This dramatic drone footage shows the art deco statues guarding Cleveland's throughways that inspired the name changed to the Ohio city's Major League Baseball team.

The Cleveland Indians formally announced last Friday that they would abandon the controversial name for Guardians.

The footage was filmed on July 24.

3 short establishing scenes taken of one of the Guardians of Traffic art deco statues on the Hope Memorial Bridge in front of Cleveland's Progressive Field stadium.

The Cleveland Indians have recently renamed their team after these statues and retired their logo, using a new one based on the statues wing motif.

Raw footage of multiple angles of one of the statues called The Guardians of Traffic. Drone shot, there are several quick establishing shots with the stadium and downtown in the background, as well as industrial areas of The Flats.