Video Parts (2)
This clip is Part 1 of a 2-part film.
Country Scenes / Seminole Indians of Florida / Cotton Refining Machinery Part 1
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Country road, men talking, automobile traffic, several burros loaded with wood, buildings and windmill in background - oxen pulling cart loaded with logs, truck passes - field workers using hoes and shovels, man driving mule pulling a plow. [1920] b. Seminole village, thatched shelters - children and woman in native costume standing by river - canoe with masts near bank of river - three Indians sitting under canopy - close-up of two men posing, one in costume. [1920] c. Plant interior, man emptying bags of cotton seed into machine - man running hands through seed, seed coming off belt - worker takes handfuls of cotton from machine, examines them - large machine with rollers - cotton comes off conveyor belt - cotton rolling off machines in bats - hands full of seeds - worker operating machinery - pressing machinery in operation, view of corrugated board that was pressed, man breaks board in half - open sacks on ground with contents partially spilt out - man using machine to fill sacks - sewing sacks shut. [1922]
Read more