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1929 ca - USA, Michigan: Herbert Hoover w/ Edison & Ford; Union Organizers Fight At Overpass

Reel Number: 220461-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1929,1930,1933,1930s

Country: USA

Location: Detroit, Michigan

TC Begins: 07:00:38

TC Ends: 07:02:50

Duration: 00:02:12

1929 ca - USA, Michigan: Herbert Hoover w/ Edison & Ford; Union Organizers Fight At Overpass President Herbert Hoover & ?? riding in open car in rain, waving to crowds lining Detroit streets w/ Secret Service agent running alongside. LS On bunting draped platform outside ?? w/ large pictures of Henry Ford & Hoover above. Crowd w/ umbrellas. 07:01:04 Steam train w/ two American flags arriving in rain at station w/ platform filled w/ spectators. Thomas Edison on arm of Hoover off train, pose w/ Henry Ford. 07:01:34 Edison showing laboratory to President Hoover & Ford ??; w/ assistant Jehol who pours ?? into equipment. Gas lights burning behind. Manufacturing; Ford Motor Company; Recycling; Celebrities; 1920s; Industrialists; Leaders; 07:02:14 Men off streetcars at Ford Motor Company, crossing overpass. Strikers marching down street w/ placards seen from behind police watching. 07:02:32 Fighting breaking out; cameraman & demonstrators running, police w/ batons coming & firing of tear gas. Politics; Inventor; Politician; Capitalist; Economics; Labor Organizing; Battle of Overpass; NOTE: PARTIAL sold at per reel rate, or entire reel available on LN 501-812 & 221690.

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