Summary

DOCUMENTARIES

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: DOCUMENTARIES
File Number: DN-LB-633 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Documentary
Subjects: WWII, Aerials
Description: 03:01:15:00 Henry Ford's Mirror of America - rl. 1 Great Americana footage from 1900's, 1910's, 1920's (NOTE: This version of "...Mirror of America" is the entire film - all four reels - in superior quality. Please use this version instead of VTM-3Z.) 03:01:17:11 Henry Ford relaxing in various guises: washing clothes by a stream, cooking at a grill, & camping with Thomas Edison country dancing in a barn w naturalist John Burroughs shooting a rifle ice skating with children on a pond in winter planting a garden w small children w his wife seated in his first car (the Quadricycle) inspecting a tractor motor plowing a field (horse-drawn) on a tractor beside his first Quadricycle and the "Ten Millionth Ford" (a Model T) operating a steam engine inspecting blueprints with his son Edsel Ford in a room vs shots of Greenfield Village. 03:03:33:23 Camera men filming 1920's football game. Excellent shots of footballl games in progress. Highland Park Ford plant (factory). Film editors developing 35mm movie film strips of 35mm movie film are shown drying on racks. Early Filmmaking. 03:04:42:10 AV Rolling hills of America before WWI.CU Farmer works plow horses, dog follows. MS Boy follows farmer thru field. Farmers harvesting. CU of men baling hay. Farmer harvesting on horse pulled plow. Farmer using a steam engine belt for thresher for hay. Woman washing clothes in tub. CU Woman milking cow munching on hay. MS Woman pumps water into pail by house, man joins. MS Kitchen, woman enters, talks to woman polishing silver. MS Old woman churns butter, boy strokes cat by fireplace cauldrons. MS Family reads at table, man pulls lantern toward himself, woman stands up & slaps him. WS Muddy country road, farmer whips horse along. WS Farmer repairs wheel on cart, train passes behind. 03:06:06:09 MS Children walking to school on rural road. WS Large sleigh dashes thru snow, dog runs behind. MS Children have snowball fight before school house. WS Children all climb tree to outer limbs, drop to ground. 03:06:35:24 CU Train pulls into station. WS Train POV, it pulls away, cart crosses tracks. WS Conductor watches train. WS Train POV crossing bridge. 03:06:56:00 WS Bicyclist rides down city road. WS Pennsylvania Ave., Washington DC, streetcar & traffic. WS White House. WS East Room in White House, tourists roam about. 03:07:28:27 AV Over Faneuil Hall marketplace (Boston), cars, stalls, horses, crowd. MS Crowds at New York City Lower East Side market. CU Old immigrant women jabber at each other, boys shove each other in back. 03:07:43:06 WS El train POV crossing bridge over city street past station. WS Train POV passing the Hippodrome. MS Fleet of tugboats facing dock. MS People descend gangplank to excursion boat (New York Harbor). WS Boat POV at boats in harbor. WS Brooklyn Bridge. WS The Battery. WS Navy cruiser, ocean liners. WS Flatiron Building. MS Tourists use binoculars (coin-operated type) atop Woolworth Building. AV Congested Fifth Avenue. WS Riverside Drive, New York City. WS Grant's Tomb. 03:09:13:14 WS Pond in Central Park, rowboats, people lounge in grass. WS Central Park Bethesda fountain in the background. WS Arched bridge over Central Park lake. MS People spin off Coney Island Ride. WS Montage: various rides.CU Man takes tickets for Steeplechase. MS Crowds run along water's edge laughing. 03:10:36:21 WS Train pulls into Atlantic City station, crowds pour out. WS Giant elephant hotel. MS Guests enter elephant hotel thru its leg. The shore, 3 guys stand on 3 others' shoulders. WS Crowds strolling along boardwalk, line of jitneys ("rolling chairs"). 03:11:25:00 R2 03:11:27:02 WS Belle Isle Park (near Detroit) canoes, footbridge, crowds. CU Woman plays piano, crowds in back, children listen. CU Men lace people into ice skates. MS The rink, peple skate past. WS Couple does fancy steps in mid rink, man whirls woman round. WS Iceboats skim by.CU 2 women get onto stomachs & toboggan. MS Man takes off down track. CU Toboggan POV, snow rushing by. WS Toboggans slide down 3 tracks.MS Race car drivers & crew mug for camera.WS Crew starts cars off in cloud of smoke, grandstand behind. 