Video Parts (3)
This clip is Part 1 of a 3-part film.
With Every Meal (Silverware Making) / Salt Mining / Town Tropics (Panama Canal Zone) Part 1
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Worker wrapping and boxing spoons. “Perforating and giving oval shape to casserole body.” Machine for shaping, embossing silverware in operation. “Sandwich tray.” Worker starts with flat disc, runs it through shaping machine, embossing, stamping cut out design. “A coaster made ‘wholly.’” Machine punching design in coaster. “Wipe -- tinning inside of chafing dish food pan.” “Soldering shoulder to body of tea pot automatically. Acid and solder are applied inside of pot before applying heat.” “Shaping and hardening a meat dish cover.” [1919] b. “The hoist house, where the buckets are lowered and raised out of the mine.” Exterior of building. “Passing the bucket.” Bucket elevator into mine shaft. “They’re all of the same ‘mined.’” Workers enter mine by elevator - workers in mine - close-up of salt vein - miners at work, operating drill, setting dynamite charge, shoveling salt into mine cars. “Cars are loaded by hand and by electric shovels.” Both operations - loaded mine cars leave mine, miners aboard - inside of mine - mine cars are dumped by machine which turns car over - close-up of machinery in operation - bucket elevator in operation. “Where it is.” Dumps salt onto endless belt. “Crushed of course.” Rock salt enters crusher - pulverized salt on endless belt. “Screening.” Sacking - sacks of salt on hand carts. “A little salt goes a long way, so here’s a long way of handling a little salt.” Filling small boxes with salt, capping the boxes, labeling filling small sacks, sewing tops closed - filling barrels with small sacks of salt. [1919] c. “When this calf came, it caused a milk famine in the village.” Calf feeding. “Grandma is down by the river washing their clothes.” Man sleeping on porch, dog and nude baby play near him. “Chocolate drops.” Village, thatched-roof huts, woman and child - woman sits on a rock - canoe on beach, clothing poled on rocks by water. “I do my own shampooing and I rub my own back, the old woman said while taking her bath.” “As the society reporter would writes ‘A color scheme of brown and white was observed throughout.’” Close-up of native girls dressed in white. “Uncle Sam is landlord and the working man rents his home from the U.S.A.” Panorama of apartment houses - two men on hillside. “The high road to learning should read, ‘The long flight to learning.’ Balboa’s school.” “This is Ancon, a city of Sapolio-like streets.” City from automobile driving through - pedestrian, automobile traffic - horse-drawn carriage traffic on palm-tree bordered street. “Apparently some humorist named this street Cash Alley.” “Chester Harding, Governor of the Canal Zone.” “Cristobal homes.” Residential area - dock, ships tied up. “Hearing the supper bell. Train unloading. Canal workmen at Cristobal.” Passenger train, passengers alight. “Anything old is something rare in Panama. These are the ruins of old church.” Ruins, tourists. “What one sees through a train window from Panama City to Colon. Hold your ears while passing through the tunnel.” Boarding train, view of locomotive and freight train passing - station road beside track - tunnel - town - station, road building equipment, locomotive - countryside, cattle grazing - water - conductor on train takes paper from hand of man on platform as train passes - man sitting in doorway. “Poking along the Rio Chagres.” Group of tourists in native canoes - river banks and river views. [1919]
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