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GUIDE  TO  THE 


IN  THE  NATIONAL  ARCHIVES 


The  film  records  described  in  this 
Guide  are  the  1,500,000  feet  of  motion 
pictures  in  the  Ford  Historical  Film  Col- 
lection which  was  presented  to  the  Na- 
tional Archives  in  1963  by  the  Ford 
Motor  Co. 

Henry  Ford,  because  of  his  interest  in 
the  possibilities  of  the  motion  picture  as 
an  educational  medium,  and  because  of 
his  awareness  of  its  advertising  potential, 
started  a  motion  picture  department  in 
his  company  in  1914.  The  department 
concentrated  mainly  on  current  events 
and  educational  features  from  its  begin- 
ning until  the  mid  1920's,  when  emphasis 
was  shifted  to  promoting  popular  inter- 
est in  modern  farming  methods,  good 
roads,  and  traffic  and  industrial  safety. 
Ford  became  one  of  the  first  producers 
of  nonnewsreel  educational  films,  and 
was,  for  many  years,  one  of  the  largest 
film  producers  in  the  world.  The  out- 
standing historical  value  of  the  collection 


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IN  THE  NATIONAL  ARCHIVES 


RICHARD  NIXON 

PRESIDENT   OF   THE   UNITED   STATES 

ROBERT  L.  KUNZIG 

ADMINISTRATOR   OF   GENERAL   SERVICES 

JAMES  B.  RHOADS 

ARCHIVIST   OF   THE   UNITED   STATES 


End  Paper:   Henry  Ford  in  his  first  car,  built  in  1896,  Greenfield  Village,  Mich.,  1927. 
Reel  No.  200FC-2562(d). 


GUIDE  TO  THE 

FORD  FILM  COLLECTION 

IN  THE  NATIONAL  ARCHIVES 

by  MAYFIELD  BRAY 


The  Notional  Archives 

National  Archives  and  Records  Service 

General  Services  Administration 

Washington:  1970 


National  Archives  Publication  No.  70-6 


Library  of  Congress  Catalog  Card  No.  71-604432 


For  sale  by  the  Publications  Sales  Branch,  National  Archives  and  Records  Service, 
General   Services  Administration,  Washington,   D.C.  20408— Price   $5 


Foreword 


The  National  Archives  and  Records 
Service  of  the  General  Services  Ad- 
ministration is  responsible  for  admin- 
istering the  permanently  valuable 
noncurrent  records  of  the  Federal 
Government  and  private  papers  of- 
fered as  gifts  that  have  permanent 
historical  value  to  the  American  peo- 
ple. All  holdings  in  the  form  of  still 
photographs,  sound  recordings,  and 
motion  pictures  are  in  the  care  of  the 
Audiovisual  Branch  of  the  Carto- 
graphic and  Audiovisual  Records  Di- 
vision, except  for  significant  collec- 
tions of  sound  recordings  and  motion 
pictures  to  be  found  in  the  Presiden- 
tial libraries.  The  National  Archives 
has  35,000  sound  recordings,  4.5  mil- 
lion photographic  items,  and  47,000 
reels  of  motion  picture  film,  and  the 
collections  continue  to  grow. 

Most  of  the  motion  pictures  were 
created  by  about  75  Federal  agencies. 
Gifts  of  film  received  by  the  National 


Archives  from  both  private  and  com- 
mercial sources  are  numerous,  how- 
ever, and  the  total  holdings  provide 
an  almost  limitless  variety  of  subject 
matter.  The  collections,  dating  from 
1894  to  the  present,  portray  almost  all 
human  activities  and  natural  phe- 
nomena that  can  be  photographed, 
and  they  were  made  in  every  State  of 
the  Union,  most  major  cities,  and 
nearly  every  country  of  the  world. 

This  guide  has  been  prepared  as  a 
finding  aid  to  facilitate  the  use  of  the 
Ford  Historical  Film  Collection  and 
to  describe  its  contents. 


ROBERT  L.  KUNZIG 
Administrator  of  General  Services 


Preface 


The  film  described  in  the  guide 
consists  of  the  1.5  million  feet  of  mo- 
tion pictures  in  the  Ford  Historical 
Film  Collection  presented  to  the  Na- 
tional Archives  in  1963  by  the  Ford 
Motor  Company.  Given  with  the  mo- 
tion pictures  was  a  grant  to  be  used 
for  copying  them  on  safety-base  film, 
for  describing  and  cataloging  their 
contents,  and  for  publishing  a  guide. 
This  guide  describes  the  collection  in 
terms  of  general  subject  headings,  not 
individual  scenes  on  particular  reels. 

The  Ford  Historical  Film  Collec- 
tion constitutes  a  subgroup  in  Record 
Group  200,  National  Archives  Gift 
Collection.  The  Ford  collection  is 
identified  by  the  letters  "FC"  follow- 
ing the  record  group  number.  The 
reels  and  subjects  are  under  archival 
control  by  symbols  that  were  assigned 
to  them  as  they  were  removed  from 
the  shelves  of  the  film  vault  at  the 
Ford  Motor  Company.  Subject  changes 
within  reels  are  denoted  by  letters  en- 
closed in  parentheses.  Illustrations 
contained  in  this  guide  are  enlarge- 
ments of  individual  frames  of  film. 
The  reels  from  which  they  were  taken 
are  identified  by  the  control  symbols. 

A  card  catalog  of  names  of  persons, 
events,  places,  processes,  and  the  like, 
arranged  in  alphabetical  order  and 
referring  to  scene-by-scene  reel  de- 
scriptions, is  available  for  use  in  the 
motion  picture  research  room  of  the 
National  Archives. 


Although  the  user  will  find  per- 
sonal research  the  more  satisfactory 
method  of  selecting  footage,  the  staff 
can  handle  limited  inquiries  by  mail 
and  phone.  All  of  the  Ford  film  in  the 
collection  may  be  freely  used,  and 
reproductions  of  the  film  and  of  the 
reel  descriptions  may  be  purchased  at 
reasonable  prices.  It  is  the  responsi- 
bility of  the  user  to  determine  the 
copyright  status  of  non-Ford  film  and 
to  obtain  release  before  reproduction 
orders  can  be  accepted. 

The  project  of  describing  and  cata- 
loging the  collection  was  planned  and 
begun  at  the  National  Archives  by 
Frank  B.  Evans  and  was  completed  by 
Mayfield  Bray  with  the  assistance  of 
David  L.  Gallacher,  John  F.  Pontius, 
Roberta  J.  Bogle,  and  Leona  B. 
Miller.  Dr.  Evans  and  Leon  A.  Wil- 
liams—both of  the  National  Archives 
staff— and  members  of  the  staffs  of  the 
Ford  Motor  Company  and  the  Henry 
Ford  Museum  and  Greenfield  Village, 
including  Henry  Edmunds,  David  T. 
Click,  and  Frank  R.  Davis,  read  and 
commented  on  the  manuscript. 


JAMES  B.  RHOADS 
Archivist  of  the  United  States 


Vll 


Contents 

Introduction     1 

PART  I.    EDUCATION,  NEWS,  AND  SPECIAL  SUBJECTS 

"Ford  Animated  Weekly,"  1914-21  5 

Features  on  Cities 5 

Prominent  Individuals  in  the  News 5 

War  and  Homefront  News  Items 6 

General  Interest  Items 6 

"Ford  Educational  Weekly"  and  "Ford  Educational  Library,"  1916-25  .  .  7 

Agriculture 7 

Civics  and  Citizenship  10 

Industrial  Geography— General  13 

Industrial  Geography— Manufacturing  16 

Regional  Geography— United  States  20 

Regional  Geography— Foreign  28 

History  of  the  United  States  29 

Nature  Study  31 

Recreation  and  Sports  32 

Sanitation  and  Health  33 

Technical  33 

Special  Subjects  34 

"Ford  News,"  1934  35 

Prominent  Individuals 35 

Sports  35 

General  News  and  Human  Interest  Items 36 

Special  Subjects,  1920-52  37 

Agriculture  anr1  Conservation  37 

Charity  37 

Drama  38 

Education  38 

Geography  39 

News  40 

Sports  and  Recreation  41 

Miscellany  42 


IX 


Contents 


PART  H.    FORD  FAMILY 

Ford  Family  and  Friends,  1916-50 45 

Family  Album  45 

Funerals  46 

Ford  Family  Philanthropies,  1916-54 47 

Institutions  Receiving  Partial  Support 47 

Institutions  Created  by  the  Fords  47 

Henry  Ford  Personal  Projects,  1914-42 49 

Dancing  49 

Publishing  49 

Farming  49 

Henry  Ford  Museum  and  Greenfield  Village 50 


PART  HI.    FORD  MOTOR  COMPANY 

Ford  Motor  Company— General,  1916-54  57 

General  Activities  57 

History  58 

Management  Meetings  and  Reports 58 

Domestic  and  Foreign  Branches,  1928-54 61 

Domestic  Branches  61 

Foreign  Branches  61 

Nonmanufacturing  Activities,  1914-54  65 

Contributory  Industries  66 

Dealer-Company  Activities  and  Relations  69 

Employee-Company  Activities  and  Relations  70 

Product  Promotion  72 

Safety  Education  80 

Plants,  1906-56  83 

Airplane  Plant  84 

Highland  Park  Plant 84 

Lincoln  Plant  85 

Mack  Avenue  Plant  85 

River  Rouge  Plant 85 

Suppliers  91 

Tractor  Plant  92 

Village  Industries  92 

War-Related  Manufacturing  and  Activities,  1917-19,  1941-45,  1953 93 

World  War  I 93 

World  War  II  94 

Korean  Action  .  97 


Contents  xi 


PART  IV.    FILM  FROM  OTHER  SOURCES 

Non-Ford  Productions:  Assorted  Subjects,  1903-54 101 

Advertisements    101 

Cartoons,  Comedies,  and  Dramas  102 

Documentaries     102 

News    103 

Personal  Films    106 

Propaganda    106 

Public  Service  Features   106 

Technical   Features    107 

Travelogs    107 


Index  109 


Illustrations 

End  Paper 
Henry  Ford  in  his  first  car. 

Preceding  page  5 

President  Wilson;  Helen  Keller  and  Henry  Ford;  troops  returning  from  the 
Mexican  Border  Punitive  Expedition;  sugarcane  field;  World  War  I  Army 
trainees;  fishing  for  sharks;  harvesting  ice;  Santa  Fe,  N.  Mex.;  New  York  City; 
Kingston,  Jamaica;  Mexican  presidential  inauguration;  and  Luther  Burbank. 

Preceding  page  45 

Henry  Ford;  Henry  Ford  and  John  Burroughs;  Will  Rogers  and  Henry  and 
Edsel  Ford;  Diego  Rivera;  Henry  Ford  and  John  Burroughs;  and  Henry  Ford, 
President  Hoover,  and  Thomas  A.  Edison. 

Preceding  page  57 

Charles  A.  Lindbergh  at  Ford  Airport;  Ford  coal  mines;  coagulating  latex; 
lumbering  in  the  north  woods;  launching  the  ore  freighter  Henry  Ford  II;  a 
minstrel  show;  United  Automobile  Workers  organizers  at  the  River  Rouge 
Plant;  a  1906  Model-N  Ford;  test-driving  a  Model-T;  Model-T  stuck  in  the 
mud;  racer  999;  Model-A  climbing  Ben  Nevis,  Scotland;  golden  jubilee  of  the 
automobile;  and  Indians  of  Bolivia  and  Argentina. 

Preceding  page  83 

Craneway  at  Highland  Park  Plant;  final  assembly  line  at  Highland  Park  Plant; 
tapping  the  blast  furnace  at  River  Rouge  Plant;  casting  motor  blocks  at  the 
foundry  of  River  Rouge  Plant;  unloading  coal  from  a  freighter,  River  Rouge 
Plant;  pouring  glass  onto  rolling  table,  Glassmere,  Pa.;  engine  assembly  line, 
River  Rouge  Plant;  soaking  pit,  River  Rouge  Plant;  bloom  mill,  River  Rouge 
Plant;  and  stamping  plant,  River  Rouge  Plant. 

Preceding  page  9) 

Experimental  one-man  tank;  submarine  chaser  (Eagle  Boat)  construction, 
River  Rouge  Plant;  CG-4A  glider;  amphibious  scout  car  demonstration;  and 
B-24  Liberator  bomber  manufacturing,  Willow  Run  Plant. 

Preceding  page  101 

Scenes  from  a  comedy  produced  by  Thomas  A.  Edison,  Mexican  refugees  in 
the  United  States,  and  Henry  and  Mrs.  Ford  with  movie  stars  in  Hollywood. 

xiii 


Introduction 


Henry  Ford,  because  of  his  interest 
in  the  possibilities  of  the  motion  pic- 
ture as  an  educational  medium  and 
his  awareness  of  its  advertising  poten- 
tial, started  a  motion  picture  depart- 
ment in  his  company  in  1914.  The 
department  concentrated  mainly  on 
current  events  and  educational  fea- 
tures from  its  beginning  until  the  mid- 
1920's,  when  the  emphasis  was  shifted 
to  promoting  popular  interest  in  mod- 
ern farming  methods,  good  roads,  and 
traffic  and  industrial  safety.  Ford  be- 
came one  of  the  first  producers  of 
non-newsreel  educational  film  and  was 
for  many  years  one  of  the  largest 
film  producers  in  the  world.  Captions 
for  many  of  the  productions  were 
translated,  and  the  films  were  widely 
distributed  abroad. 

The  collection's  outstanding  histori- 
cal value  for  the  period  from  1914  to 
the  early  1940's  stems  from  its  very 
broad  subject-matter  coverage.  Almost 
every  facet  of  the  American  scene  is 
depicted,  including  cities,  parks  and 
recreational  areas,  agricultural  and 
industrial  processes,  sports,  important 
individuals,  and  news  events.  The 
evolution  of  all  industrial  processes 
related  to  automobile  manufacturing 
is  fully  documented. 

The  collection  has  been  arranged 
in  four  major  parts.  The  first  three 
contain  film  made  by  the  Ford  Motion 
Picture  Laboratories  and  by  other 
producers  for  the  Ford  Motor  Com- 
pany. Part  IV  contains  film  collected 
by  Ford  from  other  sources. 


Part  I,  "Education,  News,  and  Spe- 
cial Subjects,"  consists  of  four  cate- 
gories. The  "Ford  Animated  Weekly," 
1914-21,  contains  short  news  features, 
productions  about  cities,  and  items  of 
general  interest.  The  "Ford  Educa- 
tional Weekly"  and  "Ford  Educa- 
tional Library,"  1916-25,  consist  of 
short  features  and  unedited  film  on 
agriculture,  civics  and  citizenship,  in- 
dustrial geography,  regional  geogra- 
phy, history,  nature  study,  recreation 
and  sports,  sanitation  and  health, 
technical  subjects,  and  special  sub- 
jects. The  "Ford  News"  is  a  series  of 
newsreels  shown  for  advertising  pur- 
poses at  Detroit  area  theaters  during 
1934.  Film  not  part  of  these  four  cate- 
gories, but  of  similar  nature,  has  been 
described  as  special  subjects  and  con- 
sists of  material  on  agriculture  and 
conservation,  charity,  drama,  educa- 
tion, geography,  news,  and  sports  and 
recreation. 

Part  II,  "Ford  Family,"  consists  of 
film  portraying  family  activities  in 
three  areas.  The  personal  interests, 
family,  and  social  life  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Henry  Ford,  1916-45,  and  their  fu- 
nerals, are  included  in  the  chapter 
about  the  Ford  family  and  friends. 
Some  of  the  family's  philanthropic  in- 
terests, 1916-54,  are  shown,  including 
activities  of  the  Berry  School  at  Rome, 
Ga.,  Camps  Legion  and  Willow  Run, 
the  Detroit  Institute  of  Arts,  the  Ford 
Foundation,  and  the  Henry  Ford 
Hospital.  Film  concerning  the  per- 
sonal projects  of  Henry  Ford  shows 


1 


Introduction 


the  Botsford  Tavern,  the  Dearborn 
Independent,  the  Ford  farm,  and  the 
Henry  Ford  Museum  and  Greenfield 
Village. 

Part  III,  "Ford  Motor  Company," 
has  been  arranged  under  the  fol- 
lowing categories:  general  activities  of 
the  company,  1916-54;  domestic  and 
foreign  branches,  1928-54;  nonmanu- 
facturing  activities,  1914-54;  plants, 
1906-56,  including  the  major  manu- 
facturing activities  of  the  company; 
and  war-related  activities  during  both 
World  Wars  and  the  Korean  Action. 

Part  IV,  "Film  From  Other 
Sources,"  1903-54,  consists  of  film 
made  by  producers  other  than  the 
Ford  Motion  Picture  Laboratories  and 
not  produced  for  the  Ford  Motor 
Company.  It  includes  advertisements 
for  companies  other  than  Ford,  car- 
toons, early  comedies,  dramas,  doc- 
umentaries, news,  personal  films, 
propaganda,  public  service  features, 
technical  features,  and  travelogs. 


Footage  is  not  noted  for  the  subject 
headings  in  chapters  1  and  3  since 
newsreels  are  covered  in  those  chap- 
ters. A  subject  may  appear  briefly  on 
more  than  one  of  the  newsreels,  and 
each  newsreel  covers  several  subjects. 
In  other  chapters  footage  is  not  re- 
peated when  it  has  been  listed  as  part 
of  a  broad,  general  subject. 

Abbreviations  used  in  the  descrip- 
tions of  the  film  are: 

ft.,         feet 

ed.,       edited 

lined.,  unedited 

mm.,     millimeter 

si.,         silent 

comp.,  composite,  with  sound  track 

t.,          sound  track  only 

b&w.,    black  and  white 

k.,         color 

min.,    minute 

mag.,    magnetic 


Part  I 
EDUCATION,  NEWS,  AND  SPECIAL  SUBJECTS 


President  Woodrow  Wilson  at  a  baseball  game,  Washington,  B.C.,  1917. 
Reel  No.  200FC-251(b). 


Helen   Keller  with   Henry  Ford,  Detroit,  Mich.,   1914.  Reel  No.  200FC-440(a). 


Troops  returning  from  the  Mexican  Border  Punitive  Expedition,  Detroit,  Mich.,  1916. 

Reel  No.  200FC-2564. 


Sugarcane  field  in  Louisiana,  ca.  1922.  Reel  No.  200FC-547. 


World  War  I  Army  trainees  (probably  at  Fort  Custer,  Mich.),  1916.  Reel  No.  200FC-40(e). 


Shark  fishing  off  the  coast  of  Florida,  1919.  Reel  No.  200FC-235(c). 


Harvesting  ice,  Detroit,  Mich.,  1916.  Reel  No.  200FC-74(b). 


Main  Street,  Santa  Fe,  N.  Mex.,  1916.  Reel  No.  200FC-4(d) 


Looking  up  Riverside  Drive  from  94th  Street,  New  York,  N.Y.,  1916.  Reel  No.  200FC-5(d). 


Street  scene,  Kingston,  Jamaica,   1920.   Reel  No.  200FC-349. 


Outgoing  President  of  Mexico,  Adolpho  de  la  Huerta  (left),  escorts  President-elect  Alvaro 
Obreg6n   to  the  inaugural  ceremonies,   Mexico  City,   1920.   Reel   No.   200FC-471. 


Luther  Burbank  with  his  spineless  cacti,  Santa  Rosa,  Calif.,  1917.  Reel  No.  200FC-2439. 


'Ford  Animated  Weekly,"  1914-21 


The  "Ford  Animated  Weekly"  is  a 
series  of  10-  to  15-minute  news  fea- 
tures, filmed  as  they  happened;  sev- 
eral short  productions  about  cities; 
and  general  interest  items.  The  film 
was  distributed  free  to  theaters, 
schools,  YMCA's,  penal  institutions, 
and  the  like.  Filming  of  the  "Ford 
Animated  Weekly"  was  begun  in  1914 
and  abandoned  in  1921.  The  col- 
lection includes  9,345  feet  of  edited, 
35  mm.,  silent,  black  and  white  film; 
4,514  feet  of  unedited,  35  mm.,  silent, 
black  and  white  film;  and  218  feet  of 
duplicate  film. 

FEATURES  ON  CITIES 
BOSTON,  MASS. 

Public  buildings,  parks,  and  Revo- 
lutionary W7ar  monuments. 

CHICAGO,  ILL. 

La  Salle  and  Jackson  Streets. 

CONCORD,  MASS. 

Sites  and  monuments  of  the  Revo- 
lutionary War. 

DENVER,  COLO. 

Panorama  of  the  city;  and  the  pub- 
lic library,  the  capitol,  and  Lookout 
Mountain. 
INDIANAPOLIS,  IND. 

Views  of  the  city,  the  capitol,  and 
Monument  Place. 

LEXINGTON,  MASS. 

Sites  and  monuments  of  the  Revo- 
lutionary War. 

DUBLIN,  IRELAND 

Features  the  Ballyrunion  Railroad 
(monorail). 


PROMINENT  INDIVIDUALS 

IN  THE  NEWS 

PRESIDENT  WOODROW 
WILSON 

Laying  the  cornerstone  for  the  Ar- 
lington Memorial  Amphitheater 
(1917). 

In  Detroit  with  Mrs.  Wilson  (Edith 
Boiling  Gait)  at  the  opening  of  a 
World  Salesmanship  Conference 
(1916),  and  with  Gov.  Woodbridge  N. 
Ferris  of  Michigan  and  Henry  Ford 
at  the  Ford  Motor  Company  (1916). 

In  Indianapolis  with  Gov.  Samuel 
M.  Ralston  of  Indiana,  Sen.  Thomas 
Taggart  of  Indiana,  Mayor  Joseph  E. 
Bell  of  Indianapolis,  and  Joseph  P. 
Tumulty  (1916);  and  in  Monument 
Place  with  Mrs.  Wilson  (1919). 

At  his  Long  Branch,  N.J.,  summer 
home  with  Mrs.  Wilson  and  Sen. 
Ollie  James  of  Kentucky,  accepting 
the  nomination  for  his  second  term 
(1916). 

At  a  peace  celebration  (1918). 

In  Washington,  B.C.,  at  a  Flag  Day 
Parade  with  Mrs.  Wilson  and  Frank- 
lin D.  Roosevelt,  Under  Secretary  of 
the  Navy  (1916);  with  Mrs.  Wilson  at 
an  opening  baseball  game  of  the 
Washington  Senators  and  at  an  exhi- 
bition game  between  St.  Catherine's 
School  and  the  Washington  Senators 
(1917);  reviewing  the  District  of  Co- 
lumbia National  Guard  with  Secre- 
tary of  War  Newton  D.  Baker  (1917); 
and  at  the  DAR  Hall  (1917). 


Education,  News,  and  Special  Subjects 


JOHN  BURROUGHS 

Honored  by  Toledo  school  children 
at  the  unveiling  of  his  statue  in  front 
of  the  Toledo  Museum  of  Art  (1918). 

Planting  a  sugar  maple  tree  at  the 
Country  Life  Press  building  (1920). 

REPRESENTATIVE  JOSEPH  G. 
CANNON  OF  ILLINOIS 

On  the  Capitol  steps  at  Washing- 
ton, D.C.  (1917). 
ADMIRAL  GEORGE  DEWEY 

His  funeral  cortege  from  the  Capi- 
tol to  his  tomb  in  Arlington  Cemetery 
(1917). 
THOMAS  A.  EDISON 

Laying  a  plaque  at  the  World's 
Fair,  San  Francisco  (1915). 

HENRY  FORD 

With  Secretary  of  the  Navy  Jose- 
phus  Daniels  leaving  the  White 
House  after  a  conference  with  the 
President  (1916). 

In  conversation  with  Helen  Keller 
(1914). 

With  a  group  of  men  in  front  of  the 
Detroit  News  building. 

At  the  controls  of  a  big  locomotive. 
JAMES  WHITCOMB  RILEY 

Outside  his  Indianapolis  home 
(1916). 

WILL  ROGERS 

Giving  a  rope-handling  demonstra- 
tion. 
THEODORE  ROOSEVELT 

Making  a  speech  at  a  Liberty  Loan 
rally. 

DR.  MARY  WALKER,  CIVIL  WAR 
PHYSICIAN 

In  the  lobby  of  the  BAR  Hall 
(1916). 

WAR  AND  HOMEFRONT 

NEWS  ITEMS 
LIBERTY  LOANS 

Detroit  celebration  on  going  over 


the  top  in  the  Third  Liberty  Loan 
campaign. 

Rallies  and  parades. 

U.S.  TROOPS 

Army  training  scenes. 

An  award  presentation  to  a  soldier 
and  a  sailor. 

Canadian  women  and  boy  scouts 
welcoming  American  troops  at  a  rail- 
road station. 

Michigan  troops  returning  from  the 
Mexican  Border  Punitive  Expedition 
(1916). 

WAR  GARDEN 

Being  plowed  by  a  tractor  in  the 
city-center  lawn. 

TANKS 

Demonstration  of  a  British  military 
tank. 


GENERAL  INTEREST  ITEMS 

ATHLETIC  EVENTS 

Includes  a  football  game,  an  ice 
hockey  game,  and  two  women's  swim- 
ming events. 

ENTERTAINMENT 

Includes  the  Buffalo  Bill  Circus 
and  a  May  Day  celebration  at  Michi- 
gan State  Normal. 

RECREATIONAL  ACTIVITIES 

Includes  facilities  and  activities  at 
Belle  Isle,  Detroit,  and  Detroit  Cross 
Country  Riding  Club;  horse-drawn 
sleds;  ice  skating  on  a  rink;  and  ski- 
ing. 

FILLER  ITEMS 

Includes  loading  coal  into  the  hold 
of  a  freighter,  icemaking,  roadbuild- 
ing,  grapefruit  growing,  wild  animals 
in  a  zoo,  domestic  animals,  icebound 
ships,  and  a  railroad  accident. 


Ford  Educational  Weekly"  and 
"Ford  Educational  Library" 
1916-25 


The  "Ford  Educational  Weekly" 
(1916-21)  consists  of  short  features 
and  some  unedited  film  not  leading 
to  finished  productions  about  travel, 
industry,  history,  geography,  and  ag- 
riculture. It  was  intended  to  take  the 
place  of  the  "Ford  Animated  Weekly" 
and  was  distributed  in  the  same  man- 
ner. The  "Ford  Educational  Library" 
(1920-25)  evolved  from  the  "Ford  Ed- 
ucational Weekly"  and  is  a  group  of 
educational  films  divided  into  the  fol- 
lowing categories:  agriculture,  civics 
and  citizenship,  industrial  geography, 
regional  geography,  history,  nature 
study,  recreation  and  sports,  sanita- 
tion and  health,  technical  subjects, 
and  special  subjects.  These  films  were 
sold  to  colleges,  schools,  churches,  and 
the  like,  for  the  establishment  of  per- 
manent libraries  from  which  other  in- 
stitutions could  rent  prints.  Published 
aids  containing  suggestions  to  the 
teacher,  questions  for  the  students, 
and  bibliographies  were  circulated 
with  the  films.  Because  of  the  close 
relationship  of  these  two  series  they 
have  been  combined  for  descriptive 
purposes.  The  collection  contains  158,- 
083  feet  of  edited,  35  mm.,  silent,  black 
and  white  film;  203  feet  of  edited, 
16  mm.,  silent,  black  and  white  film; 
81,208  feet  of  unedited,  35  mm.,  silent, 
black  and  white  film;  and  39,782  feet 
of  35  mm.,  duplicate  film.  Exceptions 


only  to  35  mm.,  silent,  black  and  white 
film  will  be  mentioned. 


AGRICULTURE 

APPLE  RAISING 

562  it.,  ed.  (1916);  135  it.,  uned.  (1919) 
Apple  orchard  in  bloom;  spraying 
orchard;  grafting  trees;  picking,  sort- 
ing, and  trucking  apples;  cider  mill; 
making  apple  butter  out  of  doors; 
and  making  pies  in  a  commercial 
bakery. 

BANANA  RAISING 

857  ft.,  ed.  (1920,  1922) 

Maps  indicating  banana-growing 
areas;  and  tropical  scenery,  clearing 
jungle  land  with  machetes,  plowing 
field,  setting  out  plants,  plantation 
and  house,  blossoms  and  bananas  at 
different  stages  of  growth,  animated 
diagram  of  harvesting  process,  ox- 
drawn  carts  loaded  with  bananas, 
thatch  huts  in  jungle,  boat  being 
loaded  by  women  workers  carrying  ba- 
nanas on  their  heads,  banana  boat 
under  way,  unloading  bananas  at  New 
Orleans  dock  by  machine,  warehouse, 
and  fruit  vendor  and  customers  on 
street. 

BEEKEEPING 

It483  ft.,  ed.  (1920,  1921);  1,252  ft., 

uned.  (1920) 
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honey;  details  of  social  and  physical 
organization  of  swarm  and  bees  in 
different  stages  of  development;  keep- 
er removing  honey  from  hive,  strain- 
ing honey  out  of  doors,  crating  hives 
for  winter  storage,  and  uncrating 
hives  in  spring;  and  taking  honey 
from  wild  beehive  in  hollow  tree. 

CATTLE  RANCHING 

2,249  it.,  ed.  (1919-22);  1,058  ft.,  uned. 

(1918,  1921) 

Several  ranches  including  Goodno 
Ranch,  Fort  Thompson  Park,  La- 
belle,  Fla.,  and  Bar-U  Ranch,  Cal- 
gary, Canada;  ranch  buildings;  pas- 
tures and  fields;  open  range;  herds  of 
cattle,  sheep,  and  goats;  range  cattle 
in  feed  lot;  cattle  in  stockyards  pens; 
cowboys  herding  cattle  on  open  range 
and  into  corrals;  dipping  cattle;  cut- 
ting out,  roping,  tying,  and  branding 
calves;  participating  in  rodeo  events; 
and  bighorn  sheep,  deer,  buffalo,  and 
coyotes. 

DAIRY  FARMING 

1,378  ft.,   ed.   (1921);   355   ft.,   uned. 

(1918,  1920) 

Dairy  farms  and  milk  processing 
plants,  different  breeds  of  dairy  cat- 
tle, cows  in  pasture  and  being  driven 
in  for  milking,  dairy  barn  and  facili- 
ties, the  care  and  milking  of  cows,  re- 
frigeration systems,  the  care  and  use 
of  a  cream  separator,  testing  milk  for 
butter  fat  content,  pasteurizing  milk, 
washing  bottles,  bottling  by  machin- 
ery, sampling  and  testing  milk, 
churning  by  machinery,  wrapping 
butter,  and  making  and  packing  ice 
cream. 

DATE  GROWING 

446  ft.,  ed.  (1920);  266  ft.,  uned.  (1920) 
Date  palms  growing  in  the  desert; 


workers  setting  out  new  plants;  culti- 
vating; covering  the  unripened  fruit 
with  cloth  bags;  picking;  trucking  to 
the  packing  plant;  and  fumigating, 
sorting,  and  packing. 

FARM  ANIMALS 

325  ft.,  ed.  (1919);  842  ft.,  uned.  (1919, 

1920) 

Children  playing  with  puppies; 
domestic  animals  and  fowls  with  their 
young,  including  dogs,  rabbits,  pigs, 
Shetland  mare,  geese,  chickens,  tur- 
keys, cows,  and  sheep;  and  a  few  wild 
animals  in  a  zoo,  including  bears,  a 
fawn  resting  under  a  tree,  and  a  kan- 
garoo baby  with  its  mother. 

FARM  BOYS  ABROAD 

534  ft.,  ed.  (1920);  413  ft.,  uned.  (1920) 
Tour  of  America  made  by  a  group 
of  farm  boys  from  Texas:  leaving  by 
train;  visiting  farms  in  Kansas,  Ne- 
braska, and  Iowa;  touring  the  Chi- 
cago stockyards,  the  River  Rouge 
Plant,  Cornell  University,  New  York 
City,  Washington,  D.C.,  and  Natural 
Bridge,  Va.;  and  at  a  picnic  in  Ala- 
bama. 

ELECTRICITY  FOR  THE  FARM 

838  ft.,  ed.  (1919) 

Contrasts  life  on  the  farm  before 
and  after  electrification:  pumping 
and  carrying  water,  churning  butter, 
washing  and  ironing  clothes,  sweep- 
ing floors,  and  operating  a  corn  shell- 
ing machine  by  hand;  installation  of 
a  Delco  electric  plant;  portrays  the 
same  tasks  performed  by  machinery; 
and  contrasts  lighting  by  kerosene 
lamps  with  lighting  by  electricity. 

FOOD  FOR  JAMAICA'S  CITIES 

685  ft.,  ed.  (1921) 

Native  huts  with  a  mountain  range 


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in  the  background  and  goats  grazing, 
natives  and  burros  in  village,  black- 
smith shop,  natives  carrying  baskets 
on  heads,  and  outdoor  market  place 
with  produce. 

IRRIGATION 

441  ft.,  ed.  (1922) 

Desert  scenes  with  views  of  giant 
cactus  as  a  source  of  water,  a  horned 
toad,  an  ancient  aqueduct  and  In- 
dian women  with  pails  of  water; 
mountains  with  snow  and  small 
rushing  streams;  Roosevelt  Dam;  dia- 
grams comparing  the  heights  of  Roo- 
sevelt Dam,  the  Eiffel  Tower,  Wool- 
worth  Building,  Shoshone  Dam, 
Arrowrock  Dam,  and  the  proposed 
dam  on  the  Colorado  River;  a  dam 
under  construction;  digging  an  irri- 
gation ditch;  ditch  pattern  in  field; 
and  irrigating  an  orchard. 

MECHANIZED  FARMING 

914    ft.,    ed.    (1919);    930    it.,    uned. 

(1919,  1920) 

Contrasts  old-fashioned  and  mod- 
ern farming  techniques:  binding 
grain  by  hand;  horse-drawn  binders; 
tractor-drawn  and  tractor-powered 
implements  including  plows,  disk 
harrows,  planters,  threshing  ma- 
chines, and  loaders;  and  wheat  breed- 
ing and  soil  testing  techniques. 

OLIVE  AND  ORANGE  GROWING 

1,133  ft.,  ed.  (1916,  1920);  191  it., 
uned.  (1920) 

Map  of  the  San  Joaquin  and  Sacra- 
mento valley  areas  of  California. 

Sylmar  Olive  Grove;  pruning  trees 
and  picking  olives;  pickers'  camp  in 
grove;  cannery  scenes  including  sort- 
ing and  soaking  olives  in  lye  and 
brine  solutions,  packing  in  cans,  and 
sterilizing;  and  crushing  machinery 
and  oil  press. 


Orange  grove;  grafting  and  irrigat- 
ing trees  and  picking  oranges;  and 
packinghouse  processes  including 
washing,  sorting,  wrapping,  and  crat- 
ing oranges. 

PHEASANT  FARM 

195  it.,  uned.  (1917) 

Man  feeding  pheasants  in  a  wooded 
field. 

POTATO  HARVESTING  AND 
STORING 

388  ft.,  uned.  (1923) 

Workers  harvesting  potatoes, 
dumping  them  in  piles,  and  covering 
them  with  straw. 

POULTRY  RAISING 

777    ft.,    ed.    (1920);    180    ft.,    uned. 

(1919,  1920) 

Flocks  of  chickens  in  a  farmyard,  in 
a  field,  and  in  pens;  technique  for 
keeping  records  on  egg  production  for 
individual  hens;  incubating  and 
hatching  eggs;  chicks  in  brooder; 
feeding  chickens;  illustrations  of  bone 
structure  and  stages  in  molting  for 
determination  of  laying  ability;  and 
care  of  roosts. 

RICE  GROWING,  JAPAN 

279  ft.,  ed.  (1920) 

Rice  paddies  with  houses  and 
mountains  in  the  background;  work- 
ers pulling,  pruning,  and  transplant- 
ing seedlings;  water  buffalo-drawn 
plow  and  harrow  in  flooded  paddy; 
and  a  Japanese  couple  eating  rice 
with  chopsticks. 

SUGARCANE  GROWING  AND 
PROCESSING 

988  it.,  ed.  (1922,  1925);  149  it.,  uned. 

(1922) 

Sugarcane  growing  in  Louisiana; 
tractor-drawn  plows  and  trenching 


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implements;  Negro  workers  planting 
cane  sprouts  in  trenches;  mule-drawn 
plow;  workers,  including  children, 
hoeing  field,  chopping  cane  with  ma- 
chetes, and  stacking  cane  and  loading 
it  onto  ox-drawn  carts;  shipping; 
freighter  at  dock;  unloading  bags  of 
raw  sugar  and  taking  samples  from 
bags  for  testing;  and  refining  and 
packing  sugar. 

SUGAR  FROM  MAPLE  TREES 

624  ft.,  ed.  (1922) 

Grove  of  sugar  maple  trees,  map  of 
Eastern  United  States,  tapping  trees 
and  collecting  sap,  boiling  sap  over 
an  outdoor  fire,  and  processing  and 
packing  sugar  in  a  modern  refinery. 

WHEAT  AND  FLOUR 

859  ft.,  ed.  (1922) 

Wheat  field  preparation,  planting, 
harvesting  by  hand  and  with  machin- 
ery, threshing  by  machine,  trucking 
to  elevator,  grinding  flour  in  water- 
powered  mill  and  in  modern  mill, 
and  sacking  flour  by  machinery. 

CIVICS  AND  CITIZENSHIP 

AMERICAN  RED  CROSS,  WORLD 
WAR  I 

156  it.,  ed.  (1918);  314  ft.,  uned.  (1917, 

1918) 

Work  of  the  Red  Cross  at  Newberry 
House,  American  Red  Cross  Teaching 
Center:  attending  patients  and  in- 
structing the  blind  in  handicrafts  such 
as  basketmaking,  chair  caning,  and 
weaving. 

BOY  SCOUT  ACTIVITIES 

469   ft.,   ed.   (1919);   1,886  ft.,   uned. 

(1919,  1920) 

Scouts  at  attention  for  inspection, 
pledge  of  allegiance,  and  scout  oath; 


recreational  activities  such  as  hiking, 
setting  up  and  breaking  camp,  swim- 
ming, sailing,  and  cooking  over  an 
open  fire;  contests  including  fire 
building,  knot  tying,  gymnastics,  and 
semaphore  drills;  and  water  rescue 
and  first  aid  for  people  and  animals. 

"CENTURY  OF  PROGRESS" 

985  it.,  ed.  (1921) 

Development  of  modern  transpor- 
tation methods:  horseback,  covered 
wagon,  and  oxcart  travel;  truck  and 
automobile  traffic;  railroad  systems; 
steamships;  and  airplanes. 

Development  of  use  of  electricity: 
washing  by  hand,  commercial  laun- 
dry operations  using  electric  equip- 
ment, baking  bread  in  an  outdoor 
oven,  a  commercial  bakery,  hand 
shearing  and  spinning,  machine  spin- 
ning and  weaving,  a  water-powered 
mill,  and  dams  and  powerhouses  for 
generating  electricity. 

DETROIT,  MICH. 

601  it.,  ed.  (1921) 

Detroit  skyline  and  harbor  area 
with  excursion  boat  and  freighters  at 
dock,  railroad  station  and  crowds, 
traffic  in  center  of  city,  public  build- 
ings, industrial  areas,  open  air  mar- 
ket, and  people  in  parks. 

GOOD  ROADS  PROMOTION 

701  ft.,  ed.  (1919);  905  it.,  uned.  (1917) 
Indians  and  white  men  on  foot  in 
the  forest;  pioneers  on  horseback, 
with  covered  wagons,  and  with  pack 
horses;  cars  and  trucks  on  very  bad 
country  roads  and  on  good  paved 
ones;  children  walking  on  muddy 
road  and  on  paved  one;  boy  riding 
horse  to  post  office  for  mail  and  mail 
delivery  by  truck  to  farm;  horse  and 
buggy  transportation  for  the  farm 


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family;   trucking  produce  to  market; 
and  city  and  country  traffic. 

INDIAN  CAMP  MEETING 

653    ft.,    ed.    (1920);    344    ft.,    uned. 

(1920) 

Large  group  of  American  Indians 
at  a  religious  camp  meeting:  tents, 
cars,  horses,  and  buckboards;  proces- 
sion to  church  tent;  camp  activities; 
and  church  services  and  programs. 

INDUSTRIAL  WORKING 
CONDITIONS 

686  ft.,  ed.  (1920) 

Laborsaving  machinery  including 
automatic  dishwashing  machine,  ice- 
cream-making machine,  mining  ma- 
chinery and  elevators,  and  a  sawmill 
conveyor;  and  safety  devices  and 
clothing  for  the  protection  of  work- 
ers and  consumers. 

LEAVENWORTH  PRISON 

529  it.,  ed.  (1919) 

Prison  building;  cell  blocks;  prison- 
ers being  photographed,  measured, 
and  fingerprinted;  prisoners  at  work 
in  yard,  shoeshop,  tailorshop,  barber- 
shop, printshop,  and  on  farm;  classes 
in  typing  and  drafting;  and  baseball 
game  in  prison  yard. 

PATRIOTIC  PARADES  AND  VIC- 
TORY CELEBRATIONS 

711  it.,  uned.  (1916-18) 

School,  civic,  and  fraternal  organi- 
zations parading  and  drilling;  crowds 
celebrating  victory  in  the  streets;  and 
children  staging  victory  celebration  at 
Belle  Isle  in  Detroit. 

SAFETY  EDUCATION 

Accident  Prevention 

1,848  it.,  ed.  (1918,  1919,  1921);  729 
it.,  uned.  (1918-21) 


Traffic  accidents  and  near  accidents 
between  cars,  between  cars  and  pedes- 
trians, between  trucks  and  pedestri- 
ans, and  between  railroad  trains  and 
cars;  and  instruction  in  safe  driving, 
walking,  and  playing  habits. 

Fire  Prevention 

7,747  ft.,   ed.   (1921);   474   it.,   uned. 

(1917,  1920,  1921) 
Common  careless  acts  resulting  in 
fires,  and  firefighting  techniques  and 
training  program  of  a  modern   fire- 
fighting  organization. 

SCHOOLS  AND  EDUCATION 

"Democracy  in  Education" 

1,679  it.,  ed.  (1922) 

Brief  history  of  the  United  States, 
statement  of  purposes  of  education, 
and     classroom     demonstrations     on 
teaching     penmanship     at     Wingert 
School,    Detroit,    using    the    Courtis 
Standard  Practice  Tests  in  Handwrit- 
ing- 
Country  School 
189  ft.,  uned.  (1916) 

Children  arriving  at  a  one-room 
country  school  in  horse-drawn  sleighs, 
classroom,  boys  climbing  a  tree  and 
sliding  off  the  ends  of  the  branches, 
playground  with  no  equipment,  and 
children  leaving  school  in  sleighs  and 
a  car. 

Modern  School 

419  it.,  ed.  (1923) 

Facilities  including  library,  swim- 
ming pool,  printing  press,  woodwork- 
ing shop,  and  dining  room;  classes  in 
art,  drafting,  sewing,  ceramics,  and 
cooking;  and  orchestra  and  chorus 
practice. 

School  for  the  Deaf 

741  it.,  ed.  (1920);  129  ft.,  uned.  (1919) 
Classroom  demonstrations  in  tech- 


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niques  for  teaching  deaf  children  to 
talk,  read,  and  write. 

Vocational  School 

467  ft.,  ed.  (1920);  548  ft.t  uned.  (1919, 

1920) 

School  facilities  such  as  dining  hall, 
shops,  and  telephone  switchboard; 
boys  at  work  making  their  own  uni- 
forms and  mending  clothes,  in  barber- 
shop, in  hothouse,  on  lawn,  in  vege- 
table gardens,  and  in  kitchen;  boys 
participating  in  field  events  and  base- 
ball game,  playing  in  band,  dancing, 
and  attending  church;  boys  and  girls 
dancing  and  in  chemistry  laboratory; 
and  girls  in  cooking  and  sewing 
classes. 

U.S.  GOVERNMENT 

Post  Office  Department  and  Bureau 
of  Engraving  and  Printing 

1,408  it.,  ed.  (1917,  1920,  1922);  97  ft., 

uned.  (1919) 

Functions  of  the  Post  Office  Depart- 
ment, and  printing  postage  stamps 
and  engraving  and  printing  Govern- 
ment bonds  by  the  Bureau  of  Engrav- 
ing and  Printing. 

Presidents  of  the  United  States 

856  ft.,  ed.  (1921);  53  ft.,  uned.  (1916) 
Portraits  of  Presidents  from  George 
Washington  through  Woodrow  Wil- 
son with  brief  historical  sketch  for 
each,  and  a  portrait  only  of  Warren 
G.  Harding. 

World  War  I  Mobilization 

438  ft.,  ed.  (1918,  1919) 

Men  and  women  factory  workers, 
helmet  and  shoe  manufacturing,  ship 
launching,  Liberty  bond  printing, 
soldiers  marching,  airplanes  in  flight 
and  being  assembled,  Eddie  Ricken- 
backer,  and  small  military  tanks 
being  test-driven  over  rough  field. 


Military  Training,  World  War  I 

6£95  ft.,  ed.  (1916-18);  1,846  it.,  uned. 
(1916-19) 

Army  Officer  Training:  field  exer- 
cises. 

Basic  Training:  field  exercises,  mo- 
ments of  relaxation,  classrooms  and 
mess,  and  athletic  contests. 

Coast  Guard:  Life  Saving  Station 
No.  269,  Muskegon,  Mich.;  lake  vessel 
Bay  State;  and  drills  including  boat, 
signal,  patrol,  surfboat,  lifeboat  in 
heavy  weather,  and  rescue  from  sink- 
ing ship  by  using  lifeline  and  breeches 
buoy  and  from  drowning. 

Navy:  Great  Lakes  Naval  Training 
Center  buildings;  recruits  receiving 
uniforms  and  equipment,  getting  hair- 
cuts, having  teeth  examined,  and 
learning  how  to  wear  uniform;  mess- 
hall  and  galley;  barracks  and  ham- 
mocks; field  exercises;  moments  of  re- 
laxation; gunnery  school;  Sousa's 
band;  John  Philip  and  Mrs.  Sousa; 
seaplane,  a  Curtis  F-Boat  World  War 
I  trainer;  wireless  station;  billy  goat 
mascot;  boxing  matches;  sham  battle; 
and  swimming  instruction. 

Post  World  War  I 

Navy  Dirigible  "Los  Angeles" 
107  it.,  uned.  (1918) 

Dirigible  at  a  mooring  tower. 

Navy  Vessel  "S.P.  21ST 

100  ft.,  uned.  (1919) 
Ship  underway. 

Ship  Launchings 

417  it.,  ed.  (1923) 

Shipyard  and  launching  of  a  mer- 
chant ship  and  a  battleship. 

Rehabilitation  of  Disabled  Veterans 

1,164   it.,   ed.   (1920);   727  it.,   uned. 

(1919,  1920) 

Disabled  veterans  arriving  at  Fort 
Sheridan,  Mich.,  Rehabilitation  Cen- 


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ter;    working    at    and    being    helped -ri— 

with  occupational  and  physical  ther-  Gulf  of  Mexico, 
apy  and  gymnastic  exercises;  being 
fitted  with  prosthetic  devices  and 
braces;  working  at  chair  caning  and 
basket  weaving;  receiving  instruction 
in  commercial  art,  penmanship,  typ- 
ing, telegraphy,  jewelry  making,  pat- 
tern making,  electrical  wiring,  metal 
machining,  and  automobile  repairing; 
watching  boxing  match;  playing  in 
orchestra;  and  participating  in  a  fire 
drill. 


to  catch  snapper  and  grouper  in  the 
Gulf  of  Mexico. 


Salmon 

1J58  ft.,  ed.  (1919,  1922) 

Different  techniques  used  in  sal- 
mon fishing,  including  use  of  gill  net, 
purse  seine,  trap  or  pot  net,  and  troll- 
ing; cannery  scenes  including  machin- 
ery for  dressing  fish,  slicing,  packing, 
weighing,  and  capping;  and  tank  of 
small  salmon  at  hatchery. 


INDUSTRIAL   GEOGRAPHY- 
GENERAL 

COTTON  MILLING 

2,189  it.,  uned.  (1920,  1922) 

Cottonfield  and  plants  in  different 
stages  of  growth;  machinery  including 
cotton  breakers  and  looms;  milling 
processes  including  carding,  spinning, 
and  yarn  washing  and  drying,  fabric 
folding,  pressing,  and  wrapping;  bolts 
of  finished  cloth;  and  cottonseed 
press. 

FISHING 

Oyster  and  Shrimp 

766  ft.,  ed.  (1922);  129  ft.,  uned.  (1921) 
Map  of  the  Chesapeake  Bay  area; 
oyster  boats  under  way  and  at  dock, 
oystermen  unloading  baskets  of  oys- 
ters, and  demonstration  of  shucking; 
map  showing  shrimp  fishing  waters; 
and  shrimp  boat  and  crew  with 
shrimp  and  other  fish  on  deck,  work- 
ers removing  catch  from  boat,  shrimp 
pickers  at  work,  and  washing  and 
packing  shrimp  and  ice  in  barrels. 

Red  Snapper  and  Grouper 

710  ft.,  ed.  (1919) 

Fishing  boat  and  crew  using  lines 


Shark 

496  ft.,  ed.   (1919);   1,129  it.,   uned. 

(1919,  1920) 

Net  fishing  for  sharks;  hauling 
shark  and  other  fish,  including  turtles 
and  stingrays,  aboard  boat  by  block 
and  tackle;  tannery  processes  includ- 
ing fleshing,  tanning,  shaving,  stretch- 
ing, and  pressing;  and  workers  mak- 
ing articles  from  sharkskin. 

Sponge 

761  it.,  ed.  (1921);  645  it.,  uned.  (1920) 
Spongers  in  small  dories  off  coast 
of  Andros  Island,  Bahamas,  looking 
through  glassbottomed  buckets  into 
water  and  spearing  the  sponges  with 
long  poles;  putting  sponges  on  deck 
of  sailboat;  storing  in  kraals;  and 
washing,  cleaning,  trimming,  and  bal- 
ing sponges. 

HOTEL  KITCHEN  AND  DINING 
ROOM 

1,100  ft.,  ed.  (1916) 

Facilities  of  the  Hotel  Statler  kitch- 
en, and  workers  preparing  and  serv- 
ing food  to  guests  in  dining  room. 

ICE  HARVESTING 

195  it.  (1916);  199  it.,  uned.  (1921) 

Workers  with  horse-drawn  scrapers 
and  scorers  on  the  ice  and  sawing  ice 
into  blocks  and  floating  them  to  a 


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conveyor  into  icehouse,  and  children 
playing  in  snow. 

