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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
A Ford Trimotor airplane on an airfield, during the Ford Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan.

Ford Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. A Ford Trimotor airplane on an airfield, during the Ford Reliability Tour. A crowd gathered around the airplane. NC 401H written beneath one of the wings of the trimotor airplane. An aircraft in flight over the airfield.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1929
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066162
The U.S. Army Air Service Fokker C-2A named "Question Mark" being refueled in midair from a Douglas C-1, in 1929.

Mid air refueling experiments in January, 1929. A U.S. Army Air Service Douglas C-1 tanker plane, with hose trailing below it, flies above a modified Atlantic-Fokker C-2A named "Question Mark." The hose is let down to the Question Mark, where a crew member seizes it and makes a connection for fuel transfer. After transfer of fuel is complete, the crew member throws the fuel line off and it is retrieved by the tanker plane. The Question Mark lands at Metropolitan Airport, Van Nuys, California on January 7, 1929, and taxiis in to park. The crew members, including Major Carl A. Spaatz, Captain Ira C. Eaker, Lieutenant Harry A. Halverson, Lieutenant Elwood R.(Pete) Quesada, and Staff Sergeant Roy W. Hooe, all exit the airplane and gather under the wing with well wishers. The five crew members pose for photographs beside their airplane, the "Question Mark." Ground crew tows the aircraft with a tractor.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051736
Unloading of lake freighter at River Rouge Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan.

A huge crane unloads lake freighter at the dock and the River Rouge Ford plant visible in background. Close ups of the crane unloading ore from freighter. A man in the crane cage operating the crane while crane scoop scoops the ore out. Two huge cranes unloading the freighter.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1929
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030994
Metal working at Ford River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan

View of a huge metal working machines crafting metal parts at the Ford River Rogue plant. Various machines are shown working in concert to fashion metal parts. Workers preparing gasoline tanks, rolling to edges of the tanks in a machine to seal the edge seams.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1929
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030996
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