Machinery forming auto parts from sheet metal in Ford plant. New auto fenders move via chain conveyor in production line. Factory workers sort them and place some on different conveyors.
Numerous specialists, in lab coats, seen at work stations in large chemistry laboratory at Ford Steel plant. Glassware, balances, ovens, reagents, and other typical laboratory equipment is seen. One chemist seen heating erlenmeyer flask on ring stand over bunsen burner, under a hood. Natural light and tilting windows for ventilation. Metallurgist uses machine for testing strength of steel samples.
A large group of visitors, including many women, touring Ford Motor Company plant. They are seen walking across the factory yard between buildings.
Auto worker in Ford plant inserts rivet slugs into holes in part and secures them with pneumatic gun. Another worker, using wrenches. fastens bolts and nuts on auto parts. Two men work on a heavy press, forming sheet metal into auto parts. One places the unformed metal in from behind the machine, and the other removes finished piece from the front of press. The press is driven up and down by oscillating arms.
From movie "La Ciudad" (The City). Credited to Pare Lorentz. Opening credits text in Spanish. A reenactment of 18th Century life in American New England village. Reflections in water. Water gushing over an old water wheel at a mill. A sign over a structure reads 'Sias Farm 1791'. Old covered bridge spans river and waterfalls. Boys skinny dip swim naked in lake. Farmer drives a horse- drawn wagon on a path. Boy lying down in the wagon with head resting on a gunny sack next to a barrel of apples. Boy looks up at clouds overhead, daydreaming. Engraved granite milestone points to "Shirley" 3 miles and to "Shirley Village" 4 miles, the opposite way. Boy jumps off wagon as it enters village. Wagon stops at blacksmith shop, where farmer and blacksmith unload a damaged wheel as two boys and an old man watch.Blacksmith and farmer use hand-operated rollers to true-up broken iron strap from wheel. Old woman doing needle work. Young woman working on a loom. Man weaving a basket. Water wheel turning in water. View, inside mill, shows millstone, turning,as miller grinds corn. Farmers harvesting grain with scythes. White Wooden church with steeple.Graveyard with old gravestones.One reads: "Mary Day,died March 18, 1829,Aged 43." Blacksmith, at forge, repairing broken iron strap for wheel.
Molten iron being poured from industrial furnace into ladle in steel mill. Steel mill belching steam, black smoke and fumes from numerous stacks. Mill town, across the river, in smog of mill effluents. Densely packed houses, submerged in dirt and smoke pollution from the mill. People walk up wooden sidewalks on hilly dirt road lined with wooden houses. Goats tied near ditch behind house.
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