03:12:37:13 MS Buffalo Bill & entourage ride horses from tent, 1916. WS Indian war dance. WS Bucking broncos.MS Wilson throws first baseball at season-opener. CU Player holds ball to chest. CU Baseball reading "Woodrow Wilson". CU John Burroughs w little girl doffs hat. WS Crowds wave back at him. MS Horticulturist Luther Burbank in field of spineless prickly pear cactus Burbank bends & rubs his nose across one. CU He cuts piece of spineless cactus in hand, munches. CU Thomas Edison fiddles w flower in car, San Francisco 1915. MS He drives wife w Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Firestone.CU Former House Speaker Joseph G. Cannon. CU Will Rogers laughs. MS Will Rogers handles 2 lassoes 03:14:07:29 WS Tourists stand by lake in Glacier National Park (Alaska). MS Tourists climb, 1 man helps them up. WS Snow-capped mountains. MS They walk thru snow, 1 falls into hole, they drag him out. 03:14:57:00 CU Horse pulls logging cart. WS Forest, man chops, tree falls. CU Line of women making shoes in factory. CU Women sewing hats. CU Woman fits hat onto another's head. MS "Girls" sort mail at post office. MS One turns w pile of mail, drops letters all over, exclaims in chagrin, stoops to pick them up. MS Montage: women work at cleaners, assembly lines, machines. MS Man makes Model T Ford wheels, montage: Ford factory action in Michigan. MS Men leaving factory. WS They pour into streetcar. WS Streetcars & other traffic go by. 03:17:07:21 WS Civil War veterans in reunion tent, Vicksburg Mississippi. CU 2 elderly men sit on cots & talk. WS They all wash up outside row of washbins. WS They take places at mile-long tables, eat, black waiters serve. CU Elderly Civil War veterans eating. 03:17:37:00 MS Recruits in civvies march, uniformed soldiers supervise. MS Medicine ball, crowd of young recruits rushes into frame at it, pushes. MS They play tug-o-war. Two WW I recruits write letters home, smile and kiss the letters. One of the recruits is smoking a pipe. WW I recruits soldiers eating. People cheer President Wilson at campaign rally. President Woodrow Wilson & wife, Edith WIlson in car. Large crowd of people cheering President Wilson. President Wilson passes through crowd in car while waving his hat. Theodore Roosevelt sitting in back seat of car. CU of Theodore Roosevelt talking to man. WW I parade for departing soldiers. Boy scouts carry large flag. MS Recruits w signs: EVERY SAILOR BOY IS A MAN, JOIN OUR NAVY. WS Training montage: soldiers march at each other w bayonets, practice firing in the prone position, throw grenades in unison. 03:19:49:23 CU Montage: working at WWI defense factory. CU Woman worker removes goggles, smiles.MS Man greets woman worker, hands her liberty bond certificate. CU Henry Ford gets contract from Navy Secy. Josephus Daniels Ford poses with Daniels (in Washington DC). WS Traveling shot of workers riveting Eagle boat hulls.WS Eagle boat is launched it skims thru water. 03:20:57 R3 03:20:56:21 WS Ford test tank rolls over field in Highland Park. MS People stare at wheels of tank fallen into hole. MS People dig out tank wheels. 03:21:10:27 AV Detroit parade for men off to war and the trenches in WWI. MS Troops march by. CU Soldier, crowd in back. CU Soldier holds puppy.CU Soldier w small American flag & buddy, train in back. MS Soldier holds tuba, 3 women snuggle up to him, all smile.MS Train, man boards, rain begins, couple kiss under umbrella. 03:21:56:15 MS Fleet of tanks roll over field, one in ditch, houses behind. MS One tank bumps into fence, flips backwards. MS Men try to rock tank back up. MS Huge tank crashes thru house side, soldiers look on amused. 03:22:46:04 MS Highland Park parade. MS Men carry sign HELL IS TOO GOOD FOR THE HUN. 03:23:09:20 MS First model of the Martin bomber. MS Martin Bomber takes off. CU Eddie Rickenbacker, flying ace. MS Rickenbacker shakes hands w officer & little boy. AV Curtis H-type flying boat factory. WS Flying boat factory, boat is lifted thru air. 03:23:58:15 CU Shipyard workers at hog island. CU Red Cross girl hands papers to line of soldiers. CU Captain Kiddle at engraving machine. 03:24:20:11 CU WWI Soldier shaves in barracks. MS Boys hang out in barracks.MS Soldiers going off to war. Men watch troop trains pull out, boys wave goodbye. MS Troops stand & drink coffee. WS Army band. WS Troop ship escorteed by tugboats. 03:25:05:10 Shot of overturned tank. Men turnthe tank right side up. Lord Norcliff in Detroit rides tractor, line of tractors in field. 03:25:35:12 HA AV of Parade. CU Woman at desk holds up liberty bond. MS Man buys one from soldier. AV pan crowd across hordes in street after WWI Armistice. MS White horses w carts in Unknown Soldier parade, Washington. MS President Harding & General John "Blackjack" Pershing march. 03:26:44:07 Model T Ford's early automobile footage 1910s. WS Cars bump along rutted country road. MS Man pushes car out of rut (car is Ford Model T). MS Man tries driving car out of rut (mud), gets out, kicks tire. (Car is Ford Model T truck, and man looks a lot like Will Rogers!) MS Truck with rope pulls, and men push truck out of ditch. MS Cars roll onto small ferry boat. WS Ferry boat crosses river Ford Model T drives off small ferryboat. MS 1920s Montage: building new roads. WS Cars roll along smooth road. AV Cars roll down smooth road.MS Model T Ford rolls over embankment. WS Model T splashes thru stream.MS Model T rolls thru snow. WS Model T crosses bridge. WS Model T rolls on railroad track (note: this does not look like a Model T to me. JAL). WS Model T inches across huge pipe (this is apparently one of the massive pipes for the Los Angeles water system !!) 