IRON  AND  STEEL 

1,798  it.,  ed.  (1920) 

Iron  processing,  from  the  mine  to 
manufactured  steel:  map  of  the  Lake 
Superior  region  locating  ore,  different 
kinds  of  iron  ore,  ore  freighters, 
cranes  unloading  freighters,  ani- 
mated diagram  illustrating  the  charg- 
ing of  a  blast  furnace,  smelting,  pour- 
ing pig  iron  into  molds,  making  steel 
in  open  hearth  furnace,  casting  in- 
gots, transporting  ingots  on  flatcars  to 
soaking  pit,  bloom  mill  scenes,  map 
of  Great  Lakes  region  designating 
steel  centers,  and  steel  bridges  and 
skyscrapers. 

LAUNDRY 

508  it.,  ed.  (1917) 

Workers  using  washing  machines, 
mangles,  collar  and  cuff  starching  ma- 
chines, dampening  machines,  sewing 
machines,  collar  humidifying  and  fin- 
ishing machines,  and  shaping  ma- 
chines. 

LUMBER 

4J05  it.,  ed.  (1917,  1919,  1920,  1922); 

1,049  it.,  uned.  (1919) 
Map  of  United  States  indicat- 
ing the  Northern,  Hardwood,  South- 
ern, Rocky  Mountain,  and  Pacific 
Forests;  logging  camps  in  snow- 
covered  forests;  loggers  felling  trees 
and  cutting  logs  into  lengths;  snaking 
logs  with  a  cable  and  donkey  engine, 
with  horses,  and  with  horse-drawn 
two-wheeled  carts;  horse-drawn  and 
tractor-drawn  sleds  moving  logs  on 
skidways;  loading  logs  onto  flatcars 
by  block  and  tackle;  floating  logs  to 
the  boom  in  mountain  streams  and 


rivers  and  breaking  log  jams;  prepar- 
ing skidway;  log  booms  and  conveyors 
into  sawmills;  sawmill  scenes;  sorting, 
drying,  and  stacking  lumber;  ship- 
ping lumber  by  trailer,  freighter,  and 
railroad;  lumberyards;  constructing 
and  launching  ships;  prefabricating 
homes;  and  making  furniture. 

MEAT  PACKING 

2,800  ft.,  ed.  (1919,  1922) 

Cattle  on  the  open  range  and  in 
feed  lots;  pigs  in  farmyard;  cattle, 
pigs,  and  sheep  in  the  Chicago  stock- 
yards, and  buyers  walking  fences;  beef- 
butchering  scenes  including  splitting 
and  scrubbing  the  carcasses;  inspect- 
ing, chilling,  cutting,  and  trimming 
meat;  chart  showing  different  cuts  of 
beef;  pork  butchering  including  split- 
ting carcasses;  cutting  and  trimming 
meat;  salting  down  hams;  making 
and  smoking  sausage;  shipping  meat 
in  refrigerated  boxcars;  canning 
meat;  and  byproducts  including  up- 
holstery stuffing  and  rope  from  hair, 
fertilizer  from  blood  and  bone,  comb 
and  pipe  and  other  objects  from  horn, 
candle  and  lard  from  tallow,  leather 
from  hides,  glue  from  hooves,  and 
butterine  from  oil. 

MINING  COAL 

7,732  it.,  ed.  (1916,  1921,  1922);  275 

it.,  uned.  (1920) 

Map  showing  locations  of  bitumi- 
nous and  anthracite  coal  deposits  in 
United  States;  miners  using  manual 
methods  to  mine  and  load  coal  into 
cars;  blasting  coal  face;  coal  cars  and 
miners  moved  by  elevator;  mule- 
drawn  coal  cars;  diagram  of  mine, 
showing  shaft  and  entries  into  coal 
beds;  mine-building  scenes  including 
breakers  with  boys  washing  and  sort- 


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ing  coal  by  hand,  cranes  and  a  culm 
dump,  and  machinery  for  grading; 
shipping  coal  by  railroad  and  freight- 
ers; strip  mine;  mining  towns;  and 
mine  safety  education  programs  in- 
cluding first  aid  methods  and  train- 
ing sessions,  a  simulated  explosion,  a 
worker  nailing  up  a  curtain  to  seal 
off  smoke  and  gas  in  mine  area 
where  he  is  trapped,  and  rescue  oper- 
ations. 

NEWSPAPER  PUBLISHING 

905  ft.,  ed.  (1918,  1919) 

Editorial  department;  a  linotype 
operator;  workers  making  matrixes, 
casting  cylindrical  plates,  and  attach- 
ing plates  to  press;  presses;  cutting, 
folding,  and  counting  papers  by  ma- 
chine; workers  tying  bundles  of  pap- 
ers and  loading  them  into  truck; 
newsboys  boxing  on  street  and  police- 
man refereeing;  and  girls  taking  ads 
over  phones. 

SALT  INDUSTRY 

750  it.,  ed.  (1919,  1923);  49  it.,  uned. 

(1920) 

Salt  industry  of  the  Bahama  Is- 
lands: beach  scenes;  evaporation  res- 
ervoir; piles  of  salt;  natives  moving, 
bagging,  and  carrying  salt  and  load- 
ing it  onto  lighters;  schooners  stand- 
ing offshore;  underground  mining  in- 
cluding use  of  bucket  elevator  in  the 
mine,  drilling,  setting  a  charge,  and 
shoveling  salt  into  mine  cars  manu- 
ally and  with  electric  shovels;  crusher; 
machine  for  screening;  steam  shovel 
loading  railroad  cars  with  salt;  and 
workers  packaging  salt. 

STONE  QUARRY 

650  it.,  ed.  (1919) 

Quarrying     operations     at     Stone 


Mountain,  Ga.,  including  blasting, 
drilling  blocks  of  granite  with  hand 
tools,  shaping  paving  blocks,  and 
loading  stone  onto  flatcar  with  block 
and  tackle;  pillar  of  granite  in  polish- 
ing machine;  workers  using  pneumat- 
ic hammer  and  polisher,  working  on 
tombstone,  and  treating  and  polish- 
ing stones;  and  Museum  of  Natural 
History  of  the  Smithsonian  Institu- 
tion at  Washington,  B.C.,  under  con- 
struction. 

SUGAR  REFINING 

766  ft.,  ed.  (1919) 

Growing  sugarcane  in  Hawaii,  in- 
cluding plowing;  and  cutting,  stack- 
ing, and  placing  cane  in  flume  to 
refinery. 

Tapping  maple  tree;  collecting  sap 
and  boiling  it  in  large  kettles  over  an 
open  fire;  and  refining  maple  sugar  in 
a  modern  refinery  with  large  evapora- 
tion vats,  straining  filters,  bottling 
machinery,  and  mixers  for  making 
loaf  sugar. 

TOBACCO  DRYING 

109  it.,  uned.  (1919) 

Workers  hanging  racks  of  tobacco 
leaves  in  drying  shed. 

WOOLEN  MILLING 

420  it.,  ed.  (1918) 

Shearing  sheep;  woolen  mill  and 
river;  unpacking  baled  wool;  sorting, 
grading,  and  washing  wool  by  ma- 
chinery; dusting,  lapping,  and  card- 
ing by  machinery;  mixing  cotton  and 
wool;  spinning  and  knitting  by  ma- 
chinery; washing  fabric;  and  cutting 
and  sewing  garments,  making  but- 
tonholes, pressing  garments,  and  sew- 
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INDUSTRIAL   GEOGRAPHY- 
MANUFACTURING 

BAKING  POWDER 

411  ft.,  ed.  (1920) 

Ingredients  used  in  baking  powder, 
mixing  machine,  testing  laboratory, 
packing  machinery,  woman  worker 
labeling  cans,  and  load  of  cans  being 
placed  in  drier. 

BARRELS 

693  ft.,  ed.  (1919) 

Loggers  felling  and  cutting  oak  tree 
for  barrel  staves;  workers  cutting, 
trimming,  and  shaping  staves;  drying 
staves  in  open  and  in  kiln;  making 
barrel  ends;  planing  and  beveling 
staves;  assembling  barrels;  placing 
and  setting  hoops;  machinery  reset- 
ting hoops  after  drying  and  after 
planing;  hoopmaking  machine;  glu- 
ing and  painting  barrels  by  machin- 
ery; and  shipping  barrels  by  railroad. 

BEEHIVES 

605  ft.,  uned.  (1919,  1920) 

Workers  using  machinery  to  saw, 
sand,  shape,  and  plane  wood  for  bee- 
hives and  honeycomb  frames;  and  as- 
embling  hives. 

CANDY 

471  ft.,  ed.  (1921);  282  ft.,  uned.  (1920) 
Candy  factory,  machine-  and  hand- 
dipping  chocolates,  boxing  candy, 
cutting  candy,  making  hard  candy, 
and  making  fancy  candy  baskets. 

CARBORUNDUM  WHEELS 

405  ft.,  ed.  (1919) 

Carborundum  being  crushed  by 
machine  and  crushed  grains  being 
sorted  by  screening,  clay  and  carbo- 
rundum in  revolving  mixing  barrel, 


machinery  for  molding  and  pressing, 
hand-packing  molds,  drying  carbo- 
rundum wheels  in  a  kiln,  machinery 
for  testing  finished  wheels,  and  car- 
borundum wheels  in  use. 

CARPETS 

735  ft.,  ed.  (1920) 

Wilton  rug  manufacturing  process- 
es: winding  and  twisting  yarn  by  ma- 
chine, starching  the  warp,  and 
drying  it  in  a  steam  roller;  winding 
the  cop  for  the  shuttle;  designing  the 
pattern;  working  the  design  into  the 
Jacquard;  weaving  on  the  loom;  in- 
specting the  rug;  cutting  the  pile; 
sewing  strips  of  carpet  together; 
stretching  and  ironing;  and  sewing  on 
fringe. 

CHEWING  GUM 

620  ft.,  ed.  (1920);  127  ft.,  uned.  (1920) 
Chewing  gum  manufacturing  pro- 
cesses: grinding,  filtering,  and  steam- 
ing chicle;  mixing  and  kneading  gum 
ingredients  by  machine;  rolling,  cut- 
ting, and  wrapping  gum  by  machine; 
candy-coating  gum  in  revolving  bar- 
rel; and  boxing  by  automatic  ma- 
chine. 

CLOCKS  AND  WATCHES 

830  ft.,  ed.  (1920) 

Clock  and  watch  manufacturing 
processes:  making  parts  and  assem- 
bling and  testing  watches  and  clocks. 

CLOTHING 

Gloves 

671  ft.,  ed.  (1919) 

Kid  glovemaking  processes:  stretch- 
ing leather;  cutting  out  the  pieces 
with  hand  die  and  by  machine;  and 
women  workers  machine-sewing 
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making  cuffs  for  gauntlets,  pressing 
and  polishing  gloves,  attaching  snap 
fasteners  to  the  cuffs,  and  inspecting 
and  pairing  finished  gloves. 

Men's  Suits 

714  ft.,  ed.  (1920);  284  ft.,  lined.  (1920) 
Men's  suit  tailoring:  testing,  shrink- 
ing, and  drying  fabric;  cutting  many 
layers  of  fabric  at  one  time  with  elec- 
tric cutter;  and  men  and  women 
workers  making  trousers  and  coats. 

Women's  Silk  Hosiery 

360  ft.,  ed.  (1920) 

Silk  hosiery  manufacturing:  spin- 
ning thread  from  raw  silk;  knitting 
and  seaming  by  machine;  and  in- 
specting, pressing,  and  packaging 
stockings. 

CURTAINS 

539  ft.,  ed.  (1917  or  1918) 

Lace  curtainmaking  machinery 
and  processes:  bobbin  threading  and 
winding  machinery;  loom  and  Jac- 
quard;  removing  lace  from  the  roller; 
inspecting  and  mending  lace;  trim- 
ming off  selvages,  scalloping  edges, 
and  overlocking  lace;  washing  and 
bleaching;  starching,  stretching,  and 
ironing  curtains;  and  folding  and 
pairing  finished  curtains. 

ELECTRIC  APPLIANCES 

Irons 

195  it.,  ed.  (1920) 

Workers  making  and  nickel-plating 
shoes  for  electric  irons,  assembling 
elements,  fitting  element  to  shoe,  and 
attaching  cover  and  handle. 

Light  Bulbs 

168  it.,  ed.  (1919) 

Women  workers  assembling  light 
bulbs. 


Percolators 

214  it.,  ed.  (1925) 

Wipe-tinning  metal  plates;  presses 
stamping  out  shapes;  workers  refining 
them  on  a  lathe;  and  assembling,  sol- 
dering, buffing,  and  testing  percola- 
tors. 

FURNITURE 

765  it.,  ed.  (1920);  78  it.,  uned.  (1920) 
Wicker  furnituremaking  processes: 
sorting,  washing,  and  bleaching  reed; 
women  workers  splicing  and  gluing 
strips  of  cane  together;  steaming  and 
shaping  wood  for  frames  in  presses; 
making  seat  frames;  assembling  furni- 
ture frames;  weaving  furniture  by 
hand  and  by  machine;  singeing  shreds 
from  finished  furniture;  and  spray 
painting,  upholstering,  and  packing  it. 

GLASS  CUTTING 

283  ft.,  ed.  (1919) 

Worker  roughing  in  the  designs  on 
glassware  with  steel  wheels  and  fin- 
ishing cutting  with  stone  wheels;  pol- 
ishing, treating  with  acid,  and  wash- 
ing finished  pieces;  and  etching  and 
engraving  goblets. 

HOUSES 

806  it.,  ed.  (1919);  474  it.,  uned.  (1919) 
Prefabricated  house  manufactur- 
ing: young  couple  engaged  to  be 
married  looking  for  a  home  and  de- 
ciding to  buy  a  prefabricated  one; 
plant  including  drafting  room  and 
office;  lumberyard;  sawmill;  electric 
tools  used  to  sand,  cut,  mill,  drill,  and 
glue  various  parts  of  the  house;  pack- 
ing parts;  construction  site  and  house 
going  up;  and  Dutch  colonial  style 
frame  house. 

LEATHER 

955  it.,  ed.  (1923) 

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including  skinning  animal,  salting 
flesh  side  for  storing,  soaking  and 
softening  hides,  trimming,  treating 
with  lime  water  to  soften  hair,  and 
removing  hair  by  machine  and  with 
hand  tools;  tanning  processes  includ- 
ing soaking  the  hides  in  tan  liquor  in 
revolving  drum  and  squeezing  the  li- 
quor out  of  hide  with  large  rollers; 
ironing  tanned  hides;  splitting  leath- 
er by  machine;  shaving  sole  leather  by 
machine;  and  dyeing,  oiling,  and 
hardening  leather. 

MACARONI 

313  it.,  ed.  (1920  or  1921) 

Macaroni  dough  being  mixed  and 
kneaded  by  machinery  and  forced 
through  a  press  past  air  blowers,  mac- 
aroni on  racks  in  the  drying  room, 
power  saw  being  used  to  cut  maca- 
roni, and  women  workers  packing 
macaroni. 

PAPER 

1,100  ft.,  ed.  (1919  or  1920);  1,289  ft., 

uned.  (1919) 

Paper  manufacturing  processes:  pre- 
paring rags  and  wood;  bleaching  and 
draining  fibres;  beating  fibres  to  fine 
pulp;  spreading  wet  pulp  and  drain- 
ing water  from  it  on  Fourdrinier 
machines;  drying  and  pressing  paper 
in  rolling  machinery:  applying  fin- 
ishes; cutting,  sorting,  trimming,  and 
counting  finished  paper;  making  en- 
velopes by  machine:  making  book 
covers  by  machine;  making  cardboard 
in  a  press;  and  packaging  stationery. 

PENS 

523  ft.,  ed.  (1920) 

Rubber  refining  processes;  rubber 
tubing  coming  from  machine;  cutting 
tubing  into  pen  case  lengths;  turning, 
polishing,  engraving,  and  slitting  bar- 


rels; tapping  thread  and  drilling  vent 
and  clip-holes  in  cap;  assembling  cap 
and  clip;  cutting,  painting,  shaping, 
and  notching  channel  feed;  and  as- 
sembling and  inspecting  fountain 
pens. 

POTTERY 

1,632   ft.,    ed.    (1916,    1919);    216   ft., 

uned.  (1922) 

Preparing  clay;  potters  shaping 
bowls,  plates,  and  platters  on  potter's 
wheels,  sometimes  using  molds  and 
sometimes  by  hand;  casting  porcelain 
pitcher  in  mold;  applying  decorations 
to  moist  pieces;  loading  kilns;  and  in- 
specting, glazing,  and  decorating  pot- 
tery. 

RINGS 

120  ft.,  uned.  (1919) 

Men's  signet  ring  manufacturing 
processes  from  stamping  out  of  shapes 
to  the  finished  product. 

SAWS 

485  it.,  ed.  (1920) 

Rolling  steel  in  a  press,  cutting 
sheets  of  steel  into  saw  blades  and 
cutting  teeth  by  machine,  hardening 
and  tempering  blades,  setting  replace- 
able teeth  in  a  circular  saw,  beveling 
and  brazing  ends  of  a  bandsaw  to- 
gether, and  making  saw  handles  from 
apple  wood  and  fixing  them  to 
blades. 

SHOES 

517  it.,  ed.  (1917) 

Processes  in  the  manufacturing  of 
army  shoes:  preparing  leather,  cut- 
ting pieces  by  machine  die,  perforat- 
ing by  machine,  skiving  by  machine, 
making  linings,  sewing  uppers  to- 
gether, putting  in  hooks  and  eyes  by 
machine,  and  making  and  assembling 
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SILVERWARE 

1,760   ft.,   ed.   (1920);   551   ft.,   uned. 

(1920) 

Silverware  manufacturing  proces- 
ses: shaping  metal  in  presses  and  over 
forms  on  lathes;  cutting  openwork  de- 
signs by  saw  and  by  punch  press; 
stamping  patterns  on  flatware  han- 
dles; drop-forging  knife  handles;  sol- 
dering handles  together  and  onto 
blades  and  other  objects;  electroplat- 
ing finished  objects;  polishing,  burn- 
ishing, and  engraving  finished  ob- 
jects including  bowls,  dishes,  baskets, 
urns,  casseroles,  trays,  and  flatware; 
and  inspecting,  wrapping,  and  pack- 
ing silverware. 

SOAP 

730  ft.,  ed.  (1919);  56  ft.,  uned.  (1916) 
Manufacturing  processes  for  toilet 
soap  and  laundry  soap:  boiling  soap 
mixture  in  large  vats,  drying  stock  by 
machine,  grinding  solid  soap,  mixing 
perfume  with  soap  chips,  mixing  and 
kneading  soap  by  machine,  forming 
bars  in  presses,  cutting  cakes, 
machine-stamping  brand  name  on 
cakes,  and  wrapping  by  machine  and 
by  hand. 

Packing  cold  cream  and  face  pow- 
der. 

SPORTS  EQUIPMENT 

722  ft.,  ed.  (1920) 

Several  processes  in  the  manufac- 
turing of  footballs,  boxing  gloves, 
baseball  gloves,  and  baseballs. 

STEEL 

143  ft.,  ed.  (1919);  340  ft.,  uned.  (1920) 
Steel  mills;  cranes  unloading  ship; 
molten  steel  flowing  from  furnaces; 
and  steel  being  trimmed,  stamped, 
pressed,  punched,  buffed,  and  drilled. 


THERMOS  BOTTLES 

513  it.,  uned.  (1920) 

Workers  shaping  and  polishing  ther- 
mos bottle  liners,  turning  metal  outer 
bottles,  assembling  bottles  and  liners, 
and  sealing  vacuum  liners. 

TIRES 

822  ft.,  ed.  (1922);  120  ft.,  uned.  (1920) 
Map  indicating  the  rubber  produc- 
ing areas  of  the  world;  Ceylonese  rub- 
ber plantation;  rubber  refining  proc- 
esses; several  processes  in  making 
inner  tubes;  several  processes  in  mak- 
ing rubber  tires,  including  rubberiz- 
ing cotton  for  the  casings,  forming  the 
tires  on  molds,  shaping  the  tires  in 
hydraulic  presses,  vulcanizing  tires, 
and  inspecting  them;  and  testing  tires 
by  bouncing  them  off  a  metal  cleat. 

TOYS 

740  ft.,  ed.  (1920);  197  ft.,  uned.  (1920) 
Toy  factory  and  making  toy  pi- 
anos, dolls,  wooden  animals  for  toy 
circus,  and  a  doll  house;  and  a  fantasy 
in  which  dolls  and  toy  circus  animals 
and  a  clown  come  to  life  and  perform. 

UKULELE 

54  ft.,  ed.  (1917);  196  it.,  uned.  (1917) 
Worker  making  ukulele  by  hand, 
showing  several  stages. 

WALLPAPER 

469  it.,  ed.  (1918) 

Wallpapermaking  processes:  print- 
ing by  hand  and  machine,  mixing 
dyes  and  sizing,  designing  patterns, 
and  hand-carving  printing  rollers. 

WHEELS 

7,722  ft.,  ed.  (1918,  1919) 

Processes  in  making  wheels  for  au- 
tomobiles: several  stages  in  manufac- 
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their  assembly;  fitting  steel  tires  to  the 
wooden  rims;  attaching  hubs  to  the 
wheels;  and  sanding,  filing,  and  paint- 
ing finished  wheels. 

WIRE 

130  it.,  uned.  (1919) 

Workers  guiding  wire   around  re- 
volving drums  and  inspecting  wire. 


REGIONAL  GEOGRAPHY- 
UNITED  STATES 

GENERAL 

The  Great  Lakes 

924  ft.,  ed.  (1925) 

Map  of  the  Great  Lakes  area  and 
the  connecting  waterways;  Lake  Su- 
perior and  scenes  of  Picture  Rocks, 
Isle  Royale,  ships  underway,  beaver 
working,  a  copper  mine  and  refining 
plant  on  the  Keweenaw  Peninsula,  an 
iron  mine,  and  a  city  waterfront  with 
several  grain  elevators;  the  Soo  Canals 
with  ships  going  through  locks;  Lake 
Huron  and  Mackinac  Island  and  the 
blockhouse,  Arch  Rock,  and  Sugar 
Loaf;  Lake  Michigan  and  the  Chicago 
skyline,  the  Detroit  skyline,  a  large 
ferry  breaking  ice  on  the  Detroit 
River,  and  a  shipyard  and  the  build- 
ing and  launching  of  a  freighter; 
Lake  Erie  and  aerial  views  of  Toledo 
and  of  loading  and  unloading  a  ship 
at  Cleveland;  the  Niagara  River  and 
Falls  in  summer  and  in  winter;  and 
the  Welland  Canal  and  the  St.  Law- 
rence River. 

Rocky  Mountains 

2,509  ft.,  ed.  (1917,  1920,  1922);  193 

ft.,  uned.  (1917) 

Mountains,  valleys,  canyons,  streams, 
waterfalls,  lakes,  and  forests;  tourists 
at  lodges  and  camping;  animals  of 


the  Rocky  Mountains,  including  buf- 
falo, caribou,  elk,  deer,  black  bear, 
porcupine,  and  beaver;  baby  eagle  in 
a  nest;  a  miner  panning  for  gold; 
Grand  Canyon  of  the  Colorado  River; 
Spanish  Peaks  of  the  Sangre  de  Cristo 
Range;  and  map  of  Montana,  Idaho, 
Wyoming,  Utah,  Colorado,  and  New 
Mexico.  Areas  visited  are  described  in 
detail  under  the  individual  States. 
Separable  footage  is  described  under 
each  State. 

Southwest  United  States 

1,438  ft.,  uned.  (1920) 

Views  in  Arizona,  Arkansas,  Colo- 
rado, Louisiana,  and  New  Mexico,  all 
described  in  detail  under  the  indi- 
vidual States. 

ARIZONA 

General 

2,053  ft.,  ed.  (1916,  1917,  1920);  3,448 
ft.,  uned.  (1920) 

Many  mountain  scenes  with  can- 
yons, waterfalls,  rivers,  mesas,  and 
buttes;  desert  and  plants  including 
several  kinds  of  cactus  and  blossoms, 
yucca  in  bloom,  pinon  pines,  and  creo- 
sote bushes;  rattlesnakes  and  horned 
toads;  prairie  and  a  herd  of  buffalo; 
and  petrified  forests. 

Spanish  ruins. 

Cliff  dwellings  with  an  Indian 
climbing  out  of  kiva  by  ladder,  and 
rocks  with  Indian  paintings  on  them. 

Roosevelt  Dam  and  the  lake,  irri- 
gation ditches  and  powerlines,  and 
Elephant  Butte  Dam,  N.  Mex. 

Street  in  Phoenix,  the  capitol,  and 
a  swimming  pool. 

A  brick  kiln  at  Mimia  on  the 
Apache  Trail,  and  an  old  mining 
town  and  copper  mine  operations. 

The  town  of  Globe. 

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Days  celebration  at  Prescott,  includ- 
ing a  chariot  race,  parade,  and  rodeo 
events  such  as  calf  roping  and  tying, 
bull  riding,  bulldogging  steers,  bronc 
riding,  horseracing,  and  trick  riding. 

Railway  station  and  an  adobe 
building  at  Seligman;  and  adjacent 
countryside,  including  cattle  and 
horses  on  open  range,  and  a  hotel  and 
swimming  pool  in  desert. 

Large  cathedral  in  Tucson,  and  the 
ruins  of  Xavier  Mission. 

Miners  panning  for  gold. 

Indians  dancing  and  posing,  and 
men  making  adobe  brick. 

Highway  construction  including 
scenes  of  blasting  and  of  horse-drawn 
equipment. 

Grand  Canyon  of  the  Colorado  River 

1,192   it.,   ed.   (1916,   1920);   386   it., 

uned.  (1920) 

Map  indicating  the  Colorado  River 
Plateau,  diagram  illustrating  rock 
layers  and  stages  of  the  cutting  of  the 
canyon,  tourists  on  horseback  de- 
scending into  the  canyon,  and  the 
canyon  and  the  Colorado  River  from 
above  and  from  inside  the  canyon. 

ARKANSAS 

537  ft.,  ed.  (1919) 

The  town  of  Eureka  Springs  and 
the  surrounding  Ozark  Mountains, 
including  the  springs;  panoramas  of 
the  town  and  Crescent  College  for 
girls;  girls  on  horseback  and  picnick- 
ing on  a  mountain;  and  recreation 
facilities  at  Spring  Lake. 

Blue  Springs  and  the  surrounding 
countryside. 

Street  scenes  at  Little  Rock  and  the 
rock  from  which  the  city  got  its  name. 

A  resort  area  with  a  large  hotel  and 
bathhouses. 

Horseback  riders  on  wooded  trails. 

A  valley  and  farms  surrounded  by 


wooded    hills,    and    the    countryside 
taken  at  different  seasons  of  the  year. 
A   road  gang  made   up   of   Negro 
prisoners. 

CALIFORNIA 

Los  Angeles 

1,726  ft.,   ed.    (1916,    1917);    113   ft., 

uned.  (1920) 

Panorama  of  the  city,  Hall  of 
Records  and  Court  House,  Broadway, 
Clunes  Auditorium,  Central  Park,  re- 
tail district,  Angels  Flight  Inclined 
Railway  and  Third  Street  Tunnel, 
University  of  California,  California 
Hospital,  Chinatown,  Old  Plaza  and 
the  original  Mexican  Pueblo  of  Los 
Angeles,  Plaza  Church,  North  Hill 
Street  and  Double  Barrelled  Tunnel, 
Scottish  Rite  Temple,  Seventh  and 
Broadway,  Hollenbeck  Park,  West- 
lake  Park,  pipe  carrying  water  sup- 
ply, residential  area,  oilfield  and 
derricks,  and  a  roadbuilding  opera- 
tion. 

Missions 

503  it.,  ed.  (1917) 

Missions  along  El  Camino  Real,  in- 
cluding Old  Town  San  Diego,  San 
Luis  Rey,  San  Juan  Capistrano,  San 
Gabriel,  Santa  Barbara,  La  Purisima 
Concepcion,  and  San  Antonio  de 
Padua. 

Mount  Lowe,  Sierra  Madre  Range 

538  it.,  ed.  (1917) 

Tourists  on  trip  up  Mount  Lowe, 
going  the  first  part  of  the  trip  by  train 
and  streetcar  and  hiking  the  rest  of 
the  way;  views  of  the  surrounding 
mountains;  and  hikers,  among  whom 
are  women  wearing  long  skirts. 

Mount  Wilson 

640  it.,  ed.  (1917) 

Tourists  riding  mules  up  mountain 


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trail;  scenes  along  the  way,  including  glass  bottom  of  a  boat;  and  people 
a  valley  below,  snow-covered  moun-  riding  surfboards  being  towed  by  mo- 
tains,  and  forests;  and  the  observatory,  torboats. 


Sacramento 

102  ft.,  uned.  (1922) 

The  city  from  different  vantage 
points,  monuments,  a  square,  a 
domed  building,  traffic,  and  tourists 
looking  at  the  city  from  a  lodge  on  a 
high  hill. 

San  Diego 

400  ft.,  uned.  (1919) 

Panorama  of  business  district,  tour- 
ists on  sightseeing  tour,  rocky  coast- 
line, racetrack  and  horserace,  and  a 
country  road. 

San  Francisco 

376  ft.,  ed.  (1916) 

Nob  Hill  summit,  California  Street 
hill,  Hall  of  Justice,  end  of  the  Lin- 
coln Highway,  residential  area,  Chi- 
natown, Golden  Gate  Park,  General 
Grant  Statue,  Monument  to  Francis 
Scott  Key,  U.S.  Sub-Treasury,  U.S. 
Courthouse  and  Post  Office,  new  au- 
ditorium, Stevenson  Monument,  Ma- 
sonic Temple,  Soldiers  Monument, 
public  library,  City  Hall,  Japanese 
Garden  in  Golden  Gate  Park,  and 
the  city  at  night. 

Santa  Catalina  Island 

906  it.,  ed.  (1917);  481  it.,  uned.  (1920) 
Map  of  the  island  showing  its  rela- 
tionship to  the  California  coast;  tour- 
ists boarding  a  ship;  Los  Angeles  har- 
bor and  waterfront;  the  breakwater 
with  a  lighthouse  at  the  end;  steam- 
ship docking  at  Avalon,  Santa  Cata- 
lina, and  passengers  disembarking; 
shoreline  and  caves  from  the  water; 
an  old  Chinese  junk;  many  seals  on 
the  rocks  near  the  island;  plantlife 
and  a  swimmer  as  seen  through  the 


Santa  Clara  Valley  and  San  Jose 

1,044  it.,  ed.  (1921) 

Map  of  Santa  Clara  County;  San 
Jose  including  a  residential  area, 
business  district,  traffic,  San  Jose  High 
School,  San  Jose  State  Teachers  Col- 
lege, several  churches,  and  Edwin 
Markham  in  front  of  his  home;  land- 
marks and  points  of  interest  nearby, 
including  the  University  of  Santa 
Clara,  Stanford  University,  Mission 
Santa  Clara,  Mission  San  Jose,  and 
Mission  San  Juan  Bautista;  blossom 
festival;  orchards  -and  workers;  and 
cannery  scenes. 

Sierra  Nevada  Mountains 

557  ft.,  uned.  (1920) 

Valleys,  lakes,  mountains,  natural 
bridge,  rock  formations,  streams, 
cliffs,  and  canyons;  snaking  a  huge 
log  slung  under  a  two-wheeled  cart; 
mountain  meadows,  snowcapped 
mountains,  and  mine  structures;  Tro- 
jan Pass;  deep  gorge  and  waterfalls; 
and  timberline  and  snowbanks. 

Yosemite  Valley 

799   ft.,   ed.    (1917,   1920);    1,179   ft.} 

uned.  (1917,  1920) 
Diagrams  and  maps  illustrating  the 
formation  of  Yosemite  Valley  by  gla- 
cial action;  the  valley  including  El 
Capitan,  Bridal  Veil  Falls,  Cathedral 
Spires,  the  Falls  of  the  Yosemite, 
North  Dome,  Glacier  Point,  the  vil- 
lage of  Yosemite,  Tenaya  Canyon, 
Half  Dome,  Cloud's  Rest,  Washing- 
ton's Column,  Mirror  Lake,  Vernal 
Falls,  Nevada  Falls,  and  Liberty  Cap; 
and  tourists  on  horseback,  in  cars, 
around  campfires,  and  on  lookout 
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COLORADO 

893  ft.,  ed.  (1916,  1917);  196  it.,  uned. 
(1921) 

Plains,  foothills,  and  mountains 
near  Colorado  Springs:  Pikes  Peak 
and  the  cog  railroad;  the  Garden  of 
the  Gods;  the  Park  of  the  Red  Rocks; 
the  Pillars  of  Hercules  at  the  mouth 
of  Cheyenne  Canyon;  and  Seven  Falls 
in  Cheyenne  Canyon. 

Horseshoe  Falls  at  Estes  Park  and 
the  Continental  Divide  from  Estes 
Park. 

The  Royal  Gorge  of  the  Arkansas 
River  and  the  railroad  running 
through  it. 

Poncho  Pass. 

The  capitol  at  Denver. 

Several  animals  including  chip- 
munks, elk,  burros,  deer,  black  bear, 
porcupine,  skunk,  and  beaver;  and  an 
eagle  in  its  nest. 

A  miner  panning  for  gold. 

An  irrigation  dam. 

FLORIDA 

2,980  ft.,  ed.  (1917,  1920,  1921);  1,475 
ft.,  uned.  (1919,  1920) 

Tropical  scenery:  swamps,  a  grove 
of  mangrove  trees,  live  oaks  with 
Spanish  moss  hanging  from  them,  hi- 
biscus flowers,  sea  grapes,  Spanish 
bayonet,  several  varieties  of  palm  and 
pine  trees,  and  whooping  cranes. 

Jacksonville:  business  district,  wa- 
terfront, residential  section,  Panama 
Park,  a  beach,  and  the  shipyard. 

St.  Augustine:  a  Spanish  monu- 
ment, the  old  market,  Memorial  Pres- 
byterian Church,  the  Cathedral,  the 
garden  of  the  Ponce  de  Leon  Hotel, 
the  gardens  of  the  Alcazar,  and  the 
ruins  of  an  old  fortress. 

Seminole  Indians,  the  swamps  and 
islands  on  which  they  live,  and  their 


homes  and  way  of  life;  and  the  wild- 
life of  the  area,  including  alligators. 
Silver  Springs,  the  river  flowing 
from  the  springs,  and  the  surrounding 
countryside. 

GEORGIA 

427  it.,  ed.  (1917) 

Atlanta:  business  district,  the  Post 
Office  and  U.S.  Customs  building,  the 
State  capitol,  the  Terminal  Station,  a 
residential  area,  cotton  warehouses, 
Grant  Park,  East  Lake  Club  House 
and  golf  course,  Agnes  Scott  College 
for  girls,  Fort  McPherson,  a  Confeder- 
ate soldiers'  home,  Marietta  National 
Cemetery,  Bobby  Burns  Cottage,  and 
the  Federal  prison  and  a  cell  block. 

ILLINOIS 

98  it.,  uned.  (1920) 
Chicago  waterfront. 

LOUISIANA 

2,046  ft.,  ed.  (1917,  1923);  1,178  it., 
uned.  (1920-22) 

New  Orleans:  residential  and  busi- 
ness districts;  Royal,  St.  Charles,  and 
Canal  Streets;  Exchange  Alley;  Lee 
Circle;  Jackson  Square;  the  old 
French  market;  the  old  Cabildo;  Bay- 
ou St.  John;  ruins  of  the  Spanish 
Fort;  Metarie  Cemetery;  St.  Louis  Ca- 
thedral and  cemetery;  the  home  of 
Jean  Lafitte;  General  Benjamin 
Franklin  Butler's  headquarters;  the 
French  Quarter;  several  statues  and 
monuments;  City  Park;  the  New  Or- 
leans Cotton  Exchange;  levees;  the 
waterfront  and  Mississippi  River;  and 
Mardi  Gras  celebration  scenes. 

An  old  mansion  in  a  grove  of  trees. 

MARYLAND 

693  it.,  ed.  (1921) 

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Baltimore:  waterfront;  Baltimore, 
Howard,  and  Eutaw  Streets;  City 
Hall;  Pennsylvania  Union  and  Mount 
Royal  Stations;  the  Academy  of  Music 
and  Baltimore  College  buildings; 
Courthouse;  industrial  area;  several 
statues  and  monuments;  Lexington 
Market;  Fort  McHenry;  and  oyster 
boats  with  fishermen  unloading  oys- 
ters at  the  dock  and  giving  shucking 
demonstrations. 

MASSACHUSETTS 

327  it.,  ed.  (1917,  1918) 

Boston:  business  district,  Boston 
Common,  Beacon  Hill,  Granary 
Burying  Ground,  Monument  Square, 
New  Old  South  Church,  Forsyth  Den- 
tal Infirmary,  Notre  Dame  Academy, 
State  Armory,  Faneuil  Hall  Market, 
port  and  harbor,  Poet's  Corner,  Op- 
era House,  Symphony  Hall,  and  First 
Church. 

Cambridge:  Old  North  Bridge, 
monument  to  Capt.  John  Parker,  and 
the  Washington  Elm. 

MICHIGAN 

569  it.,  ed.  (1921);  483  ft.,  lined.  (1921) 
Detroit:  railroad  station,  business 
district,  several  public  buildings, 
industrial  areas,  outdoor  market, 
crowds  at  parks,  and  excursion  boat 
leaving  pier. 

MINNESOTA 

1269  it.,  ed.  (1917) 

Minneapolis:  business  district,  resi- 
dential area,  First  Church  of  Christ 
Scientist,  Congregational  Church, 
Minneapolis  Boat  Club,  Pro-Cathe- 
dral of  St.  Mary,  Lake  Calhoun,  First 
Presbyterian  Church,  Minneapolis 
Athletic  Club,  several  statues  and 
monuments,  Minnesota  Soldiers 
Home,  Minneapolis  Institute  of  Arts, 


park   scenes,    and    the   University   of 
Minnesota  campus. 

St.  Paul:  State  capitol;  Harriet  Is- 
land; railroad  yards;  Fort  Snelling; 
ice  formations  on  Minnehaha  Falls; 
and  a  winter  festival  including  a  pa- 
rade, christening  a  totem  pole,  sulky 
race  on  ice,  ice-skating  exhibitions, 
autosled  races,  tobogganing,  ski  jump- 
ing event,  and  dogsled  race. 

MISSOURI 

280  it.,  lined.  (1916,  1917) 

An  excursion  boat  trip  up  a  river  to 
Lake  Taney  Como  and  the  country- 
side. 

The  business  district  of  Joplin. 

MONTANA 

Glacier  National  Park. 

NEW  JERSEY 

1,163  it.,  ed.  (1917,  1919) 

Atlantic  City:  hotels  and  beaches, 
the  boardwalk,  and  tourists. 

NEW  MEXICO 

264  it.,  ed.  (1916);  301  it.,  lined.  (1916) 

Santa  Fe:  Main  Street,  the  Execu- 
tive Mansion,  the  capitol,  Cathedral 
of  the  Scottish  Rite  Masons,  a  park, 
burros  loaded  with  wood,  and  the 
U.S.  Indian  Industrial  Training 
School. 

The  Indian  village  of  Tesuque  and 
Indians  dancing  and  posing. 

Ruins  of  cliff  dwellings  in  Triples 
Canyon,  countryside,  mountains, 
canyons,  and  rock  formations. 

NEW  YORK 

3,871  it.,  ed.  (1916-21);  3,716  it.,  lined. 

(1917-20,  1925) 

New  York  City:  views  from  an  ele- 
vated railroad,  including  the  Hudson 
River  and  Riverside  Drive  from  130th 


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Street,  Riverside  Drive  from  94th 
Street,  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art, 
American  Museum  of  Natural  His- 
tory, Broadway  from  69th  Street,  Her- 
ald Square,  Battery  Park  and  the 
Aquarium,  Lower  Broadway,  and 
Washington  Arch;  skyline  from  sev- 
eral angles;  the  harbor  and  bridges; 
points  of  interest  including  the  Statue 
of  Liberty,  Grant's  Tomb,  Brooklyn 
Bridge,  the  Post  Office  on  Eighth  Ave- 
nue, the  public  library,  Woolworth 
Building,  Manhattan  Bridge,  Wil- 
liamsburg  Bridge,  and  Queensboro 
Bridge;  New  York  City,  Yonkers,  and 
the  palisades  from  an  excursion  boat 
on  the  Hudson  River;  and  Coney  Is- 
land including  crowds  in  a  concession- 
lined  street,  amusement  park  rides, 
and  beach. 

Niagara  Falls  and  River  in  summer 
and  winter. 

OHIO 

353  it.,  ed.  (1916) 

Cleveland:  business  district,  Euclid 
Avenue,  Public  Square,  a  statue,  sev- 
eral public  buildings,  Rocky  Bridge, 
Rockefeller  Park,  and  the  Garfield 
Memorial  Mausoleum. 

Toledo:  waterfront,  industrial  dis- 
trict, Madison  Street,  and  a  coal 
freighter. 

OREGON 

1,054  it.,  ed.  (1918,  1920) 

Portland:  Washington  Street, 
Broadway,  the  Multnomah  Athletic 
Club,  a  railway  bridge,  a  residential 
area,  Washington  Park,  Lewis  and 
Clark  Monument,  other  monuments 
and  statues,  U.S.  Custom  House, 
State  capitol  and  grounds,  the  Arling- 
ton Club,  a  public  market,  Willam- 
ette River  harbor  facilities,  and  Rose 
Carnival  parade. 


Mt.  Hood:  a  Ford  car  climbing  the 
mountain  through  deep  snow,  and 
hikers. 

PENNSYLVANIA 

576  it.,  ed.  (1916,  1917) 

Philadelphia:  streets  and  traffic,  the 
U.S.  Post  Office,  statues  and  monu- 
ments, seals  feeding  at  the  aquarium, 
Pennsylvania  Academy  of  Fine  Arts, 
City  Hall  Plaza,  City  Hall  Tower, 
Metropolitan  Opera  House,  and 
Broad  Street. 

Pittsburgh:  incline  railway  system, 
business  district,  residential  area, 
buildings  and  grounds  of  the  Car- 
negie Foundations,  Carnegie  Insti- 
tute of  Technology,  St.  Paul's  Cathe- 
dral, Historical  Society  of  Western 
Pennsylvania,  University  of  Pitts- 
burgh, Schenley  High  School,  Pitts- 
burgh Athletic  Club  and  Masonic 
Temple,  industrial  district,  and 
Highland  Park  Zoo. 

SOUTH  DAKOTA 

632  it.,  ed.  (1921);  73  it.,  uned.  (1920) 
Badlands;  Indians  in  native  dress 
dancing  and  riding;  and  tepees,  wag- 
ons, and  a  travois  with  children  on 
it. 

TENNESSEE 
159  it.,  ed.  (1917) 

Memphis:  skyline,  business  district, 
waterfront,  mule  market,  scenes  in  a 
park,  and  Harahan  Bridge. 

TEXAS 

289  it.,  ed.  (1920);  497  it.,  uned.  (1920) 
Austin:    State    capitol,    Red    Cross 
totem   pole  on   the  capitol  grounds, 
business    district,     Governor's     Man- 
sion,   and   a    dam   on    the   Colorado 
River. 
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facturing  district,  Masonic  Temple, 
the  city  skyline  in  the  evening,  busi- 
ness district,  and  a  meteor  crater. 

Irrigation  canal  and  dam  near  £1 
Paso. 

San  Antonio  and  area:  a  large  catch 
of  fish;  cowboys  on  horseback,  on  a 
wooded  trail,  and  around  a  campfire; 
mission  ruins;  an  irrigation  dam; 
Hole  in  the  Wall  trading  post;  Mis- 
sion of  San  Juan  de  Capistrano;  Mis- 
sion San  Francisco  de  la  Espada;  Mis- 
sion Concepcion;  Concepcion  ditch 
and  aqueduct;  Mission  San  Jose;  the 
Alamo;  Mexican  women  washing 
clothes  in  a  stream;  San  Antonio 
River  in  a  residential  area;  park;  and 
business  district. 

VIRGINIA 

1,623  it.,  ed.  (1916, 1917) 

Norfolk:  panorama  of  town  and 
harbor  area,  business  district,  the 
U.S.  Naval  Y.M.C.A.,  City  Avenue, 
City  Hall,  Portsmouth  Ferry,  Nation- 
al Bank  of  Commerce,  Main  Street, 
Atlantic  Avenue  Post  Office  and 
Board  of  Trade,  Granby  Street,  coal- 
loading  machinery  in  operation  at 
dock,  residential  areas,  Norfolk  High 
School,  Ghent  Bridge,  bales  of  cotton 
on  a  dock,  and  old  section  of  the  city. 

Richmond:  panorama  of  town, 
business  district,  Governor's  Mansion 
and  State  Library  in  Capitol  Square, 
White  House  of  the  Confederacy, 
City  Hall,  Three  Chopt  Road  and 
Virginia  Country  Club,  Pumping  Sta- 
tion with  soldiers  guarding  it,  Con- 
federate veterans'  home,  Monument 
Avenue,  St.  John's  Episcopal  Church, 
Washington  and  Lafayette's  Revolu- 
tionary War  Headquarters,  falls  of 
the  James  River,  Seven  Pines  Civil 
War  battlefield  area,  and  statues  and 
monuments. 


WASHINGTON 

2,7*5  ft.,  ed.  (1916,  1917);  203  ft.,  ed., 
16  mm.  (1921);  and  391  ft.,  uned. 
(1917) 

Cascade  Range  and  points  of  inter- 
est along  the  Columbia  River  High- 
way: Rooster  Rock,  Crown  Point, 
Gorge  of  the  Columbia,  Latourell 
Falls,  Falls  of  Multnomah,  tunnel  at 
Oneonta  Gorge,  Horsetail  Falls,  St. 
Peter's  Dome,  Falls  of  McCord  Creek, 
Moffett  Creek,  Wahkuna  Falls,  Shep- 
perd's  Dell,  Mt.  Rainier,  forests,  gla- 
ciers, streams,  and  snow  and  a  moun- 
tain lodge. 

Seattle:  waterfront;  Puget  Sound; 
Lake  Washington  Canal  Locks;  Vol- 
unteer Park;  Lighthouse  at  Alki 
Point;  Queen  Anne  Hill;  University 
of  Washington  Campus;  the  Smith 
Building;  Public  Market;  U.S.  Court- 
house, Customhouse,  and  Post  Office; 
school  buildings;  St.  James  Cathe- 
dral; First  Baptist  and  First  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Churches;  First 
Church  of  Christ  Scientist;  and  stat- 
ues and  monuments. 

Spokane:  zoo,  Duncan  Garden  in 
Manitou  Park,  business  district,  resi- 
dential area,  public  library,  and  falls 
of  the  Spokane  River. 

Lake  Coeur  d'Alene  in  Idaho. 

Tacoma:  business  district,  water- 
front, Pacific  Avenue,  residential 
areas,  and  Point  Defiance  Park. 

Olympia:  Temple  of  Justice  and 
the  Governor's  Mansion. 

Pleasure  boat  cruise  along  the 
Hood  Canal  and  views  of  the  San 
Juan  Islands  in  the  Strait  of  Georgia. 

WYOMING 

1348  ft.,  uned.  (1917) 

Yellowstone  Park:  bear  cubs  climb- 
ing a  tree,  people  feeding  bears, 
waterfalls,  boiling  mud  springs,  can- 


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yon  of  the  Yellowstone  River,  several 
geysers,  mountains,  and  a  lodge. 

WASHINGTON,  D.C.,  AND  AREA 

1,681  ft.,  ed.  (1917,  1918,  1921);  2,162 

ft.,  lined.  (1916,  1921,  1924) 
Panoramas  of  the  city  and  the  Po- 
tomac River;  residential  areas  and  the 
business  district;  Pennsylvania  and 
Connecticut  Avenues;  the  Mall  look- 
ing toward  the  Capitol;  and  exteriors 
and  interiors  of  the  Capitol,  White 
House,  Library  of  Congress,  and  Bu- 
reau of  Engraving  and  Printing.  Ex- 
teriors of  Government  buildings  in- 
cluding Patent  Office;  Pension;  State, 
Army,  and  Navy;  Treasury;  Naval 
Radio  Station;  Senate  Office;  Naval 
Observatory;  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture; Old  Post  Office;  Smithsonian  In- 
stitution and  Smithsonian  Museum  of 
Natural  History;  Pan  American 
Building;  Union  Station;  French, 
former  Russian,  Italian,  English,  and 
former  German  Embassies;  George- 
town University;  Scottish  Rite  Tem- 
ple; National  Theatre;  Oldest  Inhabi- 
tants Building;  Washington's  Head- 
quarters while  surveying  the  capital 
site;  Capitol  Hotel  where  Congress 
met  and  Octagon  House  where  Presi- 
dent James  Madison  lived  after  the 
British  burned  Washington;  Ford's 
Theatre  and  the  house  where  Lincoln 
died;  Lee  Mansion;  Carlisle  House; 
Marshall  House;  Old  Stone  House, 
Georgetown;  the  Christian  Heurich 
home;  Mount  Vernon  house,  out- 
buildings, and  Washington's  tomb; 
and  Christ  Church  in  Alexandria. 
L'Enfant's  tomb  and  grave  of  the  Un- 
known Soldier  at  Arlington  Cemetery, 
Lincoln  Memorial,  Washington  Mon- 
ument, Grand  Army  of  the  Republic 
Monument,  Christopher  Columbus 
Memorial  Fountain,  and  Roughriders' 


Monument.  Statues  of  Gen.  Ulysses  S. 
Grant,  Adm.  David  Farragut,  Gen. 
Andrew  Jackson,  Daniel  Webster, 
George  Washington,  Benjamin  Frank- 
lin, the  Marquis  de  Lafayette,  Gen. 
Casimir  Pulaski,  Baron  von  Steuben, 
Comte  de  Rochambeau,  Thaddeus 
Kosciusko,  Gen.  Philip  H.  Sheridan, 
and  Abraham  Lincoln  with  a  kneeling 
slave.  President  Warren  G.  Harding 
getting  into  a  car;  delegates  to  a 
World  Arms  Conference,  including 
Charles  Evans  Hughes  and  Georges 
Clemenceau;  and  the  funeral  cortege 
of  the  Unknown  Soldier  and  inter- 
ment ceremonies  at  Arlington  Ceme- 
tery, President  Warren  G.  Harding 
and  Gen.  John  J.  Pershing  in  the  pro- 
cession. 

HAWAIIAN  ISLANDS 

4,164  it.,  ed.  (1916,  1917,  1919) 

Honolulu:  residential  areas;  a  busi- 
ness district  consisting  mainly  of  Jap- 
anese shops;  the  capitol,  formerly  the 
palace  of  Queen  Liliuokalani;  the 
home  of  Queen  Liliuokalani;  Judici- 
ary Building;  Mission  Memorial;  the 
Honolulu  Normal  School;  a  row  of 
one-room  school  buildings  with  many- 
children  playing  outside;  the  public 
library;  Old  Coral  Church;  a  statue 
of  King  Kamehameha:  views  of  Kapio- 
lani  Park;  and  a  historical  pageant 
with  a  parade  and  many  children  par- 
ticipating in  dances  and  drills. 

