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This clip is Part 1 of a 4-part film.
[COLOGNE GERMANY FORD PLANT] Part 1
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “Body department.” Worker revolving automobile tops on rack - worker sanding top with power sander - worker riveting part - top added to body - body on conveyor - worker sanding bodies - worker painting bodies with spray gun - worker inspecting paint job with electric light. “Assembly shop.” Worker assembling motor - working pulling hot rivets out of small furnace, placing rivets into motor mount - motor lowered onto chassis - body and chassis lowered by crane onto platform - truck body lowered onto chassis - truck bed being lowered into place - cars and trucks being driven off assembly line. “Lunch time.” Plant kitchen, workers - workers passing tables, picking up lunch, eating - clock. “Motor reconditioning.” Motor block lifted onto table by small electric crane. “Tool shop.” Large machines in operation, metal lathe, drill. “Out of the Cologne Ford plant’s production.” Gates opening, new cars and trucks driven through - dump truck in operation - bus driven through gate - cars loaded onto railroad flatcar - train carrying cars and trucks - crane at dock lifting car - car lowered into hold of ship. “Pay day.” Workers receiving pay - close-up of pay slip written in German - children around table writing and playing - mother writing in notebook. “Rations for a decade.” Poultry and dairy products on table - hand writing in German in notebook - clothes in store window - hand adding up column of figures in notebook. “Henry Ford: ‘Onward nevertheless!’” Stone monument with above quotation in German - large steel bridge across river into city - man worker under bridge, skyline of city in background - another bridge over river - large building under construction, trucks. “Executives.” Men at desk. “Foremen.” Two men examining motor of car - man examining part with worker. “Workers.” Men eating. “Health service.” Dentist’s office, woman working on patient’s teeth - man being X-rayed. “End.” [1935]
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