03:28:37:27 CU Montage: Ford Model T assembly line at Ford factory, Michigan. WS New Model T cars drive out of factory every 10 seconds cut to EXT of Ford showroom as cars drive inside it's garage. 03:29:35:20 WS Woman exits farmhouse w baby, enters Model T car, drives off, man feeds chickens in back. WS Woman drives around corner in Model T car. WS Truck stops at roadside stand. MS Man loads produce & milk jugs on truck.MS Truck pulls up to man w bundles, mailman loads onto truck.WS Line of Model T cars pulls out one by one. 03:30:32 R4 03:30:32:08 WS Cars round curve in mountains. S Cars cross Columbia River Highway bridge, Oregon. WS Car leaves tunnel.WS Ford Model T car drives thru redwood tree "tunnel", couple hikes. Early automobile tourism. MS Man in Model T car feeds bear. MS Family sets up tent at back of car early automobile tourism (pre-motel era). MS Woman sets table, men smoke. MS Family eating bananas at picnic table by lake, car behind. MS Women pick flowers, men talk in car. CU Man sleeps in car. 03:31:52:04 MS Henry Ford & friends drink tea under tent. WS President Harding & entourage arrive in cars. CU Warren G. Harding & Harvey Firestone. WS Henry Ford chops wood. MS Thomas Edison naps nearby in grass. MS Firestone takes over woodchopping, Ford mocks him. M0 Harding takes a turn at the ax. 03:32:52:06 MS 2 men shake hands, look over Fordson tractor. MS Circa late 1910s: woman in kitchen uses primitive early electric "washing machine", puts newly-washed clothes through wringer atop washing machine. MS Late 1910s woman using early electric vacuum cleaner, vacuums around man reading in chair.CU Teenage girl washes face at bathroom sink. MS Grandma rocks, knits by fire, electric churning machine churns butter odd shot. 03:33:57:17 AV Montage over traffic at street corner (This is 7th and Broadway, Los Angeles, early 1920s Bank of Italy upper right corner) becomes a time-lapse shot of rushing cars & pedestrians.Pedestrians rush across street in time-lapse, EXCELLENT SHOT cars and streetcars zoom past. Then, a generic small town circa 1920, some cars parked diagonally in middle of wide main street. 03:34:27:10 WS Traffic cop halts traffic for school children to cross street.Happy kids run across the street. (Circa 1920).WS Policeman pulls woman out of car's way.WS Policeman in traffic booth. MS Sign: NEW TRAFFIC ORDINANCE - PENALTIES 500 FINE & 3 MONTHS IMPRISONMENT. MS Truck carries new cars & traffic safety sign. WS Float carries actors dressed as Grim Reaper, with sickles. WS Children play ball at curb, run in and out of oncoming traffic.CU Woman watches, smiling, then screams, hands to head. WS Kid runs into oncoming car & falls. WS Truck crashes into cart on street.WS Man steps off curb into car backing around corner. WS Man chases boys off back of his ice truck. Boys grab onto ice truck. Ice falls out of ice truck, boy rescued by friends after large block of ice falls on him. Boy jumps onto rear bumper of moving car. 03:35:40:17 WS Flatiron Building (5th & Broadway, New York City), trolley cars in FG.HA WS Los Angeles street scene, church in FG.1920s cars driving down tree lined street. Street scene in Los Angeles w streetcar, late 1910s cars on busy street, and the 3rd Street Tunnel Angels' Flight Inclined Railway (tramway up hill). 03:36:08:08 CHARLES LINDBERGH's famous plane, the "Spirit of St. Louis", is signalled to land in field "Spirit" taxis and comes to a stop on grass. Good CU of lettering "Spirit of St. Louis" on side of plane. Circa 1928: CHARLES LINDBERGH poses with HENRY FORD and other notables beside the "Spirit of St. Louis". Lindbergh shaking hands and posing for the CAM. 03:36:37:16 Circa 1929 1930: EXT airport terminal w airplane propeller in FG. Pilot assists passengers onto plane. Circa 1929 1930: FORD TRI-MOTOR plane taxiing for takeoff, heads directly to CAM POV, takes off & circles. CU little boy & woman looking out of passenger plane's window. Ford Trimotor passenger plane levels off in mid-air (Logo on plane reads "Stout Airlines"). 03:37:20:09 EXT National Archives building in Washington DC, & end credits. 03:37:55 Expansion to Air Power, 1944 - rl. 2 Great montage of WW II German blitzkreig. AV of bombs fallings. Building collapsing in Poland during the blitz. Map of Europe on fire with swastika superimposed. Germany invasion of Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, & France. Great shots of German planes bombing landscape below and German troops advancing. The evacution of Dunkirk. The fall of France. German troops march into Paris. Destroyers in the sea. Civilian recruits marching at base. Hitler meets with Japanese. Soldiers marching with graph superimposed. The London Blitz. German tanks invade the Sviet Union (Russia). The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. FDR's "Day of Infamy" speech. 03:48:18 War in the Pacific! Pan-American Solidarity Ice Carnival in New York Training an Army US Troops in India.
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