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This clip is Part 1 of a 2-part film.
[IN THE SERVICE OF AMERICA:LIBERATOR BOMBER PRODUCTION] Part 1
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: [part 3] Worker packing Pratt & Whitney R-2800 airplane engine for shipment, ‘Manufactured by Ford Motor Company’ painted on crate base - crane lowering crate over wrapped motor - RAF marked B-24 taking off from runway - B-24s in flight - Willow Run plant building - close-up of plaque, ‘United States National Defense. Willow Run Airplane Plant. Dedicated June 16, 1941. Designed and Erected for Bomber Production by Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford Founder, Edsel Ford president’ - plant interior, B-24 Liberator bombers on assembly line - men and women workers - riveting - many views showing various stages of the manufacture and assembly of bombers - overhead crane moving airplane parts - airplane tires on train of trucks hauled by three wheeled trailer tractor - landing gear retracting test - close-up of sign, ‘Ship Moves at 5:10 p.m.’ - final assembly line; workers, cranes - various parts attached to fuselage including wing, engine, tail section, outer wing, propellers - row of bombers on assembly line - bomber hauled out of plant by tractor - group of officials posing beside ‘5000th Ford Built Liberator’ [July, 1944] - Henry Ford and Henry Ford II with British officer - flight test crew entering 5000th via bomb bay door - 5000th taxiing, taking off, in flight - three planes in flight - man plowing field with tractor, stops, looks up at planes overhead, continues plowing - church steeple. “The End.”
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