[FORD BRAZILIAN RUBBER PLANTATION] Part 1

Description

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Chemistry laboratory - workers testing rubber, using microbalance - views of long, low building, palm trees - power plant interior, generators - plant interior, large vats, worker looking up at machinery - worker operating machine - men and woman workers at machines - views of machinery - workers at window in chain link fence, worker behind counter with scales on it - garage interior, automobiles, tractors, trucks, mechanic working on truck - close-up of tapped rubber tree - rubber trees - house, barn in background, workers leaving, crossing wooden bridge - close-up of base of tree with wing-like spreading roots - workers in field - group of workers in straw hats and with hand tools posing - workers setting out young trees - woman with twin infants in her harms standing in doorway, man walks up, hands something to someone behind her - two men using hand-powered grinding wheel - worker marking young tree, pruning young trees - woman pointing out fruit of rubber tree - women gathering seeds of rubber trees from ground - workers measuring distance between and planting seeds in burned over forest area - worker tapping tree - worker gathering sap in bucket - large frame house, automobile stopping in front - three men posing beside house, grounds and road beside house - panorama of countryside with group of workers walking, road, fenced area with large V-8 - workers carrying buckets walking to weighing station, workers placing buckets on scales, weigh master keeping records - contents of buckets being poured into huge vat - workers rinsing out buckets - workers clearing land - truck, automobile on road through jungle - flight of plank steps down steep hill - jungle scenes, stream - building over stream, pump, water pipes, views of building, pile of wood - water pipe through field of young trees - road through jungle, shelter with roof and open sides, wood pile, boiler nearby, pump and valves under shelter - caterpillar-drawn harrow in field - worker among young trees - workers planting seeds in rows - frame school house - views of classroom, children, teacher, blackboard - children leaving school in procession with teachers - children and teachers entering small church. [1940]

Collection

Ford Motor Company Collection

Series

Motion Picture Films Relating to the Ford Motor Company, the Henry Ford Family, Noted Personalities, Industry, and Numerous Americana and Other Subjects