Institute, Ford Museum, and Historical Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan
Huge crowd attending the dedication of the Edison Institute, Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, in Dearborn, Michigan, on a rainy October 21, 1929. The event includes a Jubilee of Lights, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Edison's electric light. People holding umbrellas, stand on platform of the Smithcreek Railroad depot, which has been moved to the village. Steam issues from antique locomotive parked on far track. An 1850 steam locomotive decorated with American flags, pulls a 3-car train into the depot, with its bell clanging. Secret Service agents step from the moving train to take up positions on the platform.U.S. President, Herbert Hoover, escorts Thomas Edison, down the steps of the train to the platform. Mrs. Hoover follows, along with Henry Ford, who moves quickly down the steps, as other notable guests also alight. The President, and Mrs. Hoover, along with Edison and Ford, enter a car and proceed in a motorcade through the city of Detroit. Tickertape is seen descending from the city buildings. A speaker stand at steps of City Hall is decorated in patriotic bunting and displays pictures of Hoover and Edison, and a sign reading: "Light's Golden Jubilee." Guests remaining at Greenfield village are taken on guided tours in horse-drawn carriages. Many who walk carry umbrellas. Among building seen are: An 1828 toll house and shoe shop;Blacksmith shop; a tintype studio of the 1880s; an 1830s post office and apothecary shop, from Phoenixville, Connecticut; the Clifton Inn, on the village green; a General store, from Waterford, Michigan; the Village Town Hall; and the Martha Mary Chapel. Interior of museum galleries, with guests in formal attire assembled for a candle light banquet, while at the Menlo Park exhibit, Edison, with assistant, Francis Jehl, re-enact the successful demonstration of a carbon filament electric light. At the same time, all electric lights in the museum and village are turned on. View of elaborate electric light chandelier illuminated.
Passengers aboard Stout airlines Ford Tri-motor passenger airplane; Ambassador Bridge under construction.
A male flight crew member inside a Stout Airlines Ford Tri-motor plane in the United States. He stands in the center aisle and adjusts luggage in overhead areas. View outside aircraft parked at Ford Airport, Dearborn, Michigan, as passengers board Stout Airlines Ford Tri-motor airplane NC9669 with name "Miss North Shore" (seen on nose) and "Stout Airlines - Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago" seen written on aircraft body. It is a a Ford type 5-AT-B. View of Ford Airport passenger terminal building in background. Plane taxis and takes off. The plane in flight. Interior cabin views while in flight as passengers inside the plane enjoy the view as they look out from the windows. Aerial view of aircraft in flight as seen from an adjacent flying aircraft (unseen). View of plane taking off again. Aircraft in flight over Detroit River. The Ambassador Bridge suspension bridge is seen, under construction, preparing to connect the USA and Canada between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.
Ford Motor plant workers work on the final assembly line at the Ford Motor Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
Ford Plant workers work on the final assembly line at the Ford Motor Plant in Detroit, Michigan. Workers assemble Ford automobiles. Many assembly line scenes, including engines being positioned in car chassis; car body being placed on chassis, and assembly of wheels. Some Ford work men are seen moving back and forth quickly on dollies or scooters with wheels, to allow them to move quickly from car to car as they continue moving on the assembly line, while the workers remain at a lower working height.
Herbert Hoover with Thomas Edison arrive for Light's Golden Jubilee; greeted by Henry Ford and crowd in Detroit Michigan
President of the United States Herbert Clark Hoover visits Detroit, together with Thomas A. Edison at invitation of Henry Ford for the celebration "Light's Golden Jubilee" honoring Thomas Edison and his invention of the electric light 50 years earlier. Automobile carrying President Hoover turns on corner of business district in rainy conditions. A policeman stands at the corner of the street. Spectators under umbrellas gather at a sidewalk. A decorated flag on the speaker's platform. Audience in raincoats and hats with umbrellas. A wood-burning locomotive train built in 1860 and decked with bunting arrives at railroad station of Smiths Creek Michigan depot at Greenfield Village. This station is where Edison, as a youngster 70 years earlier had been thrown off a similar train for a fire in the baggage car triggered by Edison's chemicals. Ford moved the station to Greenfield Village. Spectators with umbrellas on platform. President Herbert Hoover and Thomas Alva Edison exit the baggage car to join crowd on platform. President Hoover poses with American founder of the Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford, and the guest of honor, Thomas Edison. The three men converse. In the next scene, at a reconstructed Menlo Lab in Greenfield Village, Edison, Ford, and Hoover stand together as Thomas Edison recreates the lighting of the first electric lamp. Thomas Edison gestures as he points to equipment. Edison's former assistant, Francis Jehl, pours from a vessel into the top of the electric light apparatus as Hoover, Ford, and Edison look on.
U.S. Navy ZMC-2 airship moves out from hangar and takes off from airfield for first test flight in Detroit,Michigan.
First test flight of metal airship in Detroit,Michigan. United States Navy ZMC-2 airship moves out from hangar at the airfield. People stand near airship. It takes off.
View of banks, church, public park, Belle Isle, busy streets and Bob-Lo steamship SS Columbia leaving dock in Detroit, Michigan
In Detroit Financial District, people in front of First State Bank Building at 751 Griswold at Lafayette in Detroit, Michigan. (The building was designed by Albert Kahn and Corrado Parducci, and later housed the Olde Discount Corporation). Interior of First State Bank Building, Detroit. Street view of First National Building under construction at 660 Woodward Avenue in Detroit (for First National Bank and other tenants). Automobile traffic on streets of Detroit. People leave Sweetest Heart of Mary, Roman Catholic Church, located on Russell Street at the corner of East Canfield avenue, in a historic Polish parish. (The neighborhood at the time was predominantely Polish.) In the distance is another Polish parish and Saint Josaphat Church located on East Canfield at the corner of Hastings Street (which is now the I 75 freeway). Heavy traffic on a main boulevard. Children play in playground on swings and slides. People and pigeons in a park. Heavy traffic on a street. Large crowd on shore and others in canoes in water at Belle Isle. Crowd streams through gate at dock to board the steamship ferry "Columbia" of the Detroit, Belle Isle and Windsor Ferry Company, with sign "Bob-Lo Route" on the side. Boblo Steamship SS Columbia (designed by Frank Kirby) filled with passengers underway on the Detroit River bound for Bob-Lo Island in Ontario Canada.
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