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This clip is Part 1 of a 2-part film.
[SCRAPPING A SHIP] Part 1
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: View of ship - ships lined up - tugs pulling freighter - close-up of tug - tugs pulling freighter through open drawbridge - partial hull in water, workers scrapping ship, crane overhead - view of deck of ship - large mooring line on deck - life boat full of scrap being hoisted - close-up of sign, ‘Pilot House-Certified for pilot house’ - crane lifting metal scrap from ship - pile of ship screws - machinery lined up on shore - anchors on shore - toilet fixtures piled up - life pads and mattresses piled up - engine room telegraphs, boilers, lifeboats, on shore - crane lifting smokestack, lowered onto railroad flatcar - workers on deck cutting with acetylene torch - crane lifting off part of superstructure - hull seen from shore - boiler lifted off ship - part of engine lifted off ship - railroad locomotive pulling flatcars loaded with ship parts - pieces of side of ship lifted off - rudder lifted off - workers cutting screw shaft housing - screw lifted off - crane lifting part of superstructure - locomotive pulling flatcars loaded with ship’s superstructure. [1927]
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