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Automobile workers work in a factory in Detroit, Michigan.

The film 'Auto Workers in Detroit' about workers in automobile factories in Detroit, Michigan. Street traffic in Detroit. Various 1940s vehicles seen including Ford, Chevrolet, GMC. A trailer truck carrying new cars takes a turn. Exteriors of automobile factories. A trolley car comes to a stop. Workers get out of trolley car. A car pulls into a parking lot. A man gets out and walks to the factory. Men walk towards and into a factory. They punch time cards. Interiors of an auto plant. A worker pulls levers that start various machines. An automobile engine on an overhead hook dollied towards a car then lowered into position. A man works near the door of a Ford Custom 2 door sedan on the assembly line. Wheel and rim on the overhead hook dolly are placed into position.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067507
National guards patrolling the area after the unrest due to the riots in Detroit,Michigan.

Unrest due to riots in Detroit, Michigan. High altitude view of the city of Detroit at night. A car passing on the street. Soldiers standing on the street. The national guards patrol the area. Destroyed houses and buildings in the area. Buildings set on fire. People walking on the street. The interior of a destroyed house. Firemen dousing the fire with the help of hoses. President Lyndon Baines Johnson urges for law and order in Detroit.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1967, July 28
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063262
View of residential areas, busy streets, Ford Highland Park Plant and open markets in Detroit, Michigan.

View of large buildings in Detroit, Michigan. Cars parked around a public park. Pedestrian traffic on the streets. Several buildings along a river beach. View of residential area and houses. Children on the steps of a large building. Boys play baseball. Exterior view of Detroit Public Library. Double Decker bus and automobile traffic on the street. Water truck washes street. Ford Motor Company Highland Park Plant workers in plant yard. Truck and streetcar traffic-workers. People in Eastern Market. Boy buying chickens from a open air market stall. Men, some women, and some children approaching the ticket sales booths of Navin Field (home of the Detroit Tigers baseball team, and later renamed Briggs Stadium, and subsequently Tiger Stadium). Close up view of men at ticket booths buying tickets to game.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1921
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030155
City scenes with cars in Detroit, Michigan, 1921

City scenes in Detroit, Michigan. View of a residential area in Detroit. A laundry stands beside a church. Another church tower is seen from afar. Grand Blvd. with Cadillac Place in background (3044 West Grand Boulevard, formerly the General Motors Building ) A building under construction, possibly the First National Building, viewed from across Woodward Ave. A sign on adjacent building reads “Commonwealth Federal”. View of Detroit’s waterfront and skyline. A steamship is docked on the waterfront.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1921
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079953
Workers making engines and hulls for Patrol Torpedo Boats (PT Boats) in the United States.

The film 'Devil Boats' shows the construction of Patrol Torpedo Boats in the United States. A young woman stands on a small bridge. A Patrol Torpedo Boat in the background. Two patrol boats underway at sea. Naval officers stand in a line. Workers enter the ELCO Marine Division plant. Assembly of PT boat hull and wiring. A woman worker examines wiring. One of the oldest workers, Frederick Buckley, supervises. Scenes from the Packard factory in Detroit Michigan, where the engines for the PT Boats are made. Engineers and technicians work on building a boat. Ingots thrust into ladels and poured into iron cauldrons. Drop hammer at work on hot pieces. Aluminum crank case moving on assembly line and then anodized by dipping in anodizing solution. Welders weld jackets to cylinder heads on the engine. Engine block lowered into position and joined to completed crank case. Final assembly of engine for PT boat. A woman paints yellow color on a part of the boat. After completion the Patrol Torpedo Boat is lifted by a crane. Shows Bob Palmer who used to be a factory worker and is now in the Navy in the PT service. Naval officer shakes hands with Palmer who had been painting his ID on the engine block.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064945
U.S. Army demonstrates and tests Ford motor company amphibious jeeps during World war II

Soldiers in full battle dress march on a field and climb into Ford Motor Company amphibious jeeps parked along a tree-lined street near Detroit, Michigan, in World War 2. They drive along a muddy path leading to a river, where they plunge into the water near a bridge. Views of amphibious jeeps entering water from a park-like area. They travel in loose formations and some join together, side-by-side. Views of the soldiers maneuvering in their amphibious jeeps in the water. Several jeeps leaving the water by driving up a river bank.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031860
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