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Henry Ford greets the group of Pan American Congress of Journalists in Detroit United States.

Delegates of Pan American Congress of Journalists visit Detroit United States. Civic industrials and officers welcome them. The group along with the civic industrials proceed to automobile companies for inspection. Henry Ford founder of Ford Company greets them all. Workers in manufacturing motor vehicles. Views of several factories where cars are produced.

Date: 1927
Duration: 4 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675030526
Scenes from the Dole Derby or Dole Air Race from California to Hawaii in August, 1927

Opening scene shows several aircraft and aircrews on an Airfield in Oakland, California, readying for the Dole Air Race to Hawaii. A modified Travel Air 5000 aircraft, NX869, named "Woolaroc," is seen in the near foreground. Behind it is another Travel Air 5000, named "Oklahoma." Next, the "Oklahoma" and the "Aloha"(NX914), a Breese-Wilde 5 Monoplane are seen with engines running and taxiing. The "Aloha" takes off and climbs sharply after gaining airspeed. Several Wickes-class destroyers are seen steaming underway. (Slate reports they patrol the course to be flown over the Pacific.) Scene shifts to wreckage of the "Angel of Los Angeles" a twin engine Bryant Monoplane, which crashed on a test flight at Montebello, California. (Pilot, Arthur V. Rogers, bailed out at the last minute but his parachute didn't fully open and he was killed.) Next is shown the wreckage of the "Pride of Los Angeles," an International CF-10 Triplane, after crashing into San Francisco Bay on August 11th. Pilots J. L. Giffin and Theodore S. Lundgren are seen stepping from the water, unhurt. A crane, on a barge, lifts the wreckage from the shallow water.

Date: 1927, August
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027439
Pilot Ernie Smith and Navigator Emory Bronte participating in the 1927 Dole Air Race from Oakland, California to Hawaii

Fliers in the Dole Derby air race take off for Hawaii. The "City of Oakland," a Travel Air 5000 aircraft is seen being readied for flight. Pilot Ernie Smith and navigator Emory Bronte pose at the front of the aircraft, inspecting the engine and propeller. Closeup of the two. Next, a mechanic hand-cranks the engine to start it. Pilot, Smith climbs into the cockpit and closes its door. On July 14th, the aircraft is seen on takeoff roll toward and past the camera, which continues to track it through the takeoff. (The aircraft ran out of fuel and crash landed on the island of Molokai, in Hawaii on July 15th. Smith and Bronte were flown by Army aircraft to Wheeler field, the same day, where they were feted as the first civilians to fly across the Pacific.)

Date: 1927, July 14
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027440
The Ford Tri-motor on pontoons tested on Detroit River, United States.

The Ford Tri-Motor tested on the Detroit River. The Ford Tri-Motor is commonly known as 'The Tin Goose'. The plane on the pontoons. The plane taxies on water and takes off. The plane in flight over the river. The plane lands on water.

Date: 1927
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021027
Cliff Woodbury wins automobile race in Detroit, Michigan.

Scenes from the AAA Dirt Track Championships at the Michigan State Fairgrounds. Automobiles racing on dirt track in Detroit Michigan. Crowd stands. Aircraft flies low over racing cars moving on track. Spectators, mostly men wearing hats, seen seated. Cliff Woodbury wins the race (George Souders took second place, Wilbur Shaw took third, and Dutch Baumann was in fourth place). Woodbury seen in his car talking to reporters and exiting his car after completing race. Crowd in the background.

Date: 1927, October 16
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052487
Charles Lindbergh feted in Washington, DC and New York City, upon return to U.S. after his historic transatlantic flight

American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh arrives aboard USS Memphis (CL-13) at the Washington Navy Yard, Washington D.C. upon his return from Europe to the United States following his pioneering trans-Atlantic solo aircraft flight. He comes down the gangplank and is greeted by a phalanx of officials. They drive Lindbergh away in an open car. Two days later, June 13, 1927, the scene shifts to New York harbor, where there is a virtual traffic jam of ships and boats of all sizes and shapes, assembled to greet Lindbergh. Fireboats salute with streams of water as Lindberg arrives (as backseat passenger) in a seaplane from Mitchel Field on Long Island. The seaplane is seen flying over the harbor,and descending to land. The seaplane is seen in the water amongst the flotilla of vessels, as. Lindbergh is picked up by a police launch that takes him to the ship Macom, where he is helped aboard by passengers. (He almost falls into the water while stepping from the launch to the ship.) Lindbergh waves from the deck of the Macom, as they proceed in a parade of vessels toward a Manhattan pier. Upon arriving, Lindbergh is hustled into an open car and driven away surrounded by New york City policemen,including mounted police, who escort the car through mobs of spectators. Police form lines to hold back enthusiastic admirers. The car proceeds along a city street where cheering spectators jam the sidewalks and office workers create a virtual storm of ticker tape and confetti from their windows high above the street.

Date: 1927, June 11
Duration: 3 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065239