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◊ 2018-04-06 07:34 |
Narrated colorized footage of rare newsreels & home movies. First episode is the 1920s; much of the first fifteen minutes is about Henry Ford and his Model T. -- Last edit: 2018-04-06 07:47:52 |
◊ 2018-04-07 01:40 |
Miscellaneous images from Episode 1: 1881 Westinghouse Steam Engine 5:34 Model T assembly line 5:46 - 6:26 Street scenes 2:32 2:37 4:30 7:25 7:29 19:26 19:29 21:21 & 21:52 Street scenes, Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma 17:00 17:11 17:30 & 17:46 Cortlandt Street, Manhattan 22:36 Street scene with traffic light, supposedly Miami 29:13 Street scenes, Miami, September 1926 31:22 & 29.21 French street scene with Lindbergh crowd 34:11 Traffic light, Fifth Avenue, Manhattan 36:42 & 36:45 Junkyard 44:55 & 44:57 -- Last edit: 2018-04-10 07:17:36 |
◊ 2018-04-07 02:18 |
Episode 1 airplanes 31:48 Lindbergh's de Havilland, 1926 31:51 & 32:14 Spirit of St. Louis 33:01 & 33:09 It does show him taking off but I didn't bother with that. Sikorsky trimotor 32:33 & 32:36 32:42 & 32:46 Lindbergh on tour 35:24 -- Last edit: 2018-04-10 17:01:33 |
◊ 2018-04-07 08:23 |
Miscellaneous images from Episode 2, the 1930s: Responding to fire at the White House on Christmas Eve, 1929 2:40 Street scenes 3:14 & 4:00 Model A assembly line 6:43 - 6:48 Coney Island Wharf 9:07 Parked Bonus Army vehicles 10:05 Virtually all vehicles from 9:40 until 11:30 have to do with either the Bonus Army getting to DC or being dispersed from DC. FDR's inauguration motorcade, 1933 17:24 Street scenes, West Oakland, California 30:45 & 31:25 Golden Gate Bridge construction 32:56 - 33:22 19 of the 30 who fell during construction were saved by the safety net. 34:00 First traffic across the Golden Gate 34:16 & 34:23 FDR's second inauguration motorcade 34:44 Street scene, workers on strike during Roosevelt's recession 41:13 Street scene, Warner Bros. Theater, Hollywood 44:47 Unfinished Mount Rushmore 25:28 & 25:31 |
◊ 2018-04-07 08:36 |
Episode 2 airplanes Machine Gun Kelly in handcuffs disembarking from American Airways plane 22:51 NC15603 38:08 Amelia Earhart and her Lockheed Electra 37:52 - 38:43 (38:16 & 38:24 are from home movie footage shot by her brother) Howard Hughes and his Lockheed Super Electra 39:22 - 40:04 -- Last edit: 2018-04-08 18:18:03 |
◊ 2018-04-07 09:26 |
Nice pics Skywatcher68 |
◊ 2018-04-07 17:53 |
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◊ 2018-04-07 22:10 |
Miscellaneous images from Episode 3, the 1940s: Street scene, Chinatown, San Francisco 3:58 Street scene, Japantown, San Francisco 4.40 War wreckage 5:32 Street scenes with draft protesters 7:04 & 7:10 Street scene, Elwood, Indiana 7:45 Ford's Willow Run B-24 plant 9:52 & 9:56 Street scenes, workers on strike demanding CIO contract 11:25 & 11:27 Street scene, LAPD attempts to break through some 4000 picketers outside the North American Aviation plant 11:52 Street scenes, FDR has ordered the Army to take over the plant 12:02 & 12:09 USS Arizona on maneuvers 15:35 Street scene, possibly 8 December 1941 15:40 Street scene with a newly recruited dentist 16:45 Street scenes, salvage drive 17:40 & 17:55 Walt donates Bambi for salvage 18:08 Street scenes, San Francisco, supposedly Summer of '42 21:43 & 21:46 Street scene, Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co., Mobile 25:37 Street scene, trailer park for war workers 25:41 Street scenes, Los Alamos, New Mexico 27:50 & 27:52 Street scene, the first nuclear test 33:00 Presented as wreckage from Hiroshima or Nagasaki 34:20 Street scene, V-J Day 35:21 Street scenes, V-J Day in North Platte, Nebraska 35:36 & 35:42 Street scene, San Francisco, supposedly October of '45 36:38 Street scene with a quiet post-war factory 37:38 Street scene with striking workers 39:15 Street scene, probably Truman visiting Congress 39:25 Street scenes, post-war 39:45 - 40:39 Fremont Street, Las Vegas 40:48 & 40:56 Street scene, Las Vegas church 41:01 Street scenes from Dewey's campaign film 44:28 & 44:33 -- Last edit: 2018-04-09 04:06:31 |
