https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/ae6ba03f-6b69-4776-942c-eeed4a880c41 Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This promotional film "Look to the Sky" is presented by Plymouth Motor Corporation, a brand of automobiles by Chrysler Corporation. The company was founded in 1928, and was shut down in 2001. The film contains footage from various national and international model plane contests sponsored by Plymouth, focusing on the 1949 International Model Plane Contest in Belle Isle Park, on Belle Isle in Detroit. It shows contestants competing, celebrating in the (now closed) amusement park in Boblo Island, and the following victory banquet, where all winners were awarded trophies by various representatives from both Plymouth, Dodge, and Chrysler. Credits (00:09). “Look to the Sky” title banner (00:23). An iron kettle hanging over a lit fireplace (00:34). Illustration of wagons in a book (00:38). Guys sitting in a field with a model airplane (00:44). A model North American P-51 Mustang aircraft (00:46). A model Lockheed P-38 Lightning heavy fighter aircraft (00:52). People and their model planes (00:57). A field with people sitting (01:20). Model planes flying (01:24). An audience observes model planes flying (01:36). Views of guys working on their model planes (01:39). A classroom of model aeronautics students (01:50). A field used as the location for national contests (01:59). Students of the Academy of Model Aeronautics (02:08). Footage from classes at the academy (02:17). Meeting between Plymouth representatives (02:34). A map of the Plymouth dealer across the world (02:41). A Plymouth dealership (02:49). Boys building model planes (03:01). A front page of a magazine (03:09). 1947 Plymouth-sponsored local model plane contests (03:20). 1947 Plymouth-sponsored international model plane contest in Detroit, Michigan (03:36).Views of the local, state, and international Plymouth-sponsored contests in 1948 (03:49). Views of international contest participants from across the world (04:07). Views of bystanders at model plane contests (04:21). Contestants with their model planes (05:05). Trophies (05:14). Contestants with their model (05:28). Audiences at the Plymouth-sponsored international model plane contest in Belle Isle park, on Belle Isle in Detroit (05:47). Contestants prepare their gas-powered model planes (06:04), jet models (06:22), rubbered powered model planes (06:33). Audiences at the Plymouth-sponsored international model plane contest in Belle Isle park (06:50). Various content formats include speed events (07:07), stunt events (07:13), model plane scale events (07:34), and combat events (08:05). Contestants work on their model planes (08:26). Contestants canoe after the contests finish (08:40), sail speed boats on the Detroit River (08:49), and cycle on tandem bikes (08:57). Some contestants spend time at the Detroit Yacht Club (09:07), others visit the Plymouth automotive manufacturer (09:17). The scoreboard showing the results of the Plymouth-sponsored international model plane (09:26). Contestants ride the Boblo ferry down the Detroit River to the Boblo Island amusement park, which was shut down in 1993 (09:34). Views of the contestants riding amusement roller coasters and rides (10:04). Views of the victory banquet taking place at the dance pavilion on Boblo Island (10:15). The winners walk onto the stage (10:38) and sit down in the victory circle (10:51). Plymouth’s general sales manager, Mr. Somerville awards the winners their trophies (11:42), alongside Chrysler Corporation president, Mr. L. L. Colbert (11:54), Plymouth’s president, Mr. Evans (12:03), De Soto vice president, Mr. J.B. Wagstaff (12:11), Dodge president Mr. W. C. Newberg (12:21), a local Chicago Plymouth dealer, Mr. Eddie Meyers (12:29), and Chrysler’s assistant general sales manager, Mr. Appleman (12:41). Broken model planes (13:17). Views of the international model plane contest in Belle Isle park (13:42). Credits (14:35). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. 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