Refine Your Search

Stevens Pass Washington USA 1947 stock footage and images

- Showing 25 to 30 of 27910 results
Aspects of U.S. industry including public information, agriculture, transportation, and water power.

Excerpt from film entitled "Power Behind the Nation." It opens showing glimpse of two men on a park bench, discussing a newspaper article, followed by views of men at work in a radio broadcasting studio. Next is shown a Western theme set being constructed for a motion picture, at a Hollywood film studio back lot. Closeup of Director and crew filming an actor on horseback as he rides up to a wooden building displaying a Dance Hall sign. Next, a director and film crew are seen working on an elaborate set with a chorus of women in white gowns. Scene shifts to film makers watching a finished production dealing with colonial era America (ostensibly an educational film). Another film is seen being made at a set resembling a European town. Next, views of American farms are shown with various crops under cultivation, including fruit orchards.Farm machinery is seen in use, including Tractors, harvesters, and combines. Grain is shown being harvested and processed in the field, and cotton being picked. Closeup of cotton bolls on the plants. Men are shown collecting sap from sugar maple trees in the northeast U.S. for making syrup. In the U.S. Northwest, a flock of sheep is seen grazing in a field. A herd of cattle are shown in the Southwest, U.S. A field of grain is shown and then a section of crops irrigated by small ditches. Then a large man-made irrigation canal is seen. View of a ramshackle building and yard in a desert. Women harvesting vegetables from irrigated plants. Apples being sorted by machine. A pair of steam locomotives pulling a train and a diesel locomotive pulling freight cars, all ostensibly carrying fresh produce to market. Several shots of railroad freight trains in different settings. A truck moving along a country road. A tugboat working beside a large ocean-going cargo ship on a river in the U.S. More shots of ships and inland canals. A ship passing under the Golden Gate Bridge in California. An aircraft under construction. Passengers deplaning from a continental Airlines DC-3 parked on a ramp. A prototype U.S. Navy Lockheed XR6O-1 Constitution aircraft taking off. (Only two R6V aircraft were made, Bureau Numbers 85163 and 85164.) A Sikorsky helicopter in flight. Closeup of Captain in cockpit of a TWA Boeing Stratoliner airplane as it taxis out of parking place. Industrial buildings close to a river with water flowing below a dam. The Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050574
Old Ford car and a youth band in Bicentennial Parade in Washington DC

People gather to watch Bicentennial Parade in Washington DC. People sit beside the street. Jeep passes on the street. An old Ford car follows. A flag on the car. Women pass on the street in traditional dresses with flags. Men pass in traditional dresses with flags of their country. Other people in colorful dresses pass by on the street. Flags on the street side. People parade with bands and flags, all wearing white pants, red shirts, and white cowboy hats. A decorated float on which is written "Happy Birthday USA" and "Freedom". Cameraman takes the photographs.

Date: 1976, July
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027410
Vehicular traffic passes over the Queensboro Bridge in New York City.

The Queensboro Bridge, in New York City, United States. Manhattan New York City skyline visible under bridge, including skyscrapers like the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building, which is also seen through stone arch of the Queensboro Bridge. Skyline of buildings seen from park under the bridge. View of Chrysler Building from street looking up. Northbound traffic on Henry Hudson Parkway. George Washington Bridge in distance. Views of George Washington Bridge. Boat plying Hudson river with ramparts of Fort visible on opposite shore. Boat passing George Washington Bridge. Man stands on palisades by George Washington Bridge, smoking a cigarette. He waves.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054173
U.S. president Truman greets heads of state, signs Marshall Plan, and speaks at 1948 Democratic campaign convention.

A car arrives at the White House in Washington DC. President Harry S. Truman greets President of Mexico, Miguel Aleman, during state visit of Mexican President to Washington DC on April 29, 1947. Next scene shows President Truman being presented a Jewish Torah by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, first President of the newly declared State of Israel. Exterior view of south side of White House. Truman with Secretary of State, George Marshall, by the fireplace inside the White House. They discuss world affairs looking at a globe. An animated map shows the increasing Soviet Communist influence in Europe. April 3, 1948, President Truman signs the European Recovery Program (ERP), better know as the Marshall Plan, as members of Congressional leadership look on. Sacks of grain being off loaded at a dock in Italy, as part of Marshall Plan aid. Scene shifts to October 6, 1948 with crowd gathered outside the Democratic Convention at Convention Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Convention delegates applaud during President Truman's address. Officials on stage. Truman talks about his sincere desire to promote peace throughout the world. Pictures of Franklin Roosevelt and Alben Barkley on stage. Exterior view of north side of the White House. Truman seated at a table.

Date: 1948
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031323
Saint John's Church and automobiles pass on street in Washington DC.

Various buildings in Washington DC. St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, and automobiles moving along road in the foreground. St. John's Episcopal Church (1525 H St NW, Washington, DC 20005, United States and Lafayette Square (Pennsylvania Ave NW &, 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, United States) as seen from across the street. View of another building and automobiles parked along road in front of building. Automobile passes on road in front of the building.

Date: 1921
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053054
Don Stevens seated in his glider which is hitched to a car operates the glider in flight overhead in San Fernando, California.

Glider champion Don Stevens flies his glider in San Fernando, California. Men stand with other people near a glider. Stevens boards the glider. The glider is hitched with a car. The car moves on a street. The glider in flight. Mountains and trees in the background.

Date: 1937, April 2
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062694