Hawaiian  countryside:  Waikiki 
Beach  and  Diamond  Head,  other 
beaches,  mountains,  waterfalls,  tropi- 
cal growth,  and  a  village;  people 
making  poi,  fishing  with  a  seine  in 
shallow  water,  surf  riding,  and  mak- 
ing leis;  banana,  sugarcane,  and 
pineapple  growing;  and  Kilauea 
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PANAMA  CANAL  ZONE 

1,883  ft.,  ed.  (1919,  1922) 

The  canal;  Rio  Chagres;  Gatun 
Dam;  Gold  Hill;  blasting  operations 
in  Gaillard  Cut;  Empire  Cut;  electric 
locomotives  pulling  ships  through  the 
locks;  details  of  lock  mechanisms  and 
emergency  dams;  Panama  Railroad 
running  beside  the  canal;  villages  of 
thatch  huts  along  the  canal  banks; 
the  towns  of  Cristobal,  Balboa,  An- 
con,  and  Col6n;  and  Chester  Hard- 
ing, Governor  of  the  Canal  Zone. 

Panama  City,  Republic  of  Panama: 
waterfront,  the  President's  house,  the 
National  Institute  of  Education,  the 
Sea  Wall,  Avenida  Centrale,  and  a 
street  market. 

Panamanians  washing  clothes  and 
bathing  in  a  stream,  grinding  meal 
with  mortar  and  pestle,  cooking  out 
of  doors,  cooking  over  an  open  fire  in 
a  hut,  and  a  man  chaffing  rice. 


REGIONAL  GEOGRAPHY- 
FOREIGN 

BAHAMA  ISLANDS  AND  JAMAICA 

2,397  it.,  ed.  (1920,  1921);  2,338  it., 
uned.  (1920) 

Scenes  on  and  from  a  schooner  sail- 
ing from  Nassau,  New  Providence  Is- 
land, to  Kingston,  Jamaica:  fishermen 
unloading  catch,  workers  unloading 
log  wood  from  a  boat  onto  the  beach, 
sailors  on  the  deck  of  a  schooner,  and 
Port  Royal. 

Kingston,  Jamaica:  harbor,  traffic 
in  the  warehouse  area,  native  women 
carrying  baskets  on  their  heads,  chil- 
dren, business  district,  and  residen- 
tial areas. 

Nassau,  New  Providence  Island: 
business  district,  street  vendors,  po- 
lice station,  ruins  of  Fort  Fincastle 


and  the  Queen's  Staircase,  home  of 
the  Governor  of  Nassau,  Governor's 
Guard,  harbor,  a  statue  of  Christo- 
pher Columbus,  and  residential  area. 

Grantstown,  New  Providence  Is- 
land: a  stone  quarry,  a  field  of  sisal, 
sisal  bundles  on  a  dock,  women  weav- 
ing sisal,  and  many  natives. 

Beaches,  tropical  and  mountain 
scenery,  towns  and  villages,  piles  of 
salt,  shipping  and  farming,  ox-drawn 
carts  and  plows,  and  British  soldiers 
drilling. 

Bimini  Island. 

CANADA 

The  Canadian  Rockies 

2,782  ft.,  ed.  (1916,  1919-21);  697  ft., 

uned.  (1916-19) 

A  party  taking  an  incline  railway 
from  Laggan  to  Lake  Louise  and 
climbing  a  mountain;  tourists  riding, 
climbing,  swimming,  golfing,  and 
boating;  Canadian  Rockies  in  the 
area  of  the  headwaters  of  the  Colum- 
bia River;  a  party  climbing  Mount 
Edith  Cavell  by  horseback  and  on 
foot;  and  Mount  Victoria,  Mount 
Whyte,  and  the  Lefroy  and  Victoria 
Glaciers. 

Thousand   Islands    in   the    St.   Law- 
rence River 

347  it.,  ed.  (1919) 

Islands,  houses,  and  boat  docks  as 
seen  from  a  moving  boat. 

CUBA 

746  it.,  uned.  (1919) 

Oxen  pulling  carts  and  plows,  na- 
tives working  in  fields,  native  huts, 
and  countryside  near  Havana;  and 
Havana  business  district,  public  build- 
ings, harbor,  lighthouse  on  a  rocky 
point,  and  lighthouse  and  fortifica- 
tions as  seen  from  the  water. 


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JAPAN 

379  it.,  ed.  (1920);  228  ft.,  uned.  (1920) 
Cherry  Blossom  Festival  with  a  pa- 
rade and  geisha  girls  dancing  in  the 
street;  and  traffic  scenes  in  Tokyo,  in- 
cluding coolies  pulling  jinrikishas, 
people  riding  bicycles,  horse-drawn 
vehicles,  and  streetcar  and  truck 
traffic. 

MEXICO 

2J79  ft.,  ed.  (1918-21,  1925);  3,060  ft., 
uned.  (1919,  1920) 

Tour  of  Mexico  by  a  group  of 
Americans  and  Mexicans:  Nogales, 
Ariz.;  ruins  of  the  Mission  Tumaca- 
cori  and  the  mission  at  Tuscon;  El 
Paso  business  district,  residential 
area,  ruins  of  Old  Fort  Bliss  and  the 
new  fort,  and  the  bridge  over  the  Rio 
Grande  to  Mexico;  railroad  stations 
and  people  at  Jimenez,  Zacatecas,  and 
Aguascalientes;  town  of  Guadalupe 
from  a  distance;  railroad  station, 
street  scenes,  and  the  residential  area 
of  Guadalajara;  street  scenes,  Borda 
Garden,  and  Empress  Carlota's  bath- 
ing pool  at  Cuernavaca;  and  Mexico 
City  street  scenes,  Plaza  de  Constitu- 
tion, Chapultepec  Castle  and  Park, 
several  cathedrals  and  churches,  the 
National  Pawn  Shop,  the  National 
Theatre,  Palacio  de  Comunicaciones, 
Ministry  of  the  Interior,  the  Chamber 
of  Deputies,  Benito  Juarez  Monu- 
ment, Independence  Monument,  Ala- 
meda  Park,  Paseo  de  la  Reforma,  and 
the  President-elect  Alvaro  Obregon 
greeting  visitors  and  being  escorted  to 
his  inauguration  by  retiring  President 
Adolfo  de  la  Huerta. 

Hermosillo:  street  scenes,  a  school, 
public  buildings,  and  ruins. 

Juarez:  Custom  House,  City  Hall 
and  Police  Department,  Juarez  Agri- 


cultural   College,    and    ruins    and    a 
monument  at  Peace  Grove. 

Points  of  interest:  the  pyramids  at 
San  Juan  Teotihuacan,  the  Rio 
Grande,  Church  of  the  Sacred  City  of 
Mexico  Guadalupe,  an  old  aqueduct 
at  Guadalupe,  Aztec  artifacts  in  a 
museum,  peons'  homes,  Spanish 
buildings  and  haciendas,  and  Viga 
Canals  with  Xochimilco  Indians  pol- 
ing boats;  Mexican  seacoast  at  Maz- 
atlan,  Sinaloa,  including  rocky  shore- 
line, harbor,  and  village  of  thatch- 
roofed  huts;  and  people  on  the  beach, 
at  railroad  stations,  in  the  patio  of 
a  large  house,  at  a  sidewalk  cafe,  and 
riding  mules  and  bicycles. 

REPUBLIC  OF  PANAMA 

733  ft.,  ed.  (1919);  268  ft.,  uned.  (1919) 
Panama  City:  traffic  including 
streetcars,  cars,  horse-drawn  carriages, 
horse  drawn  and  ox-drawn  carts,  and 
pedestrians;  outdoor  markets  and 
vendors;  waterfront  with  boats  in  the 
harbor;  National  Institute;  the  Presi- 
dencia;  the  Sea  Wall;  City  Hall;  the 
Plaza;  Tivoli  Hotel;  and  the  ruins  of 
San  Domingo  Church. 


HISTORY  OF  THE 
UNITED  STATES 

COLONIAL  PERIOD 

2,480  ft.,  ed.  (1920,  1921);  999  ft., 
uned.  (1916,  1918,  1920) 

Pre-Columbian  Old  Stone  Mill  or 
Round  Tower,  Newport,  R.I. 

Map  of  Florida  designating  Spanish 
settlements  at  Tampa,  St.  Augustine, 
West  Palm  Beach,  and  Miami;  monu- 
ment at  the  site  of  Ponce  de  Leon's 
landing  in  Florida  and  the  Fountain 
of  Youth;  and  St.  Augustine  includ- 
ing the  ancient  wall  around  the  old 


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city,  the  Post  Office  that  was  once 
the  Spanish  Governor's  palace,  streets 
and  buildings  in  the  old  Spanish  part 
of  the  city,  a  Huguenot  cemetery,  an 
old  chapel,  and  ruins  of  San  Marco 
Castle. 

Palace  of  the  Spanish  Governors  at 
Santa  Fe,  N.  Mex.;  Pueblo  Indians 
building  houses  of  stones  covered 
with  adobe,  winnowing  wheat,  grind- 
ing corn  on  a  metate,  baking  in  out- 
door beehive  oven,  weaving  baskets, 
making  jewelry  and  pottery,  display- 
ing blankets  and  rugs,  and  dancing; 
Spanish  missions;  cliff  dwellings  and 
Indian  carvings  on  rocks;  and  desert 
and  mountains. 

Lake  Champlain  and  ruins  of  Fort 
Ticonderoga. 

Maps  designating  English  settle- 
ments; rocky  coast  and  Pilgrim's 
Monument  at  Provincetown,  Mass.; 
Plymouth  Rock,  Forefathers'  Monu- 
ment, Pilgrim  Hall,  Pilgrim  Ceme- 
tery, and  the  home  of  John  Winslow 
at  Plymouth,  Mass.;  Harvard  Univer- 
sity; Boston  Common;  Old  Stone 
Mill,  Washington  Square,  Channing 
Memorial  Church,  Colony  House, 
and  Belleview  Avenue  at  Newport, 
R.I.;  William  Penn's  home  at  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.;  and  Pittsburgh,  Pa., 
business  district. 

REVOLUTIONARY  WAR  PERIOD 

3,100  it.,  ed.  (1918,  1920,  1923,  1925); 
170  ft.,  uned.  (1918,  1919) 

Maps  indicating  important  Revolu- 
tionary sites. 

Sites  in  Boston:  Boston  Common, 
Old  State  House,  Faneuil  Hall,  Old 
South  Church,  King's  Chapel  and 
burying  ground,  Old  South  Meeting 
House,  Beacon  Hill,  Harbor  and 
Griffin  and  T  Wharfs,  Granary  Bury- 


ing Ground  and  headstones  of  several 
Revolutionary  heroes,  and  Sons  of 
Liberty  and  Massacre  Monuments. 

Sites  at  Lexington:  Lexington 
Green,  Hancock  House,  Buckman 
Tavern,  Munroe  Tavern,  and  Bunker 
Hill  Monument. 

Sites  at  Cambridge:  Washington 
Elm,  Harvard  Hall,  Washington's 
Headquarters,  Paul  Revere  House, 
Christ  Church,  and  Chopp's  Burying 
Ground. 

Sites  at  Concord:  Wright  Tavern, 
Monument  Square,  a  British  ceme- 
tery, and  Concord  Bridge  and  Monu- 
ments. 

Sites  at  Philadelphia:  City  Hall, 
Independence  Hall,  Liberty  Bell, 
Penn's  home,  Betsy  Ross  house,  and 
Fairmont  Park. 

Site  of  Fort  Washington  and 
Washington's  headquarters  at  Valley 
Forge. 

Portraits  of  John  Adams,  Thomas 
Jefferson,  and  George  Washington; 
Mt.  Vernon;  and  history  of  the  devel- 
opment of  the  U.S.  flag. 

CIVIL  WAR  PERIOD 

1,623  ft.,  ed.  (1917,  1920) 

Map  of  the  United  States. 

William  Lloyd  Garrison's  tomb; 
portraits  of  James  Buchanan  and 
Abraham  Lincoln;  monuments  to 
Confederate  generals  Robert  E.  Lee, 
A.  S.  Johnson,  and  Pierre  G.  T.  Beau- 
regard;  and  monuments  to  Union 
generals  Ulysses  S.  Grant  and  Wil- 
liam T.  Sherman,  and  to  Adm.  David 
Farragut. 

Harvard  Memorial  Hall. 

Painting  of  the  battle  of  the  Moni- 
tor and  the  Merrimac;  ruins  of  the 
fort  and  the  battleground  at  Vicks- 
burg;  Ford's  Theatre  and  the  house 


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where  Lincoln  died;  and  inner  line  of 
breastworks,  St.  Paul's  church,  and 
Seven  Pines  battlefield  at  Richmond. 

Scenes  of  a  reunion  of  Confederate 
and  Union  veterans  at  Vicksburg  and 
State  monuments  on  the  battle- 
ground. 


NATURE  STUDY 

ANIMALS  AND  BIRDS 

General 

1,743  ft.,  ed.  (1919,  1920,  1923);  3^246 

it.,  uned.  (1920,  1921) 
Domestic  animals  and  young,  wild 
animals  and  young  in  zoos  and  in 
natural  habitats,  domestic  fowl  and 
young,  and  wild  birds  and  young  in 
zoos  and  in  natural  habitats. 

Alligators 

653  it.,  ed.  (1920);  653  it.,  uned.  (1916) 
Two  men,  one  a  Seminole  Indian, 
hunting  alligators  in  the  Everglades; 
and  alligators  in  enclosures. 

Aquarium 

809  ft.,  uned.  (1919) 

Turtles,  various  fish,  eels,  and  crabs 
in  tanks;  and  seals  in  an  enclosure. 

Bears 

104  it.,  uned.  (1916,  1919) 

Bears   and  cubs  in  woods   and   in 
cage. 

Beaver 

269  it.,  ed.  (1919);  51  it.,  uned.  (1918) 
Dam,  beaver  house,  and  beaver  at 
work;  and  beaver  coat  and  muff. 

Birds 

816   it.,   ed.   (1926);   1290   ft.,   uned. 

(1916,  1920,  1921) 

Wild  birds,  nests,  eggs,  and  young: 
blue] ays,    downy    woodpeckers,    flick- 


ers, redheaded  woodpeckers,  chipping 
sparrows,  Baltimore  orioles,  catbirds, 
shrikes,  nighthawks,  nuthatches,  barn 
swallows,  bank  swallows,  robins, 
screech  owls,  and  geese. 

Ostriches 

355  it.,  ed.  (1916) 

Ostrich  farm  showing  pens  and 
keeper,  and  man  riding  ostrich. 

Porcupine 

98  it.,  ed.  (1919) 

Porcupine  in  tree  and  on  ground, 
and  quills  in  stick. 

LUTHER  BURBANK 

2,431  it.,  ed.  (1917,  1919,  1922,  1927); 

170  it.,  uned.  (1917) 
Burbank's  experimental  farm  in 
California;  Burbank  showing  plants 
and  trees  including  roses,  walnuts, 
spineless  cactus,  flax,  artichokes,  mon- 
key puzzle  pine  tree,  wheat,  potatoes, 
oats,  rhubarb,  cotton,  sunflower,  and 
lilies;  and  house,  gardens,  greenhouse, 
and  fields. 

RIVERS 

951  it.,  ed.  (1919,  1920) 

Streams  and  rivers  in  mountains, 
through  valleys  and  gorges,  and  across 
prairies;  dams;  boating,  swimming, 
fishing,  speedboat  racing,  and  cutting 
ice;  harbor;  and  seashore. 

SEQUOIA  TREES 

511  it.,  ed.  (1923);  101  ft.,  uned.  (1917) 
Map  of  California,  designating  Na- 
tional Parks;  and  named  trees  and 
groups  of  trees  including  the  General 
Sherman,  the  General  Grant,  the 
Grizzly  Giant,  and  the  Confederate 
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RECREATION  AND  SPORTS 

GENERAL 

432  ft.,  ed.  (1917);  $78  ft.,  uned.  (1919, 

1920) 

Sporting  events  and  recreational 
activities:  tennis,  horseracing,  field 
events,  soccer,  boxing,  baseball  game, 
sandlot  baseball,  sailing,  bowling  on 
green,  dice,  checkers,  sleighing,  dog 
sledding,  and  others  described  in  de- 
tail under  the  specific  activity. 

CAMP 

183  ft.,  ed.  (1918);  188  ft.,  uned.  (1919) 
Detroit    Recreation    Camp,    Eliza- 
beth Lake,  Mich.:  children  and  adults 
swimming,  canoeing,  and  picnicking. 

CIRCUS 

255  ft.,  ed.  (1919);  250  ft.,  uned.  (1919) 
Buffalo  Bill  Cody  and  an  old  In- 
dian; circus  parade;  steam  calliope; 
crowds;  tent;  and  animals  including 
elephants,  dogs,  horses  and  mules, 
camels,  and  zebras. 

TROUT  FISHING 

390  ft.,   ed.   (1919);   1,308  ft.,   uned. 

(1918,  1919) 

Fishermen  on  the  Au  Sable  River 
fly  fishing  from  canoes  and  wading  in 
river;  group  in  and  around  house  on 
riverbank;  and  a  trout  hatchery, 
process  of  taking  eggs  from  trout,  and 
different  kinds  and  sizes  of  trout. 

FOOTBALL 

112  ft.,  ed.  (1917);  233  ft.,  uned.  (1919) 
Two  University  of  Michigan  games, 
one  versus  Ohio  State  University. 

GOLF 

797  ft.,  ed.  (1920,  1925);  971  ft.,  uned. 

(1919,  1925) 

Professionals  Ted  Ray,  Harry  Var- 
don,  Alex  Ross,  and  Walter  Hagen 


playing   golf   at   Detroit   Golf   Club; 
and  other  golfers. 

HUNTING 

287  ft.,  uned.  (1920) 

Small-game  hunting  with  dogs. 

PICNIC 

250  ft.,  uned.  (1916) 

Young  people  picnicking  on  lake 
beach. 

POLO 

469  ft.,  uned.  (1924) 

Spectators  and  grandstands,  horses 
paraded  around  field,  trophies,  and 
polo  games. 

AUTO  RACES 

108  ft.,  uned.  (1919) 

Drivers  with  cars,  and  race. 

SPEEDBOAT  RACES 

204   it.,   ed.   (1919);   2,957   ft.,   uned. 

(1919-21,  1923,  1925) 
Several  speedboat  races  including 
Gar  Wood  driving  Mm  Detroit  III  on 
the  Detroit  River,  marinas,  judges' 
floats,  racing  boats  at  dock  and  rac- 
ing, yachts,  and  spectators. 

WATER  SPORTS 

829  ft.,  uned.  (1919,  1920) 

Surfboard  rider,  swimming  instruc- 
tion and  demonstrations,  races,  and 
diving. 

WINTER  SPORTS 

255  ft.,  ed.  (1916,  1917);  663  ft.,  uned. 

(1916,  1919) 

Iceboating;  bobsledding;  toboggan- 
ing; ski  jumping;  ice  skating  in  hock- 
ey games,  races,  figure  skating,  and 
barrel  jumping;  and  a  skimobile. 


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SANITATION  AND  HEALTH 

CHILDREN'S  HOSPITAL 

653  ft.,  ed.  (1920) 

Care,  education,  and  recreational 
activities  of  chronically  ill  children  in 
a  hospital. 

CITY  WATER  SUPPLY 

428  ft.t  ed.  (1921);  586  ft.,  uned.  (1919) 
Diagram  illustrating  water  course 
from  pumping  station  to  water  tap; 
intake  crib  in  lake;  tunnel  to  pump- 
ing station;  filter  tanks;  pumping  sta- 
tion; and  springs,  streams,  and  dams. 


TECHNICAL 

CARBURETOR 

630  it.,  ed.  (1925) 

Diagrams  of  carburetors  and  pho- 
tographs of  a  carburetor  and  its  parts, 
with  detailed  descriptions  and  dem- 
onstrations of  carburetor  operation. 

COMMUNICATIONS  SYSTEMS 

1,136  ft.,  ed.  (1920,  1921);  2,934  ft., 

lined.  (1918-20) 

History  of  message-sending  tech- 
niques from  runner  to  radio;  tele- 
graph sending  and  receiving;  stock 
ticker  sending  and  receiving;  trans- 
atlantic cable  system;  and  telephone 
systems  illustrating  line  installation, 
switchboard  installation  and  opera- 
tion, the  training  of  operators,  and 
line  repair. 

GEOGRAPHY 

7,526  ft.,  ed.  (1919) 

Diagrams,  animated  cartoons,  balls, 
tops,  and  the  like,  illustrating  the 
earth's  relationships  to  the  sun  and 
moon,  earth's  shape  and  motion,  and 


effect  of  earth's  motion  on  the  seasons 
of  the  year  and  the  determination  of 
units  of  time;  and  explanation  of 
earth's  gravitational  pull. 

OIL 

934  ft.,  ed.  (1925);  869  it.,  uned.  (1920, 
1921);  1  it.  of  freeze  dips  (1926) 
Oil  drilling  and  refining  tech- 
niques: includes  diagrams  of  earth's 
crust,  illustrating  typical  location  of 
oil  pools;  drilling,  striking,  and 
pumping;  derricks  and  drilling  ma- 
chinery; shooting  a  well  with  nitro- 
glycerine; shutting  off  a  gusher;  stor- 
age tanks;  transporting  crude  oil  by 
pipeline,  railroad  tank  cars,  and  ship; 
stills  at  a  refinery;  distillates  in  order 
of  drawing  off;  and  transporting  gaso- 
line by  pipeline  to  dock  and  by  ship 
to  Europe. 

SHIPYARD  CONSTRUCTION 

891  it.,  uned.  (1917) 

Construction  of  Hog  Island  Ship- 
yard, Delaware  River,  Pa.,  including 
hiring  workers,  driving  piles,  laying 
floor,  and  constructing  ways. 

WATER  POWER 

616  it.,   ed.   (1920);   2,015   it.,   uned. 

(1916,  1919,  1920) 

Mountain  streams,  rivers,  and  wat- 
erfalls; water  wheels  and  mills;  dams 
and  power  plants;  and  high  tension 
lines. 

ZINC 

739  it.,  ed.  (1919) 

Maps  indicating  locations  of  zinc 
mines;  mine  town;  underground  and 
open  pit  mining  processes;  elevators, 
mine  cars,  buckets,  and  steam  shovels; 
several  techniques  for  recovering  zinc 
from  ore;  smelting;  drawing  zinc  from 
furnace;  and  casting  slabs. 


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SPECIAL  SUBJECTS 

GENERAL  INTEREST  ITEMS 

251   ft.,   ed.   (1919,   1921);   2,426   ft., 

uned.  (1918-20,  1923,  1924) 
Men  in  a  rowboat  on  a  lake;  two 
small  children  playing  with  snakes;  a 
boy  performing  dramatic  mono- 
logues; a  group  of  men  entering  a 
dining  room;  men  walking  through  a 
large  stone  arch  and  along  a  beach; 
group  of  men  and  women  boarding  a 
motor  launch;  several  couples  taking 
turns  performing  comic  skits;  a  bugler 
blowing  bugle  and  troops  leaving 
barracks;  a  man  playing  a  violin;  a 
house  under  construction;  a  country 
house  with  people  in  front;  camping 
scenes  including  a  picnic  in  the 
mountains,  a  camping  motorcade, 
campsites,  and  two  men  camping  in  a 
car;  scenes  of  the  countryside,  in- 
cluding traffic,  burros  loaded  with 
wood,  farm  buildings  and  a  windmill, 
an  oxcart  loaded  with  logs,  and  a 
mule-drawn  plow;  Curtiss  JN-4D 
(Jenny)  airplane  taking  off  and  in 
flight  over  a  military  airfield  in  a  re- 
cruitment appeal  for  the  air  service; 
model  planes  shown  and  launched  by 
boys;  storm-damaged  trees  and  build- 
ings in  residential  area;  and  truck 


and  pedestrian  traffic  in  an  industrial 
area. 

CARTOONS 

Boycott  Cartoon 

47  ft.,  ed.  (1919) 

Comedy  Cartoons 

903  ft.,  ed.  (1919-21) 

High  Cost  of  Living  Cartoon 

58  ft.,  ed.  (1920) 

Liberty  Loan  and  Patriotic  Cartoons, 
World  War  I 

627  ft.,  ed.  (1917,  1919) 

Liberty  loan  appeals  and  anti- 
German  propaganda. 

U.S.  Thrift  Stamp  and  Anti-Industrial 
Workers  of  the  World  (IWW) 

159  ft.,  ed.  (1919) 

NEWS  ITEMS 

500  it.,  uned.  (1920,  1923) 

Albion  College  Inaugural  cere- 
mony, Albion,  Mich.,  and  the  100th 
anniversary  celebration  of  Ypsilanti, 
Mich.  (1923). 

PARADES 

A  parade  in  New  York  City,  and 
costumed  girls  riding  in  carriages 
mounted  on  railroad  wheels  and 
drawn  by  an  old  locomotive. 


Ford  News,"  1934 


The  "Ford  News"  consists  of  short 
newsreels  shown  at  Detroit  theaters 
for  advertising  purposes  during  1934. 
The  collection  contains  7,249  feet  of 
edited,  35  mm.,  silent,  black  and  white 
film;  597  feet  of  unedited,  35  mm.,  si- 
lent, black  and  white  film;  and  532 
feet  of  duplicate  film. 


PROMINENT  INDIVIDUALS 

MAYOR  FRANK  COUZENS  OF 
DETROIT 

With  Polish-American  Legionnaires, 
greeting  Polish  General  Haller. 

SECRETARY  OF  LABOR  FRANCES 
PERKINS 

In  Detroit. 

MARY  PICKFORD 

Visiting  Detroit. 

BEBE  DANIELS  AND  BEN  LYON 

Visiting  Detroit. 

GLORIA  SWANSON 
Visiting  Detroit. 

SPORTS 

BASEBALL 

Highlights  of  the  1934  World  Series 
between  the  Detroit  Tigers  and  the 
St.  Louis  Cardinals. 


and  Central  High  School  posing  sepa- 
rately. 

BOWLING 

Women's  exhibition. 


Gloves        championship 


BASKETBALL 

Teams   of   Northern 


High   School 


BOXING 

Golden 
fights. 

FENCING 

Exhibition. 


GOLF 

Women's  tournament. 

HOCKEY 

Game  between  the  Detroit  Red 
Wings  and  the  Ottawa  Senators,  and 
locker  room  scenes. 

ICEBOATING 

On  the  Detroit  River. 

LACROSSE 

Indoor  game  between  Detroit  and 
Pittsburgh. 

RACING 

Gar  Wood,  hydroplane  driver,  pos- 
ing; Harmsworth  Trophy  Race  can- 
celled for  lack  of  a  challenger;  stock 
car  road-racing  at  Los  Angeles;  and  a 
turtle  race. 

SKI  JUMPING 

Contest. 

SQUASH 

Women's  tournament. 


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GENERAL  NEWS  AND 
HUMAN  INTEREST  ITEMS 

CIVIC  PROJECTS 

Boy  Scouts  and  the  Red  Cross  col- 
lecting items  for  the  needy,  Goodwill 
Industries  activities,  and  a  Daughters 
of  the  American  Revolution  bookfair. 

DETROIT  POLICE  DEPARTMENT 

Activities  including  an  archery 
class,  the  new  Chief  being  honored  at 
a  banquet,  and  a  new  van  for  horses 
and  men  of  the  mounted  unit. 

ENTERTAINMENT 

Shrine  Circus,  Clyde  Beatty  work- 
ing with  lions,  a  magician,  the  an- 
nual Artists'  Club  Ball,  the  Variety 
Club  Ball,  a  military  ball  and  histori- 
cal pageant,  a  pet  show  with  many 
kinds  of  animals,  dog  shows,  flower 


show,  fashion  shows  displaying  hair 
styles  and  women's  clothing,  and  a 
children's  handicraft  exhibit  of  bird 
houses. 

GENERAL  NEWS  ITEMS 

Belgians  of  Detroit  attending  a  fu- 
neral mass  for  King  Albert,  $5  per 
day  minimum  wage  resumed  by  Ford, 
Fort  Wayne  troops  parading  in  re- 
view, and  Mark  Hanna  awarding  a 
medal  to  three  children  for  saving  a 
dog's  life. 

HUMAN  INTEREST  ITEMS 

Ballet  classes,  cleanup  after  a  heavy 
spring  snowstorm,  a  new  Federal 
building,  feeding  starving  ducks  on  a 
frozen  pond,  Navajo  Indians  giving  a 
sand-painting  demonstration,  people 
waiting  in  line  to  buy  automobile  li- 
cense tags,  streamlined  trains,  and  a 
project  for  widening  a  street. 


Special  Subjects,  1920-52 


Film  in  this  category  did  not  result 
from  any  of  the  planned  series  of  the 
Ford  Motion  Picture  Laboratories, 
nor  does  it  reflect  activities  or  func- 
tions of  the  Ford  Motor  Company. 
Included  are  films,  taken  from  1920  to 
1952,  on  agriculture  and  conserva- 
tion, charity,  drama,  education,  ge- 
ography, news,  and  sports  and  rec- 
reation. The  collection  contains  31,- 
819  feet  of  edited,  35  mm.,  silent,  black 
and  white  film;  9,421  feet  of  edited, 
35  mm.,  composite,  black  and  white 
film;  726  feet  of  edited,  16  mm.,  silent, 
black  and  white  film;  17,396  feet  of 
tmedired,  35  mm.,  silent,  black  and 
white  film;  1,083  feet  of  unedited, 
16  mm.,  silent,  black  and  white  film; 
459  feet  of  unedited,  16  mm.,  silent, 
color  film;  and  13,356  feet  of  35  mm. 
and  4,868  feet  of  16  mm.,  duplicate 
film.  Exceptions  only  to  35  mm.,  silent, 
black  and  white  film  will  be  men- 
tioned. 

AGRICULTURE  AND 
CONSERVATION 

CORN  BORER 

2,056  ft.,  ed.  (1927) 

Filmed  in  cooperation  with  the 
U.S.  Department  of  Agriculture,  Bu- 
reau of  Entomology,  and  Michigan 
State  College. 

Life  cycle  of  the  corn  borer,  field 
infestations,  and  extermination  meth- 
ods. 

RANCHING 

277  ft.,  uned.  (1934) 

Portraits  of  Buffalo  Bill,  Kit  Car- 


son, General  Custer,  David  Crockett, 
and  Daniel  Boone;  and  cowboys 
herding  cattle  on  prairie. 

WILD  GEESE 

556  it.,  ed.  (1937) 

Canadian  geese  at  a  refuge  on  the 
farm  of  Jack  Miner  in  Kingsville,  On- 
tario, Canada. 

CHARITY 

CHILDREN'S  HOUSE,  DETROIT 

2,480  ft.,  ed.;  1,794  it.,  uned.  (1937) 

Four-  to  twelve-year-old  children 
marching  and  playing  percussion  in- 
struments, in  woodworking  shop, 
working  with  clay,  making  and  try- 
ing on  costumes,  wood  and  linoleum 
block  printing,  making  papier  mache 
masks  and  helmets,  making  miniature 
farm  and  animals,  and  sketching  and 
painting. 

DETROIT  COMMUNITY  FUND 
APPEAL 

236  it.,  ed.  (1920) 

Work  of  the  Community  Fund:  vis- 
iting nurses;  outpatient  clinics  and 
hospital  wards;  settlement  work  in- 
cluding the  teaching  of  cooking,  sew- 
ing, and  English* for  immigrants;  rec- 
reational services  including  swim- 
ming; derelicts  sleeping  in  shacks  and 
in  cars  on  street;  orphan  care  and 
adoption;  and  occupational  training 
for  the  blind. 

FLOOD  RELIEF 

$38  ft.,  uned.  (1937) 

Detroit  Red  Cross  workers  collect- 


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ing,  sorting,  and  packing  clothing; 
and  volunteers  loading  boxes  into  a 
boxcar. 

HOSPITAL  FUNDS  APPEAL 

392  ft.,  ed.  (1941) 

Services  and  facilities  of  Hotel 
Dieu,  Windsor,  Ontario,  Canada:  the 
training  of  nurses,  laboratory,  operat- 
ing rooms,  pediatrics  floor,  Lions 
Club  Sight  Clinic,  and  Rotary  Club 
Crippled  Children's  Clinic. 

MICHIGAN  HUMANE  SOCIETY 

927  ft.,  ed.  (1929);  359  it.,  uned.  (1935, 

1936) 

Functions  of  the  Michigan  Hu- 
mane Society:  exhibit  promoting 
wildlife  conservation  and  kindness  to 
animals,  old  and  new  ambulances  for 
horses,  inspection  of  stable  horses  and 
of  chickens  in  cages  at  market,  caring 
for  sick  animals,  and  giving  puppy  to 
children. 

VARIETY  ARTISTS'  RELIEF  COM- 
MITTEE  FUNDS  APPEAL 

452  it.,  ed.,  comp.  (1932) 

George  Jessel  appealing  for  funds 
for  the  committee. 


DRAMA 

CHRISTMAS 

1,163  it.,  ed.;  1£87  it.,  uned.  (1920, 

1926,  1935) 

Santa  Glaus  at  log  cabin  in  woods, 
making  toys,  feeding  reindeer,  load- 
ing sleigh,  and  delivering  presents; 
and  children  visiting  Santa's  Work- 
shop and  playing  with  toys. 

"MARY  HAD  A  LITTLE  LAMB" 

1J37  it.,  uned.  (1926) 

Actors  in  colonial  costumes,  and 
little  girl  finding  and  caring  for  an 
orphan  lamb. 


"ROMEO  AND  JULIET" 

2,113  it.,  uned.  (1926) 

Rehearsal  scenes  from  an  amateur 
production  of  Romeo  and  Juliet. 

EDUCATION 

FIREFIGHTING 

272  ft.,  uned.  (1942) 

Firefighting  devices  demonstrated: 
liquid  and  foam  extinguishers,  and 
sand. 

GOOD  ROADS  PROMOTION 

2,/27  it.,  ed.  (1924);  1,048  ft.,  uned. 

(1930,  1931,  1939) 
Hardships  of  life  .on  the  farm  be- 
cause of  bad  roads,  portraying  scenes 
of  missing  the  milk  train  and  a  wagon 
stuck  in  the  mud;  farm  boy  becomes 
an  engineer  and  goes  back  home  to 
build  good  roads;  and  concrete  road- 
building  with  heavy  equipment. 

MERRILL-PALMER  SCHOOL 

8,678  it.,  ed.  (1927,  1928) 

Nursery  school:  school  plant  and 
play  yard;  reports  between  parents 
and  teachers;  indoor  activities  includ- 
ing feeding  and  caring  for  pets,  plant- 
ing flowers,  making  objects  of  wood 
and  clay,  playing  with  blocks,  show- 
ing objects  brought  from  home,  act- 
ing out  and  listening  to  stories,  learn- 
ing self-grooming  and  personal  hy- 
giene, serving  and  eating  lunch,  and 
taking  naps;  outdoor  activities— using 
assorted  playground  equipment;  and 
physical  and  mental  examinations. 

MICHIGAN  STATE  POLICE 

3,564  it.,  ed.,  comp.  (1939) 

Michigan  State  Police  headquar- 
ters, barracks,  and  training  school  at 
East  Lansing;  and  buildings  at  De- 
troit, Mount  Pleasant,  and  Brighton. 


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Training:  marksmanship,  first  aid, 
swimming  and  lifesaving,  and  motor- 
cycle riding. 

Work  of  the  State  Police:  highway 
and  air  patrol,  accident  investigation 
and  assistance  to  people,  crime  pre- 
vention and  investigation,  and  educa- 
tion. 

Facilities:  dispatching  board  and 
communications  systems,  driver's  li- 
cense department,  Identification  Bu- 
reau with  scenes  of  fingerprinting  and 
handwriting  identification,  and  labo- 
ratory including  polygraph  and  X-ray 
machines  and  ballistics  tests. 

"TICKET  TO  FREEDOM" 

1,498  ft.,  16  mm.,  comp.  (1952) 
Film  urging  people  to  vote. 

TRAFFIC 

1,474  ft.,  ed.  (1922) 

Filmed  in  cooperation  with  Detroit 
Police  Department. 

Deputy  Police  Commissioner  re- 
porting on  accidents;  causes  of  acci- 
dents and  instruction  in  safe  practices 
for  drivers  of  cars  and  for  pedestrians, 
illustrated  by  animated  diagrams  and 
cartoons;  and  accidents  between  chil- 
dren and  vehicles  and  two  or  more 
vehicles. 

GEOGRAPHY 

BRYCE  AND  ZION  NATIONAL 
PARKS,  UTAH 

Ijll  it.,  ed.,  comp.  (1940,  1946) 

Points  of  interest  and  facilities  in 
both  parks. 

DETROIT 

1,120  ft.,  ed.  (in  German)  (1929);  1,780 
ft.,  uned.  (1921,  1925,  1926,  1929, 
1931,  1932) 

Aerial  views  of  Detroit  business  dis- 
trict, waterfront,  and  suburban  and 


industrial  areas;  buildings  including 
General  Motors,  Fisher,  Lincoln, 
Packard,  Hudson,  and  Henry  Ford 
Hospital;  business  district  from  the 
ground;  Detroit  Library  and  Art  Mu- 
seum; Belle  Isle;  Dr.  Prince  Louis 
Ferdinand,  grandson  of  Kaiser  Wil- 
helm  II,  at  Ford  Motor  Company 
with  Henry  Ford,  flying  airplane,  and 
in  his  apartment;  and  Edsel  Ford 
with  Baron  von  Huenefeld,  Maj. 
James  E.  Fitzmaurice,  and  Her- 
mann Koehl. 

FORD-TRANS  WORLD  AIRLINES 
METEORITE  TRIP 

749  ft.,  uned.  (1941) 

Desert  and  meteorite  craters  from 
the  air,  people  around  edges  of  and 
inside  huge  crater,  and  caravan  on 
desert  road. 

GLACIER  NATIONAL  PARK,  MON- 
TANA AND  CANADA 

847  ft.,  ed.,  comp.  (1939) 

Points  of  interest  and  facilities  on 
both  sides  of  the  border,  and  Black- 
foot  Indian  ceremonial  dance. 

STATE  OF  MICHIGAN 

690  ft.,  ed.  (1939) 

Attractions  of  Michigan:  lake  and 
stream  fishing;  Detroit;  Greenfield 
Village;  hills,  forests,  and  beaches  of 
Lower  Peninsula;  and  waterfalls, 
cliffs,  and  beaches  of  Upper  Penin- 
sula, with  scenes  of  fishing. 

MONROE,  MICH. 

447  ft.,  uned.,  16  mm.  (1941) 

Band  marching  and  playing  in 
football  stadium;  field  events  includ- 
ing foot  races,  high  jumping,  and  pole 
vaulting;  Monroe  business  district, 
park,  monuments,  residential  area, 
church,  hospital,  industrial  plants, 


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and  buildings;  and  National  Farm 
Youth  Foundation  convention,  ban- 
quet, boys  receiving  awards,  speeches, 
and  dance. 

RAINBOW  BRIDGE-MONUMENT 
VALLEY  EXPEDITION 

1,718  ft.,  ed.,  comp.  (1937) 

Students  on  field  trip  into  Rainbow 
Bridge-Monument  Valley  area  of  Ari- 
zona and  Utah:  map;  station  wagon 
and  truck  caravan  through  desert  and 
mountains;  camping  on  the  banks  of 
the  Colorado  River;  taking  boats 
down  the  Colorado  River;  base  and 
other  camps;  burro  caravan  on  moun- 
tainside; Navajo  village  with  scenes  of 
Indians  grinding  corn,  spinning,  and 
weaving;  Navajo  clothing  and  jewelry 
and  baby  on  cradle  board;  Hopi  vil- 
lage, captive  western  redtail  hawk, 
and  woman  painting  pottery;  party 
digging  up  Indian  graves  and  finding 
bones  and  pottery;  and  cliff  dwellings 
and  Pueblo  ruins,  paintings  on  walls, 
and  artifacts. 

THUNDER  BAY,  MICH. 

158  ft.,  uned.,  16  mm.,  k.  (1947) 

Shore  from  the  water  and  from 
land. 

YELLOWSTONE  NATIONAL 
PARK,  WYO. 

946  ft.,  ed.;  1,423  ft.,  ed.,  comp.  (1936, 

1940) 

Points  of  interest,  facilities,  and 
animals. 

HAVANA,  CUBA,  AND  PANAMA 
CANAL 

100  ft.,  uned.  (1927) 

Havana  Harbor,  ruins  of  Castillo 
del  Morro  with  lighthouse  inside  walls, 
castle  on  a  hill,  Havana  skyline,  Pan- 
ama Canal  with  ship  in  lock,  and  lo- 
comotive. 


SOUTH  AMERICA  AND  MEXICO 

13  it.,  uned.  (1929) 

Single  frame  stills  of  pyramids  and 
ruins  of  mission  in  Mexico;  Mexican 
and  South  American  Indians  with 
their  homes,  animals,  and  imple- 
ments; carrying  burdens  on  backs  and 
heads,  washing  clothes,  and  in  dugout 
canoes  and  thatched  boats;  South 
American  villages  and  cities  with 
scenes  of  Rio  de  Janeiro  including 
Sugarloaf,  Guanabara  Bay,  Corcova- 
do,  business  and  residential  areas, 
and  Copacabana  Beach;  Peruvian 
Andes;  and  coffee  plantation. 

NEWS 

PRESIDENT  CALVIN  COOLIDGE 

43  ft.,  uned.  (1926) 

Speaking  at  a  construction  site. 

DEARBORN  CENTENNIAL 
CELEBRATION 

3,033  it.,  uned.  (1923) 

Parade:  horse-drawn  vehicles  in- 
cluding wagons,  carriages,  stage- 
coaches, fire  engine,  carts,  and  bug- 
gies; early  model  cars  and  trucks;  lo- 
comotive on  streetcar  tracks;  pony- 
drawn  miniature  steam  engine  and 
farm  implements;  floats;  and  cos- 
tumed people  including  Indians. 

DETROIT  CRUSADE  FOR  FREE- 
DOM RALLY 

399  it.,  uned.,  16  mm.  (1951) 

Ceremonies:  speakers  on  platform, 
including  Henry  Ford  II,  Drew  Pear- 
son, and  Harold  E.  Stassen. 

LAKE  SHORE  COUNTY  FAIR 

301  it.,  uned.,  16  mm.,  k.  (1944) 

Fairgrounds  and  tents;  people  in- 
cluding Henry  Ford,  Mrs.  Henry 
Ford,  and  Henry  Ford  II;  exhibits 


Special  Subjects 


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including  horses,  ponies,  cattle,  goats, 
pigs,  and  sheep;  roadside  market;  and 
band. 

POLICE  FIELD  DAY 

319  ft.,  uned.  (1929) 

Golf,  antics  on  field,  grandstand, 
and  police  shooting  from  prone  posi- 
tions at  small  log  cabin  on  field. 

TRUMAN  INAUGURAL  PARADE 

18  ft.,  uned.,  16  mm.  (1949) 

President  Harry  S.  Truman  and 
Vice  President  Alben  W.  Barkley  leav- 
ing Capitol,  parade,  crowds,  and  air- 
planes in  formation. 


SPORTS  AND  RECREATION 

BASEBALL 

206  it.,  ed.,  comp.  (1946);  441  ft.,  uned. 

(1929,  1930) 

Opening  games  of  the  Detroit  Ti- 
gers; Comiskey  Park,  Briggs  Stadium, 
VVrigley  Field,  Yankee  Stadium,  Eb- 
bets  Field,  and  Fenway  Park;  game; 
and  players,  some  playing,  some  pos- 
ing, including  Bill  Volselle,  Bernie 
Tebbetts,  Steve  O'Neill,  Dizzy  Trout, 
Hank  Greenberg,  Dick  Wakefield, 
and  Barney  McCosky. 

BOYS'  CAMP 

141  it.,  uned.  (1926) 

Chapel  and  building,  band,  and 
hiking. 

BOY  SCOUT  CAMPS 

3,070  it.,  ed.  (1937) 

Detroit  Camporee:  campsite;  boys 
arriving,  setting  up  different  kinds  of 
tents,  and  using  trek  cart;  and  activi- 
ties including  cooking  and  eating  out 
of  doors,  policing  camp,  building  fire 
by  friction,  semaphore  drill,  and  in- 
spection. 


Camp  Brady,  Brighton,  Mich: 
campsite,  totem  pole,  and  tents;  set- 
ting up  camp;  program  including 
cooking  out  of  doors,  first  aid,  survey- 
ing, building  log  cabin,  and  nature 
study;  field  and  track  events;  water 
activities  including  swimming,  life- 
saving,  canoeing,  surfboard  riding, 
and  sailing;  and  crafts,  trips,  mess, 
and  a  council  fire. 

CANADIAN  WOODCRAFT  CAMP 

993  it.,  ed.  (1927) 

Taylor  Statten  Woodcraft  Camps, 
Canoe  Lake,  Algonquin  Park,  Can- 
ada: boys'  camp  activities  including 
performing  camp  chores,  boxing, 
swimming,  sailing,  riding,  and  nature 
study;  Ojibway  Indians  teaching 
woodcraft  and  how  to  make,  carry, 
and  paddle  birchbark  canoes;  girls' 
camp  activities  including  basket 
weaving,  riding,  swimming,  and  div- 
ing; and  coeducational  activities  in- 
cluding sailing  and  canoeing. 

VETERANS  OF  FOREIGN  WARS 
(VFW)  BUDDY  POPPY  CAMP 

1,069  it.,  uned.  (1934) 

Cabins  and  tents  in  woods;  physical 
examinations;  inspection;  flag  cere- 
mony; mess;  activities  including  horse- 
shoes, baseball,  volley  ball,  boxing, 
swimming,  and  calisthenics;  and  in- 
struction in  wigwag  signaling,  first 
aid,  woodworking,  and  leatherwork- 
ing. 

FOOTBALL 

726  it.,  ed.,  16  mm.  (1929) 

Game  between  Boys  Town  and 
Catholic  Central. 

GOLF  CADDYING 

945  ft.,  ed.  (1925) 

Instructions    in    caddying   by    con- 


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Education,  News,  and  Special  Subjects 


trasting  the  right  and  wrong  ways  of 
doing  things. 

MICHIGAN  PIKERS'  ASSOCIA- 
TION TOUR 

3,006  ft.,  ed.  (1920) 

Michigan  Pikers'  Association  good 
roads  tour  in  Canada  and  Michigan: 
Canadian  towns  and  countryside; 
camping  equipment,  camp  life,  and 
entertainment;  ferryboats;  locks  of 
Soo  Canal;  parade  at  Sault  St.  Marie, 
Mich.;  camp  at  Duncan's  Bay;  and 
parade  at  Lansing. 

SPEEDBOATING 

583  ft.,  uned.  (1933) 

Miss  England  II,  Sunkist  Kid  II, 
and  other  hydroplanes  on  Lake 
Garda,  Italy. 

SWIMMING 

850  ft.,  ed.  (1948) 

Swimming  instruction  for  mildly 
disabled  to  triplegic  veterans. 

TOBOGGANING 

82  ft.,  uned.  (1927) 

Boy  tobogganing  down  run. 


MISCELLANY 

2,044  ft.,  uned.  (1925-28,  1931,  1936, 

1937,  1939,  1940);  219  ft.,  uned., 

16  mm.  (1941) 

Odds  and  ends  of  footage  that  do 
not  belong  in  any  of  the  above  cate- 
gories: several  chauffeur-driven  cars 
discharging  passengers  at  curb  and  re- 
porters talking  to  a  chauffeur;  traffic 
on  parkway  in  residential  area;  traffic 
in  a  business  district;  country  scenes; 
boy  playing  with  greyhounds;  women 
leaving  large  open-sided  tent;  men 
standing  in  front  of  a  billboard; 
group  posing  with  a  Martin  bomber 
in  hangar;  two  officers  standing  in 
front  of  plane  looking  at  chart;  a 
large  airliner  and  a  small  two-place 
plane  on  a  field;  man  moving  manure 
by  wheelbarrow  from  pile  in  street; 
stonemasons  and  bricklayers;  leaders 
of  the  Axis  Powers,  World  War  II,  in- 
cluding Emperor  Hirohito,  Adolph 
Hitler,  Benito  Mussolini,  Count  Ci- 
ano,  Hermann  Goering,  Martin 
Bormann,  Rudolph  Hess,  Heinrich 
Himmler,  and  Bruno  Frank  at  meet- 
ings, making  speeches,  and  the  like; 
band  and  color  guard  in  parade;  floats 
depicting  the  State  of  Mississippi;  and 
deer  in  woods. 


Part  II 
FORD  FAMILY 


Henry  Ford,  ca.   1918.  Reel  No.  200FC-2558. 


Henry  Ford  and  John  Burroughs,  ca.   1918.  Reel  No.  200FC-2558. 


Left  to  right:  Will  Rogers,  Henry  Ford,  and  Edsel  Ford,  ca.  1928.  Reel  No.  200FC-427(a). 


Diego  Rivera  at  work,  1932.  Frescoes  are  in  the  Garden  Court  of  the  Detroit  Institute 
of  Arts,  Detroit,  Mich.  Reel  No.  200FC-2704. 


Henry  Ford  and  John  Burroughs  operating  an  old  steam  engine,  ca.  1919. 
Reel  No.  200FC-2132. 


Left  to  right:  Henry  Ford,  President  Herbert  Hoover,  and  Thomas  A.  Edison  at  the 

celebration  of  the  golden  anniversary  of  the  incandescent  lamp,  Greenfield  Village,  Mich. 

October  21,  1929.  Reel  No.  200FC-2578(c). 


Ford  Family  and  Friends 
1916-50 


This  body  of  film  reflects  the  per- 
sonal interests  and  family  and  social 
life  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Ford  from 
1916  to  1945.  Pictures  taken  at  the 
funerals  of  Henry  Ford  (1947)  and  of 
Mrs.  Ford  (1950)  are  also  in  the  se- 
ries. The  collection  contains  5,832  feet 
of  edited,  35  mm.,  silent,  black  and 
white  film;  24,116  feet  of  unedited. 
35  mm.,  silent,  black  and  white  film; 
399  feet  of  unedited,  16  mm.,  silent, 
color  film;  74  feet  of  unedited,  16  mm., 
silent,  black  and  white  film;  and 
3,190  feet  of  35  mm.,  duplicate  film. 
Exceptions  only  to  35  mm.,  silent, 
black  and  white  film  will  be 
mentioned. 


