Refine Your Search

Seattle Washington USA 1941 stock footage and images

- Showing 19 to 24 of 25878 results
Aircraft workers and their families at Boeing plant in Seattle inspecting B-17Ds.

View of cars and crowd at a Boeing plant in Seattle. Aircraft workers and their families at Boeing plant inspecting B-17Ds. 7th Bomb Group B-17Ds in flight and formation over Mount Rainier. View of glaciers. (World War II period).

Date: 1941
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039301
Open house at Boeing Aircraft plant in Seattle where workers and their families inspect planes.

Views of open house at Boeing Aircraft plant in Seattle. Workers with their families entering the plant and inspecting planes.

Date: 1941
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039345
OPM chief Knudsen visits Boeing factory in Seattle.

Chief of the Office of Personnel Management OPM Knudsen visits Seattle's Boeing manufacturing factory. Knudsen inspects factory accompanied with factory officials. This is probably Plant 2 on the Boeing grounds. Assembly line production of various Boeing planes goes on. Overhead view of 3 Boeing fuselages under construction. This is a few months before the United States' entry into World War 2.

Date: 1941, July
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028749
Stanley Sayres sets a new speed record in his hydroplane 'Slo-Mo-Shun' on Lake Washington in Seattle, Washington DC.

A new speedboat record is made on Lake Washington in Seattle, Washington DC. Seattle auto dealer Stanley Sayres gets into his hydroplane 'Slo-Mo-Shun'. A man looks through a sighting instrument. The hydroplane moves on Lake Washington. He averages 160 plus miles per hour.

Date: 1950, June 26
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058228
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in many meetings before and after America's entry into World War II

Opening slate reads: "Quebec Conference August 1943." The English battleship, Prince of Wales, is seen in fog off the Coast of Newfoundland, in August 1941. View of sailor on fore-deck of the British ship. View inside engine room of the ship where sailor manipulates her power. Closeup of engine crankshaft stopping as she drops anchor in Placentia Bay. View of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, greeting U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the Prince of Wales. He proffers a letter to the President, from the King of England. View of Roosevelt and Churchill seated on deck with their respective military leaders standing behind them. Admiral Ernest King, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations converses with U.S. Army Chief of Staff, George Marshall, as they stand behind Churchill and Roosevelt. Wider camera view shows the larger military entourage accompanying the Prime Minister and the President. Glimpse of prisoners and enslaved workers taken by Nazi Germans in Europe. Glimpse of bombs falling from an airplane. Classic film views of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941. Bombs exploding along "Battleship Row." Heavy smoke rising from the bombed ships. The USS Arizona tilted heavily and burning. Camera pans along the path of destruction, as the voice of President Roosevelt is heard in the background, asking the Congress to declare that the Japanese attack created a state of War between the United States and the Japanese Empire. View of President Roosevelt speaking to the U.S. Congress. Seated behind him are Vice-President Henry Wallace and Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn. Glimpse of Congress members applauding. Change of scene shows President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting in Washington, DC, in December of 1941, during World War 2. Views of war preparations in the United States, including the building of new war production plants and facilities. A large steel ingot being forged into an artillery gun barrel. Machinist at work turning a gun barrel on a lathe in a munitions factory. Views of manufacturing plants in operation and steel being made. A railroad train carrying new Army trucks. Another meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt in Washington, D.C. June, 1942. Standing behind them is President Roosevelt's special assistant, Harry Hopkins, a British naval officer, and an American navy Captain. American soldiers boarding a troop ship, and closeups of them as they enter the ship, looking out of portholes, and waving from the ship's deck. Glimpse of Washington Monument and its image in the reflecting pool in Washington DC. Closeup of a book entitled, "Time Table for Invasion." General George Marshall with several of his generals doing preliminary planning. Series of scenes involving senior military officers engaged in war planning. A convoy of warships is seen at sea during the Operation Torch Allied invasion of French North Africa during 8–16 November, 1942. Views of Allied Navy ship guns firing. Allied troops riding in landing craft, and advancing from beached craft on shore of Algiers. Aerial view of a flight of Douglas Dauntless bombers in formation. "Bombs away" view from Allied airplane dropping bombs. Allied troops firing camouflaged antiaircraft guns from sandy positions near shore. Enemy shells or bombs exploding nearby. Two U.S. Army soldiers holding a document in French entitled, "Message from the President of the United States.

Date: 1943, August
Duration: 4 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051795
Participants from 54 countries take part in Seattle '90, Goodwill games in Seattle, Washington.

Goodwill games conducted at Seattle, Washington. Ted Turner speaks at a conference of Goodwill games. The logo of the second games in Seattle. A stadium. Ted Turner speaks about the participants from 54 countries. Participants of weight lifting, race long jump and high jump perform in Olympics. Spectators watch the games.

Date: 1990
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044843