Full text of "Guide to the Ford film collection in the National Archives"

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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GUIDE TO THE

FORD FILM COLLECTION

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-
liamsboth 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

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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 anr 1 Conservation 37

Charity 37

Drama 38

Education 38

Geography 39

News 40

Sports and Recreation 41

Miscellany 42

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

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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.

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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

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 W 7 ar 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

I t 483 ft., ed. (1920, 1921); 1,252 ft.,

uned. (1920)
Bees swarming and gathering

Education, News, and Special Subjects

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

Ford Educational Weekly and Library

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
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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

695 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-
ing on buttons.

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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
gloves, inspecting and lining gloves,

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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)

Preparation of hides for tanning,

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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
uppers to insoles and soles to shoes.

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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-
turing spokes and wooden rims and

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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.

Prescott and area; and Frontier

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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)

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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
points.

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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)

Map of the Cheasapeake Bay area.

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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.
Dallas: a river at flood stage, manu-

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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
mountainside and active crater.

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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.

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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

Education, News, and Special Subjects

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
Group.

Education, News, and Special Subjects

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.

Education, News, and Special Subjects

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.

Education, News, and Special Subjects

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-

Education, News, and Special Subjects

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.; 187 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.

Special Subjects

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,

Education, News, and Special Subjects

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

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-

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.

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.

Ford Family

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-

Ford Family

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,

Henry Ford Personal Projects

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.

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;

Henry Ford Personal Projects

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

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).

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,

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-

Ford Motor Company General

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.

Ford Motor Company

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-

Domestic and Foreign Branches

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.

Ford Motor Company

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.

Ford Motor Company

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,

Nonrnanufacturing Activities

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)

Buildings and facilities at Camps

Ford Motor Company

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.

Lima, Ohio, Locomotive Works:

Nonmanufacturing Activities

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

Ford Motor Company

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-

Nonmanufacturing A ctivities

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

Ford Motor Company

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

Nonmanufacturing Activities

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-

Ford Motor Company

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,

Nonmanufacturing Activities

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

Ford Motor Company

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.

Nonmanufactitring Activities

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,

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,

Nonmanufacturing Activities

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,

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

Nonmanufacturing Activities

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.

Ford Motor Company

AIRPLANE PLANT

FORD ALL-METAL TRI-MOTOR
AIRPLANES

442 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

Plants

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;

Ford Motor Company

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-

Plants

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

Ford Motor Company

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) .

Plants

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
ingot molds.

Ford Motor Company

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

Plants

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,

Ford Motor Company

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.

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-

War-Related Activities

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;

Ford Motor Company

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.,

War-Related Activities

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.