FAMILY  ALBUM 

GENERAL 

1,000  ft.,  ed.  (1924,  1927);  10,703  ft., 
uned.  (1916-29,  1938,  1939,  1944, 
1945);  74  ft.,  uned.,  16  mm.  (1945) 

House,  gardens,  and  River  Rouge 
at  Fair  Lane;  farm  scenes;  yacht  Sia- 
lia;  and  people  including  Henry  and 
Mrs.  Ford,  Edsel  and  Mrs.  Ford  and 
their  children  (Henry  II,  Benson, 
Josephine,  and  William  Clay) ,  John 
Burroughs,  Thomas  A.  and  Mrs.  Edi- 
son, Will  Rogers,  and  Floyd  Gibbons. 

John  Burroughs  and  Ford  family 
laying  stones  in  rock  garden  at  Fair 
Lane. 

Henry  and  Mrs.  Ford  on  grounds  at 
Fair  Lane,  playing  with  grandchil- 
dren, with  children  walking  on  ice, 


riding  in  horse-drawn  sleigh,  and  get- 
ting on  train  with  the  Thomas  Edi- 
sons  and  the  Edsel  Fords. 

Henry  Ford  tinkering  with  steam 
engine,  felling  large  tree,  broad 
jumping  in  field,  playing  violin,  ice 
skating,  target  shooting  with  Thomas 
Edison  and  Will  Rogers,  in  tropical 
garden  with  the  Thomas  Edisons,  re- 
ceiving medal  from  Roumanian  Con- 
sul, with  Floyd  Gibbons  in  office,  and 
cutting  wheat  with  a  scythe  and  tying 
sheaves  at  a  wheat  harvest  at  Tecum- 
seh,  Mich. 

Edsel  Ford  riding  horse,  in  launch 
Woodfish,  and  with  Henry  Ford  on 
yacht  Sialia. 

Henry  Ford,  Henry  II,  and  Benson 
Ford  clearing  land,  with  scenes  of 
boys  felling  trees  with  two-man  saw, 
trimming  trees,  riding  on  logs,  and 
driving  snaking  team. 

Activities  of  the  Ford  grandchil- 
dren at  various  ages,  including  sled- 
ding, playing  on  ice,  riding  donkey 
and  being  thrown,  riding  in  pony- 
drawn  cart,  fighting,  playing  with 
miniature  steam  engine,  and  helping 
Henry  and  Edsel  Ford  in  garden. 

Garden  parties  at  Fair  Lane. 

CAMPING  TRIPS 

4,832  ft.,  ed.  (1916,  1918,  1920,  1921): 
7,658  ft.,  uned.  (1919,  1921-24) 

Campsites;  equipment  such  as 
tents,  trucks,  and  cooking  facilities; 
and  staff. 

Campers  including  Henry  and  Mrs. 


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Ford  Family 


Ford,  John  Burroughs,  Harvey  and 
Mrs.  Firestone,  Sr.,  Thomas  A.  and 
Mrs.  Edison,  Dr.  Clara  Burrus,  Har- 
vey and  Mrs.  Firestone,  Jr.,  Russell 
and  Mrs.  Firestone,  Bishop  and  Mrs. 
Anderson,  Edsel  and  Mrs.  Ford,  and 
President  Warren  G.  Harding. 

Campers  walking  in  woods,  sitting 
around  campfires,  riding  horseback, 
fishing,  shooting,  gathering  berries, 
touring  old  sawmill,  inspecting  old 
locomotive,  and  boarding  and  leaving 
yacht  Sialia. 

Henry  Ford  cooking,  chopping 
wood,  climbing  tree,  and  washing 
clothes  in  stream. 

Thomas  Edison  in  hammock,  read- 
ing, and  sleeping  under  tree. 

President  Harding  riding  a  horse 
and  chopping  wood. 

HENRY  FORD  BIRTHDAYS 

3,103  ft.,  uned.  (1938,  1943) 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Ford  in  box 
at  Coliseum,  Michigan  State  Fair- 
grounds, at  Mr.  Ford's  75th  birthday 
celebration  (July  15-30,  1938);  pa- 
rade of  children  and  floats,  color 
guard  and  drum  corps,  American  Le- 
gion band,  and  1908  Model-T;  acts 
consisting  of  dancing,  singing,  and 
acrobatics;  ceremonies  at  Greenfield 
Village;  procession  of  horse-drawn  ve- 
hicles; the  Fords,  including  Edsel  and 


Henry  II,  in  receiving  line,  riding 
in  carriages,  with  crowd  on  river- 
boat  Suwanee,  and  at  first  shop  with 
Quadricycle;  and  motorcade  through 
streets. 

Mr.  Ford  and  officers  reviewing 
troops  from  covered  reviewing  stand 
at  naval  celebration  of  his  80th 
birthday;  and  birthday  cake  in  shape 
of  barracks  at  Naval  Training  School, 
River  Rouge. 


FUNERALS 

HENRY  FORD 

875  ft.,  uned.;  88  ft.,  uned.,  16  mm.,  k. 

(April  8,  1947) 

Flags  at  half  staff  at  Greenfield  Vil- 
lage and  Ford  Motor  Company,  long 
line  of  people  filing  past  open  coffin 
in  Henry  Ford  Museum,  crowd  out- 
side St.  Paul's  Cathedral  and  funeral 
procession  entering  and  leaving  ca- 
thedral, and  Ford  family. 

MRS.  HENRY  FORD 

311  ft.,  uned.,  16  mm.,  k.  (1950) 

Members  of  the  Ford  family  enter- 
ing St.  Paul's  Cathedral;  funeral  pro- 
cession leaving  church;  and  family, 
including  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Ford 
II  and  daughters,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Benson  Ford,  at  graveside  services. 


Ford  Family  Philanthropies 
1916-54 


Film  in  this  category  illustrates  the 
activities  of  a  small  group  of  institu- 
tions to  which  the  Fords  gave  finan- 
cial assistance.  Institutions  receiving 
partial  support  from  the  family  in- 
clude the  Berry  School,  Rome,  Ga., 
contributed  to  by  Henry  and  Clara 
Ford  from  about  1925  until  their 
deaths;  and  the  Detroit  Institute 
of  Arts,  heavily  endowed  by  Edsel 
Ford  from  1920  until  his  death.  Insti- 
tutions created  by  and  supported  en- 
tirely by  the  Fords  include  Camps 
Legion  and  Willow  Run,  Mich.,  oper- 
ated by  Henry  Ford  from  1938  until 
1941;  the  Ford  Foundation,  incorpo- 
rated in  1936;  and  the  Henry  Ford 
Hospital,  built  in  1914  and  adminis- 
tered by  the  family.  The  collection 
contains  9,650  feet  of  edited,  35  mm., 
silent,  black  and  white  film;  1,834  feet 
of  edited,  16  mm.,  composite,  black 
and  white  film;  21,814  feet  of  un- 
edited, 35  mm.,  silent,  black  and  white 
film;  and  2,271  feet  of  duplicate, 
35  mm.  film.  Exceptions  only  to  35 
mm.,  silent,  black  and  white  film  will 
be  mentioned. 


INSTITUTIONS  RECEIVING 
PARTIAL  SUPPORT 

BERRY  SCHOOL,  ROME,  GA. 

1,700  it.,  uned.  (1927) 

Children  and  young  people  staging 
pageant  depicting  the  history  of  the 
school:  the  first  building,  a  log  cabin; 


the  admission  of  girls;  a  visit  of  The- 
odore Roosevelt  to  the  school;  build- 
ing the  Foundation  School;  and  serv- 
ice of  boys  from  the  school  in  World 
War  I. 

Miss  Martha  M.  Berry  riding  in  a 
horse-drawn  buggy  in  a  procession  of 
children  and  young  people,  and  giv- 
ing a  speech  at  a  fundraising  cere- 
money 

DETROIT  INSTITUTE  OF  ARTS 

11,512  ft.,  uned.  (1932,  1933) 

Diego  Rivera  painting  an  indus- 
trial mural  at  the  Detroit  Institute  of 
Arts,  and  the  finished  mural. 


INSTITUTIONS  CREATED 
RY  THE  FORDS 

CAMP  LEGION  AND  CAMP  WIL- 
LOW RUN 

1,401  it.,  ed.  (1940,  1941);  1,432  ft., 
uned.  (1938,  1940) 

Camp  facilities:  tents;  chapel,  boys 
conducting  church  service;  kitchen, 
boys  and  cooks  preparing  food;  din- 
ing hall;  and  roadside  stand,  boys 
selling  produce. 

Boys  at  work,  truck  farming  with 
handtools  and  tractor-drawn  imple- 
ments, canning  vegetables  and  fruit, 
and  collecting  maple  sap  and  making 
syrup. 

Boys  working  in  Ford  plants  and 
Village  Industries  on  pump  mainte- 
nance and  small-parts  manufacturing, 
and  in  powerplant. 


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Boys  playing  baseball;  playing  gui- 
tar and  singing;  writing  letters;  play- 
ing with  camp  mascot,  a  crow;  and 
taking  showers. 

FORD  FOUNDATION 

1,834  ft.,  ed.,  16  mm.,  comp.  (1954) 
Henry  Ford  II  and  Mr.  H.  R. 
Gaither,  President  of  the  Ford  Foun- 
dation, explaining  and  illustrating 
the  purposes  and  work  of  the  Founda- 
tion. 

HENRY  FORD  HOSPITAL 

6,753  ft.,  ed.  (1935,  1936,  1939);  5,556 
it.,   uned.    (1916,    1919-21,    1924, 
1926,  1932-34,  1938) 
Soldiers,  crowd,  speeches,  and  a  flag 
ceremony  in   front  of  new  building 
(probably  the  demilitarization  of  the 
hospital,  1919). 

Facilities:  laundry,  kitchen,  bak- 
ery, maintenance  shop,  pharmacy, 


powerhouse  interior,  heating  plant, 
and  library. 

Selecting  students  for  the  Clara 
Ford  School  of  Nursing. 

Crippled  children  and  adults  dem- 
onstrating details  of  crippling  deform- 
ities and  their  effects  on  mobility;  the 
convalescent  school;  work  of  the  Pedi- 
atrics Division,  including  infant  care 
and  immunization  against  smallpox 
and  diphtheria;  diagnoses  of  and  treat- 
ment for  various  maladies  including 
gallstones,  gallbladder  disease,  ane- 
mia, vascular  disease,  high  blood  pres- 
sure, tuberculosis,  and  hay  fever;  tests 
for  protein  allergy;  tannic  acid  treat- 
ment for  burns;  several  surgical  pro- 
cedures and  the  administration  of 
anesthetics;  demonstrations  of  the  use 
of  machines  for  fever,  diathermy,  and 
X-ray  therapy;  physical  therapy;  the 
administration  of  oxygen;  the  ortho- 
pedic appliances  shop;  and  the  opti- 
cal and  dental  laboratories. 


Henry  Ford  Personal  Projects 
1914-42 


This  category  reflects  the  personal 
interests  of  Henry  Ford  and  contains 
illustrations  of  his  personal  projects 
over  the  years  1914  to  1942,  including 
dancing  classes  and  parties  sponsored 
by  the  Fords;  the  Dearborn  Inde- 
pendent, a  weekly  newspaper  pub- 
lished from  1919  to  1928;  the  Henry 
Ford  Museum  and  Greenfield  Vil- 
lage; and  the  Ford  family  farm,  the 
buildings  of  which  were  renovated 
and  furnished  between  1919  and 
1926.  The  collection  contains  5,499 
feet  of  edited,  35  mm.,  silent,  black  and 
white  film;  13,597  feet  of  edited, 
35  mm.,  composite,  black  and  white 
film;  104,032  feet  of  unedited,  35  mm., 
silent,  black  and  white  film;  and 
19,685  feet  of  35  mm.,  duplicate  film. 
Exceptions  only  to  35  mm.,  silent, 
black  and  white  film  will  be  men- 
tioned. 

DANCING 

DANCING  CLASSES  AND 
PARTIES 

3,587  ft.,  uned.  (1926,  1927) 

Oldtime  dances  on  lawn  of  Bots- 
ford  Tavern,  and  children's  dancing 
classes  and  parties  in  open-sided  tent 
and  gym-type  building. 

PUBLISHING 

DEARBORN  INDEPENDENT 
NEWSPAPER 

7,5^5  ft.,  ed.  (1920,  1926) 
Dearborn     Independent     Editorial 


Department:  illustrations  of  range  of 
subject  matter  covered  in  the  news- 
paper, including  government  and 
politics,  adventure,  nature,  sports, 
history,  agriculture,  fine  arts,  book  re- 
views, world  news,  and  the  editorial 
page. 

Processes  in  publishing  the  paper: 
illustrations  being  painted;  setting 
and  casting  type;  proofreading;  work- 
er making  wax  mold  from  proof  plate, 
electroplating  with  copper,  removing 
copper  shell  from  wax,  pouring  lead 
into  the  back  of  the  shell,  and  curv- 
ing the  finished  electrotype;  locking 
the  plates  into  the  cylinders  of  the 
presses;  presses  in  operation;  and 
machinery  for  trimming  paper. 

Subscription  department  with  work- 
ers making  address  plates,  map  of 
United  States  indicating  circulation 
distribution,  mailing  machine  address- 
ing newspapers  and  workers  sorting 
them,  and  people  reading  the  Dear- 
born Independent. 

FARMING 

FORD  FARM 

36J89  ft.,  uned.  (1914,  1916,  1917, 
1919-32,  1935-37,  1939,  1940) 

Farm  buildings  at  original  site  and 
at  Greenfield  Village. 

Henry  and  Mrs.  Ford  and  guests, 
including  children,  at  several  barn 
dances;  Mrs.  Ford,  Mrs.  Gaston  Plan- 
tiff,  and  other  ladies  in  19th-century 
costumes  play-acting  outside  and  in- 


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side  house  and  modeling  costumes; 
and  Mrs.  Henry  Ford  and  Mrs.  Edsel 
Ford  with  a  small  child  and  a  bulldog 
in  a  pony-drawn  sleigh. 

Henry  Ford  on  horseback  and  in 
buggy,  chopping  wood,  cutting  wheat 
with  a  sickle,  threshing  with  a  flail, 
tying  sheaves  of  wheat,  driving  horse 
and  tractor-drawn  implements,  in- 
specting soybean  field,  and  tending 
steam  engine. 

Edsel  Ford  on  horseback,  in  a 
buggy,  and  with  a  steam  tractor. 

John  Burroughs  tending  steam  en- 
gine, chopping  a  tree,  and  pitching 
straw. 

Farmwork  performed  by  hand,  in- 
cluding stacking  hay,  shocking  wheat 
and  loading  shocks  onto  wagons  and 
trucks,  storing  sacks  of  wheat  in  barn, 
threshing  with  flails,  stacking  straw, 
chopping  and  sawing  wood,  splitting 
rails,  and  harvesting  truck  produce; 
horse-powered  winch  pulling  stumps; 
horse-drawn  implements  such  as 
plows,  mowers,  reapers,  and  the  like; 
horse-powered  threshing  machine  in 
barn  and  in  field  with  horses  walking 
in  circle  and  turning  drive  shaft  set  at 
hub  of  frame;  ox-drawn  plow;  tractor- 
powered  winch  moving  barn  set  on 
logs;  tractor-drawn  implements  such 
as  plows,  cultivators,  binders,  disk 
harrows,  potato  digger,  reapers,  com- 
bines, mowers,  planters,  and  fertilizer 
spreader;  tractor-powered  saw;  scenes 
of  steam  tractor  pulling  stumps,  show- 
ing details  of  drive  mechanism;  steam 
engines  and  details  of  parts;  steam 
engine-powered  threshing  machines 
in  barn  and  in  fields;  and  children 
watching  threshing,  examining  and 
operating  controls  on  steam  engine, 
and  playing  in  straw. 

Food  preparation  and  eating  in  the 
farmhouse  kitchen,  food  for  several 


picnics  prepared  over  open  fire  and 
outdoor  cookstove  in  farmyard,  and 
workers  and  guests  eating  at  tables  set 
on  lawn. 

Sulky  driving  and  racing  on  track, 
horseback  riders  pacing  sulkies;  spec- 
tators and  participants  cooking  and 
eating  out  of  doors;  and  boy  putting 
horse  through  tricks  such  as  bowing 
and  rolling  over. 

Fragmentary  scenes  from  drama 
about  19th-century  life  on  Ford  farm; 
costumed  man,  woman,  and  two  chil- 
dren picking  vegetables  in  garden; 
woman  spinning,  setting  table,  and 
cooking  over  open  fireplace;  man 
feeding  horses  in  barn;  family  in 
fields  and  barn  arid  operating  hand- 
powered  threshing  machine;  man 
milking  cow;  and  gristmill  with  over- 
shot water  wheel. 

Miniature  farm  implements. 


HENRY  FORD  MUSEUM  AND 
GREENFIELD  VILLAGE 

COLLECTIONS  PRIOR  TO  BUILD- 
ING OF  MUSEUM  AND 
VILLAGE 

Sawmills 

Sharon  Hollow 

1,047  ft.,  uned.  (1926) 

Exterior  and  interior  views  of  saw- 
mill at  original  site:  a  moving  saw 
platform,  a  revolving  saw  and  a  saw 
with  straight  blade  that  moves  up 
and  down,  and  workers  turning  and 
moving  log  on  platform  for  each  cut. 

M aeon,  Mich. 

714  ft.,  uned.  (1928) 

Henry  Ford  inspecting  sawmill  at 
original  location,  helping  workers 
move  logs  onto  conveyor  into  mill, 


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and    helping    workers    move    boards 
into  and  out  of  mill. 

Stagecoach 

60  it.,  uned.  (1926) 

Stagecoach  traveling  across  field, 
stopping  for  passenger,  and  moving 
on. 

HENRY  FORD  MUSEUM 

1,092  ft.,  uned.  (1928) 

Thomas  A.  Edison,  Henry  and  Mrs. 
Ford,  and  Edsel  Ford  at  Edison's  lab- 
oratory, Greenfield  Village;  and  at 
cornerstone  dedication  ceremonies 
consisting  of  Edison  embedding 
Luther  Burbank's  spade  into  wet  con- 
crete slab,  walking  across  slab,  and 
signing  and  dating  it. 

GREENFIELD  VILLAGE 

General 

15,816  ft.,  uned.  (1932-41) 

Tourists  in  horse-drawn  vehicles 
and  on  foot;  pony-drawn  carts  for  chil- 
dren; horse-drawn  covered  wagons, 
surreys,  buggies,  sleighs,  and  buses; 
buildings  including  Armington  and 
Sims  Machine  Shop,  Bagley  Avenue 
Shop,  Sir  John  Bennett  Jewelry  Store, 
Blacksmith  Shop,  Luther  Burbank 
birthplace,  George  Washington  Car- 
ver Memorial,  Clinton  Inn  exterior 
and  taproom,  Cotswold  Group,  Cur- 
rier Shoe  Shop,  Deluge  Fire  Engine 
Co.,  Edison  buildings,  Edison  Insti- 
tute, Henry  Ford  Museum,  Stephen 
Foster  Memorial,  Gardner  House, 
Hanks  Silk  Mill,  Heinz  House,  Kings- 
ton Cooper  Shop,  Logan  County 
Court  House,  Loranger  Gristmill, 
Magrill  Jewelry  Store,  Martha-Mary 
Chapel,  McGuffey  School,  Miller 
School,  Owl  Lunch  Wagon,  Pioneer 
Log  Cabin,  Plymouth  Carding  Mill, 
Plymouth  House,  Sandwich  Glass 


Plant,  Secretary  House,  Scotch  Settle- 
ment School,  Slave  Huts,  Swiss 
Watchmaker's  Chalet,  Tintype  Stu- 
dio, Toll  House  Shoe  Shop,  Village 
Gatehouse,  Town  Hall,  Village  Post 
Office  and  Apothecary  Shop,  Village 
Print  Shop,  Waterford  General  Store, 
Noah  Webster  House,  and  Wright 
Homestead  and  Cycle  Shop;  interiors 
of  many  buildings  with  workers,  and 
old-fashioned  manufacturing  proc- 
esses and  skills  being  demonstrated; 
items  of  interest,  including  a  walking- 
beam  engine,  floral  clock,  Ackley 
Covered  Bridge,  Cape  Cod  Windmill, 
and  water  wheel  and  stone  mill;  and 
Henry  Ford  with  others  looking  over 
construction  site  and  examining 
wooden  patterns  for  machines. 

George  Washington  Carver  Memorial 

262  it.,  uned.  (July  21,  1942) 

Dr.  Carver  and  Henry  and  Edsel 
Ford  at  reception  in  laboratory  and 
posing  in  front  of  George  Washington 
Carver  Memorial. 

Thomas  A.  Edison 

Smith's  Creek  Depot 

214  ft.,  uned.  (1928) 

The  depot  at  its  original  site  and 
at  Greenfield  Village  with  old  loco- 
motives and  trains  on  display. 

Lights  Golden  Anniversary  and  Dedi- 
cation of  Edison  Institute  of 
Technology 

1,518  it.,  ed.;  488  it.,  uned.  (Oct.  21, 

1929) 

President  and  Mrs.  Herbert  Hoover 
arriving  by  train,  President  Hoover 
and  Thomas  A.  Edison  leaving  rep- 
lica of  baggage  car  in  which  Edison 
worked  when  15  years  old,  train 
drawn  by  1860  locomotive,  Presiden- 
tial motorcade  from  Fair  Lane  to  De- 
troit City  Hall,  and  President  Hoover 
speaking  from  bunting-draped  stand. 


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Ford  Family 


Edison  and  former  assistant  Francis 
Jehl  in  laboratory  reenacting  final 
steps  of  experiment  leading  to  the  in- 
vention of  the  incandescent  lamp, 
while  Henry  Ford  and  President 
Hoover  watch. 

Sightseeing  tour  of  Greenfield  Vil- 
lage; and  guests  including  Charles  M. 
Schwab,  Hon.  Charles  A.  Eaton, 
Phelps  Newberry,  Fielding  H.  Yost, 
Sir  Felix  Pole,  Adolph  Ochs,  Paul 
Kruesi,  Will  Rogers,  M.  S.  Sloan,  Miss 
Sarah  M.  Sheridan,  Lee  De  Forrest, 
Julius  Rosenwald,  Daniel  Beard, 
Charles  Dana  Gibson,  and  Gordon 
Rentschler. 

"Reminiscences  of  Menlo  Park" 

12,293  it.,  ed.,  comp.  (1932) 

Francis  Jehl,  former  assistant  to 
Thomas  Edison  and  custodian  of  the 
Menlo  Park  Group  as  reconstructed 
at  Greenfield  Village,  explaining  and 
demonstrating  Edison's  equipment 
and  inventions. 

Inventions:  vote  recorder;  electric 
pens  for  stencil  cutting;  mimeograph; 
phonograph;  fire  alarm;  incandescent 
lamp;  several  electric  meters;  Edison 
effect  lamp,  forerunner  of  the  radio 
tube;  electromotograph,  an  early 
form  of  telephone  receiver;  carbon  re- 
sistor, a  device  offering  electrical  re- 
sistance and  used  in  a  circuit  for 
protection  or  control;  tasimeter,  for 
detection  of  slight  temperature  varia- 
tion; odoscope,  for  detection  of  deli- 
cate odors;  galvanometer,  for  measur- 
ing a  small  electric  current;  deposition 
cells,  for  measuring  current;  and 
photometer,  for  measuring  light  in- 
tensity and  fluctuation. 

Improvements  on  inventions  of 
others:  stock  ticker;  typewriter;  tele- 
graph equipment  including  condens- 
ers, a  translating  telegraph  system, 
automatic  system  using  prerecorded 


messages  on  tape,  and  a  telegraph 
sounder  which  was  the  forerunner  of 
the  telephone;  vacuum  pump;  and 
directional  and  nondirectional  anten- 
nas for  wireless  telegraphy. 

Buildings:  laboratory,  office  and  li- 
brary building,  chemistry  laboratory, 
machine  shop,  and  glass  house. 

Furniture  and  equipment:  an  orig- 
inal chair,  Edison's  desk,  Edison's  in- 
struments in  a  cupboard,  Brandel 
vacuum  pump  and  bell  jar,  carboniz- 
ing oven,  microscope,  hydraulic  press 
for  making  graphite  filaments,  bal- 
ances, telegraph  key  bookkeeper's 
desk,  first  generators,  designer's  office 
and  tools,  first  electric  light  chande- 
liers, gas  machine  for  lights  before 
electricity,  intricate  blown-glass  ob- 
jects, musical  instrument  in  attic  bed- 
room, Edison's  cubbyhole  in  labora- 
tory where  he  napped  or  thought, 
organ  on  which  man  plays  "Nearer 
My  God  to  Thee"  while  boy  pumps 
bellows,  workers,  and  glassblower 
blowing  light  bulb. 

Spencer  Tracy  in  Edison's  Laboratory 

2,444  ft.,  uned.  (1939) 

Spencer  Tracy,  Henry  and  Edsel 
Ford,  and  Francis  Jehl  in  Edison's 
laboratory;  and  Jehl  showing  and  ex- 
plaining equipment  and  inventions 
to  Tracy. 

Mickey  Rooney  and  Premiere  of 
Movie  "Young  Tom  Edison" 
907   ft.,   ed.,   comp.   (1940);   299   ft., 

uned.  (1939) 

Mickey  Rooney  at  Smith's  Creek 
Depot  operating  telegraph  key;  chil- 
dren in  locomotive  of  old  train;  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Louis  B.  Mayer,  Mickey 
Rooney,  Henry  and  Edsel  Ford, 
and  Francis  Jehl  in  Edison's  labora- 
tory; Jehl  showing  and  explaining 
Edison's  equipment  and  inventions; 


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old  train  moving  out  of  Detroit  sta- 
tion, crowds  at  way  stations  along  the 
route  to  Port  Huron,  Mrs.  Carolyn  H. 
Hughes  (widow  of  Edison)  boarding 
train,  and  Mickey  Rooney  operating 
Edison's  printing  press  in  baggage 
car;  motorcade  through  crowds;  Mrs. 
Hughes  turning  on  50,000-watt  lamp 
at  top  of  replica  of  Edison  Memorial 
to  be  built  at  Port  Huron;  and  the 
Mayers  and  Father  Edward  J.  Flana- 
gan at  Desmond  Theatre  for  premiere 
of  "Young  Tom  Edison." 

Stephen  Foster  Memorial 

1,324  it.,  uned.  (1934,  1935) 

Henry  and  Mrs.  Ford  and  Edsel 
Ford  at  dedication  of  Stephen  Foster 
Memorial,  house  interior,  and  crowds 
on  lawn  and  on  riverboat  Suwanee  on 
"Suwanee  River." 

Noah  Webster  House 

5,769  it.,  uned.  (1936,  1937,  1940) 

Scenes  from  dramas  or  pageants 
about  Noah  Webster  and  family  and 
friends;  house  interior,  kitchen,  sit- 
ting rooms,  dining  room,  and  study; 
and  Webster  working  on  his  diction- 
ary. 

Wright  Homestead  and  Cycle  Shop 

7,726  it.,  uned.  (1937,  1938) 

Celebration  in  1937  of  the  34th 
anniversary  of  the  Kitty  Hawk,  N.C., 
flight:  crowds  including  Henry  and 
Edsel  Ford  and  Orville  Wright  at 
Wright  house  and  Cycle  Shop;  cere- 
monies on  stage  under  tent;  people 
signing  guest-book;  aircraft  at  Ford 
Airport,  including  airliners,  a  1920  de 
Haviland,  and  an  autogiro;  and  a 
ceremony  commemorating  inaugur- 
ation of  airmail  service. 

Dedication  of  Wright  Homestead 
and  Cycle  Shop;  and  Henry  and  Mrs. 
Ford,  Edsel  Ford,  Orville  Wright,  and 
crowd  at  Wright  house  and  Cycle 
Shop. 


Schools  and  Children 

General 

832  it.,  ed.  (1939);  12,161  it.,  uned. 
(1927-30,  1932,  1934-40,  1942) 

Greenfield  Village  Schools  at  Henry 
Ford  Museum,  Ann,  Arbor  House, 
Town  Hall,  and  Secretary  House; 
and  McGuffey,  Miller,  and  Scotch 
Settlement  Schools. 

Children  arriving  at  school  by  bus; 
children  leaving  services  at  Martha- 
Mary  Chapel;  chemistry  and  physics 
experiments  in  laboratory;  marching 
and  dancing  at  1936  graduation  exer- 
cises; members  of  sophomore  speech 
class  performing,  1942;  constructing 
stage  set  on  gym  floor;  weaving  with 
small  hand  looms;  girls  working  in  an 
office;  children  and  teenagers  cooking, 
eating,  and  washing  dishes  in  a  kitch- 
en and  setting  a  table  in  a  dining 
room;  children  watching  blacksmith 
shoe  horse  and  watching  glassblower 
at  work;  children  sledding,  skating, 
riding  in  horse-drawn  sleighs,  playing 
in  snow  and  on  lawns,  marching, 
and  dancing  out-of-doors  and  indoors; 
football  and  baseball  games;  children 
participating  in  Easter  egg  hunts  and 
egg  races,  and  playing  with  rabbit; 
and  Henry  Ford  opening  school  at 
Henry  Ford  Museum. 

Edison  Junior  Pioneers  Field  Day 

397  it.,  uned.  (1934) 

Field  events:  fire-starting  contest, 
races,  tug-of-war,  a  10-man  pyramid, 
artificial  respiration  demonstration, 
and  wigwag  demonstration. 

May  Day  Festivals 

1,614  it.,  ed.  (1930,  1931);  397  it.,  ed., 
comp.  (1931);  7,381  it.,  uned. 
(1930-32) 
Events  on  fields  and  on  open  and 

covered    stages;     children    marching 


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Ford  Family 


onto  and  off  field;  crowning  May 
Queen,  and  Queen  and  attendants  on 
throne  and  steps  leading  up  to  it; 
bands,  orchestra,  and  a  bagpiper; 
dances  including  Maypole,  square, 
quadrille,  scarf,  hornpipe,  Highland 
fling,  Cschgobar,  Slovak,  Norwegian, 
and  Swedish;  singing;  acrobatics  and 
tumbling;  baseball  game;  leapfrog; 
sackraces,  hoopraces,  and  footraces; 
picnicking;  and  horse-drawn  stage- 
coaches, wagons,  carriages,  and  buses. 


McGuffey  School  Celebration 

4,576  ft.,  uned.  (July  2  and  3,  1938) 
McGuffey  School  opening  and 
monument  dedication:  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Henry  Ford,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edsel 
Ford,  children,  and  spectators;  exte- 
rior and  interior  views  of  school  and 
furnishings;  McGuffey  readers;  and 
fragmentary  scenes  from  drama  about 
pioneer  life  staged  at  Pioneer  Log 
Cabin,  showing  details  of  cabin  inte- 
rior. 


Part  III 
FORD  MOTOR  COMPANY 


Charles  A.  Lindbergh  at  Ford  Airport,  Dearborn,  Mich.,  1927.  Reel  No.  200FC-390(a). 


Ford  coal  mine,  ca.  1921.  Reel  No.  200FC-214(b). 


Ford  coal  mine,  ca.  1921.  Reel  No.  200FC-214(b). 


Coagulating  latex,  Ford  rubber  plantation,  State  of  Para,  Brazil,  1931.  Reel  No.  200FC-1823. 


Lumbering  in  the  north  woods,  ca.  1935.  Reel  No.  200FC-1502. 


Launching  the  ore  freighter  Henry  Ford  II,  Lorain,  Ohio,  March   1,   1924. 
Reel  No.  200FC-2579(f). 


A  minstrel  show  produced  by  Ford  employees,  Dearborn,  Mich.,  ca.   1941. 
Reel  No.  200FC-3301. 


United  Automobile  Workers  (UAW)  organizers  at  the  River  Rouge  Plant,  Dearborn,  Mich. 

ca.  1937.  Reel  No.  200FC-2583(a). 


A  1906  Model-N  Ford,  ca.  1917.  Reel  No.  200FC-2563(b). 


Test-driving  a  Model-T,  ca.   1917.  Reel  No.  200FC-2563(b). 


Model-T  stuck  in  the  mud,  ca.  1917.  Reel  No.  200FC-2563(b). 


Racer  999,  built  by  Henry  Ford  in  1902,  ca.  1920.  Reel  No.  200FC-2574. 


Model-A  climbing  Ben  Nevis,  Scotland,  1928.  Reel  No.  200FC-304(c). 


Parade  celebrating  the  golden  jubilee  of  the  automobile,  Detroit,  Mich.,   1946. 
Reel  No.  200FC-3133(f). 


Indians  of  Bolivia,   1939.  Frame  from   a   motion   picture   advertising  Lincoln-Mercury   cars. 

Reel  No.  200FC-1588. 


Indians  of  Argentina,  1939.  Frame  from  a  motion  picture  advertising  Lincoln-Mercury  cars. 

Reel  No.  200FC-1588. 


Ford  Motor  Company  -  General 
1916-54 


This  category  consists  of  produc- 
tions and  contributory  film  about  the 
history  of  the  Ford  Motor  Company, 
its  overall  activities,  and  management 
meeting  programs  and  company  re- 
ports from  1916  to  1954.  The  collec- 
tion contains  7,801  feet  of  edited, 
35  mm.,  silent,  black  and  white  film; 
17,151  feet  of  edited,  35  mm.,  compos- 
ite, black  and  white  film;  1,554  feet  of 
edited,  35  mm.,  composite,  color  film; 
15,118  feet  of  edited,  16  mm.,  compos- 
ite, black  and  white  film;  3,226  feet  of 
edited,  16  mm.,  composite,  color  film; 
12.808  feet  of  unedited,  35  mm.,  silent, 
black  and  white  film;  1,767  feet  of 
unedited,  16  mm.,  sound  track  only; 
and  15,222  feet  of  35  mm.  and  47,030 
feet  of  16  mm.,  duplicate  film. 


GENERAL  ACTIVITIES 

MATERIAL  CUTTING  ACROSS 
ALL  ACTIVITIES  OF  THE 
FORD  MOTOR  COMPANY 

6,379  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1923, 
1924,  1926,  1927,  1936);  10,267 
ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  bfcw.  (1932, 
1933,  1935,  1938,  1940,  1941); 
1J54  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  k. 
(1940);  1J27  ft.,  ed.,  16  mm., 
comp.,  k.  (1949);  10,856  ft.,  nned., 
35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1921,  1924, 
1926-32,  1935,  1938,  1940,  1941, 
1946) 
A  film  using  animated  wooden 

dolls,  diagrams,  and  toy  machinery  to 


illustrate  materials  and  processes  used 
in  the  manufacture  of  Ford  cars. 

Displays  of  materials,  indicating 
sources;  and  maps  of  the  world  and 
segment  maps  pinpointing  sources  of 
raw  materials  and  locations  of  plants, 
branches,  and  outlets. 

Views  of  buildings  and  industrial 
activities  in  the  Detroit  area:  the  Bag- 
ley  Avenue  Shop,  Mack  Avenue  Plant, 
Highland  Park  Plant,  and  the  Lin- 
coln Plant. 

Buildings  and  industrial  activities 
in  the  Dearborn  area:  Ford  Airport 
and  airplane  plant,  the  Ford  Engi- 
neering Laboratory,  and  the  River 
Rouge  Plant. 

Village  Industries:  Green  Island, 
N.Y.;  and  Waterford,  Plymouth, 
Nankin  Mills,  and  Phoenix  in  Michi- 
gan. 

Plants  in  the  United  States: 
Kearney,  N.J.,  Minneapolis,  Minn., 
St.  Paul,  Minn.,  Hamilton,  Ohio, 
Iron  Mountain,  Mich.,  Norfolk,  Va., 
Buffalo,  N.Y.,  Richmond,  Calif.,  Sum- 
merville,  Mass.,  Kansas  City,  Mo., 
Charlotte,  N.C.,  Louisville,  Ky.,  Jack- 
sonville, Fla.,  Seattle,  Wash.,  Dallas, 
Tex.,  and  Long  Beach,  Calif. 

Branches  in  the  United  States:  Co- 
lumbus (State  not  designated);  New 
York,  N.Y.,  Detroit,  Mich.,  Washing- 
ton, D.C.,  Oklahoma  City,  Okla., 
Dallas,  Tex.,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  San 
Francisco,  Calif. 

Plants  abroad:  Cork,  Ireland;  Bue- 
nos Aires,  Argentina;  Copenhagen, 


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Ford  Motor  Company 


Denmark;  Windsor,  Ontario,  Can- 
ada; Dagenham,  England;  Amster- 
dam, Holland;  Strasbourg,  France; 
Antwerp,  Belgium;  Mexico,  D.F.,  Mex- 
ico; and  Shanghai,  China. 

Nonmanufacturing  activities:  lum- 
bering operations  at  Iron  Mountain, 
Sidnaw,  Mich.;  a  sawmill;  iron  min- 
ing at  Iron  Mountain,  Mich.;  coal 
mining  at  Twin  Branch,  W.  Va.,  and 
in  Kentucky;  transportation  on  the 
Detroit,  Toledo  &  Ironton  Railroad, 
and  by  several  ships  and  planes;  and 
a  rubber  plantation  in  Brazil. 

Manufacturing  and  products:  cars, 
trucks,  tractors,  glass,  rubber,  coke, 
paper,  steel,  cement,  benzol,  ammo- 
nium sulphate  fertilizer,  and  soybean 
plastics. 


HISTORY 

DRAMAS  AND  DOCUMENTARIES 

7//22  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1916- 
21);  417  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp., 
bfrw.  (1933);  996  ft.,  ed.,  16  mm., 
comp.,  k.  (1953);  1,952  it.,  uned., 
35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1919-26,  1935) 

Histories  of  Henry  Ford,  the  Ford 
Motor  Company,  mass  production 
techniques,  and  the  effect  of  cars  on 
American  life. 

Henry  Ford's  birthplace,  boyhood 
and  dreams,  young  manhood  and 
achievements:  Bagley  Avenue  Shop 
and  the  building  of  the  Quadricycle 
(1896);  Henry  Ford  with  Mrs.  Ford 
driving  the  Quadricycle,  with  grand- 
children, camping,  operating  a  steam 
engine,  and  driving  tractors;  and  Ford 
homes,  including  the  Square  House 
(1889-91)  and  Fair  Lane  (1916  on). 

Early  assembly  line  scene  with  parts 
being  assembled  to  a  frame  on  saw- 


horses;  a  worker  towing  chassis  along 
final  assembly  line;  worker  pushing 
car  along  track  assembly  line  at  High- 
land Park  Plant  as  others  assemble 
parts  to  it;  Henry  Ford  Trade  School 
boys  in  shop  (started  1916) ;  Fordson 
tractors  (1917  and  1925)  and  dem- 
onstrations of  uses  of  tractors;  World 
War  I  manufacturing  of  Liberty  en- 
gines (1917,  1918)  and  Eagle  Boats 
(1918,  1919);  commissary  scenes  (first 
one  opened  1919);  lumbering  scenes 
(first  timber  tract  1920);  coal  mine 
buildings  (first  mine  1920);  Henry 
Ford  at  the  throttle  of  a  Detroit,  To- 
ledo &  Ironton  Railroad  locomotive 
(purchased  in  1920);  the  Lelands  and 
the  Fords  at  the  Lincoln  Purchase 
Ceremonies  (1922);  Edsel  Ford  unveil- 
ing a  tablet  marking  the  site  of  the 
shop  where  Henry  Ford  built  the 
Quadricycle;  first  V-8  (1932);  and  re- 
view of  activities  to  1953. 

Early  model  car  with  a  couple  in  it 
being  towed  along  country  road  by  a 
horse;  Model-T's  (1908-27)  on  moun- 
tain roads,  on  a  high  railroad  trestle, 
and  on  a  huge  pipe;  and  a  sequence 
from  a  Harold  Lloyd  comedy  in 
which  two  policemen  chase  Mr.  Lloyd 
in  his  Flivver. 


MANAGEMENT   MEETINGS 
AND  REPORTS 

MANAGEMENT  MEETINGS 

2,802  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  b&w. 
(1952);  10210  ft.,  ed.,  16  mm., 
comp.,  b&w.  (1949-53);  903  ft., 
ed.,  16  mm.,  comp.,  k.  (1953); 
1,767  ft.,  uned.,  16  mm.,  t.  (1950, 
1951) 

Reports  of  the  Mound  Road  Plant 
General  Manufacturing  Division,  the 
Basic  Products  Group,  the  Ford  Divi- 


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sion,  the  Product  Planning  Commit- 
tee, and  the  Parts  and  Equipment  Di- 
vision; a  management  improvement 
film,  and  a  film  illustrating  Ford 
Motor  Company  contributions  to  the 
productivity  of  the  United  States; 
speeches  explaining  the  decentraliza- 
tion of  the  Ford  Motor  Company;  and 
speeches  on  Government  control  of  in- 


dustry   and    its    effect    on    the    Ford 
Motor  Company. 

ANNUAL  REPORTS 

3,665  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  bbw.  (1952); 

4<)08  ft.,  ed.,  16  mm.,  comp.,  b&w. 

(1950,  1951,  1953) 
Henry  Ford  II  delivering  the  gen- 
eral progress  reports  for  1950-53. 


Domestic  and  Foreign  Branches 
1928-54 


This  category  consists  of  views  of 
domestic  plants  and  their  activities 
and  of  foreign  branches,  including 
views  of  the  cities  and  areas  in  which 
they  are  located.  Most  of  the  footage 
of  the  foreign  branches  was  taken  in 
1948  and  1949;  that  for  England  and 
Germany,  however,  covers  a  number 
of  years,  and  the  Japanese  pictures 
were  taken  in  1928  and  1931.  The  col- 
lection contains  10,264  feet  of  edited, 
35  mm.,  silent,  black  and  white  film; 
11,490  feet  of  edited,  35  mm.,  compos- 
ite, black  and  white  film;  11,772  feet 
of  unedited,  35  mm.,  silent,  black  and 
white  film;  1,246  feet  of  unedited, 
16  mm.,  silent,  black  and  white  film; 
and  2,926  feet  of  35  mm.  and  562  feet 
of  16  mm.,  duplicate  film.  Exceptions 
only  to  35  mm.,  black  and  white  film 
will  be  mentioned. 


DOMESTIC  BRANCHES 

LONG  BEACH,  CALIF. 

731  ft.,  ed.,  si.  (1930) 

Exterior  and  interior  of  building  at 
its  opening,  baskets  of  flowers,  show- 
room, and  crowds;  Ford  Tri-motor 
airplane  Quick  Silver  on  field;  Ford 
ship  Oneida  moving  through  draw- 
bridge and  docking,  and  Mayor  Oscar 
Hauge  of  Long  Beach  welcoming 
Capt.  A.  J.  Kaminiski;  plant  interior; 
enameling  ovens;  and  Mayor  Hauge 
getting  into  first  car  off  assembly  line. 


MINNEAPOLIS,  MINN. 

1246  ft.,  uned.,  16  mm.,  si.  (1946) 

Workers  assembling  padding  and 
upholstery  to  seat-frame  units. 

SEATTLE,  WASH. 

193  it.,  uned.,  si.  (1932) 

Ford  officials  at  a  banquet,  touring 
the  warehouse  and  yard  in  cars,  and 
walking  through  the  plant. 

FOREIGN  BRANCHES 

GENERAL 

3,096  it.,  ed.,  comp.  (1948);  1,511  ft., 

uned.,  si.  (1930,  1948,  1954) 
Ford  plants  and  points  of  interest 
in  the  cities  and  countrysides.  These 
are  described  in  detail  under  the 
country  in  which  each  is  located,  and 
additional  separable  footage  is  listed 
for  each. 

ARGENTINA 

673  it.,  uned.,  si.  (1948) 

Bridge  over  a  deep  ravine  in  the 
Andes  Mountains,  and  a  map. 

Buenos  Aires:  Avenida  de  Mayo, 
Plaza  de  Mayo,  Casa  Rosada  (Govern- 
ment House),  Avenida  Alvear,  Aven- 
ida Nuevo  de  Julio,  Avenida  Roque 
Saenz  Pena,  New  Port,  and  South 
Basin  and  Ford  plant;  and  plant  fa- 
cilities and  industrial  processes. 

AUSTRALIA 

621  it.,  ed.,  si.  (1948) 

Maps  designating  Ford  plants. 


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Geelong:  Corio  Bay  and  Moorabool 
Street. 

Sydney:  Harbour  Bridge  and  aerial 
view  of  the  city. 

Brisbane:  aerial  view. 

Perth:  city  scenes. 

Adelaide:  city  scenes. 

Plants  at  the  above  cities. 

BELGIUM 

896  ft.,  ed.,  si.  (1948) 

Antwerp:  the  city  from  above 
looking  toward  the  River  Schelde, 
and  plant  facilities  and  industrial 
processes. 

BRAZIL 

829  it.,  ed.,  si.  (1948) 

Sao  Paulo:  panoramas;  Matarazzo 
Building,  Avenida  Ypiranga,  Marti- 
nelli  Building,  Banco  do  Estado  de 
Sao  Paulo  Building,  and  Praca  Patri- 
archa;  and  plant  facilities  and  indus- 
trial processes. 

CANADA 

621  ft.,  lined.,  si.  (1948) 

Windsor,  Ontario:  aerial  view  in- 
cluding Ambassador  Bridge  and  the 
Detroit  skyline,  and  plant  facilities 
and  industrial  processes. 

CHILE 

599  it.,  uned.,  si.  (1948) 

Santiago:  panorama  from  Santa 
Lucia  Hill,  Civic  Center  and  La  Mo- 
neda  (Government  House) ,  and  plant 
facilities  and  industrial  processes. 

CHINA 

(no  date) 

Residential  area  in  Shanghai,  with 
pagoda  in  the  background. 

DENMARK 
(1947) 

Views  of  Copenhagen. 


EGYPT 

486  ft.,  uned.,  si.  (1949) 

Sphinx  and  Cheops  Pyramid. 
Alexandria:  Mosque  of  Mohammed 
Ali,   and   plant   facilities   and   indus- 
trial processes. 

ENGLAND 

7,046  it.,  ed.,  comp.  (1936,  1937);  596 
it.,  uned.,  si.  (1948) 

London:  business  district,  Lord 
Nelson  Monument  in  Trafalgar 
Square,  Tower  Bridge  draw  span 
opening,  the  Tower  of  London  from 
the  Thames  River,  and  the  Houses  of 
Parliament. 

British  Ford  advertisement  accom- 
panied by  songs  by  Gordon  Little  and 
Jenny  Dean. 

History  of  Ford  in  England:  Hyde 
Park  Corner,  London  (1896);  Qua- 
dricycle  and  antique  Fords;  interior 
of  Trafford  Park  works;  ground  break- 
ing ceremonies  at  Dagenham  Plant 
(1929);  Lord  Percy  and  Edsel  Ford 
digging  with  silver  spade;  Dagenham 
Plant  under  construction;  installing 
machinery  at  Dagenham;  assembly 
lines;  powerhouse,  coke  ovens,  storage 
yard,  foundry,  blast  furnace,  rolling 
mill,  and  machine  shop;  first  truck  off 
assembly  line  (1931) ;  cranes  unload- 
ing freighter  at  jetty;  Prince  of  Wales 
touring  Dagenham  Plant;  and  a  1932 
Ford  on  display  at  Royal  Albert  Hall. 

Ford  car  climbing  Ben  Nevis  Moun- 
tain; truck  climbing  a  steep  hill  in 
Wales;  and  several  different  cars 
climbing  a  Yorkshire  hill,  on  country 
roads  and  test  tracks,  through  snow 
and  flooded  area,  in  London  traffic, 
and  on  race  track. 

Drama  about  a  Ford  dealer  and 
how  he  increased  sales. 

Comparison  of  primitive  measuring 
methods  and  tools  and  modern  preci- 


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sion  instruments  and  machinery: 
methods  of  arriving  at  several  units  of 
measure  including  a  furlong,  one 
hand,  7 1/2  heads,  a  cubit,  a  pace,  and 
an  ell;  displays  of  old  measuring  in- 
struments including  a  maltrule,  a 
hemicycle,  and  Queen  Elizabeth's 
mathematical  instruments;  a  set  of 
Johansson  gages;  displays  of  ancient 
gouges  and  axhammers;  demonstra- 
tions of  ancient  drill  and  modern 
multiple  drills;  turbines  generating 
electricity;  water  wheel  and  windmill; 
manually  operated  and  machine- 
operated  lathes;  handworking  of  iron; 
automatic  hammer;  rolling  mill; 
presses;  and  hand  methods  and  ma- 
chine processes  in  wheelmaking. 

FINLAND 

702  ft.,  uned.,  si.  (1948) 

Helsinki:  South  Harbor,  railway 
station  designed  by  Saarinen,  and  the 
stadium  for  the  1952  Olympic  Games; 
and  plant  facilities  and  industrial 
processes. 

FRANCE 

632  ft.,  uned.,  si.  (1948) 

Paris:  business  district,  Left  Bank 
near  the  Cathedral  of  Notre  Dame  de 
Paris,  and  a  panoramic  view  with  the 
Eiffel  Tower  in  the  background. 

Poissy:  street  scenes,  and  plant  fa- 
cilities and  industrial  processes. 

GERMANY 

3,516  ft.,  ed.,  si.  (1930,  1935,  1948) 

Map  of  Germany,  showing  British 
Zone. 

Cologne:  map;  bridges  over  river 
with  one  in  ruins,  Cologne  Cathedral, 
Town  Hall,  apartment  house  sur- 
rounded by  ruins,  and  views  of  the 
city  from  moving  streetcar;  country- 
side; plant  facilities  and  industrial 


processes;  and  a  worker's  home  and 
family. 

HOLLAND 

1,043  it.,  uned.,  si.  (1948) 

Windmill. 

Amsterdam:  residential  area,  fishing 
boats  in  harbor,  and  canal;  and  plant 
facilities  and  industrial  processes. 

INDIA 

582  ft.,  uned.,  si.  (1948) 

Bombay:  Tata  Road,  Tardeo  Street 
Depot,  and  plant  facilities  and  indus- 
trial processes. 

IRELAND 

788  ft.t  uned.,  si.  (1949) 

Cork:  City  Hall,  South  Mall,  Grand 
Parade,  Patrick  Street,  University 
College,  Shannon  Church,  St.  Finn 
Barre's  Cathedral,  and  Carrigrohane 
Straight  Road;  Blarney  Castle  with 
a  boy  kissing  the  Blarney  Stone; 
and  plant  facilities  and  industrial 
processes. 

JAPAN 

3,148  it.,  ed.  (in  Japanese),  si.  (1928, 
1931) 

Tokyo:  aerial  views,  and  business 
district  and  Imperial  Palace  as  seen 
through  the  Nijubashi  Gate. 

Yokohama:  the  city,  and  plant  facil- 
ities and  industrial  processes. 

MALAYA 

648  it.,  uned.,  si.  (1949) 

Map  of  Malaya. 

Singapore:  harbor  and  boats, 
business  district,  and  plant  facilities 
and  industrial  processes. 

Countryside:  tapping  rubber  tree, 
crepe  rubber  hanging  from  line, 
pineapple  plantation,  and  a  seawall. 


