[RIVER AND SHORELINE], ca. 1920 / [FIRE FIGHTING], ca. 1920 / [MAKING THERMOS BOTTLES], ca. 1920 Part 1

Description

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Shoreline from water showing palisades, trees, canoes. [1920] b. City street - fire engines leaving fire house - engines stop, firemen connect hose, raise ladder to second floor fire escape - hose carried up ladder and fire escape to top of building - fire engine drives up to building, ladder on engine raised - fire engine on dock, stream of water directed toward water - fire boats, one spraying water, dense cloud of smoke - two firemen in street. [1920] c. Thermos bottle factory interior - worker wheels truck of bottles - girl assembling thermos bottles - assembling thermos bottles - (unrelated footage: cattle at watering hole) - worker operating machinery - man turning metal part - workers assembling bottles - worker turning bottle neck - worker soldering electric outlet to urn - polishing thermos bottles - polishing mouths of thermos bottle liners - assembling liner units - shaping glass - worker shapes, then places glass liners on belt - worker sealing vacuum liners. [1920]

Collection

Ford Motor Company Collection

Series

Motion Picture Films Relating to the Ford Motor Company, the Henry Ford Family, Noted Personalities, Industry, and Numerous Americana and Other Subjects