◊ 2018-04-09 03:19 |
Episode 3 airplanes (and airplane parts) Ford's Willow Run B-24 assembly line 10:01 - 10:29 10:32 Army inside the North American Aviation plant 12:15 Pearl Harbor 13:19 Pearl Harbor attack 13:45 & 13:56 Pearl Harbor aftermath 15:02 - 15:22 Presented as Transcontinental and Western Air Douglas DST carrying Carole Lombard 19:30 Carole Lombard wreckage 19:47 - 19:52 Ford's Willow Run B-24 assembly line 24:47 - 26:13 Enola Gay 33:55 Presented as Enola Gay and escorts headed for Japan 34:01 American Airlines 40:27 40:29 -- Last edit: 2018-04-09 03:23:01 |
◊ 2018-04-10 05:47 |
Miscellaneous images from Episode 4, the 1950s: Reade Street, Manhattan 3:00 Traffic light, Washington, DC 8:50 Street scenes 9:12 9:18 & 9:19 Street scene & Chevy dealer 9:39 Street scenes, Levittown construction 10:47 11:19 & 11:21 Street scenes, Levittown 11:51 & 11:52 Fremont Street, Las Vegas, supposedly March of '53 12:05 12:10 & 12:26 Street scene, vehicles on their way to be used in the first atomic blast broadcast on live TV 12:57 Vehicles and house to be used in the first atomic blast broadcast on live TV 13:00 Street scene 14:04 Street scene, Capitol Building 17:12 Street scene with Bogie & Bacall on their way to testify in front of McCarthy 17:46 Street scene, McCarthy going after the Army 18:28 1956 New York International Auto Show 23:20 Street scenes 23:37 & 23:40 Street scenes, New Jersey Turnpike 23:46 - 24:27 Street scene, Money, Mississippi 27.26 Street scene, outside the funeral for Emmett Till in Chicago 28:01 Street scenes, Sumner, Mississippi, 1955 29.39 - 31.11 Street scenes with bus boycotters, Montgomery, Alabama 32:14 32:33 & 32:44 Beach scene 33.42 Street scenes, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957 38:02 & 38:13 Street scenes, Army in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957 40:37 41:22 & 41:24 NASA vehicles 44:49 -- Last edit: 2018-04-10 18:09:08 |
◊ 2018-04-10 05:55 |
Episode 4 aircraft Truman arriving on Wake Island to meet with MacArthur 5:23 33:39 45:02 & 45:05 45:06 & 45:14 45:11 45:16 X-15 45:24 & 45:45 X-15 & B-52 45:39 -- Last edit: 2018-04-10 05:56:08 |
◊ 2018-04-10 08:03 |
The red one is (probably) Crosley Super Sports. |
◊ 2018-04-10 17:10 |
Thanks! -- Last edit: 2018-04-10 17:13:14 |
◊ 2018-04-11 08:47 |
Miscellaneous images from Episode 5, the 1960s: Street scene, JFK campaign ad 2:44 Street scene, Election Day 1960 6:02 Street scene, Times Square 6:45 Street scene with coastal defenses 12:12 Street scenes, Birmingham, Alabama 14:49 17:08 19:53 & 19:55 Street scenes with protesters, Birmingham 20:09 20:12 20:17 & 20:42 Street scene with protesters' arrests, Birmingham 20:59 Street scenes, MLK arrives in Birmingham 21:07 & 21:11 Street scene, marchers following MLK in Birmingham 21:42 Street scenes, police dispersing protesters in Birmingham 22:52 & 22:56 Street scene, Alabama Army National Guard mobilized in Tuscaloosa 24:30 Street scene, Alabama Army National Guard removes Gov. Wallace from the schoolhouse door 24:41 Street scene 27:17 Street scene, JFK's funeral procession 30:36 Street scene, random freeway in Los Angeles, California 34:20 Street scene, Los Angeles, Summer of '65 36:20 Street scenes, firefighting in Watts, August of '65 36:29 & 36:33 Burned out sedan in Watts, probably too damaged to identify 36:44 Street scenes, California Army National Guard mobilized in Watts 36:56 & 37:05 Street scene with Woodstock traffic 43:59 -- Last edit: 2018-04-11 21:49:30 |