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MEXICO 

630  ft.,  uned.,  si.  (1948) 

Plant  facilities  and  industrial  proc- 
esses in  Mexico  City. 

NEW  ZEALAND 

903  ft.,  uned.,  si.  (1948) 

Wellington:  harbor  and  Hutt 
Road. 

Hutt  City:  Post  Office,  Main  Street, 
and  plant  facilities  and  industrial 
processes. 

PORTUGAL 

577  ft.,  ed.,  comp.  (1948) 

Lisbon:  Lisbon  Castle,  Belem  Tow- 
er, Jeronimos  Monastery,  Terreiro  de 
Paco,  Rua  do  Ouro,  St.  Justa  Eleva- 
tor, Rossio,  Avenida  da  Liberdade,  old 
section  of  city,  Alfama  Stairs,  St.  Rosa 
Stairs,  Laura  Elevator,  building  with 
mosaic  ornamentation,  Lisbon  Ca- 
thedral, modern  buildings  and  wide 
streets,  Casa  da  Moeda,  highway  and 
bridge,  narrow  street,  and  Park  Ed- 
ward VII;  and  plant  facilities  and  in- 
dustrial processes. 


SOUTH  AFRICA 

625  it.,  uned.,  si.  (1949) 

Port  Elizabeth:  Main  Street,  City 
Hall  Square,  harbor,  and  plant  facili- 
ties and  industrial  processes. 

SPAIN 

503  ft.,  ed.,  si.  (1948) 

Barcelona:  skyline;  aerial  view; 
street  scenes;  Moorish-style  building, 
square,  and  port  area;  and  plant  fa- 
cilities and  industrial  processes. 

SWEDEN 

540  it.,  uned.,  si.  (1948) 

Stockholm:  skyline,  fountain  and 
cathedral,  yacht  basin,  model  of  plant, 
plant  construction,  and  plant  facilities. 

URUGUAY 

777  it.,  ed.,  comp.  (1948) 

Maps. 

Montevideo:  panoramas,  and  plant 
facilities  and  industrial  processes. 


Nonmanufacturing  Activities,  1914-54 


This  category  contains  film  illus- 
trating several  of  the  nonmanufac- 
turing  activities  of  the  Ford  Motor 
Company  and  its  employees  over  the 
years  1914  to  1954,  including  contrib- 
utory industries,  dealer-company  ac- 
tivities, employee-company  activities, 
product  promotion,  and  safety  educa- 
tion. 

Contributory  industries  included  in 
the  collection  are  the  Ford  Airport, 
built  in  1924;  lumbering,  begun  at 
Iron  Mountain,  Mich.,  in  1920;  min- 
ing, starting  in  1920  with  coal  mines 
in  Kentucky  and  West  Virginia  and 
phosphate  mines  in  an  unspecified  lo- 
cation; a  rubber  plantation  estab- 
lished in  1927  on  the  Tapajos  River 
in  Brazil  and  sold  to  the  Brazilian 
Government  in  1950;  and  shipping, 
beginning  with  the  Detroit,  Toledo, 
&  Ironton  Railroad,  purchased  in 
1920  and  sold  to  the  Penroad  Corpo- 
ration in  1928,  and  expanded  with 
the  acquisition  of  steamships  begin- 
ning in  1924. 

Dealer-company  activities  and  rela- 
tions illustrated  include  conventions, 
trips,  outings,  and  public  service  ac- 
tivities; advertising  materials  for 
dealer  use;  and  suggestions  for  the 
improvement  of  sales  and  service. 

Employee-company  activities  and 
relations  illustrated  are  the  Ford 
Motor  Company  Post  of  the  American 
Legion;  the  English  School,  1914  to 
1922,  an  Americanization  program  for 
foreign-born  employees;  personal  pic- 
tures of  several  company  executives; 
gardening  on  plots  set  aside  by  the 


company  for  employee  use;  recrea- 
tional activities  including  picnics, 
Recreation  Committee  meetings,  ath- 
letic activities,  hobbies,  music  and 
drama,  fairs,  and  day  camps  for  boys; 
and  union  organizing  efforts,  strikes, 
contract  signing  (1946),  and  a  union 
election. 

Product  promotion  includes  exhib- 
its at  fairs  and  expositions;  advertis- 
ing films  for  Ford  airplanes,  cars,  and 
trucks,  Fordson  tractors,  and  Lincoln- 
Mercury  cars;  and  promotion  at  spe- 
cial events  such  as  the  Indianapolis 
500,  stock  car  races,  and  a  car  rodeo. 

Safety  education  deals  with  auto- 
mobile driver  and  pedestrian  training 
and  research  in  automotive  engineer- 
ing; and  fire,  industrial,  and  water 
safety. 

The  collection  contains  65,454  feet 
of  edited,  35  mm.,  silent,  black  and 
white  film;  67,203  feet  of  edited, 
35  mm.,  composite,  black  and  white 
film;  928  feet  of  edited,  35  mm.,  com- 
posite, color  film;  1,193  feet  of  edited, 
35  mm.,  sound  track;  237  feet  of  ed- 
ited, 16  mm.,  silent,  black  and  white 
film;  4,815  feet  of  edited,  16  mm.,  com- 
posite, black  and  white  film;  509  feet 
of  edited,  16  mm.,  composite,  color 
film;  245,822  feet  of  unedited,  35  mm., 
silent,  black  and  white  film;  2,725  feet 
of  unedited,  35  mm.,  sound  track; 
2,019  feet  of  unedited,  16  mm.,  silent, 
black  and  white  film;  1,393  feet  of  un- 
edited, 16  mm.,  silent,  color  film;  25 
minutes  of  25-inch,  magnetic  tape; 
and  112,092  feet  of  35  mm.  and  3,861 
feet  of  16  mm.,  duplicate  film. 


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CONTRIBUTORY 
INDUSTRIES 

AIRPORT 

General 

4,890  ft.,   uned.,  35   mm.,  si.,   b&w. 

(1925-29,  1941,  1942,  1945) 
Airplanes  on  field,  taking  off,  in 
flight,  and  landing;  planes  include  a 
Dayton-Wright  Cruiser,  Stout  all- 
metal  Air  Transport,  and  Ford  all- 
metal  Tri-motors;  planes,  mostly 
Stout  transports  or  Ford  Tri-motors, 
owned  by  Texaco,  Standard  Oil,  Na- 
tional Air  Transport,  and  Florida 
Airways;  Boy  Scouts  unveiling  memo- 
rial to  Harry  Brooks,  killed  in  the 
Ford  Flivver  plane  February  9, 
1928;  aerial  views  of  airport;  para- 
troop  exercises  and  sham  battle  on 
field;  and  Henry  and  Mrs.  Ford 
watching  the  dismantling  of  a  moor- 
ing tower  and  a  water  tower  at  the 
airport. 

Airmail  and  Air  Transportation 

Service 
1,623  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1925); 

3,104  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw. 

(1924-27,  1929) 

Initial  airmail  flight,  February 
1926:  Henry  and  Edsel  Ford  helping 
to  load  mail  sacks  into  plane;  plane 
taking  off;  and  United  Airlines  and 
PGA  planes  and  pilots  participating 
in  ceremonies  commemorating  inau- 
guration of  Ford  airmail  service,  with 
Henry  Ford  accepting  plaque. 

First  air  transportation  service  flight 
on  April  13,  1925:  workers  sorting 
packages,  loading  truck,  and  picking 
up  packages  at  Lincoln  Plant;  truck 
leaving  River  Rouge  Plant;  Ford  Air- 
port and  buildings;  Henry  and  Mrs. 
Ford  and  Edsel  Ford  helping  to  load 
all-metal  Tri-motor  plane  Maiden 


Dearborn;  plane  taking  off,  in  flight, 
and  landing  at  Chicago;  delivering 
packages  to  Ford  Branch,  Chicago; 
and  plane  loading  for  return  trip,  tak- 
ing off,  and  landing  at  Ford  Airport. 

Flights  established  between  Dear- 
born and  Cleveland,  Ohio,  July  1, 
1925:  loading  roadster  parts  aboard 
plane,  plane  landing  from  Chicago 
run,  Henry  and  Edsel  Ford  looking 
at  plane,  plane  taking  off  and  land- 
ing at  Cleveland,  and  workers  un- 
loading roadster  parts  and  assembling 
car  on  platform. 

Biplane  on  pontoons  delivering  car 
parts  to  dock. 

Stout  Airlines  Ford  Tri-motor 
plane:  passengers  boarding,  plane 
taking  off,  passengers  in  cabin,  and 
ground  below  as  seen  from  plane  in 
flight. 

Commercial  Airplane  Reliability 
Tour  for  the  Edsel  B.  Ford 
Trophy,  and  Balloon  Races 

706  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1925); 
15,456  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfcw. 
(1925-31) 

Many  views  of  Ford  Airport  and 
bunting-draped  buildings,  crowds, 
planes,  and  balloons;  people  includ- 
ing Henry  Ford,  Edsel  Ford  as  official 
starter,  Sen.  James  Couzens,  Wil- 
liam B.  Stout,  Henry  Ford  II,  and 
Benson  Ford;  map  indicating  route  of 
the  1,900-mile  race;  field  at  night  and 
fireworks;  band;  small  planes  includ- 
ing the  Ford  Flivver  plane  piloted 
by  Harry  Brooks  and  a  Briggs  Dart  in 
exhibitions  of  formation  flying  stunt- 
ing; weighing  in;  planes  being  flagged 
off  and  landing;  and  a  banquet  after 
the  race. 

Planes  and  pilots:  Travel  Air 
planes,  E.  K.  Campbell,  "Chief"  Bow- 
man, and  Walter  Beech;  Junker,  Fred 
Melchior;  Swallows,  John  Stauffer, 


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Earl  Rowland,  and  E.  A.  Goff;  Fok- 
ker,  E.  P.  Lott;  Carrier  Pigeon,  Casey 
Jones;  Martins,  Cy  Codwell  and 
L.  B.  Richardson;  Ford  Tri-motors, 
Richard  G.  Hamilton  and  Frank  M. 
Hawks;  most  of  the  above  makes  and 
models  of  planes  several  times  with 
unidentified  pilots;  a  Fairchild  with 
folding  wings,  Woodson  Type  3A, 
Curtiss  Oriole,  Waco,  Mercury,  Ryan, 
Pitcairn,  and  Alexander  Eaglerock  6; 
pilots  with  unidentified  planes,  in- 
cluding R.  W.  Schroeder  and  Nancy 
Hopkins;  a  flying  boat  with  wheels  on 
boat  and  pontoons  on  underwing; 
and  a  gyroplane  or  autogiro. 

Many  balloons  on  the  ground,  par- 
tially inflated,  inflated,  taking  off, 
and  in  flight;  dirigible  moored  over 
field,  in  flight,  and  landing  on  field; 
crowds  and  presentation  of  flowers  to 
balloonists;  and  pilots  and  balloons, 
identified  for  1925  race,  including  W. 
C.  Naylor  and  Kenneth  Warren  in 
Skylark,  Lt.  Max  Moyer  and  W.  E. 
Huffman  in  S~l,  Charles  D.  Williams, 
Jr.,  and  Arthur  G.  Schlosser  with  Dr. 
George  M.  LeGallee  in  Detroit  Flying 
Club  balloon,  J.  A.  Baettner  and  W. 
H.  Mortan  with  H.  W.  Maxson  in 
Goodyear  IV  (second  place),  and  S. 
A.  B.  Rasmussen  and  E.  J.  Hill  with 
S.  A.  Mitchell  in  The  Highball  11 
(winner). 

Dirigibles 

1,675   ft.,  uned.,  35   mm.,  si.,   bfrw. 

(1926,  1927) 

Dirigibles  U.S.S.  Los  Angeles  and 
RS-1  at  the  mooring  tower  of  Ford 
Airport;  tower  elevator,  mooring  cab- 
les, ballast  to  tail  of  dirigible,  helium 
cylinders  piled  on  ground,  and  close- 
ups  of  the  cabin  and  motors;  people 
including  Henry  Ford,  Henry  Ford  II, 
Rear  Adm.  William  A.  Moffett  who 
was  chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Aeronaut- 


ics, and  Lt.  Comdr.  Charles  E.  Ro- 
sendahl  of  the  U.S.S.  Los  Angeles; 
dirigible  casting  off  from  mooring 
tower  and  rising;  and*a  dirigible  en- 
tering a  hangar. 

Helicopter  Demonstrations 

1,639  it.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw. 
(1941) 

Pilot  Igor  Sikorsky  and  several 
other  men  in  turn  demonstrating  hel- 
icopter rising,  landing,  taking  off, 
hovering,  and  in  forward  and  back- 
ward flight. 

People  including  Henry  and  Mrs. 
Ford,  Henry  Ford  II,  and  Charles  A. 
Lindbergh  on  speaker's  stand. 

Visitors  to  Ford  Airport 

1J51  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1927, 

1928);  1,830  it.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si., 

bbw.  (1926-28) 

Comdr.  Richard  E.  Byrd  and  Edsel 
Ford  talking  (1926);  Spirit  of  St. 
Louis  in  flight,  landing,  and  taking 
off;  Charles  A.  Lindbergh  greeted  by 
Henry  and  Edsel  Ford  and  boys  from 
the  Henry  Ford  Trade  School;  Mrs. 
Lindbergh  (mother  of  Charles  A.), 
Harry  Brooks,  Henry  and  Mrs.  Ford, 
and  Edsel  Ford  with  Tri-motor  plane, 
and  plane  taking  off  (1927);  Bremen 
transatlantic  flyers  including  Baron 
von  Huenefeld,  Maj.  James  E.  Fitz- 
maurice,  and  Capt.  Hermann  Koehl 
with  Edward  F.  Schlee,  William  S. 
Brock,  Henry  and  Edsel  Ford,  and 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Herta  Junkers  at  Ford 
Airport  and  River  Rouge  Plant 
(1928);  and  Sir  George  H.  Wilkins 
with  Edsel  Ford  at  Ford  Airport  after 
Arctic  flight  (1928). 

LUMBERING 

6,400  it.,   uned.,  35   mm.,  si.,   birw. 

(1917,  1920-23,  1925,  1926,  1935) 

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Nos.  1,  2,  and  4  at  Iron  Mountain; 
small  towns,  children,  residential 
areas,  and  industrial  plants;  winter 
forest  scenes;  logging  activities  in- 
cluding felling  trees,  trimming  and 
cutting  logs  into  lengths,  snaking  logs, 
loading  logs  onto  sleds  and  flatcars 
with  block  and  tackle,  moving  logs  to 
railroad,  loading  logs  onto  flatcars, 
and  conveyor  carrying  logs  from  boom 
into  sawmill;  cutting  lumber  in  saw- 
mill; and  lumberyard  scenes. 

MINING 

Coal 

2,146  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1923, 
1924,  1927,  1928);  1,367  it.,  uned., 
35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1919-21,  1923) 

Coal  mining  towns  in  Kentucky 
and  West  Virginia:  schools  and  play- 
grounds, residential  areas,  and  com- 
missaries. 

Mine  buildings:  tipple,  power- 
house, machine  shops,  and  scale 
house;  hand-  and  cable-powered  cars 
carrying  miners;  mule-drawn  and 
electric  coal  cars;  mining  by  machine; 
and  shipping  coal  by  railroad  and 
ship. 

Processes  at  River  Rouge  coke 
ovens:  charging,  discharging,  and 
quenching;  and  shipping  coke  by 
freighter. 

Phosphate 

1,685  it.,   uned.,  35   mm.,  si.,   bfrw. 

(1920,  1922,  1927) 
Open  pit  mines:  railroad  track  sys- 
tem into  mine,  mining  with  picks  and 
shovels  and  with  huge  steam  shovels, 
dynamiting,  mill  buildings,  and  sep- 
aration machinery. 

RUBBER  PLANTATION 

1J47  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1929, 
1930);  962  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp., 
bfrw.  (1939);  21990  ft.,  uned., 


35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1929-32,  1936, 
1939,  1940,  1942) 

Maps  of  Brazil  indicating  the  Ford 
rubber  plantation  on  the  Tapajos 
River  and  the  city  of  Belem  on  the 
Para  River. 

Plantation  scenes:  jungle,  river, 
docks,  housing  facilities  for  foremen 
and  workers  and  their  families,  mess- 
hall,  restaurant,  schools,  chapel,  hos- 
pital, water  filtration  plant  and 
pump  house,  commissary,  cemetery, 
warehouse,  shop,  radio  and  telegraph 
room,  offices,  garage  and  yard,  saw- 
mill, rubber  processing  building, 
quarry,  railroad  system,  airplane 
hangar  and  seaplanes,  powerhouse 
under  construction,  road  and  bridge 
building,  building  construction,  clear- 
ing jungle,  planting  and  transplant- 
ing trees,  tapping  trees,  spraying 
swamps,  and  coagulating  rubber  by 
primitive  and  modern  methods. 

Brazilian  scenes:  villages  and 
towns,  natives  working  and  partici- 
pating in  recreational  activities,  do- 
mestic animals,  Belem  waterfront  and 
business  district,  wild  animals  and 
reptiles  in  zoo  and  in  native  habitat, 
and  displays  of  mounted  butterflies 
and  other  insects. 

SHIPPING 

Detroit,  Toledo,  &  Ironton  Railroad 

284  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1924, 
1926);  4,806  it.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si., 
bbw.  (1920-23) 

Passenger  trains  and  freight  trains 
passing  through  countryside  and 
through  small  towns  and  industrial 
areas  of  cities,  loading  and  unloading 
at  passenger  and  freight  stations,  fill- 
ing water  tanks  and  coal  cars  at  tow- 
ers in  yards,  and  yard  engines  shunt- 
ing cars  in  yards. 

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workers  replacing  locomotive  wheels, 
roundhouse  interior  with  locomotives 
on  and  near  turntable,  turning  loco- 
motives on  table  and  by  crane,  con- 
structing and  welding  boiler,  assem- 
bling and  polishing  locomotives, 
machinery  and  workers,  and  passen- 
ger car  under  construction. 

Steamships 

?#<<?  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1931); 

13,811  it.,  uned.,  55  mm.,  si.,  bfrw. 

(1918,  1919,  1922-29,  1937) 
Passenger  ships,  freighters,  and  tugs 
passing  through  drawbridges,  swing 
bridges,  an  aerial  ferry,  and  canals; 
views  of  lake  and  river  shorelines  from 
ships;  freighters  at  docks  including 
River  Rouge  docks;  loading  and  un- 
loading crates,  cars,  lumber,  coal, 
coke,  and  ore;  shipyard  buildings, 
ships  under  construction,  launchings, 
and  crowds;  ships  including  Cletus 
Schneider,  Frontenac,  Henry  Ford  II, 
Benson  Ford,  John  W.  Boardman, 
Onondaga,  Lake  Farge,  Oneida, 
Michigan,  Green  Island,  Norfolk, 
James  Watt,  John  A.  Roebling, 
Grand  Island,  George  G.  Crawford, 
William  F.  Stifel,  Queen,  and  Wil- 
liam W.  Wolf;  maiden  voyages  of  the 
Benson  Ford  and  the  barge  SS  Ches- 
ter; the  yacht  Sialia  in  drydock;  and 
ship's  instruments,  bridge,  pilothouse, 
boilerroom,  and  radio  room. 


DEALER-COMPANY 

ACTIVITIES  AND 

RELATIONS 

CONVENTIONS,  TRIPS,  AND 
OUTINGS 

5,872  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1926, 
1932, 1937);  3,125  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm., 
comp.,  bbw.  (1936);  4,733  it., 
uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfcw.  (1925, 


1926,  1932,  1934,  1936,  1937, 
1948);  1,754  ft.,  uned.,  16  mm.,  si., 
btrw.  (1946) 

Many  groups  of  Ford  dealers  from 
all  over  the  United  States  touring 
Ford  plants. 

Second  annual  picnic  of  Indianapo- 
lis Ford  dealers:  events  including 
beauty  contest,  kiddie  car  race,  most- 
mileage-on-a-Ford  contest,  and  long- 
distance visitor  contest;  and  a  Negro 
banjo  group  and  a  miniature  train 
ride. 

Dealers  touring  Greenfield  Village 
and  Henry  Ford  Museum. 

Conventions  (1936,  1946,  and 
1948):  Ford  executives  with  and  ad- 
dressing delegates,  buffet  at  Detroit 
Coliseum,  and  some  meetings  and 
work  sessions. 

Ford  dealers  in  Detroit  to  see  1937 
car:  presentation  of  Cape  Cod  Wind- 
mill to  Henry  Ford  at  Greenfield  Vil- 
lage, and  interview  with  Henry  and 
Edsel  Ford. 

Merit  Club  touring  Greenfield  Vil- 
lage and  cruising  on  the  S.S.  Seeand- 
bee. 


PROMOTIONAL  MATERIAL  FOR 
DEALERS 

6,757  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  bfrw. 
(1934,  1939);  392  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm., 
comp.,  k.  (1940);  1,279  ft.,  ed., 
16  mm.,  comp.,  bbw.  (1941);  150 
it.,  ed.,  16  mm.,  comp.,  k.  (1940); 
1,757  it.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w. 
(1934) 

Drama  about  the  development  of 
the  automobile  and  the  history  of  a 
family  owning  and  operating  a  Ford 
dealership  over  a  period  of  30  years. 

Explanations  and  illustrations  of 
features  contributing  to  comfortable 
ride  in  1940  Fords,  including  shock 


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absorbers,  wheel  bases,  springs,  and 
seats. 

Story  of  Ford  parts  and  service,  in- 
cluding the  training  of  servicemen 
and  illustrations  of  special  tools  and 
equipment  required  for  good  service. 

A  day  in  the  life  of  an  imaginary 
Ford  salesman. 

PUBLIC  SERVICE  ACTIVITIES 

703  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1920); 

1,110  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  bfrw. 

(1947);  2,193  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  t. 

(1948);  667  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si., 

b&w.  (1946) 

Promotion  for  public  support  for 
dealer-sponsored  Christmas  basket 
distribution. 

Appeals  for  dealer  sponsorship  of 
American  Legion  Junior  Baseball 
Program:  scenes  from  all-star  game 
for  1946,  Junior  World  Series,  and 
other  games;  major  league  players  in- 
cluding Bob  Feller,  Ray  Mack,  Dizzy 
Trout,  Vern  Stevens,  Bobby  Doerr, 
Whitey  Kurowski,  Peewee  Reese, 
Danny  Murtaugh,  Sam  Chapman, 
Barney  McCosky,  Mike  Tresh,  Virgil 
Trucks,  Eddie  Lake,  Roy  Cullenbine, 
and  Buddy  Hutchinson;  and  Paul  H. 
Griffith,  National  Commander,  Amer- 
ican Legion,  making  appeal  for  sup- 
port. 

SALES  AND  SERVICE  IMPROVE- 
MENT MATERIAL 

11,463  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1924, 

1927-29,  1931,  1934,  1936,  1938); 

7,752  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  b&w. 

(1936,   1939);    1,129   ft.,   ed.,   16 

mm.,  comp.,  bfcw.  (1946);  2,352 

it.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1919, 

1924,  1928,  1930,  1935) 

Contrasts  between  right  and  wrong 

methods  of  office  and   display  room 

housekeeping;  selecting,  training,  and 

supervising      salesmen;      sales      tech- 


niques; followup  inspections  of  new 
cars;  recordkeeping  systems;  used  car 
and  truck  sales  techniques  and  deci- 
sions about  which  vehicles  to  recondi- 
tion, which  to  sell  as  they  are,  and 
which  to  junk;  and  appearance  and 
management  of  service  garages. 


EMPLOYEE-COMPANY 

ACTIVITIES  AND 

RELATIONS 

AMERICAN  LEGION 

673  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1935); 

480  it.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w. 

(1935) 

Initiation  ceremonies  into  Ford  Mo- 
tor Company  Post  173  of  the  Ameri- 
can Legion:  color  guard,  prayer, 
speeches,  drum  and  bugle  corps,  glee 
club,  review,  invocation,  and  oath 
taking. 

ENGLISH  SCHOOL 

757  it.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1918) 

Classroom:   professor  lecturing  and 

students  talking  and  leaving  building. 

EXECUTIVES  AND  FAMILIES, 
PERSONAL  SHOTS 

Harry  Bennett 

1$99   ft.,   uned.,   35    mm.,  si.,   b&w. 

(1928,  1937,  1938) 
Harry  Bennett  at  home,  winter 
scenes  at  the  Bennett  home,  and 
Harry  Bennett  and  group  of  people 
on  yacht  and  at  baseball  game  in 
which  men  and  women  participated. 

Mrs.  Ray  Dahlinger  and  Son 

2,7/2   it.,   uned.,   35   mm.,  si.,   bfcw. 

(1926,  1927,  1934) 
John    Dahlinger    (age   4)   with    his 
mother;  participating  in  various  rec- 
reational activities  at  home;  acting  as 
ring  bearer  at  a  wedding;  group  in- 


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eluding  the  Ray  Dahlingers  cooking 
and  eating  out  of  doors;  sulky  racing; 
and  John  Dahlinger  (age  about  10) 
putting  horse  through  trick  routines 
such  as  kneeling,  lying  down,  and  get- 
ting up. 

Logan  Miller 

799   ft.,   ed.,  35   mm.,   comp.,   bfrw. 

(1952) 

Lampoon  on  the  life  and  career  of 
Logan  Miller  on  his  retirement. 

Charles  E.  Sorensen 

591  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1919, 

1931) 

Henry  Ford  and  Charles  Sorensen; 
Sorensen  family  on  yacht,  watching 
sailboat  races;  and  other  views  from 
yacht,  including  shoreline,  Henry 
Ford  II  moving  through  raised  bridge 
span,  canal  banks  and  locks,  and  fish- 
ermen and  their  catch  in  small  boat. 

GARDENS 

455  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1932, 

1948) 

Workers  and  their  families  in  gar- 
dens, garden  produce,  and  exhibits 
and  prizes. 

RECREATIONAL  ACTIVITIES 

384  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1924); 
717  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  bfcw. 
(1953,  1954);  6,536  ft.,  uned., 
35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1920,  1934, 
1935,  1938,  1941,  1946,  1948, 
1954) 

Picnic:  ballroom  dancing,  old  time 
dancing,  tap  dancing,  and  Charles- 
ton; playing  horseshoes;  races;  and 
contest  winner  awards. 

Winter  outing  at  cabin  in  woods: 
snowball-fighting,  roughhousing,  and 
rabbit-shooting. 

Recreation  Committee  meetings. 
Indoor    athletic    activities:     swim- 
ming events   such   as   racing,   diving, 
and  a  water  ballet;  boxing;  wrestling; 


weight  lifting;  fencing;  bowling;  and 
badminton,  basketball,  and  volleyball 
games. 

Outdoor  athletic  games  and  con- 
tests: baseball;  tennis;  horseshoes; 
golf;  and  target  practice  with  rifles, 
slingshots,  and  bows  and  arrows. 

Special  activities:  Photography 
Club  and  exhibit,  Chess  Club,  Bridge 
Club,  fly  casting  class,  Stamp  Club, 
Yacht  Club,  orchestra,  ballroom 
dancing,  chorus  singing  Christmas 
carols  at  Rotunda,  drama,  and  vari- 
ety shows. 

Ford  Fair:  garden  and  canned  goods 
exhibits  and  judging. 

Day  camp  activities:  boys  enrolling, 
getting  physical  checkup  by  nurse, 
touring  Rouge  Plant,  playing  tag  and 
baseball,  and  swimming. 

UNION 

8,053  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w. 
(1937,  1938,  1941,  1946,  1947, 
1950) 

Battle  of  the  overpass:  police 
dispersing  crowd  and  chasing  them 
across  railroad  tracks  and  through 
field. 

United  Automobile  Workers  (UAW) 
organizers  at  the  River  Rouge  Plant: 
men  and  women  distributing  leaflets 
and  newspapers  to  workers  entering 
and  leaving  plant,  mounted  and  mo- 
torcycle police  patrolling  and  opening 
lanes  through  crowds  for  cars  and 
pedestrians  to  enter  plant,  police  es- 
corting men  and  women  to  paddy 
wagon,  and  women  yelling  and  defy- 
ing policeman. 

Strike  (1941):  plant  interior  show- 
ing idle  machinery  and  damaged  and 
broken  tools  and  machinery,  pickets, 
crowds,  and  police. 

John  S.  Bugas  and  UAW  represen- 
tatives signing  contract  (1946). 

Union    election    (1947):     lines    of 


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workers  outside  small  buildings  across 
the  street  from  union  hall,  and  work- 
ers coming  and  going. 

Supervisors  strike  (1947):  picket 
lines  at  River  Rouge  and  Highland 
Park  Plants,  and  traffic  to  and  from 
plants. 

Pickets  at  entrance  gate  to  Green- 
field Village. 


PRODUCT  PROMOTION 

EXHIBITS  AT  FAIRS  AND 
EXPOSITIONS 

Auto  Shows 

2,213   ft.,   lined.,  35   mm.,  si.,   b&w. 

(1949) 

Ford  show  at  Convention  Hall,  De- 
troit; show  at  Madison  Square  Gar- 
den with  spectators  including  Benson 
Ford,  Henry  Ford  II,  and  Fred  Allen 
at  Ford  exhibits;  motorcade  of  old 
cars  on  street;  and  motorcade  of 
Fords,  Mercurys,  Cadillacs,  and  Olds- 
mobiles  on  street. 

California  Pacific  International  Ex- 
position, San  Diego 

935  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  b&w. 
(1935);  6  ft.,  lined.,  35  mm.,  si., 
bbw.  (1935) 

Aerial  views  of  Balboa  Park  and 
fairgrounds;  Roads  of  the  Pacific  ex- 
hibits with  an  old  Spanish  trail  and 
illustrations  of  kinds  of  roads  built  in 
the  California  desert,  in  the  moun- 
tains of  Japan,  and  in  Panama;  Byrd 
Expedition  exhibit;  House  of  Japan; 
House  of  the  Central  American 
Nations;  House  of  Pacific  Rela- 
tions; Norwegian  House;  Yugoslavian 
House;  Queen  Elizabeth's  Court; 
Ford  exhibit  including  entertain- 
ment in  the  Ford  Bowl,  illustrations 
of  several  industrial  processes,  and  a 


model  of  the  Ford  plant;  and  enter- 
tainment including  Indians  dancing, 
an  Irish  dance,  a  clown  performing, 
midgets  on  a  stage,  and  a  Ferris  wheel 
and  other  rides. 

Stills  of  mission  ruins  and  a  high- 
way along  the  seacoast;  and  aerial 
views  of  San  Diego  and  of  beaches, 
ocean,  and  ships. 

Chicago  World's  Fair  and  Ford 
Rotunda 

3,069  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  b&w. 
(1934);  1,142  ft.,  lined.,  35  mm., 
si.,  bbw.  (1934,  1937,  1938,  1953) 

Aerial  views  of  fairgrounds  and 
Lake  Michigan;  several  gardens  in 
fairgrounds;  Avenue  of  Flags  with 
Scottish  band  in  parade  and  Hall  of 
Religion;  buildings  including  Good- 
year with  blimp  overhead,  Travel 
and  Transport,  General  Motors, 
Chrysler  Motors,  Federal,  Wings  of  a 
Century  portraying  historical  drama 
about  transportation,  and  Ford  Ro- 
tunda; exhibits  in  form  of  villages, 
some  with  entertainment,  including 
midget,  Colonial,  Spanish,  Black  For- 
est, English,  Italian,  Swiss,  Belgian, 
Irish,  Tunisian,  Mexican,  and  Dutch; 
Paris  exhibit  in  form  of  a  ship;  early 
steam  locomotive  and  streamlined 
train  on  display;  Byrd's  South  Pole 
ship  at  dock;  prehistoric  animal  ex- 
hibit; and  entertainment  including  a 
girl  aerialist,  an  ice-skating  perform- 
ance, a  ventriloquist  with  dummies,  a 
sky-ride,  and  a  children's  playground 
with  rides  and  a  clown. 

Ford  exhibits:  crowds  around  Ro- 
tunda and  Henry  and  Edsel  Ford  ar- 
riving; huge  globe  inside  Rotunda; 
relief  map  showing  Ford  Motor  Com- 
pany installations;  exhibits  including 
antique  cars,  rubber  products  used  in 
cars,  motors  and  motor  parts,  frame 


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with  steering  mechanism,  wheels, 
model  cement  mill,  Ford  and  Lincoln 
cars,  Henry  Ford  Trade  School,  Bag- 
ley  Avenue  Shop,  and  Quadricycle; 
industrialized  farm  with  a  soybean- 
growing  exhibit,  a  steam  engine,  and 
early  farm  machinery;  and  workers 
demonstrating  Ford  processes  and  ma- 
chinery employed  in  the  production 
of  speedometers,  laminated  wind- 
shields, cast  parts,  patterns,  V-8  en- 
gines, bolts,  soybean  plastics,  plastic 
parts,  gears,  and  axles. 

Ford  suppliers'  exhibits:  Stewart 
Warner  Corp.;  Timkin  Detroit  Axle 
Co;  Detroit  Gasket  and  Manufactur- 
ing Co.;  Bendix  Products  Corp.;  Hou- 
daille  Hershey  Corp.;  United  Engi- 
neering and  Foundry  Co.;  L.  A. 
Young  Spring  and  Wire  Corp.;  Motor 
Products  Corp.;  United  Rubber  Co.; 
Kelsey  Hayes  Wheel  Co.;  Briggs  Man- 
ufacturing Co.;  Thompson  Products, 
Inc.;  Shelton  Looms;  American  Brass 
Co.;  Anaconda  Copper  and  Brass 
Products;  Murray  Corp.;  Aluminum 
Co.  of  America;  Champion  Spark 
Plug  Co.;  and  Essex  Wire  Corp. 

People  in  Ford  cars  on  elevated 
roadway,  and  Ford  Amphitheatre 
with  Detroit  Symphony  Orchestra 
playing. 

Rotunda  interior  and  exterior  as 
reconstructed  at  Dearborn. 

Ford  Exposition  of  Progress,  New 
York 

6 $69  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1933, 
1934) 

Crowds  and  traffic  in  exposition 
hall. 

Exhibit  illustrating  evolution  of 
the  car:  Austin  steam  car  (ca.  1900) , 
Benz  (1898  and  post- 1 900) ,  Olds 
(1899),  Winton  (1901),  Cadillac 
(1902) ,  Daimler  (1908) ,  Ford's  racer 
999  (1902),  several  models  of  Fords 


(pre-1903;  original  A,  1903;  B,  1904; 
C,  1905;  N  and  S,  1906;  E  and  R, 
1907;  T,  1908;  A,  1927;  and  V-8,  1933), 
and  the  15-millionth  Ford  (the  last 
Model-T,  1927)  and  the  20-millionth 
Ford  (Model-A,  1931). 

Ford  suppliers'  exhibits:  J.  T.  Wing 
&  Co.,  Alcoa  Aluminum,  Firestone, 
Kelsey  Hayes,  Murray,  Hercules  Pow- 
der Co.,  Howe  Corp.,  RRA  Corp.  of 
America,  Simonds  Saws,  Goodrich 
Safety  Silvertons,  Goodyear,  and 
Standard  Oil. 

Other  exhibits:  plastics;  V-8  and 
parts;  carbon  for  motor  brushes  and  a 
man  playing  xylophone  made  of  car- 
bon; carborundum;  rubber;  tire  with 
an  acrobat  on  a  tightrope;  the  Quad- 
ricycle in  replica  of  Bagley  Avenue 
Shop;  workers  demonstrating  indus- 
trial processes  including  shaping 
metal  in  a  smithy,  making  dash- 
boards, testing  valves  for  heat  resist- 
ance, weaving  tubular  fabric,  welding 
bodies,  assembling  valve  stems  to 
pistons,  and  making  speedometers; 
machines  including  those  for  gear  cut- 
ting, core  slitting,  and  metal  polish- 
ing; and  metal  lathes  and  drills. 

Entertainment:  children  singing, 
orchestra  and  band  music,  different 
types  of  dancing,  and  a  group  of  hill- 
billy singers. 

Michigan  State  Fairs 

7,592    ft.,    lined.,   35    mm.,   si.,    bfrw. 

(1923,  1925,  1926,  1932) 
Models  and  murals  depicting  coal 
mining  and  samples  of  coal  and  coke, 
fertilizer  processing,  logging  and  sam- 
ples of  wooden  parts  in  cars,  and 
paper  objects;  exhibits  of  car  engines, 
Quadricycle,  cars,  tractors,  trucks, 
railroad  locomotive,  and  a  Tri-motor 
airplane;  old  vehicles  on  display,  in- 
cluding wagons,  covered  wagons,  bug- 


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gies,  carriages,  a  stagecoach,  and  a  loc- 
omotive; men  trying  to  tip  over  cars 
tilted  steeply  by  ramp  under  wheels 
of  one  side;  a  food  and  health  ex- 
hibit; and  a  band  concert. 

New  York  World's  Fair 
1,327  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  b&w. 
(1940);  201  it.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si., 
bfrw.  (1939) 

Aerial  views  of  New  York  City,  and 
George  Washington  Bridge  and  Man- 
hattan Island. 

Fairgrounds  with  aerial  views  and 
night  scenes  with  fireworks;  buildings 
including  those  of  U.S.  Steel,  West- 
inghouse,  U.S.  Government,  Good- 
rich, Chrysler,  General  Motors,  Ford, 
and  States  of  Maine  and  Florida;  ex- 
hibit of  streamlined  trains;  and 
amusement  area  including  parachute 
jump,  ski  jump,  dancers,  ice  skaters, 
and  a  souvenir  stand. 

Ford  pavilion:  under  construction; 
Ford  Day  ceremonies  with  Edsel  Ford 
and  the  five  oldest  Ford  dealers  in  the 
United  States;  exhibits  including  the 
28-millionth  Ford,  Henry  Ford's  first 
gasoline-powered  engine,  Ford  cycle 
of  production,  and  a  mobile  mural 
by  Henry  Billings;  cars  on  ramps  of 
"Road  of  Tomorrow"  exhibit;  garden 
court;  theater  with  ballet,  style  show, 
and  a  movie;  and  amphitheater  with 
Ferde  Grofe  directing  the  New  World 
Ensemble. 

Ford  Airplanes 

423  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1926- 

28);  1,755  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp., 

bbw.   (1928);  794  it.,  uned.,  35 

mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1926,  1929) 

Demonstration  flight  of  Ford  Tri- 

motor  plane  at  Le  Bourget,  France, 

and  at  Barcelona,  Spain:   passengers 

deplaning  and  enplaning;  and  aerial 


views  of  airfields,  river,  waterfront, 
cities,  and  countryside. 

Advertisement  for  combination 
train  and  air  trips  across  the  country: 
aerial  view  of  New  York  City;  Penn- 
sylvania Station;  maps  of  route  of 
trip;  towns  along  the  route,  including 
Columbus,  Ohio,  Indianapolis,  Ind., 
St.  Louis  and  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  Wich- 
ita, Kans.,  Waynoka,  Okla.,  Clovis 
and  Albuquerque,  N.  Mex.,  Winslow 
and  Kingman,  Ariz.,  and  Los  Angeles, 
Calif.;  aerial  views  along  the  way,  in- 
cluding countryside,  mountains,  des- 
ert, meteor  crater,  the  Colorado 
River,  Mojave  Desert,  and  Mount 
Wilson  Observatory;  Charles  A. 
Lindbergh  inspecting  plane  and  su- 
pervising flights;  and  Amelia  Earhart 
greeting  passengers  at  Los  Angeles. 

Tri-motor  planes  in  Chile:  passen- 
gers boarding  plane;  plane  in  flight 
over  snow-covered  Andes;  and  Iqui- 
que,  Chile,  airport,  and  aerial  views 
of  the  city. 

Ford  Cars 

11,562  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1917- 
25,  1927-29,  1931,  1932,  1934, 
1936,  1937);  14,898  it.,  ed., 
35  mm.,  comp.,  bfrw.  (1932,  1934, 
1935,  1937-41,  1947);  536  it.,  ed., 
35  mm.,  comp.,  k.  (1939);  359  it., 
ed.,  16  mm.,  comp.,  k.  (1948); 
68,101  it.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfcw. 
(1914,  1916-41,  1945,  1946,  1948, 
1950);  796  it.,  uned.,  16  mm.,  si, 
k.  (1946,  1954);  25  mm.,  .25-inch 
mag.  tape  (1940) 

Many  parades,  motorcades,  and  dis- 
plays; Henry,  Edsel,  and  Henry  Ford 
II  many  times;  early  model  Fords  on 
display  and  being  driven,  including 
Quadricycle  and  1903-7  models,  and 
racer  999;  plants  including  Mack 
Avenue,  Highland  Park,  River  Rouge, 


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and  Village  Industries;  and  manufac- 
turing processes. 

Model-T  (1908-27):  planetary  trans- 
mission, Thermo-syphon  cooling  sys- 
tem, and  splash  lubrication;  cars 
being  driven  along  huge  aqueduct 
pipe,  on  railroad  tracks,  down  steep 
embankments,  over  rough  terrain,  on 
snowy  mountain  roads,  and  through 
deep  mud;  cars  equipped  for  camp- 
ing; illustrations  of  maneuverability, 
economy  of  operation,  reliability, 
durability,  stamina,  and  new  features 
from  year  to  year;  illustrations  by 
diagram,  cutaway  sections,  and  run- 
ning demonstrations  of  moving  parts; 
drama  explaining  the  Ford  Weekly 
Purchase  Plan  (1923);  improvements 
for  1924,  including  dashlight,  rear- 
view  mirror,  and  windshield  wiper; 
experiment  with  radio  receiver  in 
car  (1924);  10-millionth  Ford  (1924) 
motorcade  trip  from  New  York,  N.Y., 
to  San  Francisco,  Calif.,  through 
Jersey  City  and  Trenton,  N.J.,  Phila- 
delphia, Gettysburg,  and  Pittsburgh, 
Pa.,  Ohio,  onto  Lincoln  Highway  at 
Nebraska-Wyoming  line,  Pine  Bluff, 
Cheyenne,  and  Laramie,  Wyo.,  and 
Portland  and  Grants  Pass,  Oreg.; 
New  Jersey  Gov.  George  S.  Silzer  and 
Wyoming  Gov.  W.  B.  Ross;  and 
15-millionth  Ford  (1927). 

Model-A  (1927-31):  sliding  gear 
transmission,  water  pump,  battery 
distributor  ignition,  safety  glass  wind- 
shield, hydraulic  shock  absorbers,  and 
welding  of  major  subassemblies; 
model-A  climbing  Ben  Nevis  Moun- 
tain in  Scotland  (1928);  and  own- 
ers with  their  Model-A's,  including 
Thomas  A.  Edison,  Fred  and  Dorothy 
Stone,  Douglas  Fairbanks  and  Mary 
Pickford,  Dolores  Del  Rio,  Dorothy 
Gish,  Newton  D.  Baker,  Irvin  S.  Cobb, 
Will  Rogers,  Sen.  Frederick  Hale  and 


Sen.  James  Couzens,  Lester  Maitland, 
and  Our  Gang  Kids  with  their  dog 
(1928). 

Twenty-millionth  Ford  (1931)  trip 
around  the  country:  motorcades, 
bands,  and  ceremonies  at  points  of  in- 
terest: Wilson  Dam  at  Muscle  Shoals 
and  the  first  White  House  of  the  Con- 
federacy at  Montgomery,  Ala.;  an  old 
southern  sorghum  mill  at  Brinkley, 
Ark.,  and  a  football  game  between 
Ouachita  Baptist  College,  Arkadel- 
phia,  and  Arkansas  State  Teachers 
College  at  Conway,  Ark.;  Long 
Beach,  the  Pacific  Ocean,  Mission  San 
Juan  Capistrano,  and  a  football  game 
at  Palo  Alto,  Calif.;  Roald  Amund- 
sen's monument  and  ship,  Market 
Street,  City  Hall,  and  a  ferry  at  San 
Francisco;  Lake  Merritt  at  Oakland, 
Carquinez  Bridge  to  Vallejo,  the  cap- 
itol  at  Sacramento,  and  Mount  Shasta 
in  California;  Denver  scenes  includ- 
ing the  capitol,  business  district,  rail- 
road yards,  and  the  industrial  dis- 
trict; the  Royal  Gorge  of  the  Arkansas 
River  in  Colorado;  several  towns,  the 
Martha  Berry  School  at  Rome,  and 
ceremonies  at  Columbus,  Ga.,  with 
Col.  George  C.  Marshall,  Jr.,  repre- 
senting Ft.  Benning,  Ga.;  Thomas 
Lincoln  Cabin  in  Macon  County,  and 
Chicago,  111.;  Chicago  lakeshore  area, 
business  district,  park,  and  airport; 
circus  wagons  and  elephants  at  Peru, 
Ind.;  the  capitol,  American  Legion 
National  Headquarters,  and  the 
speedway  at  Indianapolis,  Ind.;  In- 
diana Gov.  Harry  G.  Leslie;  the  capi- 
tol at  Des  Moines,  Iowa;  Herbert 
Hoover's  birthplace  at  West  Branch, 
Iowa;  horseback  riders  jousting  at 
bags  of  sand  and  target-shooting  from 
running  horses,  and  the  Mississippi 
River;  Iowa  Gov.  Dan  Turner;  sev- 
eral cities  and  towns  and  a  pioneer 


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pageant  at  a  reconstructed  stockade  at 
Fort  Harrod,  Ky.;  New  Orleans,  La., 
and  the  Chalmett  Monument  at  site 
of  the  Battle  of  New  Orleans;  several 
towns  in  Michigan;  the  capitol  and 
Fort  Snelling  at  St.  Paul,  Minn.; 
Vicksburg  National  Park  and  the  cap- 
itol at  Jackson,  Miss.;  Mississippi 
Gov.  Theodore  G.  Bilbo;  City  Hall  at 
St.  Louis,  Mo.;  the  capitol  at  Lincoln, 
Nebr.;  Nebraska  Gov.  Charles  W. 
Bryan;  tunnel  blasting  at  Boulder 
Dam  and  a  Labor  Day  parade  at  Las 
Vegas,  Nev.;  the  capitol  at  Concord, 
N.H.;  New  York  City  Mayor  Jimmy 
Walker;  Niagara  Falls,  Mussolini's 
Italian  students  at  McFadden  Health 
Resort  at  Dansville,  and  the  New 
University  of  Rochester  in  New  York; 
the  capitol  at  Bismarck,  Fargo  busi- 
ness district,  Badlands  scenes,  Sioux 
Indians  in  ceremonial  dress  at  Man- 
dan,  and  rodeo  events  in  North  Da- 
kota; the  capitol  at  Columbus,  Ohio; 
several  towns  and  ranches  and  the 
capitol  at  Oklahoma  City,  Pawnee  In- 
dian Trading  Post  with  Indians  danc- 
ing, and  Greater  Seminole  Oil  Field 
in  Oklahoma;  Oklahoma  Gov.  "Alfal- 
fa Bill"  Murray;  Klamath  and  Crater 
Lakes,  Bridge  of  the  Gods  at  Cascade 
Locks  on  the  Columbia  River,  and 
the  capitol  at  Salem,  Oreg.;  Provi- 
dence, R.I.;  Sylvan  Lake,  Needle  Pass, 
and  Black  Hills  Tunnel  in  the  Black 
Hills  of  South  Dakota;  the  capitol  at 
Nashville  and  a  ferry  across  the  Ten- 
nessee River  in  Tennessee;  Tennessee 
Gov.  Henry  H.  Horton;  Williamson 
Dam,  the  capitol  at  Austin,  the  Ala- 
mo, and  a  high  school  football  game 
at  Corpus  Christi,  Tex.;  Texas  Gov. 
Ross  S.  Sterling;  the  Moab  Desert,  the 
capitol,  and  Mormon  Temple  with 
President  Heber  J.  Grant  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 


Day  Saints  and  Sen.  Reed  Smoot  at 
Salt  Lake  City,  Utah;  Saltair  at  Great 
Salt  Lake,  Artesian  Park  at  Ogden, 
and  Zion  National  Park,  Utah;  the 
capitol  at  Montpelier,  Vt.;  Vista 
House  at  Crown  Point  on  the  Colum- 
bia River  Highway,  the  capitol  at 
Olympia,  Peace  Arch  at  Blaine,  Eagle 
Falls,  Rock  Island  Dam,  an  Oregon- 
Washington  football  game  at  the 
University  of  Washington  at  Seattle 
with  President  M.  Lyle  Spencer  in  at- 
tendance, and  Mount  Rainier,  Wash.; 
Washington  Gov.  Roland  Hartley; 
several  towns  in  West  Virginia;  Sid- 
ney Smith  and  a  statue  of  Andy 
Gump,  Parker  Pen  Company  at 
Janesville,  the  birthplace  of  the  Re- 
publican Party  at  "Ripon,  the  capitol 
at  Madison,  and  the  Milwaukee  busi- 
ness district  in  Wisconsin;  and  Wis- 
consin Gov.  Henry  A.  Huber. 

V-8  (1932):  motor  block  cast  in  one 
piece;  reopening  of  plant  and  pros- 
perity drive  with  announcement  of 
new  V-8;  Sparton  Police  Radio  Cruis- 
ers for  the  Detroit  Police  Department 
(1932)  and  for  the  convention  of  the 
International  Association  of  Chiefs  of 
Police  at  Washington,  D.C.  (1934). 

V-8's  in  durability  and  economy 
tests:  being  driven  33,000  miles  in  33 
days  in  the  Mojave  Desert,  10,000 
miles  in  12  days  using  Mobil  Gas 
products,  and  10,000  miles  in  10  days 
using  Phillips  66  products. 

One-millionth  V-8  (1934)  and  2- 
millionth  V-8  driven  to  San  Diego 
(1935). 

Drama  about  a  honeymoon  couple 
driving  from  Boston  to  San  Diego 
Fair  in  a  V-8:  stopping  at  New  York 
City,  Niagara  Falls,  the  River  Rouge 
Plant  at  Dearborn,  Pikes  Peak,  Zion 
National  Park,  Death  Valley,  and  the 
San  Diego  Fair. 


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Twenty-five-millionth  Ford  (1936), 
a  small  dirigible  used  to  advertise 
Fords  (1937),  hydraulic  brakes 
(1939) ,  press  previews  for  several 
models,  29-millionth  Ford  presented 
to  the  Detroit  Chapter,  American  Red 
Cross  (1941),  and  a  parade  celebrating 
the  50th  anniversary  of  the  first  Ford 
car  (1946). 

Experimental  car  XM-800  (1954). 

