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Detroit,Toledo and Ironton (DT&I) Railroad in United States.

Detroit,Toledo and Ironton (DT&I) Railroad operating between cities of Michigan and Ohio in United States. Views of African American men working to clean and polish the railroad locomotive. A steam engine attached to the railroad train moving on railroad tracks. Views of railroad station,rail tracks and a steam engine moving on a turntable at the railway yard. Slates describe Ford policy for lower freight rates, higher wages, unusual service, courteous treatment working in three years' time to transform the D.T.&I.R.R. into a proitable unit.

Date: 1924
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031021
A Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad train moves down a track in the United States.

The Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad in the United States, running between Michigan and Ohio. A locomotive pulling a train of coal cars comes down a track. A sign on the cars read 'Ford'. The railroad was owned by Ford and its locomotives were always kept in tip top condition. (This train was possibly coming from the Wellston, Ohio coal fields.)

Date: 1922
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066762
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.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078274
Cleveland Police department overwhelms UAW strikers at Fisher Body factory. UAW delegates protest police brutality in Detroit. Farmers union supports strikers with food.

Views of General Motors (GM) Fisher Body factory in Cleveland Ohio, where United Auto Workers (UAW) union members are picketing as uniformed policemen monitor them. Strikers next to a large chalk board announcing that "GM renews negotiations at 10 AM today." Closeup of Union news flyer announcing that "GM bows to union, negotiations underway." Sign reads: "Department of Industrial Relations, Fisher Body Corp." on a building where strikers are picketing. A large group of uniformed policeman, including some on motorcycles, and mounted on horseback, move toward picketing strikers. Change of scene shows UAW leaders leaving a building in Detroit, Michigan, on their way to appeal to the Detroit City Council, to protest against police brutality. Union President R.J.Thomas, and Secretary, George F. Gaddes, are seen on a porch of the building, wishing them well, with words of advice and encouragement. The union delegation is seen entering Detroit City Hall. Inside an office door is labeled: "Common Council Chamber." The delegation is seated in chairs, as they appeal to Council members. Union members and women auxiliary members are seen preparing meals for strikers and their families. View of the CIO-UAW headquarters next to the Hotel Paul Revere, in Detroit. Men and several union auxiliary women enter cars to drive into the country, at the invitation of the Farmer's union, to obtain donations of food from them. The motorcade of cars is seen driving through the streets of Detroit, with flags flying from each, and later out in the countryside. At a farm, a union member presents his UAW membership card to a farmer. Other do the same with a different farmer. Next, the union members are seen carrying bushel baskets provided by the farmers, and picking vegetables from a field. Farmer on tractor drives in adjoining field. Closeup of a union auxiliary woman picking green beans. A bushel basket being filled with green beans. Men loading full bushels of vegetables into the cars, and driving away, as farm families wave farewell.

Date: 1939
Duration: 6 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048191
A Ford two cylinder monoplane ends its Detroit-to-Miami trip in Washington D.C.,United States.

Newsreel titled 'The flying flivver lands in Washington D.C.' shows a Ford two cylinder monoplane landing in Washington D.C.,United States ending its Detroit-to-Miami trip in Asheville due to bad weather. Pilot Brooks get out from the plane as people gather around it to take a look. People lift the plane.

Date: 1928, March 3
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038377
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.

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