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Donald Nelson and party visit the Ford Bomber Plant in Detroit, Michigan (WW2)

Chairman of the War Production Board Donald Nelson and party visit the Ford and Chrysler plants in Detroit, Michigan during World War II. A C-45 military transport aircraft lands at the new Ford Bomber Plant. The visitors get off the plane. They are greeted by the Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford and others. W. Averell Harriman converses with Henry Ford. Nelson, Harriman and Oliver Lyttelten pose. Photographers take pictures and cameramen record the event. A stationary U.S. bomber B-24 Liberator with engines running. Civilian guard patrolling in the foreground. Hangar and civilian cars in the background. The visitors and hosts near the first bomber built by the Ford Bomber Plant. Henry Ford has trouble being heard because of the aircraft engine noise. The B-24 engines are shut down. Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in civilian clothes, with two U.S. military officers. Henry Ford and others get into a car.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1942, June 3
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031348
A monument along the Donner Pass in the Sierra Mountains of California.

The importance of roads and highways in the development of United States. The Donner Pass built in the northern Sierra Nevade mountains of California. New roads built for the travelers. A monument marks the place where scores of pioneers perished due to starvation and exposure. Monument includes a sculpture of a family and an inscription in their memory.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1929
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031471
Vertical sides of Mount Baker converted into the Mount Baker Highway in Washington.

The importance of roads and highways in the development of United States. Engineers reduce the vertical sides of Mount Baker into the gentle grades of the Mount Baker Highway in Washington. A modern automobile driven on the new highway. The Baker Lake with Mount Baker in the background. Clouds cover the mountain peak.

Location: Washington State United States USA
Date: 1929
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031474
Progress in bath equipment with modernization of bath facilities in the United States.

'Better Housing' contrasts modern and obsolete bath facilities, and depicts the progress in bath equipment. A young boy sits and bathes in a round wooden tub. He soaps and washes himself in the small tub. The inventor of the shower tries out the new shower system. He smokes a pipe while he pulls a string to pour water from two buckets on himself. A newer zinc plated bath tub. A man sits and bathes in the tub. A woman bathes in a tub. A boy in a modern tub with a built in overhead shower. Progress in bath furnishing: A woman puts on a shower cap at a black marble basin with a mirror. She walks into a glass enclosed shower stall and takes a shower.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031479
Launching, naming, and outfitting newly built Liberty Ships in Sausalito, California

A new ship, named "Bold Creek" is ready for a launch out of Sausalito California shipyards (or Richmond California). A ceremony takes place. A formation of crew members welcome guests by saluting them. The guests climb a platform and Christen the ship which slides down the ways into the water. Work commences immediately on another ship in the same place. Another ship is launched (number 22 on its bow). The yard launches 5 ships per day for two years. A ship is moved by a boat called a "sea mule." into a line of ships being outfitted. After being outfitted with everything for operation and living, a Liberty ship departs on its maiden voyage.

Location: Sausalito California USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031502
Views of Kufstein, in Tyrol, Austria during World War II

Opening scene shows Tyrolean town of Kufstein nestled in Brandenberg Alps in Austria. A young Austrian woman and a soldier in uniform sit on a hillside with part of the Kufstein Fortress in the background (Festung 2, 6330 Kufstein, Austria). A Music professor named "Butler" sits at the famous organ (Heldenorgel), the world's largest open-air organ, in the Kufstein Kaiser turm (Imperial tower). He plays music as a wedding party stands, listening, outside. View through the building window shows the bride and her new husband, a German officer in uniform, surrounded by family and friends in a courtyard, outside. Scene shifts to the courtyard in sunlight and shadow, where townsfolk, including many children, are assembled. A large military style German Cross of stone dominates the foreground. Closeups of wounded German soldiers attended by a nurse. A German sailor in uniform stands with several girls. The organ music permeates the scene. View from behind spectators leaning over a railing shows the courtyard to be somewhat oval. Locals in traditional Tyrolean costumes are part of the crowd. Closeups of various persons in attendance. Glimpse of the organ pipes showing this to be an impressive instrument. Camera pans from the pipes to an opening in a tower, where they are located, revealing a panoramic view of the town and landscape below. Among things seen below are Saint Vitus Church and other significant buildings. View from afar of Kufstein Fortress and Brandenberg Alps with clouds behind. View framed by fruit tree blossoms across a field being plowed by farmer and team of oxen. The town in the background. More scenic views.

Location: Kufstein Austria
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675031596
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