FORD  TRUCKS 

311  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1931); 
6,755  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  bfcw. 
(1935,  1937,  1938,  1940,  1941, 
1950);  11284  it.,  uned.,  35  mm., 
si.,  bfrw.  (1916-22,  1928-34,  1937, 
1938);  541  ft.,  uned.,  16  mm.,  si., 
k.  (1937) 

Trucks  on  display  and  in  use,  being 
test-driven,  and  in  parades;  early 
Model-T  adapted  with  skis  on  front 
and  dual  rear  wheels;  models  for  all 
years,  including  pickup,  panel,  van,  re- 
frigerator, tank,  tow  stake  body,  pas- 
senger, sound,  generator,  expansion 
camper  (opening  and  closing  demon- 
stration), ambulance,  fire,  and  semi- 
trailer; and  trucks  used  in  specific 
jobs  including  long  distance  freight- 
ing, quarrying,  delivering  coal,  col- 
lecting garbage,  ranching  and  farm- 
ing, building  dam  at  Fort  Peck  on  the 
Missouri  River,  building  roads,  deliv- 
ering food  and  other  necessities  to 
New  York  City  at  night,  and  fighting 
a  fire  in  Chesaning,  Mich. 

Construction  details  illustrated  by 
assembly  lines,  stripped  down  parts, 
and  cutaway  sections;  and  demonstra- 
tions of  truck  parts  including  chassis 
with  steering  mechanism  and  brake 
lines  attached,  wheel  mounting  with 
brake  drum  and  mechanism  exposed, 
motor  details,  cylinders,  carburetor, 
ignition,  transmission,  suspension  sys- 


tem, fly  leaves,  and  steering  mecha- 
nism and  worm  gear. 

Children  getting  into  and  out  of 
school  buses;  buses  of  the  Detroit 
Street  Railway  System  on  streets  and 
entering  and  leaving  tunnel  to  Can- 
ada; buses  in  garage  being  serviced, 
including  such  tasks  as  checking  oil, 
testing  brakes,  repairing  speedometer, 
repairing  and  testing  engines,  and 
washing;  and  instructions  for  bus  op- 
erators, giving  rules  for  inspection, 
safe  driving,  and  making  accident  re- 
ports. 

FORDSON  TRACTORS 

12^68  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1918- 
21,  1924,  1925,  1930,  1931);  2,060 
ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  b&w.  (1937, 
1939,    1947);    25,990    it.,    uned., 
35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1917-31,  1933, 
1935-38,    1940,    1941);    2,453    it., 
uned..  35  mm.,  t.  (1947,  1948) 
Many  exhibits,  parades,  and  dem- 
onstrations   of    tractors    and    attach- 
ments. 

Old-fashioned  and  tractor  farming 
contrasted:  tasks  performed  by  hand 
with  handtools,  including  chopping 
and  sawing  wood,  harvesting  wheat 
with  a  scythe  and  tying  sheaves, 
planting  corn  and  harvesting  and 
husking  it,  operating  corn  sheller, 
planting  and  digging  potatoes,  and 
milking  and  churning;  horse-  and 
mule-drawn  implements  and  vehicles 
including  plows,  binders,  floats,  wag- 
ons, disk  harrows,  and  cultivators; 
tractor-drawn  implements  including 
plows,  mowers,  binders,  seed  drills, 
floats,  planters,  wagons,  cultivators, 
harrows,  ditch  diggers,  rakes,  mulch 
and  manure  spreaders,  corn  harvesters, 
dredger,  potato  digger,  beet  harvest- 
ers, and  combines;  tractor-powered 
equipment  including  saws,  hay  balers, 


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threshing  machines,  silage  grinders, 
silo  fillers,  corn  huskers  and  shellers, 
spraying  equipment,  milking  ma- 
chines, cream  separators,  churns,  shop 
machinery,  pumps,  and  electricity 
generators;  and  tractors  clearing  land, 
including  pulling  stumps,  snaking 
logs,  and  pulling  rocks  from  fields. 

Lumbering:  tractor-drawn  log 
sleds,  wagons,  and  trailers;  tractors 
snaking  logs;  tractor-powered  saws 
and  generators;  tractor  on  railroad 
tracks  hauling  flatcars  loaded  with 
logs  to  boom;  and  tractor-drawn  trail- 
ers of  lumber  in  yard. 

Roadbuilding:  tractor-drawn  grav- 
el cars  on  railroad  tracks;  drag  scoops 
preparing  roadbed;  tractor  attach- 
ments including  dirt  loader,  grader, 
and  roller;  trucks;  concrete-leveling 
machinery;  and  mixers. 

Other  work  performed  by  tractor 
power:  tank  and  sweeper  cleaning 
street;  snowplows  on  streets  and  side- 
walks and  clearing  snow  from  ice; 
hauling  load  of  pipe  to  oilfield  and 
operating  winch  at  derrick;  block  and 
tackle  moving  scoops  of  sand  from 
railroad  car;  winches,  one  operating 
elevator  at  construction  site;  hauling 
fire  engine  and  providing  power  for 
pump;  float  smoothing  racetrack  be- 
tween races;  shovels  loading  coal  into 
gondolas  and  excavating  at  building 
site;  providing  power  for  conveyor 
into  icehouse;  laying  cable;  mowing 
lawns;  stretching  wire  along  railroad 
right-of-way;  laying  large  pipe  in 
trench  up  mountain  slope;  interplant 
•and  intraplant  hauling;  and  provid- 
ing power  for  a  merry-go-round  and 
Ferris  wheel. 

Tractor  manufacturing:  parts  cast- 
ing and  milling,  engine  and  distribu- 
tor assemblies,  painting  lines,  and 
final  assembly  lines. 


Testing:  a  tipping  experiment  on 
steep  bank;  test-driving  an  experi- 
mental three-wheeled  tractor  and  sev- 
eral other  models;  testing  metal;  X- 
raying  crankshafts;  and  testing,  mea- 
suring, and  inspecting  parts. 

Animated  drawings  illustrating  in 
detail  the  operation  of  an  internal 
combustion  engine;  and  improve- 
ments, implements,  and  attachments, 
including  the  Ferguson  hydraulic  lift 
system,  being  explained  and  demon- 
strated. 

LINCOLN-MERCURY  CARS 

7/72  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1924, 
1940);  8,638  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm., 
comp.,  bfrw.  (1936,  1939,  1940); 
427  ft.,  ed.,  16  mm.,  comp.,  b&w. 
(1939);  3J44  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm., 
si.,  b&w.  (1925,  1942,  1945,  1949) 

Precision  methods  of  building  Lin- 
coln cars:  milling  joint  face  for  crank- 
shaft bearing  caps,  grinding  cylinder 
bore,  machining  flywheel,  grinding 
cams,  testing  and  balancing  parts,  as- 
sembling and  testing  motor,  assem- 
bling and  testing  transmission,  assem- 
bling car,  finishing  body,  and  road- 
testing  car. 

Drama  about  a  man  and  woman 
meeting  after  a  3-year  separation,  fall- 
ing in  love  with  each  other  and  a 
Lincoln  Zephyr,  and  leaving  for  a 
honeymoon  in  a  Lincoln  Zephyr. 

A  Mercury  being  driven  from 
Lima,  Peru,  to  La  Paz,  Bolivia,  to 
Buenos  Aires,  Argentina,  in  96  hours: 
map  of  route;  buildings,  monuments, 
residential  area,  exterior  and  interior 
of  a  palace,  and  the  President  of  Peru 
at  Lima,  Peru;  cobblestone  streets, 
traffic,  and  monuments  at  Arequipa, 
Peru;  Puno,  Peru;  Indians  at  open-air 
market  and  a  public  square  at  Juli, 
Peru;  entrance  gate,  monuments, 


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churches,  public  buildings,  and  Pres- 
ident Carlos  Quintanilla  at  the  capi- 
tol  at  La  Paz,  Bolivia;  scenes  in  Ar- 
gentina, including  Tucuman  business 
district,  Cordoba,  Villa  Marfa,  Ro- 
sario,  and  Buenos  Aires  business  dis- 
trict and  a  plaza;  roads  through  the 
Andes  Mountains  and  the  country- 
side; Lake  Titicaca  on  the  border  be- 
tween Peru  and  Bolivia;  and  many  In- 
dians along  the  way  dancing  to  drums 
and  primitive  pipes,  herding  llamas 
and  donkeys  and  leading  pack  mules, 
at  animal  market  in  a  village,  plow- 
ing with  ox-drawn  wooden  plow, 
washing  clothes  in  stream,  with  mule- 
drawn  and  donkey-drawn  carts,  and 
selling  fruit  at  roadside. 

New  models  and  improvements  in 
Lincoln  and  Mercury  cars  for  1941, 
1942,  and  1949;  and  demonstration 
driving  of  a  Mercury  especially 
equipped  for  use  by  multiple  ampu- 
tees. 

RACES 

Danish  Ford  Rodeo 

1,188  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  birw.  (1931) 
Heavy  traffic  on  the  way  to  the 
dirt  track  racing  course,  Copenhagen; 
sponsor  Prince  Knud  on  field  and  in 
stands;  obstacle  races  over  ramps, 
through  improvised  garage  doors  and 
narrow  openings,  through  dry  pits 
and  pits  filled  with  water,  and  around 
narrow  turns;  comic  elimination  race; 
ladies'  balloon-breaking  race;  final 
race  between  the  Danish  winner  and 
the  Swedish  and  Norwegian  cham- 
pions with  the  Dane  winning;  and 
the  presentation  of  a  new  Ford  to  the 
public  door-prize  winner. 

Indianapolis  500 

1 J35  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  birw. 
(1934);  2$67  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm., 


si.,  bbw.  (1931,  1934-36,  1946);  56 
ft.,  uned.,  16  mm.,  si.,  k.  (1954) 
Indianapolis  Speedway:  parades 
including  military  units,  bands,  race 
cars,  pace  cars,  and  antique  cars; 
crowds  in  stands  and  at  track  rail; 
starts,  races,  pit  stops,  judges'  stand, 
and  race  progress  boards;  mechanics 
working  on  racers  in  shops;  people 
including  Bill  Cummings  (winner, 
1934),  Amelia  Earhart  as  a  spectator, 
and  Henry  Ford  II  in  Lincoln  pace 
car  and  in  duster  and  goggles  with 
costumed  girls  in  antique  car  (1946); 
and  racer  999  being  driven  around 
track. 

Stock  Car  Races 

Elgin,  111 

1,072  ft.,  ed.,  35   mm.,  comp.,  b&w. 

(1933) 

Track,  Scoreboard,  stands,  and 
spectators;  American  Automobile  As- 
sociation contest  board  in  car  on 
track;  Barney  Oldfield,  official  starter; 
drivers  including  Dave  Evans,  Lou 
Moore,  Bill  Cummings,  H.  M.  Lewis, 
Peter  de  Paolo,  Wilbur  Shaw,  Fred 
Frame  (winner  with  V-8),  Jack  Petti- 
cord,  Ted  Chamberland,  Sam  Palmer, 
and  Harry  Hunt;  and  views  of  the 
race  and  cars  including  Ford  V-8, 
Dodge,  Chevrolet,  and  Plymouth  cars. 

Gilmore-Yosemite,  Calif. 

490   ft.,   ed.,   35    mm.,    comp.,    bfrw. 

(1934);  1,958  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm., 

si.,  bfrw.  (1938) 

Drivers,  mechanics,  and  officials 
posing;  officials  inspecting  and  sealing 
cars;  drivers  being  weighed  in;  races 
through  countryside  and  over  moun- 
tain roads,  checking  stations  along  the 
way,  finish  in  Yosemite  National 
Park,  and  V-8  winner;  drivers  includ- 
ing Peter  de  Paolo,  Wilbur  Shaw, 
Chet  Gardner,  Stubby  Stubblefield, 


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Ford  Motor  Company 


Fred  Frame,  Al  Gordon,  Rex  Mays, 
Louis  Meyer,  and  Babe  Stapp;  and 
cars  including  Ford  V-8,  Plymouth, 
Chrysler,  Lincoln  Zephyr,  Hudson, 
Mercury,  Overland,  Pontiac,  and 
Packard. 

Pikes  Peak,  Colo. 

532  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  bbw.  (1934) 
Views    of   race;    drivers    including 
Glen  Schultz,   Angelo  Schmino,   and 
Buss  Hammon;  and  V-8  winner. 

Unidentified  Race 

265  ft.,  uned.,  16  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1951) 
Track,  spectators,  antique  and 
modern  cars  parading,  cars  in  pit 
area,  starter  on  platform,  start, 
pace  car  moving  off  track,  and  race. 


SAFETY  EDUCATION 

AUTOMOBILE 

General 

1J78  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si,  b&w.  (1922- 
25);  1J11  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si., 
bi-w.  (1916-27) 

Safety  parades:  mounted,  motorcy- 
cle, and  marching  police;  bands  and 
bagpipers;  marching  units;  decorated 
cars  and  trucks;  floats;  fire  engines; 
school  children;  and  boy  scouts. 

Heavy  city  traffic  scenes. 

Deputy  Police  Commissioner  report- 
ing on  accidents;  and  illustrations  of 
common  careless  acts  of  pedestrians, 
children  at  play,  and  drivers  causing 
accidents  involving  cars  and  pedestri- 
ans, two  or  more  cars,  and  cars  and 
trains. 

Kindergarten  children  learning  by 
playing— controlling  traffic  at  inter- 
section drawn  on  floor. 

Crash  Research 

907  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  b&w.  (1956) 
Art     Fleming     narrating     illustra- 


tions of  research  by  Cornell  Univer- 
sity scientists  leading  to  development 
of  safety  steering  wheel,  safety  door 
latch,  padded  dashboard  and  sun  vis- 
or, seat  belts,  and  hinged  rear  view 
mirror;  167-pound  dummy  being 
swung  into  steering  wheel,  and  results 
with  conventional  and  safety  wheel 
analyzed;  remote  control  crash  and 
injury  to  dummies  in  car  analyzed; 
and  Henry  Ford  II  explaining  the 
crash  research  program  at  Cornell 
University. 

Driver  Training 

1$80  ft.,  ed.,  16  mm.,  comp.,   b&w. 

(1951) 

Illustrated  instruction  in  driving 
under  adverse  conditions  including 
fog,  snow,  rain,  and  ice,  and  driving 
by  night  and  in  hot  weather;  care  of 
the  car,  including  checking  gas,  oil, 
battery,  cooling  system,  lights,  tires, 
lubrication,  ignition  system,  and 
brakes;  and  city  driving. 

National  Good  Drivers  League 

2208  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  b&w. 
(1940,  1941);  237  ft.,  ed.,  16  mm., 
si.,  b&w.  (1940);  1,096  ft.,  uned., 
35  mm.,  si.,  bi-w.  (1940,  1941); 
1,472  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  t.  (1940) 
Boys    (1940)    and    boys    and    girls 
(1941)   at  national  finals:    events  in- 
cluding psycho-physical  tests,  maneu- 
ver tests,  parallel  parking,  parking  in 
garage,  emergency  stop  tests,  eye  ex- 
aminations, color  blindness  and  glare 
reaction  tests,  and  complex  reaction 
and  drivemeter  tests;  award  banquet 
with  Edsel  Ford,  Capt.  Eddie  Ricken- 
bncker,     Linton     Wells,     Grantland 
Rice,  Lefty  Gomez,  and  Babe  Dahl- 
gren  participating;  and  boys  on  sight- 
seeing trip  around  Manhattan  Island 
by  boat  and  at  Radio  City. 

Grantland  Rice  comparing  skills 
and  attitudes  necessary  in  sports  to 


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those  necessary  for  good  driving: 
scenes  from  1940  East-West  Shrine 
football  game;  Coach  Hollenberry  and 
players  including  Nick  Drahos,  Frank 
Reagan,  Tom  Harmon,  Tony  Russell, 
Bill  Johnson,  Rudy  Mucha,  Paul 
Christman,  Jim  Kesselwood,  Leon 
Gajecki,  Tom  O'Boyle,  Bob  Nelson, 
Jim  Johnson,  Tony  Ruffa,  Forrest 
Evashevski,  Andy  Marefos,  and  Dean 
McAdams;  Marge  Gestring  diving; 
basketball  game  at  Madison  Square 
Garden;  footrace;  skiing;  archery; 
and  rowing. 

FIRE 

(From  an  industrial  safety  film.) 
Man  waking  to  fire  in  bed,  and  in- 
structions for  turning  in  fire  alarm  at 
box. 

INDUSTRIAL 

8,392  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1920, 
1922-26);  608  it.,  uned.,  35  mm., 
si.,  bi-w.  (1920,  1926,  1949) 
Safety  devices  and  equipment:  pro- 
tective clothing  and  equipment  such 
as  goggles,  wristlets,  armlets,  leg 
guards,  face  shields,  and  special  shoes; 
good  light;  guards  at  open  manholes 
and  excavations;  double  trip  switches 
on  presses;  tongs  for  feeding  presses 
and  saws;  saw  guards;  safety  rods 
under  hammers  and  presses  when 
being  serviced;  shields  against  flying 
sparks  from  steam  hammers,  arc  weld- 
ing, and  the  like;  exhaust  systems  in 
plants;  firefighting  equipment  such  as 
engines  and  blankets;  automatic 
painting  machinery;  life  belts;  rail- 
ings; steel  sheathing  for  oxygen  and 
acetylene  tanks;  fumigating  chamber; 


danger  signs,  signal  bells,  and  barriers 
to  warn  workers  away  from  machinery 
being  repaired,  overhead  work,  fur- 
nace tapping,  and  the  like;  water- 
filled  well  around  explosives  storage 
tank;  rubber  matting,  insulated 
fences,  and  circuit  breakers  around 
electrical  control  board;  and  sanitary 
facilities. 

Safety  regulations  for  workers:  way 
of  wearing  clothing,  loading  trucks 
and  stacking  boxes,  carrying  heavy 
objects,  operating  and  servicing  ma- 
chinery, carrying  and  using  tools,  us- 
ing scaffolding,  operating  cranes,  us- 
ing fireblankets,  working  on  top  of 
blast  furnace,  and  obtaining  prompt 
first  aid. 

Railroad  safety  precautions:  time 
coordination,  colored  signal  lights 
and  flags,  pedestrian  walks  over 
tracks,  and  signals  at  crossings. 

Mine  safety:  miners  in  first  aid 
class;  rescue  squad  entering  mine,  giv- 
ing oxygen  to  and  carrying  out  un- 
conscious miner;  carrying  caged  ca- 
nary into  mine;  and  rock  falling  on 
miner  from  roof  of  tunnel. 

Explosives-handling  experiments: 
illustrating  tie  rods  necessary  to  hold 
an  oven  together;  safety  chain  on 
oven  doors;  grinding  wheel  bursting 
speed,  steel  guard  containing  frag- 
ments, and  safety  motor  cutoff;  and 
acetylene-container  tests  using  differ- 
ent thickness  of  pipe  and  kinds  of 
seals. 

WATER 

(From  an  industrial  safety  film.) 
Water  rescue  and  artificial  respiration 
demonstrations. 


Craneway  at  Highland  Park  Plant,  Detroit,  Mich.,  ca.  1916.  Reel  No.  200FC-2573. 


Final   assembly  line,  Highland  Park   Plant,  Detroit,   Mich.,   1924.   Reel   No.  200FC-2579(h). 


Tapping  the   blast   furnace,   River   Rouge   Plant,   Dearborn,  Mich.,   1921. 
Reel  No.  200FC-238. 


Casting  motor  blocks,  foundry,  River  Rouge  Plant,  Dearborn,  Mich.,  1926. 
Reel  No.  200FC-4043. 


Unloading  coal  from   the  hold  of  a  freighter,  River  Rouge  Plant,  Dear- 
born, Mich.,  1927.  Reel  No.  200FC-1275. 


Pouring  glass  onto  rolling  table,  Glassinere,  Pa.  Frame  from  a  film  about 
the  glass  plant,  River  Rouge  Plant,  1928.  Reel  No.  200FC-4058(Reel  1). 


Engine  assembly  line,  River  Rouge  Plant,  Dearborn,  Mich.,  1926.  Reel  No.  200FC-4044. 


Hot  steel  ingot  in  the  soaking  pit,  steel  mill,  River  Rouge  Plant,  Dearborn,  Mich.,  1926. 

Reel  No.  200FC-4044. 


Bloom  mill,  River  Rouge  Plant,  Dearborn,  Mich.,  1926.  Reel  No.  200FC-4044. 


Stamping  plant,  River  Rouge  Plant,  Dearborn,  Mich.,   1926.  Reel  No.  200FC-4044. 


Plants,  1906-56 


The  material  in  this  category  illus- 
trates the  activities  of  the  various  Ford 
Motor  Company  plants  in  the  Detroit- 
Dearborn  area,  the  Village  Industries, 
and  several  companies  supplying  ma- 
terials to  them.  The  Mack  Avenue 
Plant,  the  home  of  the  company  from 
1903  to  1906,  was  succeeded  in  1907  by 
the  Highland  Park  Plant,  which  has 
been  in  continuous  operation  since. 
The  Model-T  was  assembled  at  High- 
land Park  from  1908  to  1927  when, 
with  the  introduction  of  the  Model-A, 
the  assembly  plant  was  moved  to  the 
River  Rouge  Plant.  The  Henry  Ford 
Trade  School,  located  at  Highland 
Park  in  1916,  was  moved  to  the 
Rouge  in  1930  and  closed  in  1952. 
Fordson  tractors  were  first  manufac- 
tured in  1917  at  the  tractor  plant  at 
Brady  Street  and  Michigan  Avenue. 
The  tractor  assembly  was  moved  to  the 
B  Building  at  the  Rouge  in  1921,  to 
Cork,  Ireland,  in  1928,  and,  in  1933, 
to  Dagenham,  England,  where  trac- 
tors are  still  made.  Since  1945,  tractors 
have  also  been  produced  at  Highland 
Park.  Manufacturing  activities  began 
at  the  Rouge  with  the  building  of  the 
Eagle  Boat  plant  during  World  War 
I,  and  the  plant  has  since  grown  to  a 
huge  industrial  complex  that  pro- 
duces virtually  every  type  of  material 
used  in  the  manufacturing  of  cars, 
trucks,  and  tractors,  as  well  as  a  num- 
ber of  byproducts.  A  number  of  Ford 
contributory  industries  and  plants 
outside  of  the  Detroit  area  are  in- 


cluded in  the  Rouge  material,  but 
they  are  described  in  detail  elsewhere 
in  this  guide.  Many  prominent  per- 
sons, often  accompanied  by  the 
Fords,  were  photographed  touring 
the  Rouge. 

The  Village  Industries,  begun  in 
1919  and  disposed  of  beginning  in 
1946,  were  located  mainly  along  the 
Rouge,  Huron,  Raisin,  and  Saline 
Rivers  in  Michigan,  although  one  was 
built  as  far  away  as  New  York.  These 
were  small-parts  plants  drawing  on 
local  labor  forces. 

The  Ford  Airport  and  a  plant  to 
manufacture  the  Stout  all-metal  Air 
Transport  were  built  near  the  Rouge 
in  1922.  Ford  bought  the  company  in 
1925  and,  from  1926  until  1932,  pro- 
duced the  Ford  all-metal  Tri-motor 
plane. 

The  Lincoln  Plant  was  purchased 
in  1922. 

The  collection  contains  38,325  feet 
of  edited,  35  mm.,  silent,  black  and 
white  film;  14,741  feet  of  edited, 
35  mm.,  composite,  black  and  white 
film;  376  feet  of  edited,  16  mm.,  silent 
black  and  white  film;  460  feet  of  ed- 
ited, 16  mm.,  composite,  black  and 
white  film;  110,568  feet  of  unedited, 
35  mm.,  silent,  black  and  white  film; 
516  feet  of  unedited,  16  mm.,  silent, 
black  and  white  film;  843  feet  of  un- 
edited, 16  mm.,  silent,  color  film;  and 
25,905  feet  of  35  mm.  and  1,106  feet  of 
16  mm.,  duplicate  film. 


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AIRPLANE  PLANT 

FORD  ALL-METAL  TRI-MOTOR 
AIRPLANES 

4£42  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1926- 
28);  5,459  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si., 
bbw.  (1926-29,  1931,  1932) 

Aerial  views  of  plant,  hangars,  and 
airport. 

Manufacturing  processes:  inspecting 
sheets  of  aluminum;  running  sheets 
through  corrugating  press;  heat  treat- 
ing metal;  stamping  out  shapes  with 
press;  welding  gas  tanks;  inspecting 
parts;  riveting  metal  panels  to  fuse- 
lage and  wing  sections;  attaching 
wings  to  plane;  installing  landing 
gear  and  wing  engines;  upholstering 
and  installing  seats;  spray  painting; 
and  inspecting  finished  planes,  includ- 
ing cockpit  and  controls,  engines,  and 
tail  assemblies. 

Testing:  test  flights  with  planes 
taking  off,  in  flight,  and  landing;  test 
flight  of  Tri-motor  on  pontoons  on 
Detroit  River;  motor  testing;  and 
manometer  tests  to  determine  wing 
stress  on  planes  in  flight. 

Henry  and  Edsel  Ford  and  Wil- 
liam B.  Stout  with  several  planes, 
Charles  A.  Lindbergh  with  the  Spirit 
of  St.  Louis,  passengers  buying  tickets 
and  boarding  Tri-motor  plane,  plane 
taking  off  and  in  flight,  aerial  views 
of  countryside  and  interior  views  of 
plane  and  passengers,  a  small  experi- 
mental plane  in  flight  and  on  exhibit 
at  airshows,  dirigible  at  mooring 
mast,  biplanes,  and  an  autogiro. 


HIGHLAND  PARK  PLANT 

FORDSON  TRACTORS 

746  it.,  uned.,  16  mm.,  si.,  k.  (1956) 

Automatic  gear  stamping  press,  en- 
gine   block    drilling    machine,    auto- 


matic painting  machine,  and  cylinder 
liner  and  reamer;  final  assembly  in- 
cluding attaching  rear  wheels  and  in- 
stalling engines,  engine  covers,  and 
hydraulic  pumps;  testing  the  hydraul- 
ic lift  mechanism;  and  gaging  engine 
blocks  with  calipers. 

HENRY  FORD  TRADE  SCHOOL 

6,238  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1924- 
27);  934  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si., 
b&w.  (1922,  1925-28) 
Buildings,  instructors,  and  stu- 
dents; class  schedules  for  the  4- 
year  course;  classroom  instruction  in- 
cluding courses  in  mechanical  draw- 
ing, mechanical  science,  mathematics, 
physics,  metallography,  and  chemis- 
try; demonstrations  of  safe  and  prop- 
er use  of  machinery;  school  foundry 
with  boys  performing  various  tasks; 
machine  shop  and  students  using  ma- 
chines such  as  lathes,  metalworking 
and  planing  machines,  and  drill 
presses;  car  service  department  with 
students  learning  techniques  of  car 
repairing  and  of  testing  car  parts; 
students  at  River  Rouge  observing  ac- 
tual industrial  processes;  students  re- 
ceiving pay  and  in  dining  hall;  stu- 
dents participating  in  recreational, 
social,  and  school  government  func- 
tions; activities  relating  to  the  publi- 
cation of  the  school  paper  The  Arti- 
san; athletic  pursuits  including  foot- 
ball games  with  other  schools;  and 
boys  going  by  bus  to  Ford  Airport  to 
see  Charles  A.  Lindbergh. 

MODEL-T  CARS  AND  TRUCKS 

1,496  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1916- 
19);  334  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp., 
bi-w.  (1927);  3,138  it.,  uned., 
35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1916-20,  1924- 
27) 

Scale  model  of  plant,  yard,  power- 
house and  gasteam  type  engines  for 


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generating  electricity,  and  craneway 
in  multistoried  room  with  loading 
bays  at  all  levels. 

Manufacturing  processes  and  as- 
sembly; cutting  worm  gears;  milling 
crankshafts  and  engine  blocks;  shap- 
ing body  parts  in  presses;  making 
windshields,  wheels,  and  gas  tanks; 
riveting  frames;  winding  magnetos; 
assembling  radiators,  pistons,  engines, 
motor  units,  and  dash  units;  motor 
blocks  and  body  parts  on  conveyors; 
assembling  spindle  connecting  rod, 
spring  and  radius  rods,  and  front  and 
rear  axle  units;  attaching  wheels;  at- 
taching motor  unit  and  steering  col- 
umn to  frame;  attaching  shields  and 
running  boards,  body,  radiator,  hood, 
gas  tank,  and  dash  unit  to  car;  and 
painting  cars. 

Testing  springs,  crankshafts,  gas 
tanks  for  leaks,  and  radiators;  test- 
driving  Model-T's  through  sand,  on 
bumpy  roads,  on  very  muddy  roads, 
and  on  hilly  roads;  and  Model-T's 
fording  streams. 


LINCOLN  PLANT 

LINCOLN  PURCHASE 
CEREMONY 

1,976   ft.,   uned.,   35   mm.,   si.,   bbw. 

(1922) 

Henry  and  Mrs.  Ford,  Edsel  and 
Mrs.  Ford,  Henry  M.  Leland,  and 
Wilfred  and  Mrs.  Leland  at  the  Lin- 
coln Motor  Company  transfer  cere- 
monies; the  group  outside  and  inside 
the  Lincoln  Building;  check  signing 
and  contract  signing  ceremonies; 
Henry  Ford,  Henry  M.  and  Wil- 
fred Leland,  and  others  in  dining 
room  of  Lincoln  Motor  Company,  and 
Henry  M.  Leland  receiving  a  birth- 
day cake  and  a  statue  of  Abraham 
Lincoln. 


LINCOLN  CARS 

7,442  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1928); 

2,014  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w. 

(1922,  1924,  1928) 
Illustrations  of  the  extreme  care 
taken  in  the  production  of  the  preci- 
sion-built Lincoln,  including  motor 
assembly  and  testing;  final  assembly, 
inspection,  and  testing;  and  the  mak- 
ing, measuring,  and  testing  of  parts. 

MACK  AVENUE  PLANT 

THE  PLANT 

11  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1906) 
Picture  of  the  building  only. 

RIVER  ROUGE  PLANT 

GENERAL 

9,130  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1920, 
1922,   1925-27,   1932);   10,440  it., 
ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  b&w.  (1932, 
1936,  1937,  1939,  1940-42,  1946); 
376  it.,  ed.,   16  mm.,  si.,   b&w. 
(1936);  460  it.,  ed.,  16  mm.,  comp., 
bfrw.    (1951);    13,660    it.,    uned., 
35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1917-19,  1922, 
1925-31,  1935-39,  1948,  1952);  516 
it.,  uned.,  16  mm.,  si.,  bfcw.  (1951) 
This  footage  consists  of  reels  and 
parts  of  reels  of  film  cutting  across  the 
activities  of  the  River  Rouge  Plant, 
including   car   and   tractor   manufac- 
turing from  ore  to  finished  product, 
and    it    is   described    in    the    specific 
terms  listed  below.  The  footage  and 
dates  for  film  separable  in  these  terms 
are  listed  under  the  individual  items. 

BLAST  FURNACES  AND 
FOUNDRY 

2,483   it.,   uned.,   35   mm.,   si.,   b&w. 

(1921,  1948) 

Animated     diagram     of    charging, 
firing,  and   tapping  a  blast  furnace; 


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cable  cars  moving  to  top  of  furnace; 
hoppers  for  charging  on  top  of  fur- 
nace; running  of  slag  into  ladle  cars 
and  dumping;  tapping;  pig  iron  run- 
ning into  ladle  cars  and  through 
troughs  into  molds;  and  stopping  the 
notch  with  a  mudgun. 

Molten  iron  being  poured  from 
buckets  on  cranes  into  foundry  fur- 
nace; mechanical  stoker;  workers 
making  sand  cores  for  cylinder  block 
molds;  molds  on  conveyor;  molten 
iron  from  foundry  furnace  flowing 
into  crane-handled  pouring  ladles; 
iron  pouring  into  molds  on  conveyor; 
workers  breaking  cores  from  and  in- 
specting castings;  and  machinery  for 
milling,  drilling,  and  measuring  trac- 
tor and  car  engine  blocks,  cylinder 
heads,  and  transmission  cases. 

BYPRODUCTS  PLANTS 

Cement 

Workers  loading  bagged  cement 
into  trucks  and  onto  flatbed  trailers. 

Fertilizer 

786  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1920, 

1922) 

Processes  in  fertilizer  manufactur- 
ing: grinding,  weighing,  and  mixing 
ingredients;  ingredients  in  vats;  fur- 
naces; workers  in  face  masks  moving 
fertilizer  by  wheelbarrow;  and  filling 
and  tying  sacks  and  loading  them 
into  trucks. 

COKE  OVENS 

1,014  ft.,   uned.,  35   mm.,  si.,   bbw. 

(1927,  1928) 

Railroad  train,  loaded  with  coal, 
moving  through  countryside;  charg- 
ing of  a  coke  oven  as  seen  from  above; 
discharging  coke  oven;  car  of  flaming 
coke  moving  under  quencher;  and 
coke  dumped  into  sorter,  through 
sorter  onto  conveyor  system  over  au- 


tomatic weighing  system,  and  into  the 
hold  of  a  ship  and  into  railroad  gon- 
dolas. 

FINAL  ASSEMBLY  BUILDING 

329  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1937); 
2J79  it.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w. 
(1929,  1930,  1932,  1935,  1947) 

Subassembly  lines  and  processes: 
frame,  including  drilling  holes,  rivet- 
ing, and  arc  welding;  wheel,  includ- 
ing welding  spokes  to  hub  and  rim; 
and  body,  including  placing  stamped 
pieces  in  jig  and  welding,  sanding, 
painting,  and  drying  in  baking  oven. 

Final  assembly:  conveyors  carrying 
tires,  rear-end  assemblies,  grills, 
springs,  engine  assemblies,  carburetor 
assemblies,  and  glass  to  final  assembly 
lines;  wiring  installed  in  chassis;  en- 
gine drop;  carburetor,  fan  and  belt, 
radiator,  bumper,  wheels,  grill,  fend- 
ers, and  headlights  added;  body  drop; 
glass  installed;  wheels  and  headlights 
aligned;  hood  put  on;  dashboard  and 
upholstery  installed;  and  models  for 
many  different  years. 

Tractor  assembly:  engine  attached 
to  chassis,  steering  wheel  installed, 
radiator  and  gas  tank  installed,  and 
painting  and  inspecting  finished  trac- 
tors. 

GLASS  PLANT 

584  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1926, 
1928);    1,195    it.,   ed.,    35    mm., 
comp.,    bfrw.    (1937);    6,774    it., 
uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfcw.  (1918, 
1920,  1926-30,  1946) 
Contrasting       glassmaking       tech- 
niques at  the  Glassmere  Plant  with 
those  of  the  River  Rouge  Plant: 

Glassmere:  machinery  for  crushing 
and  mixing  ingredients,  potters  mak- 
ing huge  clay  pots,  worker  behind 
protective  shield  using  crane  to  place 
pot  with  glass  ingredients  into  fur- 


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nace,  removing  pot  the  same  way, 
hand-skimming  pots  of  molten  glass, 
pouring  glass  on  moving  belt  and 
spreading  it  with  roller,  workers  em- 
bedding sheets  of  glass  in  plaster  of 
paris  and  dancing  on  it  to  remove  air 
and  water  bubbles,  and  grinding  and 
polishing  glass  by  machinery  on  circu- 
lar table. 

River  Rouge:  washing,  screening, 
and  drying  sand  by  machine;  weigh- 
ing, mixing,  and  pressing  glass  ingre- 
dients into  briquettes;  charging  the 
arc  furnace;  worker  taking  test  sample 
from  furnace  and  blowing  bulb;  roll- 
ing glass  by  machine;  glass  moving 
through  huge  annealing  lehr;  workers 
moving  glass  with  huge  suction  crane; 
embedding  glass  in  plaster  of  paris  by 
machine;  grinding  and  polishing  glass 
by  machine;  washing  and  inspecting 
glass;  cutting  shapes  by  machine;  lam- 
inating windshields  and  windows; 
and  installing  glass  in  cars. 

Testing  glass  by  swinging  weights 
against  car  windows,  dropping  heavy 
objects  on  glass  panels  in  horizontal 
frames,  and  shooting  windows  out 
with  rifle;  and  Ftfrd  and  Chevrolet 
cars  after  collision,  showing  Ford 
windshield  cracked  and  Chevrolet 
windshield  shattered. 

HENRY  FORD  TRADE  SCHOOL 

895  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1938, 

1942) 

Boys  at  work  in  shop  using  metal 
lathes,  planes,  and  drill  presses. 

METAL  MACHINING  AND  EN- 
GINE ASSEMBLY  BUILDING 

1J18  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1925, 

1933);  2,092  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si., 

bbw.  (1925,  1926,  1929,  1932, 

1933) 

Processes    in     the     making    of    a 

broach:  turning,  welding,  preheating 


in  a  small  furnace,  annealing  in  a 
large  furnace,  shock  testing,  straight- 
ening in  a  press,  milling,  hardening, 
cooling,  testing,  finishing,  and  con- 
ducting final  inspection;  and  finished 
broach  in  use. 

Metalworking  processes:  machin- 
ing, polishing,  measuring,  and  testing 
crankshafts;  turning,  machining,  pol- 
ishing, measuring,  and  testing  cam- 
shafts; cutting  and  polishing  gear 
teeth;  and  polishing,  finishing,  weigh- 
ing, and  pairing  pistons  into  sets. 

Car  and  tractor  motor  assembly:  as- 
sembling camshaft  and  crankshaft  to 
block,  installing  pistons,  attaching  fly- 
wheel to  crankshaft,  adding  the  head- 
and  front-plate  cover,  and  placing 
completed  engine  assemblies  on  con- 
veyors; placing  differential  and  trans- 
mission assembly  into  housing;  and 
testing  completed  motors. 

History  of  the  development  of 
lathes,  Lucas-type  boring  machines, 
and  milling  machines. 

OFFICES 

Workers  using  typewriters  and 
checkwriting  machinery,  and  workers 
filing  past  paymasters'  windows. 

PAPER  MILL 

Paper  coming  off  a  roller,  and  a 
machine  cutting  patterns  from  paper. 

PLANNING  DEPARTMENT 

Drafting  room  and  workers  at  draw- 
ing boards;  and  patternmakers  work- 
ing on  models  of  different  parts  of 
cars,  and  showing  Robert  Boyer,  Re- 
search Director,  and  Henry  Ford  a 
mockup  of  a  machine  for  extracting 
soybean  oil. 

PLANT  YARD  AND 

SURROUNDING  AREA 

Aerial  views  of  the  Detroit-Dear- 
born area  and  industrial  districts  and 


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countryside,  the  test  track,  and  Green- 
field Village;  and  streetcar,  automo- 
bile, and  pedestrian  traffic  and  the 
parking  lot  outside  the  plant. 

Many  ships,  including  the  Benson 
Ford,  the  Henry  Ford  11,  and  the 
Montezuma,  at  dock  with  huge  cranes 
loading  and  unloading  coal,  ore, 
crates,  and  coke;  and  heavy  earth- 
moving  equipment  repairing  cracks  in 
the  canal  bank. 

Crane  moving  on  overhead  track 
from  dock  to  coke  ovens  over  ore, 
coal,  and  limestone  storage  bins;  con- 
veyors and  pedestrian  overpass  sys- 
tems between  buildings;  steam  and 
electric  locomotives  moving  freight 
trains,  ladle  cars  with  slag  and  molten 
iron,  and  flatcars  with  steel  ingots; 
tractor-drawn  train  of  lunch  wagons 
entering  a  building;  ladle  cars  dump- 
ing slag;  and  cooled  slag  being  loaded 
into  freight  cars  by  steam  shovel. 

Building  construction  sites:  Henry 
and  Mrs.  Ford,  Edsel  Ford,  and 
Charles  Sorensen;  building  materials; 
scaffolding;  workers  with  handtools; 
and  power  shovels. 

Construction  of  the  service  tunnel 
under  the  turning  basin  (1936):  sink- 
ing the  shaft;  pouring  the  concrete 
lining,  with  crane  lifting  buckets  of 
concrete;  lowering  the  shield  into  the 
shaft;  placing  prefabricated  iron  lin- 
ing blocks  into  place  with  a  hydraulic 
erector  arm;  and  the  steel  form  for 
the  inner  lining. 

PLASTICS  PLANT 

695  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1936); 

1,979  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfcw. 

(1930,  1932,  1936-39,  1941,  1942) 
Soybean  processing  plant  under 
construction,  and  floor  and  machin- 
ery setup  in  finished  plant. 


Soybean  processing:  extracting  oil 
by  percolation,  separating  oil  and  sol- 
vent by  distillation,  cooling  solvent  in 
tube  condenser,  and  controlling 
vapor  pressure  in  still  and  steamer  by 
jet  condenser. 

Henry  Ford  and  Robert  Boyer  in 
plant,  press  making  small  plastic 
parts,  Boyer  repeatedly  hitting  plastic 
car  with  sledge  hammer  but  causing 
no  damage,  and  plastic  car  on  dis- 
play. 

Firemen  fighting  fire  at  soybean 
plant. 

POWERPLANT 

4,064  it.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1919, 
1929,  1930,  1932,  1939) 

Henry  Ford  and  a  group  touring 
the  powerplant  (1919),  and  turbines 
and  the  central  switchboard. 

Water  tunnel  construction  (1929, 
1930):  steam  shovel  breaking  ground, 
workers  pushing  mine  cars  into  and 
out  of  tunnel,  huge  liner  pipe  being 
sunk,  crane  removing  large  rotary 
blade  from  excavation  and  lowering 
it  again,  dirt  being  removed  from  ex- 
cavation by  bucket  on  crane,  crane 
lowering  lining  blocks  into  excava- 
tion, hydraulic  erector  placing  pre- 
fabricated lining  blocks  into  ceiling 
of  tunnel,  Henry  and  Edsel  Ford  in- 
specting tunnel  and  powerplant,  and 
finished  tunnel  interior  and  control 
gates. 

Steam  generator  and  turbine  under 
construction:  rows  of  electric  meters, 
control  board,  turbine  controls,  gen- 
erator room  with  four  large  genera- 
tors, generator  reheater  and  steam 
turbine  with  valves  on  top,  a  large 
circulating  pump,  and  Henry  and 
Edsel  Ford  at  starting  ceremonies  of  a 
new  generator  (1939) . 


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RUBBER  PROCESSING  PLANT 

10,593  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfcw. 
(1927,  1929-31,  1939,  1941,  1942) 

Rubber  processing:  unloading 
bales  of  raw  rubber  from  ship  at  dock 
onto  conveyor  into  plant;  placing 
open  bales  into  cutting  machine  and 
chunks  of  rubber  coming  out;  raw 
rubber  moving  through  preheat 
oven,  through  plasticizer,  and  under  a 
water  spray;  and  chemical  bins, 
mixer,  and  rolling  machinery. 

Tiremaking  processes:  making 
thread  by  machine;  moving  casing 
cord  from  creel  room,  and  through 
latex  dip  and  drying  oven;  moving 
fabric  through  calendering  machine; 
coating  steel  wire  with  rubber  and 
wrapping  it  with  fabric;  wrapping 
layers  of  rubber  on  casing  fabric 
around  revolving  drum;  shaping  trac- 
tor and  car  tires  in  presses;  debagging 
by  machine;  spraying  by  machine;  in- 
specting finished  tires;  and  putting 
tubes  into  tires  and  inflating  them. 

Displays  and  demonstrations  of 
rubber  products:  surgical  gloves,  baby 
pants,  swimming  caps,  and  waders. 

SCRAPPING 

10,746  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfcw. 
(1926,  1927,  1929,  1930) 

Tugs  towing  ships  to  dock,  drydock 
rising  as  ship  is  scrapped,  and  sinking 
back  into  water. 

Scrapping  processes:  cutting  ships' 
sides  with  acetylene  torches  and  a  cut- 
ting tool  attached  to  a  crane,  break- 
ing up  the  deck  with  pneumatic  ham- 
mers, and  dismantling  a  pilothouse 
and  machinery;  cranes  removing  boil- 
ers from  ship  and  placing  them  on 
flatcars  and  placing  engines  on  dock; 
and  cranes  removing  rudders,  screws, 


boxes  of  chains,  lifeboats,  mast,  and 
pieces  of  deck  and- sides. 

Stacks  of  ship  parts,  equipment, 
gear,  furniture,  and  plumbing  fix- 
tures on  dock;  railroad  cars  loaded 
with  scrap;  and  partially  scrapped 
ship,  engineroom,  empty  hold,  and 
screw  shaft  housing. 

Lumber  salvaging  processes  includ- 
ing pulling  nails,  sawing  in  a  sawmill, 
and  removing  hardware  from  doors; 
pipe  salvaging  processes  including 
water  pressure  tests  and  cleaning; 
large  press  crushing  scrap;  electro- 
magnetic crane  moving  scrap  to  a 
conveyor;  and  large  machine  cutting 
sheet  scrap. 

Model-T's  arriving  at  plant  by 
truck,  being  stripped  of  such  parts  as 
tires  and  engines,  and  having  bodies 
cut  off  with  acetylene  torches;  wreck- 
age being  crushed  by  presses;  and 
scrap  being  placed  into  open  hearth 
furnace. 

SHIPPING  DEPARTMENT 

Stacks  of  crates,  and  crates  on  con- 
veyor. 

STEEL  MILLS 

314  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfcw.  (1927); 

2J73  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfcw. 

(1922-24,  1926  1927,  1930,  1932, 

1937) 

Charging  an  open  hearth  furnace: 
molten  pig  iron  pouring  from  mixer 
into  crane-handled  ladle  and  from 
ladle  into  furnace,  electro-magnetic 
crane  moving  scrap  steel  into  con- 
veyor, scrap  being  placed  into  fur- 
nace, worker  taking  a  small  test  sam- 
ple from  furnace,  and  molten  steel 
pouring  from  furnace  into  crane- 
handled  bucket  and  from  bucket  into 
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Bloom  mill:  crane  lifting  molds 
from  ingots,  trainload  of  ingots,  crane 
removing  ingots  from  soaking  pit  and 
placing  them  on  conveyor  to  bloom 
mill,  and  machines  rolling  hot  ingots 
into  rods  and  bars. 

Rolling  mill:  hot  and  cold  rolling 
machinery,  sheets  of  steel,  and  steel 
pipe  coming  out  of  coiler. 

Casting  crankshafts,  and  a  large 
machine  for  removing  sand  core  from 
cast-steel  pipe. 

Heat-treating  spring  leaves  in  elec- 
tric furnaces;  forging  steel;  heating 
steel  billets  in  electric  forging  fur- 
naces; workers  removing  billets  and 
placing  them  in  chutes  in  presses; 
crane  handling  hot  metal,  placing  it 
in  press,  removing  it,  and  turning  and 
replacing  it  in  press;  and  forging  ring 
gears  and  crankshafts  and  shaping 
frame  rails  in  presses. 

Presses  stamping  out  body  parts 
and  shaping  gas  tanks  in  stamping 
plant. 

SUPPLEMENTARY  ACTIVITIES 

Maps  of  world  showing  Ford  prop- 
erty locations  and  of  the  Great 
Lakes  area  showing  Ford  holdings  of 
raw  material  resources  and  plants. 

Ford  installations  in  the  Detroit- 
Dearborn  area,  including  Lincoln- 
Mercury  Building,  the  Rotunda,  and 
Ford  Airport  and  planes;  and  instal- 
lations outside  of  the  Detroit-Dear- 
born area,  including  the  glass  plant 
in  Wisconsin,  the  Village  Industry  at 
Green  Island,  N.Y.,  the  wheel  plant 
at  Hamilton,  Ohio,  the  Iron  Moun- 
tain Plant  in  Michigan,  the  Phoenix, 
Ariz.,  test  track,  coal  and  iron  mines, 
and  the  rubber  plantation  in  Brazil. 

Ford  employees  and  families  work- 
ing in  gardens. 


TESTING 

276  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1925, 
1936);  1,178  it.,  ed.,  35  mm., 
comp.,  b&w.  (1948,  1950);  2,379 
it.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1925- 
27,  1929,  1931,  1932,  1936,  1937, 
1948);  97  it.,  uned.,  16  mm.,  si.,  k. 
(1946) 

Testing  and  measuring  in  laborato- 
ries and/or  at  the  production  site: 

Glass:  worker  taking  sample  from 
furnace  and  blowing  a  bulb. 

Rubber:  samples  from  several 
stages  in  the  refining  process  being 
tested  chemically  and  physically  by 
stretching,  and  tires  bouncing  off  a 
metal  cleat  and  on  the  floor. 

Upholstery  fabric:  quantitative 
analysis,  tests  for  tensile  strength  and 
for  color  fastness,  and  seat  cushions 
being  rubbed  together  and  under- 
going heavy  pounding  by  machines. 

Metal:  spectrographic  and  chemical 
analysis,  profilograph  tests  for 
smoothness,  X-ray  for  fracture  and 
structure,  electric  furnace  for  heat 
tests,  machine  for  testing  strength, 
and  salt  bath  for  rust  resistance. 

Parts:  measuring  pistons  and  cam- 
shafts; wear-testing  springs  in  ma- 
chine; twist-testing  axles  in  machine; 
determining  hardness  of  crankshafts; 
placing  tractor  cylinders  and  heads 
under  40  pounds  of  water  pressure; 
and  history  of  the  development  and 
uses  of  Johansson  gages,  combination 
gage  blocks,  tolerance  plug  gages,  and 
adjustable  limit  snap  gages. 

Cars:  finished  cars  in  weather  tun- 
nel being  tested  at  20°  below  zero  and 
for  performance  and  noise  level;  test- 
driving  cars  over  ties  of  railroad 
tracks,  on  cobblestones,  over  rough 
terrain  and  torture  track,  through 
sand  and  mud  and  water,  and  at  high 


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speed  over  smooth  tracks;  blowout 
tests;  one  car  turning  over  during  test 
drive;  and  a  failure  in  attempting  to 
drive  a  V-8  from  a  stop  directly  up  a 
steep  ramp. 

TRAINING  DEPARTMENT 

710  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1946); 
1,594  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  bfcw. 
(1945);  710  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si., 
bbw.  (1941,  1950) 

Blind  man,  with  seeing  eye  dog, 
being  processed  for  employment  at 
River  Rouge  Plant:  receiving  badge, 
signing  in  at  cashier's  cage,  and  being 
examined  by  doctor;  man  being  pho- 
tographed and  fingerprinted;  and  dog 
being  photographed  and  pawprinted. 

Two  training  films  for  foremen:  the 
first  stressing  the  foreman's  role  as 
part  of  management,  and  the  other 
teaching  techniques  for  improving  ac- 
curacy and  consistency  in  rating  the 
performance  of  workers. 

Workers  at  machines,  workers  plac- 
ing suggestions  in  box,  and  one  work- 
er receiving  an  a.ward. 

