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Workers stack groceries and canned food and chefs eating at Hotel Statler in the United States.

Views inside the food storerooms and kitchens of the Hotel Statler in Detroit Michigan. Men gather groceries and canned food stored in the hotel storeroom. Two men on the ladder placing cans on shelves. Woman oversees employees with a paper in hand. Hotel Statler chefs discuss matters while they drink and eat at a table..

Date: 1916
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064472
Aircraft manufacturing factories at various places in United States

Manufacturing of aircraft in United States World War I. Aircraft factories at Buffalo, New Jersey, New York, Detroit, Dayton, Michigan and Elizabeth. Aerial views of aircraft factory, railway siding, warehouses and lumber yard. War production factory workers go to work at one of the plants and workers at work. Men sit around small round tables as they eat in a plant cafeteria.

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048522
'The Tide Turns' on business developments in United States.

Business developments in various parts of United States. The rate of employment increases as developments occur. Increasing number of workers with jobs shown working during the Great Depression. Connersville, Indiana: Men working in an automobile industry. Workers with heavy machines work on various parts of automobile. Men loading lumber planks onto belts for processing through saws that cut wooden parts for use in automobiles. Cincinnati, Ohio: Men and women working in an Ivory Soap manufacturing company. Workers pack Ivor Soap bars in boxes. Worcester, Massachusetts: Women workers busy stitching corsets in a leading corset manufacturing company. Detroit, Michigan: Men work in Burroughs typewriter manufacturing company. Men check typewriters.

Date: 1932, September 19
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030531
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.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064945
Speed racers Sir Malcolm Campbell and Gar Wood break records in the United States.

New land and sea speed records are set in the United States. People gather in Daytona Beach, Florida. Sir Malcolm Campbell seated in his race car 'Blue Bird'. He drives the car on Daytona beach and sets a new record driving at the speed of 272 miles per hour. People cheer. Close view of him smoking a cigarette in the car after his speed run. Speedboat racer Garfield Arthur Wood seated aboard his speedboat 'Miss America' on the St Clair River near Detroit Michigan. He races the 5000 horsepower mahogany speedboat and wins the Harmsworth Trophy. Close up view of Gar Wood smiling after his race. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.

Date: 1933
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077067
Spectators on a field in United States watch the Detroit New Trophy Race.

Spectators collect to watch the Detroit New Trophy Race. A Ford Tri-Motor on a field takes off. The plane in flight. Aerial view of a mooring tower. Air balloons anchored on a field. Sign on the balloons read 'Detroit New Trophy Race'. Many spectators on the field watch the balloon race.

Date: 1926
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021036