◊ 2018-04-11 19:48 |
Episode 5 aircraft JFK campaigning 2:58 JFK getting help for his bad back 3:31 10:02 12:32 & 12:41 Carrier launch 13:06 & 13:09 Army One and Kennedy clan 25:46 25:50 26:00 26:36 & 26:44 Air Force One and Kennedys arrive in Dallas 27:28 27:39 27:46 & 27:47 Pan Am Boeing 707-331 N704PA 31:46 & 31:54 Supposedly South Vietnam in '65 37:38 & 37:41 USAF bombing North Vietnam 37:58 Air Cav 40:05 40:07 & 40:12 USAF 64375 40:27 USAF in South Vietnam 40:30 Series complete. -- Last edit: 2018-04-11 21:02:48 |
◊ 2018-04-11 21:15 |
Three of these look like a parkway in either Queens or Nassau County, but the road configuration leaves me with some doubts. |
◊ 2018-12-06 05:39 |
Smithsonian Channel has started showing a second season, this one covers specific subjects such as "Titans of Industry", "Organized Crime", and "Playtime". |
◊ 2019-02-17 18:46 |
Aircraft at http://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=America_in_Color |
◊ 2019-02-21 00:03 |
I have the second season ready for captures; can't work Saturday so will probably start then. |
◊ 2019-02-23 01:21 |
Miscellaneous images from S2 Episode 1, The Wild West: Street scene, Phoenix, Arizona 6:37 Pancho Villa 9:32 Bullet holes from Pancho Villa's attack on Columbus, New Mexico 9:44 General Pershing 10:05 Street scene, Los Angeles 11:35 Reappears at 11:43, presented as Los Angeles in 1920. Street scenes, S Broadway, Los Angeles 11:47 & 11:48 Assembly line 11:55 William Mulholland 12:17 NW Marshall Street, Portland, Oregon 13:43 Street scene, Portland 13:44 Street scenes, Pawhuska, Oklahoma 16:11 & 16:24 Home movie from a dude ranch vacation 21:02 Street scenes, 6th Annual Inter-Tribal Ceremonial, Gallup, New Mexico 21:38 & 21:41 Street scenes, Tombstone, Arizona; before & after promoting tourism 22:33 & 23:04 Wyatt Earp 23:36 Mine parking 25:52 Street scenes, Boulder City, Nevada 25:26 25:35 & 25:38 Hoover Dam construction 25:09 - 26:26 Parking for FDR's dedication of Boulder Dam, as it was originally known 27:06 Opening the outlet valves for the first time 27:30 Edwin B. Hopkins and, um, something 28:29 Money from nearby oil companies helped pay for this school 28:43 The school was heated by natural gas piped directly from the wells; this explosion prompted the addition of that odor we all know 29:43 Arizona National Guard preparing machine guns at the Parker Dam site; Arizona never has been very happy with their share of the water 32:39 Street scene, FDR visiting Congress 34:23 Henry J. Kaiser at the launch of the Robert E. Peary 35:32 & 35:34 Aftermath of the Port Chicago disaster 36:33 - 37:28 Debris was found two miles away 36:56 The explosion prompted munitions loaders to go on strike 37:39 DuPont's Hanford Site 39:35 39:43 & 40:01 Street Scene, Hanford, Washington 39:46 Street scenes, Phoenix 42:24 42:27 & 42:41 John Wayne at Knott's Berry Farm, 1968 47:22 -- Last edit: 2019-02-23 21:08:29 |
◊ 2019-02-23 07:38 |
S2E1 Aircraft & parts Pershing's biplanes 10:09 Some members of the Osage Nation used their oil proceeds to learn to fly 17:07 27:41 33:46 34:09 & 34:11 34:48 & 34:49 USN K-3 42:55 & 42:58 46:08 & 46:10 -- Last edit: 2019-02-23 09:44:32 |
◊ 2019-02-23 08:39 |
Same street all lit up: The Hippodrome was an ice arena at NW 20th Ave & NW Marshall. -- Last edit: 2019-02-23 08:40:19 |
◊ 2019-02-24 03:34 |
