Ford Industries Part 1

Description

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Filmed in 1921, 1926, and 1927. Views of workers assembling and bolting together sides and back section of automobile body - workers riveting body to frame - group of men in steel mill watching long rod of iron moving along conveyor - bearded man sharpening sickle - cabled ore car being pulled up track to top of tipple, dumping load into hopper - load of logs on sled moving through snow - inside of large camp bunk house - buildings at lumber camp, snow on ground - building, sign above door, ‘Ford Motor Co., Camp 1’ - view of high tipple, track built up one side - River Rouge plant dock, ore freighter being unloaded - freighter in water - bridge of freighter ‘Henry Ford II’ - view of freighter ‘Benson Ford’ - large boxes being loaded into hold of freighter - stern of freighter ‘Onondaga’ at dock - freighter at dock, water - River Rouge plant yard - view of worker at controls of crane unloading ore from freighter - dock - worker removing block from glass furnace, looking at blaze through filter - workers buffing edges of sheets of glass - molten glass glowing in dark - long brick oven - view of River Rouge plant - railroad tracks, electric lines running above - electric train - small power plant, dam, spillway - plant building - interior of shell of automobile - panoramic view of River Rouge plant, dock, freighter being unloaded, tugboat. [1927]

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