GIFT: HENRY FORD PRESENTS SCHOOL TO U.S. NAVY
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Sailors carrying duffel bags across plant yard - Henry Ford and Navy officials walking across yard to speakers’ platform, sailors at attention in background - flag raising ceremonies - sailors at attention - Ford shaking hands with Commander C.P. Cecil of the Naval Training Service - sign, ‘Navy Service School-Administration Building’ - sailors in classroom, instructor holding gears - close-up of sailors - sailors entering building - sailor using lathe - sailor and instructor around generators - close-up of sailor at instrument table - (unrelated footage: newsreel title) - sailors entering classrooms - instructors in classroom, large machine in center of room, sailors entering - sailors in plant yard - sailors marching across plant yard, large building in background - flag lowering ceremony, barracks - aerial views of service school, river - two sailors boxing in gymnasium, sailors watching, referee - newsreel title, ‘Michigan -- Movietone News’ - Ford and Navy officers walking to speakers platform, sailors at attention in background - Henry and Edsel Ford posing with Commander C.P. Cecil and other naval officers - sailors at attention - Commander Cecil and Henry Ford talking - sailors in classroom - close-up of instructor and sailors in classroom - sailors at lathes - sailor and instructor at lathe . Newsreel title. [1941]
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