Miscellaneous images from S2 Episode 2, Titans of Industry: Inaugural running of the Indianapolis 500 1:42 - 3:24 Street scene 3:54 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 4:10 Load of Firestone tires for Ford 5:51 Street scene, S Broadway, Los Angeles 9:13 Aftermath of the Edison factory fire, East Orange, New Jersey 10:56 Street scenes, Edison Day at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition 11:47 & 11:50 Street scene, presented as NYC, 1915 13:47 Army Trucks 18:21 21:19 Army convoy from DC to San Francisco stops at Harvey Firestone's home for a chicken dinner 23:20 Street scene, Firestone Park section of Akron, Ohio 31:22 & 31:36 Army convoy arrives on the West Coast 62 days after departing DC 24:59 Assembly line 40:40 & 40:57 Sit-down strike at GM's plant in Flint, Michigan 41:03 Street scene, police trying to break the strike 41:37 The union wins 41:48 UAW picketers descend upon Ford's River Rouge plant 42:39 Ford V8 assembly line 46:20 & 46:25 -- Last edit: 2019-02-27 00:25:32 |
◊ 2019-02-24 03:53 |
S2E2 airplanes, airplane parts & airplane-related equipment: 15:19 & 15:23 Donald Douglas 15:33 Assembly lines 15:35 - 15:58 16:34 & 16:37 16:53 17:13 & 17:16 Ruggles Orientator 17:55 & 18:04 Ruggles Orientator operator 18:00 Douglas DT 38:37 - 29:00 Ford Flivver 29:06 - 29:58 Ford Trimotor 29:33 B-24 45:36 46:03 46:08 |
◊ 2019-03-11 03:36 |
That might be a GMC Model 16 in the center. -- Last edit: 2019-03-11 03:37:19 |
◊ 2019-03-30 04:15 |
Miscellaneous images from S2 Episode 3, Organized Crime: Street scene, Times Square, 1931 6:29 Loading Canadian booze - narrator says 1600 cases at $65/case; US street value $400/case 8:00 Street scene, border crossing 10:53 Parking lot 13:11 Street scenes, Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, supposedly 1931 21:16 & 21:18 West 125th Street, Harlem 26:23 LaGuardia's Mayor's Office tossing confiscated weapons & slot machines into the East River 29:32 A literal floating casino - according to narration, this operated in International Waters off Catalina Island for a year before the California legislature got wise and extended the zone in which gambling is forbidden 33:04 Only one airplane in this episode - Jimmy Walker campaigning for Mayor of NYC; shaking hands with Governor of California Friend Richardson 12:13 -- Last edit: 2019-04-01 02:04:48 |
◊ 2019-03-30 14:11 |
IMPDB upgraded with S2E3 (and soon with S2E1 & S2E2). Many Thanks ! |
◊ 2019-03-30 21:03 |
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◊ 2019-07-09 09:21 |
ep 2.1: 00:26:06 |
◊ 2019-07-09 09:35 |
Surely it’s a motor, or maybe a rotary converter, the electricity having been generated at the other end of the cable........ |
◊ 2019-10-05 10:19 |
All vehicles for season 2 have been submitted. Will add misc images & aircraft later. |
◊ 2019-10-05 22:41 |
Miscellaneous images from S2 Episode 4, Playtime: Boarding school girls arriving at Coney Island, 1905 1:50 Gehrig & Ruth with Nisei League players, 1927 10:13 Camping trailer showroom 24:38 Basic camping trailer interior 24:59 - 25:07 High-end camping trailer interior 25:11 First "Mobile Home" 26:21 Trailer park, Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, 1945 26:43 1945 Rockford Peaches 36:56 Harlem Globetrotters & Minneapolis Lakers in Chicago 43:17 Players arriving for 1956 bowling championships 44:33 |
◊ 2019-10-05 23:16 |
S2E4 airplanes & airplane parts: Fokker Trimotor that was carrying Knute Rockne 14:06 14:09 & 14:10 Wing walker Lillian Boyer 14:49 14:51 & 16:46 - 17:32 Barnstormers 16:18 16:27 - 16:38 1929 Women's Air Derby, Cleveland, Ohio 17:58 & 18:04 18:05 18:20 & 18:26 TWA 46:12 -- Last edit: 2019-10-05 23:17:12 |
