Alfred Samuel Smith popularly called Al Smith gives a speech in Newark. Light decoration on a road. Cars move around. A huge crowd gathered at a place. Al Smith speaks on microphone. Crowd cheers and raise hands. People wave and raise American flags. Flags formed of lights and top curvature of gate also decorated with lights. Two posters on each side of a gate. Eminent people sit on chairs on a stage.
A film titled 'Louis And Farr Hold Postmortem On The Big Fight'. Joe Louis with a bruise under the eye talks about his win in the boxing match against Tommy Farr in Newark, New Jersey. Tommy Farr gives a loser's version of the encounter in Long Branch in New Jersey.
Henry Ford works on historical preservation project. McGuffey readers are seen. Sketch of Ford family farm in Springwells, Michigan. View of homestead at the farm, that Ford restores. He examines the farm's steam engine. The historic Wayside Inn, in Sudbury, Massachusetts, which Ford purchased to construct a community of historic buildings. View of the restored Botsford Inn,Detroit, Michigan, that Ford bought in 1924.View of Eagle Tavern, in Clinton, Michigan,before,and,after its purchase and restoration by Henry Ford. Concerned about need for additional buildings to house artifacts, Henry Ford consulting with Detroit architect,Robert O. Derrick (with mustache) and two other men. Derrick's plan for the Henry Ford museum is unrolled. It borrows from Independence Hall, Congress Hall, and the old City Hall in Philadelphia.Views of the Clock Tower and museum, as completed in 1929. A pictorial map of the Edison Institute Museum and Historical Greenfield Village, in Dearborn, Michigan. View of construction begun in 1927. Thomas A. Edison laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, that Ford acquired for Greenfield Village. On a windy September 17, 1928, Thomas A. Edison steps from a car, and pauses before entering the doorway of his restored laboratory, in Greenfield Village. Henry and Mrs.Ford step from their car to quickly join him in the building.Edsel Ford and his wife, also follow. Inside the building, Edison officially open the site by starting a steam engine in the laboratory. Ford and Edison converse (Ford speaking close to Edison's ear, because he is hard of hearing). Later, Edison, in a cornerstone ceremony, imbeds, a shovel contributed by Luther Burbank, and then writes in cement of the cornerstone.Newspapers show coverage of the formal dedication of the museum and Greenfield village, October 21, 1929. Workers rushing the Village toward completion for that event. The Smithcreek Railroad depot is moved to the Village. Workers preparing installation of the depot.
Clip opens with Gilded Age scenes near the turn of the century in the United States, circa late 1890s. Busy sidewalk scene in a city with men and women in suits, dresses, and hats of the era walking and in conversation. Wealthy people moving about. Group of women ascends steps toward a building. Reunion game of baseball between old men formerly from the Orange 'Y' team and the 'Bears' in Newark, New Jersey. Elderly players pose for a photograph in front of a team banner that says 1885. Elderly baseball players play on a field as fans young and old in the stands watch the game. Young spectators cheer a play by the senior citizen players. A player hits a grounder and another player comes in from 3rd base toward what looks to be a slide at home plate, but he ends up sitting down on the plate.
Steamers on the frozen River Neva deliver food supplies sent by foreign relief organization to Petrograd, Russia during period of Russian Revolution and World War I. Soviet Russian children stand next to ship 'Marcus' from Newark, New Jersey, USA. Men unload food supplies. American relief administrator Colonel Haskall looks at a map. Food sacks being transported along snowy streets by horse drawn sled and sleigh. Civilians walk in snow covered streets, bundled in warm winter clothing. People gathered together in the cold eat hot food in the streets of Russia.
Howard Hughes climbs out of the cockpit of his H-1 Racer, a custom built low wing monoplane, license number NR258Y, after completing his record breaking transcontinental flight from California. He allows another man to sit in the cockpit as Hughes talks to him. Ground crew pushes the airplane into the hangar.
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