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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.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1929, August 24
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072929
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.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1929, October 21
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068388
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.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048190
Chefs, waiters and women working in the kitchens of the Hotel Statler in Detroit, Michigan

Chefs and employees working in the restaurant kitchen of the Hotel Statler (1539 Washington Boulevard Detroit, Michigan) in Detroit Michigan. Opening slate of film reads: "Here we are in the heart of the hotel, looking down the long line of ranges where Broiled Lobsters and Roast Chicken are done to a turn. (At lower right of slate is statement: "Produced by Ford Motor Company.") More than a dozen chefs in classic white uniforms are seen preparing meals that are being picked up by waiter in tuxedos. Another view of chefs at work. A slate reads: "If cleanliness is next to Godliness, surely this is a wonderful place to work. It is unknown, while pots and pans shine like milady's mirror." Several views of a young woman tending several large coffee pots and dispensing pots of it to waiters. Another slate reads: "System! There is enough of it here to delight a General. Note the order and precision with which everything is carried forward." Views of kitchen staff interacting with the formally dressed wait staff members who check each order before taking it on trays to the dining room. Next slate reads: "Dainty salads with sweet cream and delicious fruits, prepared by the hand of an expert."Four women are seen behind a counter, making these fancy salads and passing them to waiters. Closeup of one being prepared.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064466
5th Liberty (Victory) Loan drive. A huge adding machine shows Detroit's contribution towards purchase of Liberty Bonds

Postwar 5th Liberty (Victory) Loan drive in United States. Large crowd gathered. A huge facsimile Burroughs adding machine displaying Detroit's contributions towards postwar sale of Liberty Bonds during the 5th annual drive. It shows Detroit's goal (duty) as $55,494,413; Detroit's sales to April 22, 1919, as: $25,410,300, and the balance as Oversubscribed, with total sales from the drive reaching $ 68,688,800. An Army officer (without headgear) addresses a large gathering as he stands on a makeshift platform.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1919, April
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048764
Mexican painter Diego Rivera paints a mural at Detroit Institute of Arts in United States

Details of the Detroit Industry Murals being painted by Diego Rivera, Mexican painter at the Detroit Institute of Arts in United States. Diego Rivera stands on a scaffold as he paints the mural.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1932
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037562
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