British Pathé, the newsreel archive company, has uploaded its entire 100-year collection of 85,000 historic films to YouTube.
The collection, shown as part of newsreels in British theaters, was created between 1896 and 1976, and it comprises some 3,500 hours of historical footage of major events, notable figures, fashion, travel, sports and culture. It includes extensive film from both World War I and World War II.
And the archive includes numerous scenes of Detroit and Detroit VIPs.
Deadline Detroit has selected three shorts clips that focus on the building of the Ambassador Bridge, the wedding of Henry Ford II in 1940 and police evicting sitdown strikers from a west-side business in 1937, Detroit's revolutionary year.
Below: AMBASSADOR BRIDGE. In a silent movie from 1929, workers are seen doing crazy things with no safety gear high above the Detroit River.
Below: HENRY FORD II WEDDING. Henry Ford II weds Anne McDonnell in Southampton, N.Y., in 1940. The couple has 12 bridesmaids and 12 groomsmen.
Below: SITDOWN. Detroit Police evict employees of Newton Packing, at 14th and W. Warren, after they had staged a sitdown strike for a month in March 1937, when workers across Detroit turned militant and refused to leave dozens of businesses, from auto plants to dime stores.
