CRASH AND LIVE Part 1

Description

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Crash and Live. A Special News Report on Passenger Safety. Host Art Fleming explaining concern about and advances in automobile safety - safety experts getting off bus, entering Ford Rotunda - men seated in auditorium - John Moore, Director Automobile Crash Injury Research, Cornell University Medical College, speaking to group - view of wrecked cars - Alex L. Hains, Executive Engineer of Ford Motor Company and Art Fleming in Ford laboratory, 167 pound dummy mounted as pendulum swung into mounted steering wheel, rim collapsing allowing steering column to hit chest of dummy, pendulum swung against Ford safety wheel, so constructed that chest of dummy does not hit steering column - Hains demonstrating safety door latch - Hains and Fleming examining safety features of new Ford, including padded dash board, seat belts, padded sun visor, hinged rear view mirror, safety steering wheel - new Ford on test track traveling by remote control from van alongside and hauled by lead car is crashed into car parked on track - views of dummies inside wrecked Ford, Hains describing what injuries they probably sustained - Fleming at Ford Rotunda, new Ford behind him - Henry Ford II addressing group of men - view of group - Ford II explaining gift of $200,000 to Cornell University for further safety research - Fleming talking. “The End. Information Productions, Inc., New York.” 1956]

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