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This clip is Part 1 of a 2-part film.
NEWS REVIEW OF 1941 [WORLD WAR II ACTIVITIES], THE Part 1
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: 1. Group of men on field, covered van and buses in background - group of men including military officers looking at jeep, watching driving demonstration - jeep driven over hurdle - Edsel Ford and two other men in jeep - group including Charles Sorensen examining display of engine and charts - jeep being backed up steep hill, group watching - jeeps being driven over rough ground, up and down steep hills, close-up of Ford with others watching jeep demonstration. 2. Edsel Ford with group of women in Red Cross uniform and one woman in nurse’s uniform. Ford Motor Co. donates car to local chapter of American Red Cross. Nurse speaking, slip of paper in hand, all shaking hands, Ford station wagon with license plant ‘29,000,000’ on front, Red Cross emblem on side - uniformed woman getting in behind wheel, Ford beside her, station wagon driven away - group of uniformed women and Ford posing with station wagon. 3. Chemistry laboratory, two men, one Robert Boyer, Research Director, Ford Motor Co., talking, Boyer picking up handful of soy beans, the two examining them - dinner table, man at microphone, presenting key to Boyer, group at table standing and applauding Boyer, speaking - Boyer and another man standing beside Ford experimental soybean plastic automobile covered with snow, Boyer repeatedly striking trunk of car with sledge hammer, other wiping gloved hand across trunk to show that no damage was done - experimental car driven past Ford Rotunda. 4. Army Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber on Ford Airport ramp - military crew posing with civilians under wing of plane - close-up of crew members, Henry Ford, Charles Sorensen - group entering plane via bomb bay - Ford in pilot’s seat from outside - view of nose of plane - group leaving plane - Edsel Ford in co-pilot’s seat looking out. [1941]
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