Refine Your Search

Minneapolis Minnesota USA 1951 stock footage and images

- Showing 19 to 24 of 25517 results
Use of artificial lightning equipment in Project Thunderstorm, and radar operations supporting project and its aircraft

Tug tows Northrop F-15 Reporter into hangar in Minneapolis, Minnesota to be instrumented for Project Thunderstorm. Various scenes of electrical equipment used in making man-made lightning, including a generator made up of hundreds of transformers, and a connected massive generator for producing high voltage. A large oscillograph is shown along with a smaller oscillograph designed for airborne use. A scientist is seen inside the giant generator. Artificial lightning tests are made on canopy of the F-15 occupied by a scientist, and the canopy remains intact following lightning strike. Lightning rods are attached to lightning-vulnerable nose, tail fin, and wing tip locations of the Project Thunderstorm aircraft. Pilot climbs into canopy of F-15. Airborne F-15 project aircraft seen in flight headed toward area of dark clouds. In Ohio at Clinton County Army Air Field, a project officer (AAF Captain) describes how search procedures of the pilot, weather observer, and radar observer are coordinated and key locations of radar and cooperating facilities at Jamestown and the Clinton County Army Airfield. Large radar antenna revolving on top of large tower, scanning for signs of thunderstorms. Radar antenna scanning vertically, near Quonset huts. Command center inside a quonset hut with project personnel at radar scopes and thunderstorm and aircraft positions plotted on large plexiglass screens. Technician adjust motion picture camera that photographs radar scopes every four seconds. Operator at vertical measuring instrument, showing reflected returns from targets, on July 18, 1947. View of operator at plan position indicator radar scope showing weather returns on June 6, 1947. Ground Control Approach (GCA) truck located near end of airfield to guide landings of Thunderstorm aircraft. Radio operators sitting at radar scopes inside the GCA unit. P-61 makes GCA approach and landing in good weather, to maintain skills needed when weather is bad. Briefing officer at blackboard cites radio channels to be used for various purposes. View of AAF aircrews in audience.

Date: 1947
Duration: 8 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034362
Workers protest and strikes breakout in U.S. cities; police and state guardsmen clash with strikers

Unrest and violence in the United States by strikers in various cities. Aerial view of San Francisco. General strike in San Francisco. People gather on the streets to protest. A board reads: 'Out of Gasoline Due to Strike conditions' at a Shell gas station. Injured people lying on the street during Truck Drivers strike in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as Police battle strikers and use clubs to control them. Strike in Toledo by Auto Accessory Workers shows State guardsmen throwing rocks back at strikers and using tear gas and knockout gas to control the situation. Strikers are grabbed by State Guards forcefully and hauled away. The strikes arise as a result of disputes over the meaning of new labor rules.

Date: 1934
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051594
Couriers and United States postal service reaching everywhere across the nation by transportation system.

A streamliner locomotive pulling a train and moving quickly toward camera position. Scene change to view of the Masonic Temple building in Alexandria, Virginia. Next scene shows a TWA gate area at Albuquerque New Mexico airport. A TWA Lindbergh Line DC-3 airplane taxis to a stop. A frozen park scene in Minneapolis Minnesota. An aerial view of Miami. A tall white tower in San Francisco (Ferry Building?). Wide pan view of skyline and skyscrapers of New York City. Exterior of U.S. Post Office Building in New York City.

Date: 1943
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051771
Douglas Corrigan prepares for Trans Atlantic flight and Gustav Adolf receives a warm reception in United States.

Trans Atlantic flight to Ireland. Douglas Corrigan prepares for Trans Atlantic flight to Ireland in Curtiss Robin. Corrigan speaks to a policeman before take off. In Minneapolis, Minnesota Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden receives a warm reception. The Crown Prince arrives in a car. Cavalry units wave flags to welcome him. Dancers perform at a colorful ceremony to welcome the Crown Prince.

Date: 1938, July 18
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049440
The processing and transportation of iron and coal along the Mississippi river on steamboats in the United States

The activities around the Mississippi river in the United States. Smoke from steel mills and factories of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Wheeling, West Virginia. A crane lifts the iron ore. A crane lifts coal. View of factories spewing smoke and ash. Hot, molten iron being poured, with flames and sparks shooting outward as it is tipped to pour. Cotton bales on a conveyor. Making of cotton thread. Workers work on cotton bales. The cotton bales being loaded onto barges and a steamship. The steamboat in the Mississippi river travels to various places. Brief scenes of various known city views including St Paul and Minneapolis Minnesota; Davenport Iowa; Moline Illinois; Cincinnati; St. Louis; Omaha; Kansas City; New Orleans.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032222
35th anniversary of Wright Brothers' first flight. Advances in travel due to rail and airplane. Howard Hughes' round the world flight.

Film notes 35th anniversary of Wright Brothers' first flight and reviews history of transportation and advances in transportation brought about by railroad and aircraft. An animated map of the United states before the advent of mechanized transport methods. It illustrates the difficult and long overland journey to travel from the East Coast to the West Coast. Travel by horse and wagon over the Santa Fe Trail in 1849 is recreated in a brief film clip. Next, a locomotive is shown pulling a passenger train at high speed along a railroad at the base of a mountain. Animated map charts fairly direct path from Coast to Coast, taking only 4 days by railroad. Next a nearly straight course is traced across the map illustrating the path of an airplane taking only seven and a half hours for the journey. Change of scene shows aerial view of Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 Super Electra Special, Model 14-N2 ( NX18973), christened "New York World's Fair 1939," in flight over New York harbor with the skyline of Manhattan, New York City in the background. Camera follows the plane as it passes over lower Manhattan. The Empire State building is seen prominently with other skyscrapers below the aircraft. This was filmed, on July 14, 1938, as Hughes and his crew were returning from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Floyd Bennett Field, on Long Island, at the conclusion of their around-the-world flight (circling the Northern Hemisphere) from July 10 - July 14, 1938.

Date: 1938, July 14
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027429