Summary

DOCUMENTARIES & NEWSREELS

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: DOCUMENTARIES & NEWSREELS
File Number: DN-LB-485 Beta SP
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1910s; 1920s; 1940s
Subjects: Aerials
Description: 05:01 15 Trip To Santa Catalina Island w Ford Educational Weekly (1917) 05:11:27 Los Angeles (1917) - Hall of Records, Old Court House, Broadway - in the heart of the business section - pedestrians, cars, streetcars, Clunes Auditorium, Central Park, Retail District, Angels Flight Inclined Railway, University of California (UCLA), California Hospital, Chinatown, Old Plaza, Plaza Church, North Hill Street, Double Barreled Tunnel, Scottish Rite Temple, Seventh & Broadway intersection, large water pipeline across the valley - man walking on top of pipe, California style bungalow, residential area, oil fields, derricks. 05:19:53 Great Train Robbery (1903) Edison. 05:27:57 [Ford Family] (1918-1927) 05:37:23 a) Our 1916 Vacation (camping trip w Edison, Burroughs, Firestone & Dr. Clara Barrus) b) Thomas Edison at 1915 World's Fair, San Francisco, CA c) Ford Camping Party (1921) d) Ford Camping Party (1921) w Edsel, Fiestone. 05:47:09 FORD ANIMATED WEEKLY, 1914 Detroit, Michigan. Helen Keller visits Henry Ford. She feels the lips of Henry Ford - Miss Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher is in the background. HENRY FORD, PERSONAL SHOTS [1919-1925] Henry and Mrs. Ford walking down through garden of Fair Lane - view of house in background - Henry Ford and others broad jumping in field - Henry Ford in doorway of barn playing violin - Henry Ford on horse-drawn wheat binder in field. FORD ASSEMBLY LINE, 1920 Interior of Ford factory, workers painting cars on assembly line. FORD AIRPORT, PLANE, BALLOONS, AND DIRIGIBLE [1925-1928] Henry Ford with another man in front of Ford hangar and Ford Tri-motor, 'Maiden Dearborn IV, view of field, crowd, airplane and several balloons - CU of Gordon Bennett and another man in basket - Bennett being presented with flowers by two ladies - balloon ascending - several views of dirigible at mooring tower. [EAGLE BOATS] 1918 Views of Eagle Boats with men on decks - Eagle Boats at dock [RIVER ROUGE PARKING LOT] 1920 View of thousands of cars parked outside Ford plant. [FORD TRUCKS] Ca. 1920 Ford Model T truck being loaded from N&W railroad car - Ford Model T trucks in winter with windows in the doors and chains on - Model T pick-up truck - back view of Model T truck. 05:54:00 [Pypleiding] (1943) "Pipeline" on Big Inch Construction. On the laying of the "Big Inch" from Texas to New Jersey. Shows how petroleum products were transported before the pipeline was opened: in ships, tank cars, and drums. Aerial photographs of the route of the pipeline are made and marked. Land is cleared and a ditch is dug by a mechanical digger. Pipe is carried by train and truck and laid, welded, coated with asphalt and wrapped by a one operation machine, placed in the ditch, and covered. Shows problems that had to be solved: working in heavy rain and mud and crossing mountains and rivers. Oil is sent on its way through the pipe.
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