HOME MOVIES: VISIT TO TRAVERSE CITY MICHIGAN 1936

Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1936

Format: 16mm

Description: This silent home movie dates from the earliest era of Kodachrome color, 1936. The film shows a trip to Traverse City, Michigan made by an unknown person. The film begins with a shot of a ferry before quickly moving to images of an incredible outdoor model railroad (:30) that boasts an airport and lumber mill among other sights, as well as a guinea pig area (3:00). At 3:58 a visit to a rural house is seen including at 3:58 a shot of the outhouse, at 5:25 a kid with a bike. At 5:44, the P-26 Peashooters of the 94th Pursuit Squadron are seen at Selfridge Field, where the squadron was based during the inter-war years, training in its pursuit role. Various shots of the base housing are seen. At 8:33 the sign for the Peace Bridge is shown, and children are shown playing at a home under construction, and at 9:30 a horse drawn cart is shown. At 10:00 Johnson's Delicatessen is seen. At 11:30 a woman is seen on a swing. At 12:1, a steam locomotive seen with a lot of logs behind it, apparently part of a museum display. At 12:55 Lake Michigan is seen. At 14:47, the Chevrolet auto factory is seen, and at 14:50 a skyscraper with an A.Schulte Cigar Store in the bottom is seen. At 15:00, models of a P-26 and another aircraft are seen, presumably back at Selfridge Field. The P-26 Peashooter was Boeing's first and last production monoplane fighter. Some 111 P-26A, 2 P-26B and 23 P-26C were built for the USAAC. The type had monoplane wings, the outer panels of which were externally braced with front and rear wires. The centre-section spars were constructed of steel with ribs and skin covering of aluminium alloy. Split-type trailing-edge flaps were later added to P-26A and were manually operated from the open cockpit. The semi-monocoque fuselage was also of aluminium alloy construction. A fixed, heavily trousered landing gear was fitted and power was provided by a 447kW Pratt & Whitney R-1340-27 or -33 radial engine. Armament comprised two forward-firing machine-guns of 7.62mm and/or 12.7mm calibre and two 55kg or five 15kg bombs could be carried. Although never used in action by the USAAC, ex-Army P-26 acquired by the Philippine Air Force fought the Japanese during World War II and the 11 Model 281 export fighters for China must also have seen action against Japanese forces. In addition Panama and Guatamala received ex-USAAC P-26 and Spain received an export model.

Complete Record: This silent home movie dates from the earliest era of Kodachrome color, 1936. The film shows a trip to Traverse City, Michigan made by an unknown person. The film begins with a shot of a ferry before quickly moving to images of an incredible outdoor model railroad (:30) that boasts an airport and lumber mill among other sights, as well as a guinea pig area (3:00). At 3:58 a visit to a rural house is seen including at 3:58 a shot of the outhouse, at 5:25 a kid with a bike. At 5:44, the P-26 Peashooters of the 94th Pursuit Squadron are seen at Selfridge Field, where the squadron was based during the inter-war years, training in its pursuit role. Various shots of the base housing are seen. At 8:33 the sign for the Peace Bridge is shown, and children are shown playing at a home under construction, and at 9:30 a horse drawn cart is shown. At 10:00 Johnson's Delicatessen is seen. At 11:30 a woman is seen on a swing. At 12:1, a steam locomotive seen with a lot of logs behind it, apparently part of a museum display. At 12:55 Lake Michigan is seen. At 14:47, the Chevrolet auto factory is seen, and at 14:50 a skyscraper with an A.Schulte Cigar Store in the bottom is seen. At 15:00, models of a P-26 and another aircraft are seen, presumably back at Selfridge Field. The P-26 Peashooter was Boeing's first and last production monoplane fighter. Some 111 P-26A, 2 P-26B and 23 P-26C were built for the USAAC. The type had monoplane wings, the outer panels of which were externally braced with front and rear wires. The centre-section spars were constructed of steel with ribs and skin covering of aluminium alloy. Split-type trailing-edge flaps were later added to P-26A and were manually operated from the open cockpit. The semi-monocoque fuselage was also of aluminium alloy construction. A fixed, heavily trousered landing gear was fitted and power was provided by a 447kW Pratt & Whitney R-1340-27 or -33 radial engine. Armament comprised two forward-firing machine-guns of 7.62mm and/or 12.7mm calibre and two 55kg or five 15kg bombs could be carried. Although never used in action by the USAAC, ex-Army P-26 acquired by the Philippine Air Force fought the Japanese during World War II and the 11 Model 281 export fighters for China must also have seen action against Japanese forces. In addition Panama and Guatamala received ex-USAAC P-26 and Spain received an export model.