VISITORS  TO  THE  ROUGE 

4,652  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&iv. 
(1925-27,  1930,  1931,  1938,  1939, 
1942) 

Prominent  persons,  frequently  ac- 
companied by  Henry  Ford,  Mrs.  Ford, 
Edsel  Ford,  and/or  Charles  Sorensen 
touring  River  Rouge  Plant,  Green- 
field Village,  and/or  Ford  Airport: 
Wallace  Beery  and  Raymond  Hatton; 
Crown  Prince  Adolph  Gustav  VI  and 
Princess  Louise  of  Sweden;  Prince 
Bertil  of  Sweden;  Mr.  Citroen;  Doug- 
las (Wrongway)  Corrigan;  Prince 
Cyril  of  Bulgaria;  Lily  Damita; 
Crown  Prince  Frederic  and  Princess 
Ingrid  of  Denmark;  Dorothy  Gish;  a 


Japanese  princess;  Crown  Prince  Olaf 
and  Princess  Martha  of  Norway;  the 
Our  Gang  Kids;  Pascual  Ortiz  Rubio, 
then  President-elect  of  Mexico;  and 
King  Peter  of  Yugoslavia. 


SUPPLIERS 

GOODYEAR  TIRES 

973  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1933) 

Driving  demonstrations  of  cars  with 
poorly  balanced  and  correctly  bal- 
anced tires,  and  demonstration  of 
Weaver  wheel  balancing  stand. 

HOLLEY  CARBURETOR  CO. 

229  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1922) 

Foundry   with  demonstrations   of 
casting  in  long-life  molds. 

UNIDENTIFIED  UPHOLSTERY 
PLANT 

2,631  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfcw.  (1927); 
9,321  it.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w. 
(1926,  1927) 

Flocks  of  sheep  before  and  after 
shearing,  shearing  with  hand  clippers 
and  with  electric  clippers,  buyer  se- 
lecting wool,  packing  and  tying 
fleeces,  and  shipping  by  truck  and  by 
railroad. 

Upholstery  manufacturing  proc- 
esses: weighing  and  sorting  fleeces  at 
plant;  woolen  refining  processes  in- 
cluding dusting,  washing,  drying, 
picking  burrs,  dyeing,  blending  and 
oiling,  carding,  roving,  and  spinning; 
winding  yarn  onto  jack  spools  and 
then  to  section  beams;  hand-thread- 
ing harness  and  placing  it  in  loom; 
shuttle;  weaving;  finished  fabric  put 
through  burling  shears  and  through 
fulling,  washing,  and  drying  ma- 
chines; inspecting,  shearing  again, 


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brushing,  sprinkling,  pressing,  mea- 
suring, weighing,  and  testing  fabric; 
cutting  many  layers  with  electric 
knife;  sewing  and  stuffing  covers; 
padding  springs;  tacking  final  cover- 
ing on;  testing  for  durability;  and  in- 
stalling seats  and  other  upholstery  in 
car. 

Farm  family  with  new  Ford  bought 
with  money  from  sale  of  wool. 


TRACTOR  PLANT 

FORDSON  TRACTORS 

247  it.,  lined.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1917) 
Tractor  plant  buildings  and 
grounds,  Henry  Ford  and  others  ex- 
amining tractor  and  watching  ma- 
neuverability demonstration,  and 
workers  posing  in  yard  and  going  into 
building. 


VILLAGE  INDUSTRIES 

SMALL  PARTS  PLANTS 

954  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfriu.  (1931); 
19,871  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw. 


(1920,  1922,  1930,  1931,  1935-38, 
1940,  1941) 

Several  Village  Industries  under 
construction  and  dams,  spillways, 
powerhouses,  and  plant  buildings; 
powerhouse  interiors  and  generators; 
details  of  spillways  and  gates;  aerial 
views  of  Village  Industries,  the  sur- 
rounding countryside,  farms,  and 
towns;  men  and  women  workers  in 
plants,  eating  on  lawns,  playing  base- 
ball, fishing,  and  working  in  fields  and 
gardens;  children  playing,  fishing,  and 
swimming;  and  exterior  and  interior 
views  of  plants. 

Plants  and  products:  Northville, 
valves;  Phoenix,  cutouts  and  regula- 
tors; Nankin  Mills,  engraving  and  fine 
tools  and  dies;  Plymouth,  taps;  Mil- 
ford,  carburetors;  Hayden  Mills,  soy- 
bean cleaning  and  sacking;  Flatrock, 
lamps;  Milan,  ignition  coils  and  soy- 
bean oil  and  meal;  Sharon  Mills, 
lighters  and  stoplight  switches;  Dun- 
dee, welding  points;  Newburg,  drills; 
Waterford,  precision  production 
gages;  and  Ypsilanti,  generators  and 
starters.  Antique  fire  engine  in  a 
frame  firehouse. 


Experimental  one-man  tank.  World  War  I,  Dearborn,  Mich.,  1918. 
Reel  No.  200FC-2570(c). 


Submarine  chaser  (Eagle  Boat)  construction,  River  Rouge  Plant,  Dearborn, 
Mich.,  1918.  Reel  No.  200FC-1761. 


CG-4A  glider,  World  War  II,  Iron  Mountain,  Mich.,  191-1. 
Reel  No.  200FC-936. 


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Amphibious  scout  car  demonstration,  Dearborn,  Mich.,  1943. 
Reel  No.  200FC-458. 


B-24  Liberator  bomber  manufacturing,  Willow  Run  Plant,  Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  1943. 

Reel  No.  200FC-3335. 


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B-24  Liberator  bomber  manufacturing,  Willow  Run  Plant,  Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  1943. 

Reel  No.  200FC-3335. 


War-Related  Manufacturing  and  Activities 
1917-19,  1941-45,  1953 


This  group  of  film  illustrates  the 
war-related  activities  of  the  Ford 
Motor  Company.  During  the  first 
World  War  (1917-19),  Ford  made  trac- 
tors for  shipment  to  Great  Britain, 
V-12  (Liberty)  motors  for  airplanes, 
submarine  chasers  (Eagle  Boats),  hel- 
mets, and  trucks;  and  experimented 
with  small  one-man  tanks.  During 
World  War  II  (1941-45)  Ford  manu- 
factured reconnaissance  cars,  armored 
personnel  carriers,  amphibious  scout 
cars,  trucks,  M-8  armored  cars,  M-4 
tanks,  gliders,  Pratt  &  Whitney  air- 
plane engines,  B-24  Liberator  bomb- 
ers, M-7  antiaircraft  gun  directors,  and 
hand  grenades.  In  addition  to  these 
manufacturing  activities,  a  Navy  Serv- 
ice School  and  an  Army  Motor  Trans- 
port School  were  established  at  the 
River  Rouge  Plant,  and  vans  were  do- 
nated by  the  company  to  the  United 
Service  Organization  (USO).  Ford 
made  jet  engines  during  the  Korean 
Action  (1953).  The  collection  contains 
5,480  feet  of  edited  35  mm.,  silent, 
black  and  white  film;  11,658  feet  of 
edited,  35  mm.,  composite,  black  and 
white  film;  257  feet  of  edited,  16  mm., 
silent,  color  film;  1,199  feet  of  edited, 
16  mm.,  composite,  black  and  white 
film;  32,705  feet  of  unedited,  35  mm., 
silent,  black  and  white  film;  755  feet 
of  unedited,  16  mm.,  silent,  black  and 
white  film;  531  feet  of  unedited, 
16  mm.,  silent,  color  film;  and  8,785 
feet  of  35  mm.  and  3,493  feet  of  16 
mm.,  duplicate  film. 


WORLD  WAR  I 

TRACTOR  PLANT 

598  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1917) 

Henry  Ford  and  Lord  Northcliffe 
inspecting  and  driving  Fordson 
tractors. 

HIGHLAND  PARK  PLANT 

1,715  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1918); 
3,108  it.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw. 
(1917,  1918) 

Helmets 

Helmetmaking  processes:  attach- 
ing chin  straps,  dip  painting,  ap- 
plying sawdust,  drying  in  baking 
oven,  assembling  headgear,  inspecting, 
packing  into  wooden  crates,  and  la- 
beling crates. 

Liberty  Motors 

Exterior  and  interior  views  of  High- 
land Park  Plant,  Lincoln  Plant,  and 
Cadillac  Plant. 

Motor  manufacturing:  milling,  op- 
erating lathes  and  presses,  testing  and 
measuring  parts,  assembling  and  test- 
running  motors,  many  women  work- 
ers, and  Government  inspectors  look- 
ing over  work  at  all  stages. 

Airplane  fuselage  assembly. 

Several  completed  planes,  test 
flights,  and  a  Liberty  Caproni  CA-5 
taking  off  and  in  flight. 

Tanks  and  Trucks 

Fleet  of  trucks  on  road,  one  with 
sign  "Packards  for  Pershing";  and 


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armored    trucks    being    driven    from 
plant. 

Test-driving  small  tanks  over  ob- 
stacle course  including  trenches,  steep 
banks,  mounds  of  loose  earth,  fence- 
posts,  and  railroad  tracks;  and  several 
tanks  getting  stuck  and  one  turning 
over. 

RIVER  ROUGE  PLANT 

2,325  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1918); 
9,838  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w. 
(1918,  1919) 

Eagle  Boats 

Eagle  Boat  plant,  transfer  table, 
and  lowering  table,  all  under  con- 
struction; Eagle  Boats  in  all  stages  of 
construction  from  laying  of  keels  to 
adding  pilothouses  after  boats  have 
been  moved  outside  of  plant  on  their 
construction  flatcars;  boats  and  flat- 
cars  being  moved  to  lowering  table  on 
transfer  table,  lowering  table  sinking 
into  water,  boats  floating  free,  tugs 
taking  boats  in  tow,  and  lowering 
table  rising;  several  Eagle  Boats 
under  way,  one  with  party  including 
Edsel  and  Mrs.  Ford  aboard;  Henry 
Ford,  sometimes  accompanied  by 
Naval  Inspection  Board,  inspecting 
plant  construction  and  site  and  boats 
at  all  stages  of  completion;  and  steam 
turbines  for  Eagle  Boats  under  con- 
struction with  detailed  explanations 
of  parts  and  their  manufacture. 


WORLD  WAR  II 

GENERAL 

2$37  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  bbw. 
(1941,    1943,     1944);    3,552    ft.f 
uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1941-44) 
History  of  the  Ford   Motor  Com- 
pany with  emphasis  on  war  activities: 
development  of  the   automobile,   in- 


cluding bicycle  wheels,  open  engines, 
covered  engines,  tops  over  cars,  and 
windshields;  World  War  I  activities 
including  Liberty  bond  promotion 
and  other  activities  which  have  been 
described  in  detail  under  appropriate 
categories  in  the  preceding  section; 
Ford  activities  between  the  wars; 
World  War  II  activities  including 
manufacturing  of  trucks  and  super- 
chargers for  airplane  motors;  a  worker 
giving  blood  and  being  congratulated 
by  several  people;  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Henry  Ford  and  Edsel  Ford  with 
USO  Mobile  Service  Club  vans,  do- 
nated by  the  Ford  Motor  Company, 
parked  in  front  of  the  Rotunda;  and 
other  activities  described  in  detail 
under  appropriate  categories  in  this 
section. 

Assembly  lines  at  Vultee  Airplane 
Plant,  Downey,  Calif.,  and  Lockheed 
Aircraft  Corporation,  Burbank, 
Calif.,  and  a  Lightning  bomber  tak- 
ing off  and  in  flight;  and  Flying  For- 
tresses (Boeing  B-17B's)  at  Hickam 
Field,  Hawaii. 

Ships  engaged  in  battle;  battleship 
and  several  smaller  ships  at  anchor  in 
a  row;  a  submarine  underway,  sub- 
merging, and  surfacing;  and  mosquito 
boats  maneuvering  off  the  coast  of 
Florida. 

HIGHLAND  PARK  PLANT 

202  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1942) 

M-7  Antiaircraft  Gun  Directors 

Test-firing  the  gun. 

HIGHLAND  PARK  AND  RIVER 
ROUGE  PLANTS  COMBINED 
ACTIVITIES 

1J29   it.,   uned.,   35   mm.,   si.,   bfrw. 
(1942-44) 

M-8  Armored  Cars 

Fleets  of  armored  cars  being  test- 


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driven  over  rough  field,  moving  over 
logs  and  other  obstacles,  and  knock- 
ing down  trees;  and  Henry  Ford  and 
Henry  Ford  II  watching. 

M-4  Tanks 

Henry  Ford,  Charles  A.  Lindbergh, 
American  officers  including  Gen. 
Henry  H.  Arnold,  English  and  Rus- 
sian officers,  and  civilians  inspecting 
vehicles  and  watching  driving  demon- 
strations of  armored  cars  and  M-4 
tanks;  25,000th  tank  engine  on  dis- 
play; and  Henry  Ford  II  with  last 
M-}  tank  off  assembly  line. 

IRON  MOUNTAIN  PLANT 

2,018  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  b&w. 
(1943,  1944);  1,622  ft.,  uned., 
35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1943,  1944); 
133  ft.,  uned.,  16  mm.,  si.,  k.  (1944) 

Gliders 

History  of  glider  development: 
boys  launching  and  trying  to  launch 
homemade  gliders  by  towing  them 
behind  cars  and  boats,  by  jumping 
with  them  from  shed  roof,  by  racing 
downhill,  by  putting  sail  on  glider 
and  racing  along  beach,  by  attaching 
wings  to  bicycle  and  pedaling,  and  by 
lighting  jet  attached  to  bicycle;  mod- 
els of  early  gliders;  early  model  air- 
plane taking  off;  and  several  gliders 
taking  off,  being  towed  in  air,  in  free 
flight,  and  landing. 

Ground  and  aerial  views  of  Iron 
Mountain  Plant,  lakes,  forest,  housing 
development,  and  farms. 

Glider  production:  inspecting  and 
testing  materials;  sawing,  soaking, 
gluing,  and  shaping  plywood  parts  in 
presses;  mixing  glue;  drying  glued 
parts  with  infrared  light;  spray- 
varnishing;  assembling  floor,  sanding, 
adding  covering,  and  drying;  apply- 
ing plywood  skin  to  nose  frame  and 
placing  it  into  press;  joining  leading 


and  trailing  wing  frames,  applying 
plywood  skin,  placing  into  press,  and 
inspecting;  applying  airplane  cloth 
skin  to  frame  of  trailing  edge  of  wing 
and  to  plywood  skin  of  leading  edge; 
diagrams  explaining,  and  final  assem- 
bly to  fuselage  of  skids,  instrument 
panel,  nose  section,  tail,  wings,  wing- 
tips  and  struts,  and  controls;  install- 
ing wiring;  painting  finished  glider; 
and  crating  and  shipping  by  railroad 
flatcars. 

Military  glider  (CG-4A)  demonstra- 
tions: jeeps,  guns,  and  troops  be- 
ing loaded  into  gliders;  low-flying 
planes  snagging  towlines  stretched  be- 
tween two  poles,  lifting  gliders  into 
air,  and  dropping  towlines;  gliders  in 
free  flight  and  landing;  troops  leaving 
gliders  and  unloading  jeeps  and  guns; 
and  jeep  towing  glider  on  field. 

Army-Navy  E- A  ward  ceremony: 
Army  and  Navy  officers  and  Henry 
Ford  II  on  speaker's  platform;  two 
American  Legionnaires  accepting  E- 
Award  flag  for  Iron  Mountain  work- 
ers; several  individual  awards; 
speeches;  and  large  crowd,  mostly 
workers. 

RIVER  ROUGE  PLANT 

4,636  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  bfcw. 
(1941,  1942,  1945);  4,295  it., 
uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1941-43); 
775  ft.,  uned.,  16  mm.,  si.,  b&w. 
(1942) 

Amphibious  Scout  Cars 

Demonstrations:  driving  the  cars 
on  roads;  in  and  out  of  icy  river  at  10, 
15,  20,  and  25  miles  per  hour;  ice- 
breaking  and  maneuvering  in  water; 
climbing  grades  of  45  percent  and  60 
percent;  driving  over  rough  ground; 
jeep  getting  stuck  and  amphibious  car 
winching  it  out;  jeep  and  amphibious 
car  traveling  at  60  miles  per  hour; 


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and  soldiers  in  full  battle  dress  driv- 
ing amphibious  cars. 

Motor  Transport  School 

Soldiers  on  bus  going  to  school; 
students  in  classroom  with  instructor 
lecturing  and  in  garage  examining 
exhibits  of  "U.S.  Army  Bomb  Service 
Truck,"  "U.S.  Army  Reconnaissance 
Car,"  and  "Engine  Assemblies." 

Pratt  &  Whitney  Airplane  Engine 
Plant 

Edsel  Ford  operating  a  steam 
shovel  and  turning  a  spadeful  of  dirt 
at  ground  breaking  for  the  plant,  a 
steam  piledriver  driving  the  first 
pile,  and  view  of  the  completed 
building. 

Reconnaissance  Cars 

Group  .of  workers  around  the  last 
car  off  the  assembly  line  before  war 
conversion,  and  with  a  reconnaissance 
car;  Edsel  Ford,  Army  officers,  and 
civilians  watching  and  participating 
in  demonstrations  of  reconnaissance 
cars,  including  car  jumping  a  ramp, 
backing  up  steep  grades,  going  up 
and  down  hills  through  loose  dirt, 
over  rough  terrain  and  large  rocks, 
and  through  water;  and  explanations 
of  features  of  the  car. 

U.S.  Navy  Service  School 

Dedication  ceremonies  on  parade 
ground:  sailors  at  attention;  and  Rear 
Adms.  Chester  W.  Nimitz  and  John 
Downes,  Comdrs.  W.  E.  Miller  and  C. 
P.  Cecil,  and  Henry  and  Edsel  Ford 
participating. 

Graduation  exercise:  20,000th  grad- 
uate being  congratulated. 

Decommissioning  ceremonies:  Hen- 
ry Ford  II  receiving  flag  from  Navy 
officer. 

Ship  maintenance  training:  stu- 
dents learning  to  operate  lathes,  mi- 
crometers, grooving  machines,  planes, 


drills,  welding  and  hand-riveting 
equipment,  and  polishing  machinery 
in  the  metal  shops;  woodworking 
shop;  switchboard;  students  learn- 
ing to  repair  electric  motors  in 
electrical  shop;  assembling  and  disas- 
sembling diesel  and  steam  engines  in 
engine  shop;  lecture  and  learning  en- 
gine assembly  in  airplane  engine 
plant;  water  system  in  model  ship's 
hull,  water  testing,  and  pump  opera- 
tion; learning  maintenance  work  on 
boats  underway;  mechanical  drawing 
class;  and  library. 

Military  training:  field  exercises, 
water  rescue  drill,  running  an  obsta- 
cle course,  and  standing  review. 

Recreational  activities:  tug-of-war, 
volleyball,  boxing,  ping-pong,  push- 
ball, swimming,  and  band;  and  sail- 
ors with  Waves  at  soda  fountain. 

Cafeteria  and  sleeping  quarters  with 
hammocks  in  barracks;  and  doctor 
examining  sailor's  eye,  dentist  work- 
ing on  patient,  and  hospital  corpsman 
bandaging  sailor's  finger  in  infirmary. 

Navy  scenes:  Waves  working  in 
office;  fleet  on  maneuvers;  interior  of 
submarine  and  submarine  submerg- 
ing; aircraft  carrier;  and  battleship  of 
Texas  class,  sailors  manning  deck 
guns  and  antiaircraft  battery,  cooks 
in  galley,  sailors  washing  deck,  and 
crew  at  muster. 

SOMERVILLE,  MASS.,  PLANT 

257  ft.,  ed.,  16  mm.,  si.,  k.  (1944) 

Armored  Personnel  Carriers 

New  England  Ford  dealers  visiting 
the  Somerville  Branch  plant:  armored 
personnel  carrier  assembly  lines,  and 
dealers  riding  in  carrier  on  test  track. 

WILLOW  RUN  PLANT 

2,067  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  bfcw. 
(1940-45);  1,199  it.,  ed.,  16  mm., 


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comp.,    bbw.    (1945);    9,401    ft., 
uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1940-45) 

B-24  Liberator  Bombers 

Edsel  Ford  at  ground  breaking  cer- 
emonies for  the  Willow  Run  Plant, 
building  under  construction,  and  a 
huge  room  with  lines  of  planes  in  all 
stages  of  completion. 

Bomber  production:  shaping  metal 
plate  in  presses  and  attaching  and 
riveting  plate  to  fuselage;  shaping 
plastic  bubbles;  assembling  tail  sec- 
tions, engines,  and  hydraulic  tubes; 
overhead  cranes  moving  parts  includ- 
ing fuselages;  final  assembly  of  tail 
and  wing  sections  to  fuselage,  of  en- 
gines to  plane,  of  propellers  to  en- 
gines, of  landing  gear  to  plane,  and  of 
cockpit  and  canopy  to  plane;  and  in- 
stallation of  electrical  system. 

Tractors  hauling  B-24's  out  of 
plant;  test  flights;  Henry  Ford,  Edsel 
Ford,  and  Henry  Ford  II  with  others, 
including  Eddie  Rickenbacker,  tour- 
ing plant;  Henry  Ford  and  Henry 
Ford  II  autographing  the  5,000th 
Liberator  bomber  and  with  other  offi- 
cials inspecting  it;  7,000th  bomber; 
Henry  Ford  II  driving  tractor 
hauling  8,000th  plane  out  of  plant, 
and  workers  and  officials  autograph- 
ing it;  Gen.  Henry  H.  Arnold  with 
Henry  Ford  inspecting  plane;  crew 
with  Rangoon  Rambler  II;  an  exper- 
imental modification  of  B-24  taking 
off  and  in  flight;  Dearborn  Ford 
dealers  presenting  Liberator  bomber 
to  officers;  and  bombers  in  formation 
flight. 

Henry  Ford,  Henry  Ford  II,  Under 


Secretary  of  War  Robert  P.  Patterson, 
UAW  President  Rolland  J.  Thomas, 
and  crowd  of  workers  at  Willow  Run 
Access  Highway  dedication  ceremo- 
nies; children  leaving  bus,  posing  on 
porch  of  school,  marching  into  build- 
ing, and  sitting  in  classroom  at  Wil- 
low Run  School  opening;  and  school- 
house  with  flag  flying  from  tower  on 
roof. 

An  appeal  for  women  workers  in 
war  industries:  Wacs  and  Waves 
at  work,  U.S.  Employment  Service 
Office,  training  in  riveting  and  engine 
shop  work,  and  women  at  work  at 
several  jobs  in  the  Willow  Run  Plant. 

Minuteman  awards:  flags  awarded 
to  Ford  Motor  Company  for  90-per- 
cent participation  by  employees  in 
war  bond  purchase  drive,  and  cere- 
monies at  River  Rouge  and  Willow 
Run  Plants. 

NEW  ZEALAND  PLANT 

159  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1942) 

Handgrenades 

Minister  of  Munitions,  the  Hon.  J. 
J.  Sullivan,  and  a  General  Partridge 
touring  plant;  and  grenade  assembly, 
packing,  and  testing. 

KOREAN  ACTION 

CHICAGO  PLANT 

398  ft.,  uned.,  16  mm.,  si.,  k.  (1953) 

Jet  Engines 

Construction,  assembly,  and  test- 
running  of  jet  engines. 


Part  IV 
FILM  FROM  OTHER  SOURCES 


Scene  from  a  comedy  produced  by  Thomas  A.  Edison,  1903.  Reel  No.  200FC-1571. 


Another  scene  from  the  same  comedy,  1903.  Reel  No.  200FC-1571. 


Mexican  refugees  behind  the  U.S.  lines,  Mexican  Border  Punitive  Expedition,  1916. 
From  a  Pathe  newsreel.  Reproduced  by  permission.  Reel  No.  200FC-1527(a). 


Henry  and  Mrs.  Ford  with  movie  stars  in  Hollywood,  ca.  1920.  From  a  Universal  newsreel. 
Reproduced  by  permission.  Reel  No.  200FC-2136. 


Non-Ford  Productions:  Assorted  Subjects 

1903-54 


This  category  consists  of  film  that 
was  made  by  producers  other  than  the 
Ford  Motion  Picture  Laboratories 
and  not  produced  for  the  Ford  Motor 
Company.  It  contains  advertisements; 
cartoons,  comedies,  and  dramas;  doc- 
umentaries; news;  personal  films; 
propaganda;  public  service  features; 
technical  features;  and  travelogs.  The 
collection  contains  27,254  feet  of  ed- 
ited, 35  mm.,  silent,  black  and  white 
film;  13,919  feet  of  edited,  35  mm., 
composite,  black  and  white  film;  703 
feet  of  edited,  16  mm.,  silent,  black  and 
white  film;  3,470  feet  of  edited,  16  mm., 
composite,  black  and  white  film;  3,296 
feet  of  unedited,  35  mm.,  silent,  black 
and  white  film;  414  feet  of  unedited, 
35  mm.,  silent,  color  film;  452  feet  of 
unedited,  16  mm.,  silent,  black  and 
white  film;  and  4,326  feet  of  35  mm. 
and  701  feet  of  16  mm.,  duplicate  film. 

There  are  some  restrictions  on  the 
use  of  the  film.  The  user  is  responsible 
for  ascertaining  the  copyright  status 
of  the  film  and  for  clearing  the  copy- 
right with  the  holder  before  repro- 
duction orders  can  be  accepted. 


ADVERTISEMENTS 

AMERICAN  FORK  AND 
HOE  COMPANY 

n  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1936) 

Single  frame  advertising  stills  for 
True  Temper  farm  and  garden  tools. 


CARNEGIE-ILLINOIS  STEEL 
CORPORATION 

"The  43— Continuous  Hot  Strip  Mill 
of  the  Carnegie-Illinois  Steel 
Corporation" 

452  ft.,  uned.,  16  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1936) 
Rolling  mill,   machinery,    workers, 
and  ingots. 


FORD  MOTOR  COMPANY,   MIN- 
NEAPOLIS, MINN. 

"Horseless  Farming  Shown  Through 
Courtesy  of  Ford  Motor 
Company" 

897  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1917) 
Drama  advertising  a  tractor  built 
by  the  Ford  Motor  Company  of  Min- 
neapolis: boy  leaving  farm  and  go- 
ing to  work  in  a  tractor  factory;  tri- 
wheeled  tractor  assembly  lines;  boy 
working  as  tractor  salesman,  marrying 
the  farmer's  daughter,  and  taking  her 
and  a  new  tractor  home;  and  tractor 
in  barnyard  and  fields. 


ROBINSON  MACHINE  COMPANY 

"Converting  a  Ford  into  a  Truckford" 
196  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1916) 
Machine  shop,  workers  removing 
body  and  rear  wheels  from  Model-T 
Ford  and  adding  truck  body,  and  at- 
taching chain  drive  to  rear  axle  and 
truck  wheels. 


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Film  From  Other  Sources 


CARTOONS,  COMEDIES, 
AND  DRAMAS 

BRAY  PRODUCTIONS,  INC. 

The  Lunch  Detective" 

441  ft.,  ed-.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1927) 
Animated  comedy  cartoon. 

THOMAS  A.  EDISON 

"The  Great  Train  Robbery" 

710  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1903) 

Melodrama  about  a  train  robbery 
and  the  capture  of  the  outlaws. 

"Down  on  the  Farm" 

427  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1905) 

Slapstick  comedy:  men  pursuing 
women  through  fields  and  to  summer 
house  over  water,  and  women  dump- 
ing man  overboard  and  pelting  him 
with  apples. 

Slapstick  Comedies 

673  it.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1905) 
Thief  stealing  pumpkins  and  chick- 
ens, being  caught,  tarred  and  feath- 
ered, and  dumped  into  pond;  man 
teasing  woman  milking  cow  and 
woman  throwing  milk  on  man;  hay- 
ride;  waiter  dropping  and  breaking 
everything  he  brings  to  couple  at 
table,  and  each  scene  run  backward; 
woman  bartender  throwing  two  fight- 
ing men  out;  man  in  bed  made  up 
over  bathtub,  bed  collapsing,  and 
man  repeatedly  falling  into  water  in 
tub  and  climbing  out;  policeman 
breaking  up  fight  and  placing  fighters 
into  horse-drawn  paddy  wagon;  and 
Arabian-costumed  dancer. 

HAROLD  LLOYD 

Comedy 

1,776  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1923) 
Harold    Lloyd    comedy    of    adven- 
tures and  misadventures  with  an  au- 
tomobile. 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY-FOX 
FILM  CORPORATION 

Movie  Shots 

414  it.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  k.  (1954) 

Random  shots  from  several  movies 
including  "Three  Coins  in  a  Foun- 
tain" and  "Fabulous  Las  Vegas." 

UNIVERSAL     FILM     MANUFAC 
TURING  COMPANY,  INC. 

"Give  Her  Gas" 

850  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  bbw.  (1918) 

Slapstick  comedy  about  experiences 
of  couple  with  new  car. 


DOCUMENTARIES 

AMERICAN  MUSEUM  OF  NAT- 
URAL HISTORY,  NEW  YORK 
CITY 

"Indians  of  the  Southwest" 

400  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1941) 
Pueblo  Indians  making  adobe 
bricks  and  building  houses;  making, 
painting,  and  firing  pottery;  grinding 
corn  in  metates;  baking  in  outdoor 
beehive  oven;  carrying  water;  details 
of  dress;  Navajo  shepherds  with  flock; 
and  woman  weaving  blanket. 

ENCYCLOPAEDIA  BRITANNICA 
FILMS,  INC. 

"Productivity,  Key  to  Plenty" 

744  it.,  ed.,  16  mm.,  comp.,  bfrw.  (1949) 
Review  of  America's  productivity, 
1852-1950,  illustrating  rising  pro- 
ductivity and  improved  standard  of 
living. 

GENERAL  ELECTRIC  COMPANY 

"A  Day  with  Thomas  A.  Edison" 

4,591  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1922) 
Drama      depicting      the      life      of 
Thomas  A.  Edison;  and  Edison  visit- 
ing General  Electric  and  visiting  with 


Non-Ford  Productions:  Assorted  Subjects 


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General  Electric  scientists  including 
Drs.  W.  R.  Whitney,  W.  D.  Cool- 
idge,  Irving  Langmuir,  and  Charles 
Steinmetz. 

GERMAN  SUBMARINE  FILM 
Log  of  17-35 

1,046  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  birw.  (ed. 

1919);  23  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si., 

bfrw.  (1919) 

Taken  from  the  film  log  of  the  cap- 
tured German  submarine  U-35:  inter- 
cepting, boarding,  and  sinking  the 
Stromboli  (Italy),  India  (Greece),  and 
Corfu  and  Patagonia  (England);  and 
permitting  the  Asuarka  (Spain)  to 
continue. 

LOEWS,  INC. 

"Servant  of  Mankind" 

788  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1938) 
Drama  depicting  Thomas  A.   Edi- 
son's contributions  to  society. 

MICHIGAN  DEPARTMENT  OF 
STATE 

"Behind  the  Great  Seal" 

1,351  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1938) 
Leon  D.  Case,  Secretary  of  State, 
and  Bernard  J.  Youngblood,  Deputy 
Secretary  of  State,  presenting  and 
explaining  functions  of  the  Depart- 
ment; scenes  in  the  Accounting  Divi- 
sion, License  Plate  Registration  Di- 
vision, Operators  and  Chauffeurs  Li- 
cense Division,  and  Main  Branch 
Office,  Detroit;  State  Prison  of  South- 
ern Michigan  and  license  plate  manu- 
facturing; and  illustrations  of  safe 
and  unsafe  driving  practices. 

NEWS 

ANDES  FILM 

Herbert  Hoover  in  South  America 
441  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1928) 
President  Herbert  Hoover  at  rail- 


road station  at  Caracoles,  Chile;  and  a 
trip  by  car  to  the  Christ  of  the  Andes, 
with  views  including  mountain  scen- 
ery below  and  in  a  snowstorm,  and 
Indians  with  mules. 

BOB  BAILEY  FILM 

"Ford  V-8  Handicap" 
243  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  bbw.  (1933) 
1934  Ford  cars  on  display  at  Epsom 
Downs  racetrack;  horserace;  and  the 
trophy  presented  to  Howard  Hughes, 
jockey  of  winner  Command  Man. 

DETROIT  NEWS 

"Detroit  News  Pictorial"  and  "Detroit 

News  Topics" 
429  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfcw.  (1925); 

196  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  b&w. 

(1938) 

Man  driving  and  posing  in  a  1906 
Ford;  Henry  and  Edsel  Ford  with  air- 
plane at  Ford  Airport,  and  Model-T 
Fords  being  scrapped  and  placed  into 
steel  furnace  at  River  Rouge  Plant. 

DETROIT  TIMES 

'Detroit  Times  Topics" 

1,877  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,   b&w. 

(1930,  1931) 

Zoo  lions  being  fed;  University  of 
Michigan  swimming  team  working 
out;  Dr.  Julius  Klein,  Assistant  Secre- 
tary of  Commerce,  visiting  Detroit; 
wrestling  between  world's  champion 
Jim  Londos  and  Renato  Gardini  of 
Italy;  child  entertainers  on  radio  sta- 
tion WMBC;  Battle  Creek,  Mich., 
100th  anniversary  celebration  parade; 
Ford  Motor  Company  reopens;  and 
Harmsworth  Trophy  race  on  Detroit 
River,  Gar  Wood  winner,  and  Kaye 
Don  in  Mm  England  11  capsizing. 


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Film  From  Other  Sources 


GAUMONT 

Kaye  Don  and  Miss  England  III 

107   ft.,   ed.,   35   mm.,   comp.,   b&w. 

(1932) 

Kaye  Don  in  Miss  England  HI 
breaking  world  speedboat  record  on 
Loch  Lomond. 

HEARST  METROTONE  NEWS, 
INC. 

"News  of  the  Day" 

722   ft.,   ed.,   35   mm.,   comp.,    b&w. 

(1943);  435  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si., 

bfrw.  (1942,  1944) 

Workers  assembling  jet  engines  and 
casings  for  robot  bombs,  and  welding 
and  installing  radiator  assembly  and 
cowling;  military  personnel  and  civil- 
ian inspectors  in  plant;  and  test- 
launching  robot  bomb,  with  booster 
cutting  loose  and  hitting  water. 

KINOGRAM 

"The  Visual  News  of  All  the  World" 

869   ft.,   ed.,   35    mm.,   comp.,    bbw. 

(1931) 

Launching  of  dirigible  Akron;  raz- 
ing German  fortress  of  Hoher  Kava- 
lier,  Kuestrin;  liner  Commonwealth 
at  pier;  models  of  Commonwealth 
and  Bay  State;  Edgewater,  N.J.,  Ford 
plant,  assembly  line;  gold  mining 
camp,  sluice  and  panning,  Spring 
Creek,  S.  Dak.;  hurling  match  in  the 
Bronx;  "White  Angel  Jungle,"  San 
Francisco,  and  Mother  Jordan  giving 
food  and  clothing  to  men  and  boys; 
girls  modeling  old  hats,  Washington, 
D.C.;  and  canoe  regatta  on  Isar  Rap- 
ids between  Toelz  and  Munich  in 
Germany,  with  spectators  and  a  band. 

METRaGOLDWYN-MAYER 

"MGM  News" 

244  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1929}; 

847  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  birw. 

(1940) 


President  Herbert  Hoover  on 
White  House  lawn  with  automobile 
magnates  including  Edsel  Ford;  and 
Mickey  Rooney,  Edison's  widow 
(Mrs.  Carolyn  Hughes),  and  Father 
Edward  J.  Flanagan  promoting  mo- 
tion picture  "Young  Tom  Edison." 

MOVIETONEWS,  INC. 

"Fox  Movietone  News" 

1,077  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  bfrw. 

(1934) 

Highlights  of  1934  World  Series  be- 
tween the  Detroit  Tigers  and  the  St. 
Louis  Cardinals;  players  including 
Dizzy  Dean,  Paul  Dean,  Mickey  Cock- 
rane,  Frankie  Frisch,  Pepper  Martin, 
Schoolboy  Rowe,  and  Jo  Jo  White; 
Baseball  Commissioner  Kenesaw 
Mountain  Landis;  and  Will  Rogers 
in  grandstand. 

"Movietone  News" 

605   it.,   ed.,   35   mm.,   comp.,    b&w. 

(1939,  1942) 

Ford  exhibit  hall,  New  York 
World's  Fair;  Gov.  Alfred  E.  Smith, 
Mayor  Fiorello  La  Guardia,  and 
Grover  A.  Whalen  welcoming  Henry 
Ford,  Edsel  Ford,  and  Henry  Ford  II 
to  fair;  and  troops  boarding  ship  Ed- 
mund B.  Alexander  at  Brooklyn. 

PARAMOUNT  FAMOUS  LASKY 
CORPORATION 

"Paramount  News"  and  "Paramount 

Sound  News" 
1,064  ft.,  ed,,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1929, 

1940);    1201    it.,    ed.,   35    mm., 

comp.,   bfrw.   (1929,  1933,   1937, 

1938,  1947) 

Celebration  of  the  50th  anniversary 
of  the  invention  of  the  incandescent 
lamp  at  Dearborn,  Mich.;  people  in- 
cluding Thomas  A.  Edison,  President 
and  Mrs.  Herbert  Hoover,  and  Henry 
and  Mrs.  Ford;  and  reenactment  of 


Non-Ford  Productions:  Assorted  Subjects 


105 


final  experiment  in  Edison's  labora- 
tory at  Greenfield  Village. 

Sir  J.  Thornycroft  presenting 
speedboat  Miss  England  III  to  Lord 
Wakefield  and  Kaye  Don  at  Hamp- 
ton, England. 

Fiftieth  wedding  anniversary  of 
Henry  and  Mrs.  Ford,  Henry 
and  Edsel  Ford  entering  White  House 
for  conference  with  President  Frank- 
lin D.  Roosevelt,  wedding  of  Henry 
Ford  II,  and  assembling  and  testing 
American  robot  bombs. 

PATHE  EXCHANGE,  INC. 

"Pathe  News"  and  "Pathe  Sound 

News" 
709  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1915, 

1916,  1927);  93  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm,, 

cornp.,  bi-w.  (1931) 
Animated  cartoon  lampooning 
Henry  Ford's  "Jitney  Submarine"; 
U.S.  troops  on  the  Mexican  border, 
battle  scenes,  and  Mexican  refugees 
in  U.S.  trenches;  Boston  airport,  with 
pilots  and  planes  participating  in  the 
1927  National  Air  Tour;  and  reopen- 
ing of  Ford  plant  at  Dearborn. 

"REO-GRAM" 

Comdr.  Richard  E.  Byrd  and  Plane 

67  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1926) 

Commander  Byrd  and  Edsel  Ford 
with  plane  Josephine  Ford. 

RKO-PATHE,  INC. 

"RKO-Pathe  News" 

345  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  bbw. 
(1937,  1942) 

Henry  Ford  entering  and  leaving 
the  White  House. 

Henry  Ford  presents  school  to  U.S. 
Navy:  sailors  arriving  at  River  Rouge 
Plant;  Henry  Ford,  Comdr.  C.  P. 
Cecil  of  the  Naval  Training  Service. 


and  other  officers  at  flag-raising  cere- 
monies; several  classrooms;  and  sail- 
ors at  boxing  match. 

"RICHARDS  OAKLAND  NEWS" 

Detroit 

315  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1931) 
Detroit  Art  Museum;  public  li- 
brary; Fisher  Building;  and  aerial 
views  of  downtown  Detroit,  Hudson 
Motor  Car  Company,  Henry  Ford 
Hospital,  and  Packard  Plant. 

TELENEWS,  INC. 

Willow  Run 

762   ft.,   ed.,   35   mm.,   comp.,    bfrw. 

(1942) 

Willow  Run  Plant:  workers;  Liber- 
ator bomber  assembly;  cafeteria  and 
kitchen;  recreation  center  with  scenes 
of  ping-pong  game,  singing,  dancing, 
sculpturing,  sketching,  and  the  thea- 
ter building;  and  housing  project, 
prefabricated  house  assembly,  War 
Housing  Center,  churches,  infirmary, 
and  schools. 

UNIVERSAL  PICTURES 
CORPORATION 

"Universal  Newsreel" 

296  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1916, 
1920);  46  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp., 
b&w.  (1938) 

Henry  Ford  with  children  at  zoo 
and  with  family  at  home,  Henry  and 
Mrs.  Ford  visiting  Hollywood,  and 
50th  wedding  anniversary  celebration 
for  Henry  and  Mrs.  Ford. 

WARNER  NEWS,  INC. 

"Warner  Pathe  News" 

1,146  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1950); 

244  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  bfrw. 

(1949) 

Kickoff  for  Opportunity  Bond 
Drive  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.:  Alan  Hale, 


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Film  From  Other  Sources 


Bruce    Bennet,    James    Brown,    and 
Wayne  Morris  selling  bonds. 

Ceremonies  and  celebrations  for 
the  premiere  of  the  movie  "Rocky 
Mountain"  at  Colorado  Springs, 
Colo.:  Virginia  Mayo  and  Michael 
O'Shea  participating. 

UNIDENTIFIED  SOURCE 

643  ft.,  uned.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1940 's 

and  early  1950 's) 

Fragments  of  newsreel  material: 
ticker  tape  parade  for  Gen.  Douglas 
MacArthur;  quonset  huts  for  military 
housing;  MacArthur  returning  to  the 
Philippines,  1944;  group  including  V. 
M.  Molotov  and  Anna  Pauker,  and  a 
closeup  of  Joseph  Stalin;  portraits  of 
John  L.  Lewis,  Walter  Reuther,  and 
George  Meany;  President  Dwight  D. 
Eisenhower  and  John  Foster  Dulles 
skeetshooting  aboard  a  Navy  vessel; 
President  Harry  S.  Truman  making  a 
speech;  President  Franklin  D.  Roose- 
velt talking  and  laughing;  African 
ceremonial  dancing;  depression  scenes 
including  men  in  soupline  and  sleep- 
ing on  benches  and  in  doorways,  and 
shacks;  and  three  comedy  sequences, 
one  of  newlywed  couple  kissing,  one 
of  wild  west  style  train  robbery,  and 
one  of  driving  old  cars  on  dirt  road. 

PERSONAL  FILMS 
THOMAS  A.  EDISON 

"John  Burroughs  at  Riverby  and 

Slabsides" 

439  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  b&w.  (1904) 
John    Burroughs    with    family    in- 
cluding his  son  and  grandson. 

HARBEL  CORPORATION 

Ford  Camping  Trip 

7,522   ft.,   uned.,  35   mm.,  si.,   b&w. 

(1918) 
Thomas   A.    Edison,    Harvey   Fire- 


stone, Sr.,  Harvey  Firestone,  Jr., 
Henry  Ford,  and  John  Burroughs  on 
camping  trip;  several  campsites  with 
tents  and  other  equipment;  and  party 
eating,  playing,  walking  in  woods  and 
beside  a  waterfall,  and  with  an  old 
steam  engine  on  tracks  in  woods. 

PROPAGANDA 

REPUBLICAN  NATIONAL 
COMMITTEE 

"Spokesman  of  the  Future" 

865   ft.,   ed.,   35   mm.,   comp.,    bfcw. 

(1944) 

Reviewing  the  accomplishments  of 
and  campaigning  for  the  election  of 
Thomas  E.  Dewey  to  the  Presidency 
of  the  United  States. 

UNITED  AUTOMOBILE 
WORKERS 

"United  Action  Means  Victory" 

1J19  it.,  ed.,  16  mm.,  comp.,  b&w. 

(1941) 

The  story  of  the  1939  strike  against 
General  Motors. 

PUBLIC  SERVICE  FEATURES 

BRAY  PRODUCTIONS,  INC. 

"The  Magic  Chest" 

124  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1931) 
Thomas  A.  Edison  making  an  ap- 
peal for  funds  for  the  Cleveland  Com- 
munity Fund. 

HERB  LAMB  PRODUCTIONS 

"Play  Ball,  Son" 

1J51  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  comp.,  b&w. 

(1946) 

Bert  Dunne's  14-year-old  ballplay- 
ers introduced  by  Joe  Cronin,  Man- 
ager, Boston  Red  Sox,  illustrating 
fundamentals  of  baseball. 


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VERITY 

"Piping  Hot" 

7,2/7  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  com/?.,  birw. 

(1944) 

The  story  of  the  Ford  Emergency 
Food  Vans  Program  during  and  after 
bombing  raids  on  England  during 
World  War  II. 


TECHNICAL  FEATURES 

U.S.  ARMY  AIR  FORCES 

"New  and  Improved  Manufacturing 
Processes — Forming" 

1,407  ft.,  ed.,  16  mm.,  comp.,  b&w. 

(1944) 

Illustrating  ease  and  economy  of 
making  parts  by  forming  rather  than 
by  cutting. 

U.S.  DEPARTMENT  OF 
AGRICULTURE 

"Factory  Farmers" 

887   ft.,   ed.,  35   mm.,   comp.,   bbw. 

(1943) 

Advantages  of  locating  factories  in 
rural  or  smalltown  environments 
where  workers  can  also  be  farmers. 

U.S.  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE 
INTERIOR,  BUREAU  OF 
MINES,  AND  FORD  MOTOR 
COMPANY 

"Making  a  V-Type  Engine" 

2,101  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1936) 
Iron  ore  unloaded  from  freighter  at 
River  Rouge  Plant;  ore  storage  bins; 
blast  furnaces;  open  hearth  furnaces, 
casting  steel  ingots;  rolling  mill; 
foundry;  making  sand  cores  for  molds 
and  assembling  molds;  casting,  ma- 
chining, boring,  polishing,  measuring, 
and  inspecting  cylinder  blocks,  crank- 
shafts, camshafts,  and  the  like;  assem- 
bling, weighing,  and  inspecting  pis- 


tons; assembling  parts  to  cylinder 
block;  inspecting  and  test-running 
finished  engines;  and  final  automobile 
assembly  line. 

"Safety  Glass" 

2,003  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1937) 
Quarrying  silica  sand;  crushing, 
washing,  screening,  and  drying  sand; 
weighing,  mixing,  and  pressing  glass 
ingredients  into  briquettes;  charging 
the  furnace;  taking  test  sample  and 
blowing  bulb;  rolling  glass  by  ma- 
chine; annealing  glass  in  lehr;  cutting 
by  machinery;  conveyors,  elevators, 
and  suction  cranes  moving  glass;  em- 
bedding glass  in  plaster  of  paris; 
grinding  and  polishing  glass;  wash- 
ing, inspecting,  cutting,  and  laminat- 
ing safety  glass;  grinding,  polishing, 
and  sealing  edges  of  laminated  glass; 
and  inspecting,  testing,  and  installing 
windows  in  cars. 


TRAVELOGS 

U.S.  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE 

INTERIOR,  NATIONAL  PARK 
SERVICE 

Bryce  Canyon  and  Zion  National 
Parks 

2,635  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bfrw.  (1930, 
1937);  303  it.,  ed.,  16  mm.,  si., 
bbw.  (1941) 

Cedar  Breaks  National  Monument; 
map  indicating  both  parks. 

Bryce  Canyon  National  Park: 
lodge,  rock  formations,  stream  and 
waterfall,  tourists  on  nature  walk  with 
park  naturalist,  horseback  riders,  and 
cabin  and  camping  areas. 

Zion  National  Park:  canyons  and 
plateaus;  rock  formations  such  as 
Great  White  Throne,  Angel's  Land- 
ing, Temple  of  Sinawava,  and  Great 
Arch  of  Zion;  Observation  Point; 


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Lady  Mountain,  climbers  using 
wooden  ladders  to  climb  cliff;  Virgin 
River  emerging  from  a  cave,  at  low 
and  flood  stages;  canyon  floor,  the 
Narrows;  cliff  dwellings;  Zion-Mount 
Carmel  Highway  and  tunnel  with 
windows  along  the  cliff  face;  Zion 
Museum  with  Mormon  artifacts;  and 
camping  area,  ranger  station,  and 
lodge  and  cabin  area  with  swimming 
pool. 

"Waterton-Glacier  International 
Peace  Park" 

1?61  it.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1936) 
Map  of  park  indicating  tour  route; 
lodges;  Trick,  Twin,  and  St.  Mary 
Falls;  Two  Medicine,  Swift  Current, 
Grinnell,  Iceberg,  Waterton,  and 
Upper  St.  Mary  Lakes;  Rockwell, 
Wilbur,  Grinnell,  and  Gould  Mounts; 
Grinnell  and  Sperry  Glaciers;  Ptarmi- 
gan Trail  and  Tunnel,  Going-to-the- 
Sun  Highway,  and  Logan  Pass;  bear 


grass  and  mountain  asters;  ptarmigan, 
whistling  marmot,  beaver,  ground 
squirrel,  Rocky  Mountain  (bighorn) 
sheep,  and  Rocky  Mountain  goat; 
tourists  fishing,  hiking,  and  horseback 
riding;  packhorse  train;  and  Black- 
foot  Indians  dancing  and  sitting  in 
front  of  tepees. 

Yellowstone  National  Park 

982  ft.,  ed.,  35  mm.,  si.,  bbw.  (1932) 
Map  of  the  park;  entrance  at  Gar- 
diner, Mont.;  Park  Headquarters; 
Madison  Junction  Museum;  Eagle 
Nest  Rock;  Liberty  Cap;  Obsidian 
Cliff;  Hoodoo  Mountains;  Rustic, 
Gibbon,  and  Firehole  Falls;  Firehole 
Cascades;  Apollinaris,  Emerald,  Bath- 
tub, Beryl,  Terrace,  Tortoise  Shell, 
and  Silex  Springs;  Valentine,  New, 
Little  Castle,  and  White  Dome  Gey- 
sers; Fountain  Paint  Pot  and  Choco- 
late Pots;  and  deer,  geese,  bear,  and 
wild  flowers. 


