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Police and U.S. military patrol streets to control the crowds and extinguish burning auto during race riots in Detroit Michigan

Detroit Race Riot in Detroit, Michigan in June 1943, during World War 2, and early in Civil Rights movement. Police disperse crowd from the street. Army patrol walks down the street in section of city. Two soldiers in front of the "HH Bowles Radio Service" store, with paint marked sign "colored" written on the store window, consistent with Jim Crow segregation practices, to identify it as an African American run business and discourage whites from patronizing it. Five U.S. soldiers holding light machine guns patrol on the street. Soldiers cross street. White youths exit from patrol wagon or paddy wagon and appear to be joking around. The youths pose in front of the patrol wagon. Police bus being driven. Views of U.S. Army tent camp in a field in Detroit. Firemen spray water on a burning automobile set on fire during the racially motivated riot. Smoke all around the burned vehicle. People stand on street and watch.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1943, June
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032040
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
Balloons in flight during a balloon race in Detroit, Michigan.

A balloon race in Detroit, Michigan. The balloon race for Detroit News Ballooning Trophy. Balloons in flight include 'Skylark' piloted by W.C. Naylor and Kenneth Warren, 'S-1' piloted by Lieutenant Max Moyer and W.E. Huffman, Detroit Flying Club balloon piloted by Charles D. Williams and Arthur G. Schlosser with Dr. George M. LeGallee, 'The Goodyear IV' piloted by J.A. Baettner and W.H. Mortan with H.W. Maxson and The Highball II' piloted by S.A.V. Rasmussen, E.J. Hill and S.A. Mitchell also participate.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066084
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
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
People begin a tour of the Ford Motor company River Rouge Plants

Film starts showing a man speaking through a megaphone. Next is an aerial view of the city of detroit, Michigan. This is followed by views of steam locomotives moving on railroads near the Ford Motor Company River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan. One locomotive is pulling a long passenger train. People crowd sidewalk in front of the Cadillac Hotel on Washington Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan, where a bus has parked. View of people boarding the bus. Next, the bus is seen driving along the Boulevard. Then, two buses arrive and discharge passengers in front of the Ford Motor Company office building. Inside the building a Ford Company spokesman speaks to the visitors who are seated in a conference room. Folowing the briefing, they all stand and exit through the front door. View from inside one of the buses as of visitors re-board.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078274
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