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Diego Rivera working on his Detroit Industry Mural in Detroit,Michigan.

Views of Diego Rivera working on his Industrial Mural in Detroit,Michigan, located at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The Detroit Industry mural sections and the wall showing paintings and sculptures. View of a single section of the wall blank, and then after initial mural sketch has been added by Rivera. Diego Rivera and another worker at the wall of one of the sections of mural.

Date: 1932
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030962
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
Commercial passengers fly Stout Airlines from Detroit Michigan to Cleveland.Ohio

Opening slate refers to developing scope of commercial air operations in late 1920s. A bus parks at the Detroit office of Stout Airlines at Ford Airport, Detroit, Michigan. Passengers leave the bus and enter the office to obtain tickets for a flight to Cleveland. They are nicely dressed in the fashion of the day, men in suites and ties and women in Cloche hats.. Many spectators stand behind a fence at the airport to watch the activities. Passengers leave the office and head toward a parked Ford Tri-motor passenger plane parked on the ramp. One woman is accompanied by three small boys. Next, a man is seen passing the passengers' luggage through the plane's entrance door to a male steward inside. Scene shifts to the uniformed steward loading the baggage into large overhead bins in the roof of the passenger compartment. He closes and secures the storage bins and then heads outside the plane where he assists passengers in boarding. He climbs aboard. The aircraft is then seen taxiing toward the runway for takeoff. As it passes the camera, a sign painted on its side is visible reading: "Stout Airlines, Detroit-Cleveland" (and Chicago added below). (Note: they did not operate to Chicago until 1929) The aircraft takes off heading close to the camera, near its lift off point, and heads off into the sky.Scene shifts to inside the passenger cabin where the passengers (unrestricted by seat belts) chat with one another as the cabin steward watches over them from the front of the cabin. View of ground from passenger cabin window. View of the Ford Trimotor from another aircraft flying nearby. More views inside the passenger cabin with people looking out the windows. View of what may be a suspension bridge under construction across the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland. More views of passengers enjoying the views through their cabin windows. Aerial view of trimotor descending toward destination over cityscape. The aircraft taxis into the Cleveland Hopkins airport ramp and parks. Passengers are seen departing, from inside their cabin and then stepping onto the airport ramp.

Date: 1927
Duration: 6 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038393
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.

Date: 1943, June
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032040
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.

Date: 1921
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030155
Views of the new Diego Rivera Industrial Mural in Detroit,Michigan.

Diego Rivera Industrial Mural in Detroit,Michigan at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Views of the Detroit Industry mural sections and the walls and floor, showing paintings and sculptures.

Date: 1932
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030961