◊ 2019-10-06 00:12 |
Miscellaneous images from S2 Episode 5, American Royalty: John D. Rockefeller at his estate 4:07 Rockefeller's coal mine in Colorado 7:22 Mine workers go on strike 7:54 Rockefellers bring in the National Guard 8:06 8:40 A retaliatory mail bomb intended for John D. Rockefeller went off during manufacture 9:05 Titanic 12:40 William Randolph Hearst at his estate 15:49 Charlie Chaplin clowning around at Hearst Castle 16:29 Street scene, Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles 22:57 Street scene, Hollywood & Highland 23:14 Street scene, Embassy Theater, Times Square 24:23 The first Rockettes, then called the Roxyettes, at the Radio City Music Hall 26:23 FDR motorcade, 1936 34:00 Street scene, Buckingham Palace 35:45 & 35:47 Street Scene, RKO Palace Theater, Times Square 38:08 USS Plymouth, formerly the Vanderbilts' private yacht 39:39 George H. W. Bush rescued in the South Pacific, sole survivor of an attack on his squadron 41:06 |
◊ 2019-10-06 00:25 |
S2E5 aircraft: 21:11 & 21:25 Graf Zeppelin 23:40 - 24:18 Training biplane with Joe Kennedy, Jr. 39:56 & 39:58 Test flight for sneaking Joe Kennedy, Jr., behind enemy lines - he was to jump out and let the plane crash 40:07 & 40:09 40:26 - 40:34 41:01 |
◊ 2019-10-06 01:04 |
Miscellaneous images from S2 Episode 6, Hollywood's Golden Age: Street scene, Hollywood Boulevard, circa 1910 4:01 Hollywood in 1906 4:11 Universal Studios 4:58 Street scene 6:03 Street scene, Warner Bros. Studio, Sunset Boulevard 10:07 Market Street, San Francisco 14:26 & 14:32 St. Francis Hotel, Powell Street, San Francisco 14:55 Street scene, Valentino's funeral 17:10 Traffic light, Hollywood & Vine 17:41 Street scene, Hollywood & Orchid 17:56 Street scene, El Capitan Theater, Hollywood & Orchid 18:00 Street scene, Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood & Orchid 18:01 Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks - the first hand prints at Grauman's Chinese 18:37 Street scene, Times Square 19:24 Warner Bros. Studios (shown while narrator talks about MGM) 22:38 Street scenes, motorcade for Gone With the Wind world premiere in Atlanta 31:08 - 31:16 Hollywood Canteen 36:14 & 36:19 Street scene, Hollywood Palladium Theater, Sunset Boulevard, 1956 41:20 Street scene, random freeway in Los Angeles 42:37 Marilyn Monroe - no clues as to what she's riding in 44:34 Street scene, Times Square, 8 November 1956 47:36 |
◊ 2019-10-06 01:17 |
S2E6 airplanes & airplane parts: Ryan Brougham flying lion cage 20:49 20:54 & 21:18 The lion and pilot survived. Clark Gable & Carole Lombard arriving in Atlanta for GWTW world premiere 30:27 30:32 & 30:53 Vivien Leigh & Olivia de Havilland arriving in Atlanta for GWTW world premiere 30:39 33:21 33:25 Jimmy Stewart encouraging enlistment 33:29 & 34:09 John Ford footage of Midway attack aftermath 35:39 |
◊ 2019-10-06 08:22 |
Many thanks Skywatcher68 for all those aviation screenshot ! IMPDB update coming soon ... |
◊ 2019-10-11 21:38 |
NB: these are all the same plane. |
◊ 2019-10-11 23:14 |
A close look says NO (check the chin turret seen of the first screenshot but missing on the second one; same thing with the upper turret). Or maybe it's the same one coming in as a B-17G and departing some time later once converted as a ... Well ... read IMPDB to know what ;-) : update with season TWO -- Last edit: 2019-10-11 23:15:44 |
◊ 2019-10-12 06:24 |
Well, it all looked to me like one continuous take off roll. |
◊ 2019-11-05 23:46 |
A third season is starting on Smithsonian Channel later this month. |
◊ 2019-11-25 06:06 |
Smithsonian Channel recently started "Britain in Color" as well. |