Index 


Accidents:  investigation  of,  39;  research  on, 
80;  on  railroads,  6;  in  traffic,  11,  80 

Adams,  John,  30 

Adelaide,  Australia,  62 

Adobe  bricks,  21 

Adolph  Gustav  VI,  Crown  Prince  of  Sweden, 
91 

African  dancing,  106 

Agriculture,  U.S.   Department  of,  37,   107 

Airlines,  66 

Airmail,  66 

Airplane:  history,  95;  testing,  84 

Airplane  manufacture:  Ford  Tri-motor,  84; 
Liberty  Motor,  93.  See  also  World  War  I; 
World  War  II 

Airplane  types:  Alexander  Eaglcrock  6,  67; 
B-24,  97;  Boeing  B-17H,  94;  Briggs  Dart, 
66;  cargo,  58;  Carrier  Pigeon,  67;  Curtiss 
F-Boat  World  War  I  trainer,  12;  Curtiss 
Creole,  67;  Dayton-Wright  Cruiser,  66;  de 
Haviland,  53;  Fairchild,  67;  Fokkcr,  67; 
Ford  Flivver,  58,  66;  Ford  Tri  motor,  61, 
66,  67,  73,  74;  Junker,  66-67;  Liberty  Ca- 
proni  CA-5,  93;  Lightning  bomber,  94; 
Martin,  67;  Martin  bomber,  42;  Mercury, 
67;  Pitcairn,  67;  Ryan,  67;  Stout,  66;  Swal- 
low, 66;  Travel  Air,  66;  Waco,  67;  Wood- 
son  3 A,  67 

Airports:  Boston.  105;  Chicago,  66;  Chile,  74; 
Cleveland,  66;  Ford.  53,  66-67,  90.  91; 
Hickam  Field,  Hawaii,  94 

Alabama,  8,  75 

Alamo,    the,  Tex.,  26,  76 

Albion  College,  Mich.,  34 

Albuquerque,  N.  Mex.,  74 

Alexandria,  Egypt,  62 

Alexandria,  Va.,  27 

Allen,  Fred,  72 

American  Fork  and  Hoe  Co.,  101 

American  Legion,  35,  70 

American  Museum  of  Natural  History,  102 

American  Red  Cross.  10,  36,  37-38,  77 

Amsterdam,  Holland,  63 

Amundsen,  Roald,  75 

Andes  Mountains,  61,  79;  of  Chile,  74,  103; 
of  Peru,  40 

Animals:  of  Brazil,  68;  domestic,  6,  8,  31,  36, 
38;  of  the  Rocky  Mountains,  20,  23,  108; 
wild,  8,  31;  zoo,  6,  68 

Antiaircraft  guns,  94 

Antwerp,  Belgium,  62 

Apache  Trail,  Ariz.,  20 


Appliances,  electric,  17 

Archaeology,  40 

Argentina,  61,  78-79 

Arizona,  20-21,  29,  40,  74 

Arkansas,  20,  21,  75 

Arkansas  River,  Colo..  23.  75 

Arlington  National  Cemetery,  Va.,  5,  6,  27 

Armistice  celebrations.  See  World  War  1 

Arms  production.  See  names  of  individual 
weapons;  World  War  I;  World  War  II 

Army  Air  Forces,  U.S.,  para  troop  exercises,  66 

Army,  U.S.,  training,  6,  12,  96 

Arnold,  Henry  H.,  95,  97 

Assembly  lines,  58,  76,  104,  105;  airplane,  12, 
58,  84,  93,  94,  97.  105;  automobile,  58,  62, 
66,  86,  87,  97,  104,  107;  glider,  95;  Lincoln- 
Mercury,  78;  tractor,  78,  84,  86,  87.  101; 
truck,  77 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  23 

Atlantic  City,  N.J.,  24 

Au  Sable  River,  Mich.,  32 

Austin,  Tex.,  25,  76 

Australia,  61-62 

Autogiro.  See   Helicopter 

Automobile:  design,  87;  history,  58,  62,  69, 
73,  77,  94;  manufacture,  57-58,  61-64,  75. 
76,  78,  84-87,  92,  107;  scrapping.  89;  shows, 
72;  small  parts,  92;  testing,  90.  See  also 
Ford  Motor  Co.;  Lincoln  Motor  Co.;  Trucks 

Automobiles,  Ford  models:  Quadricycle, 
1903-7,  74;  Model-T,  1908-27,  75;  Model-A, 
1927-31,  75;  V-8,  1932-54,  76 

Bad  Lands,  S.  Dak.,  25,  76 

Baettner,  J.  A.,  67 

Bahama    Islands,    28;    salt    industry    in,    15; 

sponge  fishing  in,  13 
Bailey,  Bob,   103 
Baker,  Newton  D.,  5,  75 
Balloons,  66-67.  See  also  Dirigibles 
Baltimore,  Md.,  24 
Barcelona,  Spain,  64,  74 
Barkley,  Alben  W.,  41 
Baseball,  5,  32,  41,  71,  106;  American  Legion 

Jr.,  70;  1934  World  Series,  35,  104 
Basketball.  35.  71.  81 
Beard,  Daniel,  52 
Beatty,  Clyde,  36 
Beech.  Walter,  66 
Beery,  Wallace,  91 
Bees,  7-8 
Belem,  Brazil,  68 


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Index 


Belgium,  62 

Bell,  Joseph  E.,  5 

Bennett,  Bruce,  106 

Bennett,  Harry,  70 

Ben  Nevis  Mountain,  Scotland,  62,  75 

Benzol,  58 

Berry,  Martha  M.,  47 

Berry  School,  Rome,  Ga.,  47,  75 

Bertil,  Prince  of  Sweden,  91 

Bilbo,  Theodore  G.,  76 

Bimini  Island,  Bahamas,  28 

Birds,  31;  geese,  37;  pheasants,  9 

Bird  sanctuary,  37 

Bismarck,  N.  Dak.,  76 

Black  Hills,  S.  Dak.,  76 

Blarney  Castle,  Ireland,  63 

Bobsledding,  32 

Bolivia,  78-79 

Bombay,  India,  63 

Boone,  Daniel,  37 

Bormann,  Martin,  42 

Boston,  Mass.,  5,  24,  30,  76 

Bowman,  "Chief,"  66 

Boxing,  32,  35,  71 

Boyer,  Robert,  87,  88 

Boy  Scouts:  American,  10,  36,  41,  66;  Cana- 
dian, 6 

Bray  Productions,  Inc.,  102,  106 

Brazil:  Belem,  68;  ParA  River,  68;  Rio  de 
Janeiro,  40;  rubber  plantation,  58,  68,  90; 
Sao  Paulo,  62;  Tapajos  River,  68 

Breadlines,  104,   106 

Bridges,  69 

Brisbane,  Australia,  62 

Brock,  William  S.,  67 

Brooks,  Harry,  66,  67 

Brown,  James,  106 

Bryan,  Charles  W.,  76 

Bryant,  Clara.  See  Ford,  Mrs.  Henry 

Buchanan,  James,  30 

Buenos  Aires,  Argentina,  61,  78-79 

Bugas,  John  S.,  71 

Burbank,  Luther,  31 

Burras,  Clara,  46 

Burroughs,  John,  6,  45,  46,  50,  106 

Buses,  Ford,  77 

Byrd,  Richard  E.,  67,  105 

California,  21-22,  61,  74,  75,  76,  105;  agricul- 
ture in,  9,  31 

California  Pacific  International  Exposition, 
San  Diego,  72,  76 

Cambridge,  Mass.,  24,  30 

Campaign,  presidential,  1944,  106 

Campbell,  E.  K.,  66 

Camping,  42,  45-46,  106 

Camps:  Boy  Scouts  of  America,  10,  41;  Ca- 
nadian, 41;  day,  37,  71;  Detroit  Recreation, 
32;  Legion,  47-48;  religious,  11;  VFW  Buddy 
Poppy,  41;  Willow  Run,  47-48 


Canada,  6,  8,  42;  Algonquin  Park,  41;  Cana- 
dian Rockies,  28;  Waterton-Glacier  Inter- 
national Peace  Park,  39;  wild  bird  sanctu- 
ary, 37;  Windsor,  Ontario,  62 

Cannon,  Joseph  G.,  6 

Carburetors,  33,  91 

Carnegie-Illinois  Steel  Corp.,  101 

Carson,  Christopher  ("Kit"),  37 

Cartoons,  animated,  34,  102,  105 

Carver,  George  Washington,  51 

Cascade  Range,  Wash.,  26 

Case,  Leon  D.,  103 

Cattle  ranches,  8,  37 

Cecil,  C.  P.,  96,  105 

Cement,  58,  86 

Ceylon,  rubber  plantation  in,  19 

Chamberland,  Ted,  79 

Chapman,  Sam,  70 

Charities,  36,  37-38,  47-48,  106 

Chesapeake  Bay,   13,  23 

Cheyenne,  Wyo.,  75 

Chicago,  111.,  5,  8,  14,  20,  23,  75 

Chicago  World's  Fair,  72-73 

Chile,  62,  74,  103 

China,  62 

Christ  of  the  Andes,  103 

Christman,  Paul,  81 

Ciano,  Count  Galleazzo,  42 

Circuses,  32,  36,  75;  Buffalo  Bill,  6,  32 

Cities:  African,  62,  64;  Asian,  58,  62-63;  Aus- 
tralian, 61-62;  Central  American,  28-29,  40; 
European,  5,  57-58,  62-64;  North  American, 
5,  29-31,  57-58,  61-62;  South  American,  40, 
57,  61,  62,  78-79.  See  also  names  of  indi- 
vidual cities,  States,  and  countries 

Citroen.  Andre,  91 

Civil  War:   monuments  and  sites,  26,  30-31, 

75,  76;  veterans,  31 
Clay,  Eleanor.  See  Ford,  Mrs.  Edsel 
Clemenceau,  Georges,  27 
Cleveland  Community  Fund,  106 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  25 
Cliff  dwellings:   in   Arizona,  20,  40;   in  New 

Mexico,  24,  30 
Clocks,  16 

Coal  mines,  14-15,  58,  65,  68,  90 
Coast  Guard,  U.S.,  training,  12 
Cobb,  Irvin  S.,  75 
Cockrane,  Mickey,  104 
Codwell.  Cv,  67 

Cody,  William  F.  ("Buffalo  Bill"),  32,  37 
Coeur  d'Alene,  Lake,  Idaho,  26 
Coke  ovens,  58,  68,  86 
Cologne,  Germanv,  63 
Colorado,  5,  20.  23.  75;  Colorado  Springs,  106; 

Pikes  Peak,  80.  See  also  Rocky  Mountains 
Colorado  River,  20.  21,  40,  74 
Columbia  River,  76 
Columbus,  Ga.,  75 
Columbus,  Ohio.  74,  76 
Comedies,  102,   106 


Index 


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Commercial    Airplane    Reliability    Tour    for 

the  Edsel  B.  Ford  Trophy,  66-67 
Communications  systems,  history  of,  33 
Concord,  Mass.,  5,  30 
Concord,  N.H.,  76 
Coney  Island,  25 
Coolidge,  Calvin,  40 
Coolidge,  W.  D.,  103 
Copenhagen,  Denmark,  62,  79 
Copper  mine,  20 
Cork,  Ireland,  63 

Cornell  University,  8;   accident  research,  80 
Corrigan,  Douglas  ("Wrongway"),  91 
Costumes,   19th-century,  49-50 
Couzens,  Frank,  35 
Couzens,  James,  66,  75 
Crater  Lake,  Oreg.,  76 
Crockett,  David,  37 
Cronin,  Joe,  106 
Crops,  6-10,  31,  50,  71 
Crusade  for  Freedom,  40 
Cuba,  28,  40 
Cuernavaca,  Mexico,  29 
Cullenbine,  Roy,  70 
Cummings,  Bill,  79 
Custer,  Gen.  George  A.,  37 
Cyril,  Prince  of  Bulgaria,  91 

Dagenham,  England,  62 

Dahlgren,  Babe,  80 

Dahlinger,  John,  70-71 

Dahlinger,  Mrs.  Ray,  70 

Dairies,  8 

Dallas,  Tex.,  25-26 

Damita,  Lily,  91 

Dams:  Boulder,  76;  Elephant  Butte,  20;  Fort 
Peck,  77;  Roosevelt,  9,  20;  Wilson,  75 

Dancing,  36,  49,  53,  54;  African,  106;  for  Ford 
employees,  71 

Daniels,  Bebe,  35 

Daniels,  Josephus,  6 

Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution,  5, 
6,  36 

Dean,  Dizzy,  104 

Dean,  Jenny,  62 

Dean,  Paul,  104 

Dearborn  Independent,  49 

Dearborn,  Mich.,  40,  57,  76,  87 

Death  Valley,  Calif.,  76 

De  Forrest,  Lee,  52 

Delaware  River,  Pa.,  33 

Del  Rio,  Dolores,  75 

Denmark,  62,  79 

Denver,  Colo.,  5,  23,  75 

Depression,   106 

Deserts,  39,  74,  76 

Des  Moines,  Iowa,  75 

Detroit,  Mich.,  5,  6,  10,  20,  24,  37,  39,  57,  87- 
88,  105;  Belle  Isle,  6,  39;  Cross  Country 
Riding  Club,  6;  Institute  of  Arts,  47;  po- 
lice, 38-39 


Detroit  River,  20,  32 

Detroit,  Toledo,  and  Ironton  Railroad,  58, 
65,  68-69 

Dewey,  George,  6 

Dewey,  Thomas  E.,  106 

Dirigibles,  12,  67,  77,  84,  104 

Dishwashing  machine,  11 

District  of  Columbia  National  Guard,  5 

Doerr,  Bobby,  70 

Don,  Kaye,  103,  104,  105 

Downes,  John,  96 

"Down  on  the  Farm,"  102 

Drahos,  Nick,  81 

Drama,  19,  38,  53,  54,  71;  commercial,  102; 
history  of  Ford  Motor  Co.,  58;  of  trans- 
portation, 72 

Dublin,  Ireland,  5 

Dulles,  John  Foster,   106 

Duncan's  Bay,  Mich.,  42 

Dunne,  Bert,  106 

Eagle  Boat  manufacturing,  58,  94 

Earhart,  Amelia,  74,  79 

Eaton,  Charles  A.,  52 

Edison  Institute  of  Technology,  Greenfield 
Village,  51 

Edison,  Thomas  A.,  6,  45,  46,  51-52,  75,  103, 
104,  106;  and  buildings  at  Greenfield  Vil- 
lage, 52;  films  by,  102,  106;  inventions  and 
modifications  of,  52 

Edison,  Mrs.  Thomas  A.  (Carolyn  H.),  45,  46. 
See  also  Hughes,  Carolyn  H.  Edison 

Education:  at  Berry  School,  47,  75;  of  the 
deaf,  11-12;  at  Greenfield  Village  schools, 
53-54;  in  English  school,  70;  nursery,  38; 
police,  38-39;  rural,  11;  safety,  11,  15,  38, 
39,  80-81;  urban,  11;  vocational,  12,  58,  84, 
87;  voter,  39 

Edward,  Prince  of  Wales,  62 

Egypt,  62 

Eisenhower,  Dwight  D.,   106 

Electric  appliances,   17 

Electricity:  generators  of,  63,  88;  history  of, 
10;  in  incandescent  lamp,  52,  104-105;  in 
rural  areas,  8 

Elizabeth  Lake,  Mich.,  32 

El  Paso,  Tex.,  29 

Encyclopaedia  Britannica  Films,  Inc.,  102 

England,  62-63,   105;   in  World  War  II,  107 

Engraving  and  Printing,  Bureau  of,  12,  27 

Erie,  Lake,  20 

Estes  Park,  Colo.,  23 

Evans,  Dave,  79 

Evashevski,  Forrest,  81 

Everglades,  Fla.,  23 

Explosives,  handling  of,  81 

Exposition  of  Progress,  New  York,  73 

Factories  in  rural  areas,  107 
"Factory  Farmers,"  107 
Fair  Lane,  45 


112 


Index 


Fairbanks,  Douglas,  75 

Fairs:  for  Ford  employees,  71;  at  Lake  Shore 

County,   Mich.,  40-41;   at   Michigan   State, 

73-74;  at  San  Diego,  72,  76.  See  also  World's 

Fairs 
Farming  machinery  and  methods,   7-10,  50, 

77-78 

Fashion  shows,  36,  104 
Feller,  Bob,  70 
Ferris,  Woodbridge  N.,  5 
Fertilizer,  58,  86 
Finland,  63 

Firefighting,  11,  38,  77 
Firestone,  Harvey,  Jr.,  46,  106 
Firestone,  Mrs.  Harvey,  Jr.,  46 
Firestone,  Harvey,  Sr.,  46,  106 
Firestone,  Mrs.  Harvey,  Sr.,  46 
Firestone,  Russell  and  Mrs.,  46 
Fishing:  commercial,  13;  sports,  27,  31,  32,  71 
Fitzmaurice,  James  E.,  39,  67 
Flags,  U.S.,  history  of,  30 
Flanagan,  Father  Edward  J.,  53,  104 
Fleming,  Art,  80 
Florida,  8,  23,  29-30 
Flour  mill,  10 
Flower  show,  36 
Football,  6,  32,  41,  75,  76,  81 
Ford,  Benson,  45,  46,  66,  72 
Ford,  Mrs.  Benson  (Edith  McNaughton),  46 
Ford,  Edsel,  39,  45-47,  50-54,  58,  62,  66-67,  69, 

72,  74,  80,  84-85,  88,  91,  94,  96-97,  103-105 
Ford,   Mrs.   Edsel   (Eleanor  Clay),  45-46,  50, 

54,  85 

Ford  farm,  49-50 
Ford  Foundation,  48 
Ford,  Henry,  5-6,  39-40,  45-47,  49-54,  58,  66- 

67,  69,  71-72,  74,  84-85,  87-88,  91-97,  103- 

106;  biography  of,  58 
Ford,  Mrs.  Henry  (Clara  Bryant),  40,  45-47 

49-51,  53-54,  58,  66-67,  85,  88,  91,  94,  104 

105 
Ford,  Henry  II,  40,  45-46,  48,  59,  66-67,  72, 

74,  79-80,  95-97,  104-105 
Ford,  Mrs.  Henry  II  (Anne  McDonnell),  46, 

105 

Ford,  Josephine,  45 
Ford  Motor  Co.,  8,  57-59,  61-64,  66-81,  83-97; 

annual  reports,  59;  history  of,  58,  94;  sales, 

69-70;  service,  70 

Ford  Motor  Co.  of  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  101 
"Ford  V-8  Handicap,"  103 
Ford,  William  Clay,  45 

Foster,  Stephen,  memorial  at  Greenfield  Vil- 
lage, 53 

Frame,  Fred,  79,  80 
France,  63,  74 
Frank,  Bruno,  42 

Frederic,  Crown  Prince  of  Denmark,  91 
Frisch,  Frankie,  104 

Gaither,  H.  R.,  48 


Gajecki,  Leon,  81 

Gait,  Edith  Boiling.  See  Wilson,  Mrs.  Wood- 
row 

Games:  bridge,  71;  checkers,  32;  chess,  71; 
dice,  32 

Gardini,  Renato,  103 

Gardner,  Chet,  79 

Gaumont,  104 

General  Electric  Co.,  102-103 

Generators,  63,  88 

Geography,  33 

Georgia,  15,  23,  75 

Germany,  63,  103,  104 

Gestring,  Marge,  81 

Gettysburg,  Pa.,  75 

Gibbons,  Floyd,  45 

Gibson,  Charles  Dana,  52 

Gish,  Dorothy,  75,  91 

"Give  Her  Gas,"  102 

Glass,  17,  58,  86-87,  90,  107 

Gliders,  95 

Goering,  Hermann,  42 

Goff,  E.  A.,  67 

Gold:  mining,  104;  panning,  21,  23,  104 

Golf,  32,  35,  41-42,  71 

Gomez,  Lefty,  80 

Goodwill   Industries,  36 

Gordon,  Al,  80 

Grand  Canyon,  21 

Grant,  Heber  J.,  76 

Great  Britain.  See  England;  Scotland 

Great  Lakes,  20 

Great  Salt  Lake,  76 

"Great  Train  Robbery,  The,"  102 

Greenberg,  Hank,  41 

Greenfield  Village,  Mich.,  46,  50-54,  69,  91 

Griffith,  Paul  H.,  70 

Grofe,  Ferde,  74 

Guadalajara,  Mexico,  29 

Guadalupe,  Mexico,  29 

Guarda,  Lake,  Italy,  42 

Gulf  of  Mexico,  13 

Hagen,  Walter,  32 

Hale,  Alan,  105 

Hale,  Frederick,  75 

Hamilton,  Richard  G.,  67 

Hammon,  Buss,  80 

Handgrenades,  use  of  in  World  War  II,  97 

Handicraft  exhibits,  36 

Hanna,  Mark,  36 

Harding,  Chester,  28 

Harding,  Warren  G.,  12,  27,  46 

Harmon,  Tom,  81 

Hartley,  Roland,  76 

Hatton,  Raymond,  91 

Hauge,  Oscar,  61 

Havana,  Cuba,  28,  40 

Hawaii,  15,  27;  Hickam  Field,  94 

Hawks,  Frank  M.,  67 

Hearst  Metrotone  News,  Inc.,  104 


Index 


113 


Helicopters,  67,  84 

Helmets,  in  World  War  I,  93 

Helsinki,  Finland,  63 

Henry  Ford  Hospital,  48 

Henry  Ford  Museum,  50-54,  69 

Henry  Ford  Trade  School,  58,  84,  87 

Henry,  Lou.  See  Hoover,  Mrs.  Herbert 

Herb  Lamb  Productions,  106 

Hess,  Rudolph,  42 

Hill,  E.  J.,  67 

Himmler,  Heinrich,  42 

Hirohito,  Emperor  of  Japan,  42 

Historic  monuments:  Arlington  Memorial 
Amphitheater,  5;  Civil  War,  26,  30-31;  for- 
eign, 62-64;  Revolutionary  War,  5,  24,  26, 
30.  See  also  Historic  sites 

Historic  sites:  the  Alamo,  26,  76;  of  the 
Civil  War,  26,  30-31,  75-76;  of  the  colonial 
period,  29-30;  in  foreign  countries,  62-64; 
Herbert  Hoover's  birthplace,  75;  Mount 
Vernon,  27,  30;  Ponce  de  Leon  landing  site, 
29;  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  5,  24,  26, 
30;  Thomas  Lincoln  cabin,  111.,  75;  of  the 
War  of  1812,  76.  See  also  individual  cities 
and  countries;  Missions,  Spanish;  Historic 
monuments;  Ruins 

Hitler,  Adolph,  42 

Hobbies,  71 

Holland,  63 

Hollywood,  Calif.,  105 

Honolulu,  Hawaii,  27 

Hood  Canal,  Wash.,  26 

Hood,  Mount,  Oreg.,  25 

Hoover,  Herbert  C.,  51,  103,  104;  birthplace 
of,  75 

Hoover,  Mrs.  Herbert  (Lou  Henry),  51,  104 

Hopkins,  Nancy,  67 

Horton,  Henry  H.,  76 

Hospitals:  Children's,  33;  Henry  Ford,  48; 
Hotel  Dieu,  Windsor,  Ont.,  38 

Hotel  Statler,  13 

Huber,  Henry  A.,  76 

Huenefeld,  Baron  von,  39,  67 

Huerta,  Adolfo  de  la,  29 

Huffman,  W.  E.,  67 

Hughes,  Carolyn  H.  Edison,  53,  104.  See  also 
Edison,  Mrs.  Thomas  A. 

Hughes,  Charles  Evans,  27 

Hughes,  Howard,  103 

Hunt,  Harry,  79 

Hurling,  104 

Huron,  Lake,  20 

Hutchinson,  Buddy,  70 

Iceboating,  32,  35 

Ice-cream-making  machine,  11 

Ice:  harvesting,  13-14,  31;  making,  6 

Illinois,  5,  8,  14,  23,  75 

Implements,  farm,  7,  8,  9,  10,  50,  77-78 

India,  63 

Indianapolis,  Ind.,  5,  6,  74,  75 


Indianapolis  Speedway,  75,  79 

Indians:    Central    American,    29,    40;    North 

American,  11,  20,  21,  23,  24,  25,  30,  36,  39, 

40,  41,  76,  102,  108;   South  American,  40, 

78,  79,  103 

Industrial  revolution,  102 
Industry:  history  of,  102;  minimum  wage  in, 

36;    safety    devices    in,    11,    81;    types    of 

products  in,   13-20;   unions  in,  71-72,   106; 

working  conditions  in,  11.  See  also  names 

of  specific  industries 
Ingrid,  Princess  of  Denmark,  91 
Instruments  of  measure,  history  of,  62-63 
Interior,  Department  of  the,  107 
International  Association  of  Chiefs  of  Police, 

76 

Iowa,  8,  75 
Ireland,  5,  63 
Iron  mines,  14,  58,  90 
Irrigation,  9,  20 

Jackson,  Miss.,  76 

Jacksonville,  Fla.,  23 

Jamaica,  8-9,  28 

James,  Ollie,  5 

Japan,  29,  63;  agriculture,  9 

Jefferson,  Thomas,  30 

Jehl,  Francis,  52 

Jersey  City,  N.J.,  75 

Jessel,  George,  38 

Johnson,  Bill,  81 

Johnson,  Jim,  81 

Jones,  Casey,  67 

Josephine  Ford  (airplane),  105 

Juarez,  Mexico,  29 

Junkers,  Herta  and  Mrs.,  67 

Kaminski,  A.  J.,  61 

Kansas,  8;  Wichita,  74 

Kansas  City,  Mo.,  74,  105 

Keller,  Helen,  6 

Kentucky,  68;  Fort  Harrod,  76 

Kesselwood,  Jim,  81 

Kilauea  Crater,  Hawaii,  27 

Kingston,  Jamaica,  28 

Kinogram,  104 

Klamath  Lake,  Oreg.,  76 

Klein,  Julius,  103 

Knud,  Prince  of  Denmark,  79 

Koehl,  Hermann,  39,  67 

Kruesi,  Paul,  52 

Kurowski,  Whitey,  70 

Labor:  minimum  wage,  36;  parade,  76;  strikes, 

71;  working  conditions,  11 
La  Guardia,  Fiorello,  104 
La  Huerta,  Adolfo  de,  29 
Lake,  Eddie,  70 

Lake  Shore  County  Fair,  Mich.,  40-41 
Landis,  Kenesaw  Mountain,  104 


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Index 


Langmuir,  Irving,  103 

Lansing,  Mich.,  42 

La  Paz,  Bolivia,  78-79 

Laramie,  Wyo.,  75 

Las  Vegas,  Nev.,  76 

Leather,  13,  17-18 

Leavenworth  Prison,  11 

Le  Gallee,  George  M.,  67 

Leland,  Henry  M.,  58,  85 

Leland,  Wilfred  and  Mrs.,  58,  85 

Leslie,  Harry  G.,  75 

Lewis,  H.  M.,  79 

Lewis,  John  L.,  106 

Lexington,  Mass.,  5,  30 

Liberty  Loans,  6,  12 

Lima,  Ohio,  68-69 

Lima,  Peru,  78 

Lincoln,  Abraham,  30 

Lincoln  Motor  Co.,  85,  90,  93;  Lincoln- 
Mercury,  1924-49,  78-79 

Lincoln,  Nebr.,  76 

Lincoln,  Thomas,  Illinois  log  cabin  of,  75 

Lindbergh,  Charles  A.,  67,  74,  84,  95 

Lindbergh,  Evangeline  L.,  67 

Lisbon,  Portugal,  64 

Little,  Gordon,  62 

Lloyd,  Harold,  58,  102 

Loch  Lomond,  Scotland,  104 

Locomotive  Works  of  Lima,  Ohio,  68-69 

Loew's  Inc.,  103 

London,  England,  62 

Londos,  Jim,  103 

Long  Beach,  Calif.,  61,  75 

Lookout  Mountain,  Colo.,  5 

Los  Angeles,  Calif.,  21,  22,  74 

Lott,  E.  P.,  67 

Louise,  Lake,  Canada,  28 

Louise,  Princess  of  Sweden,  91 

Louis  Ferdinand,  Prince,  39 

Louisiana,  7,  20,  23,  76 

Lowe,  Mount,  Calif.,  21 

Lumbering,  14,  16,  45,  58,  67-68,  78;  salvage 
operations,  89 

Lyon,  Ben,  35 

McAdams,  Dean,  81 

Mac  Arthur,  Douglas,  106 

McCosky,  Barney,  41,  70 

McDonnell,  Anne.  See  Ford,  Mrs.   Henry  II 

Mack,  Ray,  70 

McNaughton,  Edith.   See  Ford,  Mrs.  Benson 

Madison  Square  Garden,  72 

Madison,  Wis.,  76 

Magician,  36 

Maitland,  Lester,  75 

Malaya,  63 

Manufacturing.    See    Airplane    manufacture; 

Automobile;  Industry 
Marefos,  Andy,  81 
Markham,  Edwin,  22 


Marshall,  George  C.,  Jr.,  75 

Martha,  Princess  of  Norway,  91 

Martin,  Pepper,  104 

"Mary  Had  a  Little  Lamb,"  38 

Maryland,  23-24 

Massachusetts,  5,  24,  30,  76 

Maxson,  H.  W.,  67 

May  Day  festivals,  6,  53-54 

Mayer,  Louis  B.  and  Mrs.,  52-53 

Mayo,  Virginia,  106 

Mays,  Rex,  80 

Meany,  George,  106 

Melchior,  Fred,  66 

Memphis,  Tenn.,  25 

Menlo  Park.  See  Greenfield  Village 

Merrill-Palmer  School,  Detroit,  38 

Meteorite  craters,  39 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,   104 

Mexican  Border  Punitive  Expedition,  6,  105 

Mexico,  29,  40,  64 

Mexico  City,  Mexico,  29,  64 

Meyer,  Louis,  80 

Michigan,  34,  39,  42,  76-77.,  103.  See  also 
Dearborn;  Detroit;  Greenfield  Village;  Lake 
Shore  County;  Lansing;  Monroe;  Thunder 
Bay 

Michigan  Humane  Society,  38 

Michigan,  Lake,  20 

Michigan  Pikers'  Association,  42 

Michigan  State  College,  37 

Michigan  State  Department,  103 

Michigan  State  Fairs,  46,  73-74 

Michigan  State  Police,  38-39 

Military  training,  12,  96,  105 

Military   vehicles:    of   World   War   I,   6,    12, 

93-94;  of  World  War  II,  94-96 
Miller,  Logan,  71 
Miller,  W.  E.,  96 
Milwaukee,  Wis.,  76 
Miner,  Jack,  37 

Mines,    11,   81;    coal,    14-15,   58,   65,   68,   90; 
copper,  20;  gold,  21,  104;  granite,  15;  iron, 
58,  90;  phosphate,  65,  68;  salt,  15;  zinc,  35 
Minneapolis,  Minn.,  24,  61,  101 
Minnesota,  24,  61,  76 
Missions,  Spanish,  21,  26,  29,  75 
Mississippi,  30-31,  76 
Mississippi  River,  75 
Missouri,  24,  74,  76,  105 
Mitchell,  S.  A.,  67 
Moab  Desert,  Utah,  76 
Moffett,  William  A.,  67 
Mojave  Desert,  Calif.,  74,  76 
Molotov,  V.  M.,  106 
Monroe,  Mich.,  39-40 
Montana,  20,  24,  108 
Montevideo,   Uruguay,  64 
Montgomery,  Ala.,  75 
Montpelier,  Vt.,  76 

Monuments.  See  Historic  monuments;  Na- 
tional monuments 


Index 


115 


Monument  Valley,  Ariz.,  40 

Moore,  Lou,  79 

Morris,  Wayne,  106 

Mortan,  W.  H.,  67 

Mountain  climbing,  21,  28 

Mount  Vernon,  Va.,  27,  30 

Mount  Wilson  Observatory,  Calif.,  74 

Moyer,  Max,  67 

Mucha,  Rudy,  81 

Murray,  "Alfalfa  Bill,"  76 

Murtaugh,  Danny,  70 

Muscle  Shoals,  Ala.,  75 

Music,  71 

Mussolini,  Benito,  42 

Nashville,  Tenn.,  76 

National  Farm  Youth  Foundation,  40 

National   Good  Drivers  League,  80-81 

National  Guard,  5 

National  monuments:  Cedar  Breaks,  Utah, 
107;  Monument  Valley,  Ariz.,  40;  Rainbow 
Bridge,  Utah,  40 

National  parks:  Bryce  Canyon,  Utah,  39,  107; 
Glacier,  Mont.  (Waterton-Glacier  Interna- 
tional Peace  Park,  Mont,  and  Canada),  24, 
39,  108;  Sequoia,  Calif.,  31;  Yellowstone, 
Wyo.,  26-27,  40,  108;  Yosemite,  Calif.,  22; 
Zion,  Utah,  39,  76,  107-108 

Naval  Inspection  Board,  World  War  I,  94 

Navy,  U.S.,  training,  12,  96,  105 

Naylor,  W.  C.,  67 

Nebraska,  8,  75;  Lincoln,  76 

Negroes,   10,  21 

Nelson,  Bob,  81 

Netherlands,  The,  63 

Nevada,  76 

Newberry,  Phelps,  52 

New  Hampshire,  76 

New  Jersey,  5,  24,  75 

New  Mexico,  20,  24,  30,  74 

New  Orleans,  La.,  7,  23,  76 

Newport,  R.I.,  29,  30 

New  Providence  Island,  Bahamas,  28 

Newspaper  publishing,  15,  49 

Newsreels,  103-106 

New  York,  N.Y.,  8,  24-25,  76,  77 

New  York  (State),  8,  20,  24-25,  76-77 

New  York  World's  Fair,  74,  104 

New  Zealand,  64 

Niagara  Falls,  N.Y.,  20,  25,  76 

Nimitz,  Chester  W.,  96 

Norfolk,  Va.,  26 

Northcliffe,  Lord  Alfred,  93 

North  Dakota,  76 

Oakland,  Calif.,  75 

O'Boyle,  Tom,  81 

Obreg6n,  Alvaro,  29 

Observatory,  Mount  \Vilson,  Calif.,  74 

Occupational  therapy,  10,  12-13 

Ochs,  Adolph,  52 


Ohio,  25,  68-69,  74-75,  76 

Oil,  33,  76 

Oklahoma,  74,  76 

Oklahoma  City,  Okla.,  76 

Olaf,  Crown  Prince  of  Norway,  91 

Oldfield,  Barney,  79 

Olympia,  Wash.,  26,  76 

O'Neill,  Steve,  41 

Opportunity  Bond  Drive,  105-106 

Oregon,  25,  75,  76 

O'Shea,  Michael,  106 

Our  Gang  Kids,  75,  91 

Ozark  Mountains,  21 

Pageants,  27,  36,  47,  75-76 

Palmer,  Sam,  79 

Panama,  28-29 

Panama  Canal,  28,  40 

Panama  City,  Panama,  28-29 

Paolo,  Peter  de,  79 

Paper,  18,  58,  87 

Parades,  5,  6,   11,  24,  25,  27,  32,  34,  40-42, 

74,  76,  77,  79,  80 

Paramount  Famous  Lasky  Corp.,  104 
Para  River,  Brazil,  68 
Paratroops,  66 
Paris,  France,  63 
Partridge,  General,  97 
Patterson,  Robert  P.,  97 
Pauker,  Anna,  106 
Pearson,  Drew,  40 
Pennsylvania,  25,  30,  33,  75 
Pens,  18 

Perkins,  Frances,  35 
Perry,  Lord  Percival,  62 
Pershing,  John  J.,  27 
Peru,  40,  78-79 
Pest  control,  37 
Peter,  King  of  Yugoslavia,  91 
Petrified  forests,  Ariz.,  20 
Petroleum,  33 
Pet  shows,  36 
Petticord,  Jack,  79 
Pheasants,  9 

Philadelphia,  Pa.,  25,  30,  75 
Philippine  Islands,   106 
Phoenix,  Ariz.,  20 
Phosphate  mines,  68 
Physical  therapy,  12-13 
Pickford,  Mary,  35,  75 
Picnicking,  32,  71 
Pikes  Peak,  23,  76,  80 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  25,  30,  75 
Plastics,  58,  88 
Pole,  Sir  Felix,  52 
Police,  41;  in  Detroit,  36,  39,  76;  at  Michigan 

State,  38-39 

Ponce  de  Leon  landing  site,  29 
Port  Elizabeth,  South  Africa,  64 
Portland,  Oreg.,  25,  75 
Portugal,  64 


116 


Index 


Post  Office  Department,  12 

Potomac  River,  27 

Poultry,  9 

Precision  machinery,  history  of,  62-63 

Presidents,     U.S.,     George     Washington     to 

Warren  G.  Harding,   12 
Providence,  R.I.,  76 
Puget  Sound,  Wash.,  26 
Pyramid  of  Cheops,  62 

Quintanilla,  Carlos,  79 

Races:  airplane,  66-67;  automobile,  32,  35, 
79-80;  autosled,  24;  balloon,  66-67;  dogsled, 
24,  32;  foot,  32,  53,  71,  81;  horse,  32,  103; 
speedboat,  32,  35,  42,  103,  104;  sulky,  24, 
50;  swimming,  32;  turtle,  35 

Railroads,  36,  58;  elevated,  24-25;  and  loco- 
motives, 6,  51,  68-69;  monorail,  5;  safety 
on,  81 

Rainbow  Bridge,  Utah,  40 

Rainier,  Mount,  Wash.,  26,  76 

Ralston,  Samuel  M.,  5 

Ranches,  8,  37 

Rasmussen,  A.  B.,  67 

Ray,  Ted,  32 

Reagan,  Frank,  81 

Recreation.  See  specific  activities;  Games; 
Hobbies;  Sports 

Reese,  Peewee,  70 

Rentshler,  Gordon,  52 

Republican  Party,  76,  106 

Resorts,  21,  76 

Reuther,  Walter,  106 

Revolutionary  War,  monuments  and  sites,  5, 
24,  26,  30 

Rhode  Island,  29,  76 

Rice,  Grantland,  80-81 

Richardson,  L.  B.,  67 

Richmond,  Va.,  26,  31 

Rickenbacker,  Edward  V.,  12,  80,  97 

Riley,  James  Whitcomb,  6 

Rio  de  Janeiro,  Brazil,  40 

Rivera,  Diego,  47 

Rivers,  31.  See  also  names  of  individual 
rivers 

Roads,  10-11,  38;  building  of,  6,  21,  77-78 

Robinson  Machine  Co.,  101 

Robot  bombs,  104-105 

Rochester,  N.Y.,  76 

Rocky  Mountains,  20,  23,  28.  See  also  indi- 
vidual States,  sub-ranges,  and  peaks 

Rodeos,  8,  20-21,  76 

Rogers,  Will,  6,  45,  52,  75,  104 

"Romeo  and  Juliet,"  38 

Rooney,  Mickey,  52-53,  104 

Roosevelt,  Franklin  D.,  5,  105 

Roosevelt,  Theodore,  6 

Rosendahl,  Charles  E.,  67 

Rosenwald,  Julius,  52 

Ross,  Alex,  32 


Ross,  W.  B.,  75 

Rouge  River,  Mich.,  45 

Rowe,  Schoolboy,  104 

Rowland,  Earl,  67 

Royal  Gorge,  Colo.,  23,  75 

Rubber  plantations:  of  Brazil,  58,  68,  90;  of 

Ceylon,  19;  of  Malaya,  63 
Rubber  processing,  18,  19,  58,  89;  testing,  90 
Rubio,  Pascual  Ortiz,  91 
Ruffa,  Tony,  81 
Ruins:   Aztec,  29,  40;   at  Fort   Bliss,  29;    of 

Fort  Ticonderoga,  30;  Indian,  40;  Spanish, 

20-21,  23,  26,  29-30 
Russell,  Tony,  81 

Saarinen,  Eliel,  63 

Sacramento,  Calif.,  9,  22,  75 

Safety,  11,  15,  38-39,  80-81 

St.  Augustine,  Fla.,  23,  29-30 

St.  Lawrence  River,  20,  28 

St.  Louis,  Mo.,  74,  76 

St.  Paul,  Minn.,  24,  76 

Salem,  Oreg.,  76 

Salt  industry,  15 

Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  76 

San  Antonio,  Tex.,  26 

San  Diego,  Calif.,  22,  72,  76 

San  Francisco,  Calif.,  22,  75 

Sangre  de  Cristo  Range,  20 

Santa  Catalina  Island,  22 

Santa  Fe,  N.  Mex.,  24,  30 

Santiago,  Chile,  62 

Sao  Paulo,  Brazil,  62 

Sawmills,  11,  14,  18,  50-51,  58,  68 

Schelde  River,  Belgium,  62 

Schlee,  Edward  F.,  67 

Schlosser,  Arthur  G.,  67 

Schmino,  Angelo,  80 

Schroeder,  R.  W.,  67 

Schultz,  Glen,  80 

Schwab,  Charles  M.,  52 

Scotland:  Ben  Nevis  Mountain,  62,  75;  Loch 
Lomond,  104 

Seattle,  Wash.,  26,  76;  Ford  Branch,  61 

Seminole  Indians,  Fla.,  23 

"Servant  of  Mankind,"  103 

Shanghai,  China,  62 

Shasta,  Mount,  Calif.,  75 

Shaw,  Wilbur,  79 

Sheep  shearing,  15 

Sheridan,  Sarah  M.,  52 

Ships,  12,  58;  construction  of,  58,  69,  94;  ice- 
bound, 6;  launchings  of,  12,  69;  mainte- 
nance of,  96;  maneuvers  of,  12,  94;  scrap- 
ping of,  89;  submarine  warfare  and,  103 

Ship  types:  aircraft  carriers,  96;  battleships, 
94,  96;  freighters,  6,  58,  61,  69,  88;  liners, 
69,  104;  mosquito  boats,  94;  submarine 
chasers  (eagle  boats),  58,  94;  submarines, 
94,  96,  103;  tugs,  69,  89;  troop  carriers,  104; 
yachts,  69 


Index 


117 


Shipyards,  12,  33,  58.  69 

Sialia  (yacht),  45,  46,  69 

Sierra  Madre  Range,  Calif.,  21 

Sierra   Nevada   Mountains,  Calif.,  22 

Sikorsky,   Igor,  67 

Silver  Springs,  Fla.,  23 

Silzer,  George  S.,  75 

Singapore,  Malaya,  63 

Skimobile,  32 

Sloan.  M.  S.,  52 

Smith,  Alfred  E.(  104 

Smith,  Sidney,  76 

Smoot,  Reed,  76 

Soo  Canals,  Mich.,  20,  42 

Sorensen,  Charles  E.,  71,  88,  91 

Sorghum  mill,  75 

Sousa,  John  Philip,  12 

South  Africa,  64 

South  America,  40.  See  also  individual  coun- 
tries 

South  Dakota,  25,  76 

Soybean  processing,  88 

Spain,  64,  74 

Spencer,  M.  Lyle,  76 

Sphinx,  Egypt,  62 

Spirit  of  St.  Louis,  67,  84 

Spokane,  Wash.,  26 

Sports,  6,  21,  24,  27,  28,  32,  35,  41-42,  50,  53, 
70,  71,  75,  76,  79,  80-81,  103-104,  106.  See 
also  individual  sport 

Sports  equipment,  19 

Stagecoach,  51 

Stalin,  Joseph,  106 

Stapp,  Babe,  80 

Stassen,  Harold  E.,  40 

Stauffer,  John,  66 

Steel  manufacturing,  14,  19,  58,  85-86,  88,  89- 
90,  101,  107 

Steinmetz,  Charles,  103 

Sterling,  Ross  S.,  76 

Stevens,  Vern,  70 

Stockholm,  Sweden,  64 

Stockyards,  Chicago,  8,  14 

Stone,  Dorothy,  75 

Stone,  Fred,  75 

Stone  Mountain,  Ga.,  15 

Stout,  William  B.,  66,  84 

Strikes,  71-72,   106 

Stubblefield,  Stubby,  79 

Submarine  warfare,   103 

Sugar:  cane,  9-10,  15;  maple,  10,  15 

Sullivan,  J.  J.,  97 

Superior,  Lake,  20 

Surfboard  riding.  27,  32 

Swanson,  Gloria,  35 

Sweden,  64 

Sydney,  Australia,  62 

Sylvan  Lake,  S.  Dak.,  76 

Tacotna,  Wash.,  26 
Taggart,  Thomas,  5 


Tapajos  River,  Brazil,  68 

Tebbetts,   Bernie,  41 

Tennessee,  25,  76 

Tennessee  River,  76 

Testing:    of    automobiles,    90-91;    of    World 

War  I   armaments,  93-94;   of  World  War 

II  armaments,  94-97,  104-105 
Texas,  8,  25-26,  29,  76 
Therapy:    occupational,    10,    12-13;    physical, 

12-13 

Thomas,  Rolland  J.,  97 
Thornycroft,  Sir  J.,  105 
Thousand  Islands,  St.  Lawrence  River,  28 
Thunder  Bay,  Mich.,  40 
Tires,  19,  89,  91 

Titicaca,  Lake,  South  America,  79 
Tobacco  drying,  15 
Tokyo,  Japan,  29,  63 
Toledo,  Ohio,  25;  Museum  of  Art,  6 
Tools,  farm  and  garden,  101 
Tractors,  of  Ford  Motor  Co.  of  Minneapolis, 

Minn.,  101 

Tractors,  Fordson,  1917-48,  77-78,  93;  manu- 
facturing, 58,  84,  86,  92 
Tracy,  Spencer,  52 
Traffic,  39,  42;  safety  in,  11,  39,  80 
Training:  driver,  80;  industrial,  24;  military, 

6,  12,  66,  96,  105;   police,  39;  of  foremen, 

91;  of  the  blind,  37;  of  the  handicapped, 

91;  of  workers,  91 

Transportation,   history  of,    10-11,  72 
Transportation   systems:    air,   58,   66-67;   bus, 

77;  railroad,  58,  68-69 
Trenton,  N.J.,  75 
Tresh,  Mike,  70 
Trout,  Dizzy,  41,  70 
Trucks,   Ford,   1916-50:    from   Model-T's,  77, 

101;  manufacturing  of,  58,  77,  84-85 
Trucks,  Packard,  93 
Trucks,  Virgil,  70 
Truman,  Harry  S.,  41,   106 
Tucson,  Ariz.,  21 
Tumulty,  Joseph  P.,  5 
Turner,  Dan,  75 
Twentieth  Century-Fox  Film  Corp.,  102 

Union  of  South  Africa,  64 

United  Automobile  Workers,  71-72,  106 

United  Service  Organization,  94 

U.S.  Government,  12-13,  27.  See  also  specific 

agency  names  and  Washington,  D.C. 
Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Co.,  Inc.,  102 
Upholstery,  61,  90-92 
Uruguay,  64 
Utah,  20,  39,  40,  76,  107-108 

Valley  Forge,  Pa.,  30 

Vardon,  Harry,  32 

Variety  Artists'  Relief  Committee,  38 

Vermont,  76 


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Index 


Veterans:   Civil  War,  31;  World  War  I,  10, 

12-13 
Veterans    of    Foreign    Wars    Buddy    Poppy 

Camp,  41 
Vicksburg,    Miss.,    30-31;    National    Military 

Park,  76 

Victoria,  Mount,  Canada,  28 
Village  Industries,  47,  57,  75,  90,  92 
Villages,  South  American,  40 
Virginia,  5,  8,  26,  27,  30-31 
Volcano.  See  Kilauea  Crater 
Volselle,  Bill,  41 
Voting,  39 

Wakefield,  Dick,  41 

Wake  field,  Lord,  105 

Wales,  62 

Walker,  Jimmy,  76 

Walker,  Mary,  6 

War  of  1812,  battle  site,  76 

Warren,  Kenneth,  67 

Washington,  B.C.,  5,  6,  15,  27,  30-31,  57 

Washington,  George,  12,  30 

Washington  (State),  26,  61,  76 

Watches,  16 

Water  power,  33 

Water  supply,  city,  33 

Water  wheel,  63 

Webster,  Noah,  House  in  Greenfield  Village, 

53 

Wellington,  New  Zealand,  64 
Wells,  Linton,  80 
West  Virginia,  68,  76 
Whalen,  Grover  A.,  104 
Wheelmaking,   19-20,  63 
White,  Jo  Jo,  104 
Whitney,  W.  R.,  103 
Wilkins,  Sir  George  H.,  67 
Willamette  River,  Oreg.,  25 
Williams,  Charles  D.,  Jr.,  67 
Wilson,  Woodrow,  5,  12 


Wilson,  Mrs.  Woodrow,  5 

Windmill,  63 

Windsor,  Ontario,  Canada,  62 

Wisconsin,  76 

Wood,  Gar,  32,  35,  103 

Woolen  mills,  15,  91-92 

Working  conditions,  industrial,   11 

World's  Fairs:  Chicago,  72-73;  New  York,  74, 
104;  San  Francisco,  6 

World  War  I:  airplane  manufacturing,  12, 
58,  93;  American  Red  Cross,  10;  Armistice 
celebrations,  5,  11;  awards,  6;  Jitney  Sub- 
marine, 105;  Liberty  Loans,  6,  12,  34; 
submarine  chasers  (Eagle  Boats),  58,  94; 
submarine  warfare,  103;  tanks,  6,  12,  93- 
94;  training,  6,  12;  troops,  6;  trucks,  93-94; 
veterans,  rehabilitation  of,  12-13;  war  gar- 
dens, 6 

World  War  II:  airplane  manufacturing,  94, 
96-97,  105;  antiaircraft  guns,  94;  Axis  lead- 
ers, 42;  blood  donors,  94;  food  distribution 
program  in  Great  Britain,  107;  gliders,  95; 
handgrenades,  97;  housing,  105;  naval  bat- 
tles and  maneuvers,  94,  96;  robot  bombs, 
104-105;  Russian  leaders  and  officers,  95, 
106;  training,  96-97;  troop  carriers,  104; 
United  Service  Organization,  94;  vehicles, 
94-95;  women,  96,  97 

Wright  Homestead  and  Cycle  Shop,  Green- 
field Village,  53 

Wright,  Orville,  53 

Wyoming,  20,  26-27,  40,  75,  108 

Yokohama,  Japan,  63 
Yorkshire,  England,  62 
Yost,  Fielding  H.,  52 
Youngblood,  Bernard  J.,  103 
Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  34 

Zinc,  33 


for  the  period  1914  to  the  early  1940's 
stems  from  its  very  broad  coverage  of 
the  American  scene,  including  cities, 
parks  and  recreational  areas,  agriculture, 
industry,  sports,  important  individuals, 
and  news  events.  The  evolution  of  all  in- 
dustrial processes  related  to  automobile 
manufacturing  are  fully  documented. 

Illustrations  used  in  this  Guide  were 
chosen  as  representative  of  the  subject 
matter  in  the  collection  and  as  indicative 
of  the  quality  and  physical  condition  of 
the  film  when  brought  into  the  National 
Archives.  Although  most  of  the  film  is  in 
an  excellent  state  of  preservation  and  of 
good  photographic  quality,  some  has 
been  damaged  by  excessive  use  or  by  the 
deterioration  of  the  highly  unstable  ni- 
trate base  stock  on  which  the  early  films 
were  made.  All  of  the  film  has  now  been 
copied  on  a  permanent  base,  however, 
and  its  preservation  is  assured. 


AUDIOVISUAL  MATERIALS 
IN  THE  NATIONAL  ARCHIVES 

The  holdings  of  the  National  Archives  contain  a  large  quantity  of 
audio  visual  materials,  including  some  35,000  sound  recordings,  4.5 
million  still  picture  items,  and  47,000  reels  of  motion  picture  film. 

Most  of  the  motion  pictures  were  created  by  some  seventy-five 
Federal  agencies.  Those  received  by  the  National  Archives  as  gifts 
from  both  private  and  commercial  sources  aie  numerous,  and  the 
total  holdings  provide  an  almost  limitless  variety  of  subject  matter. 
The  collections,  dating  from  1894  to  the  present,  portray  a  wide 
variety  of  human  activities  and  natural  phenomena  and  were  taken 
in  every  State  of  the  Nation,  most  major  cities,  and  nearly  every 
country  of  the  world. 

Film  in  the  collections  may  be  viewed  at  the  National  Archives 
Building,  and  copies  may  be  purchased  at  reasonable  prices.