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Miners drill for iron ore and conveyors fill railroad cars with coal during World War 2 in the United States

Iron ore mine in U.S. Miners drill for iron ore. Cars filled with ore coming out. Men separate ore. View of mountains near mine. Conveyors fill railroad cars with coal. Railroad cars bear labeling for D&RGW or Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053062
Cattle being branded by an electric iron at a ranch in the United States.

A cattle ranch in the United States. Men work at the ranch. They hammer logs of wood. Cattle graze at the ranch. Men catch hold of the cattle and brand the livestock with an electric branding iron. Snow covered mountains. The cattle being branded by the electric branding iron.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066753
Ford Motor Company promotional film showing Niagara Falls and Ford Motor car plant in Dearborn, Michigan

Animated sequence shows wheel of a Ford car traversing map from Manhattan, New York, to the Niagara Falls on the Canadian border. Extensive views of the falls. A honeymooning couple sitting in a Ford convertible auto with top down. The woman doesn't appreciate Niagara Falls. Guided by their "V8" hood ornament (where the "8" in the "V8" transformed into an animated Ford character, that narrates the activities) they motor across Canada and back into the United States, to the Ford Motor Company Rouge Works in Dearborn, Michigan. Views of the sprawling Ford Motor Company factories at the Rouge Works. Contrasting view of the original Ford shop where he made his first automobile. Mr. Henry Ford steps out of the shop and looks at that first Ford car. He doffs his hat, examines a tire, and walks past the camera while waving his hand. Suddenly a new 1935 Ford car appears where the original first car stood. Narrator comments that a million of these could not be built in the humble first Ford shop. Accordingly, scene shifts to views of the vast Ford Rouge plant. Numerous buildings, bridges,conveyer systems, pipes, and smoke stacks are seen (a cluster of 8 appear in one view). Molten steel being poured into crucibles, as the honeymoon couple watch from their car. Glowing hot ingots slide in troughs into a rolling mill, where they are reduced. Parts being forged by a power hammer. Engine blocks moving on a conveyer. Molten iron being poured into a mold to form an engine block.Coking ovens discharging their product. Ford ships in a port. Iron ore being unloaded from ships.

Date: 1935
Duration: 4 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029868
Several stages in production of V8-engine blocks at the River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan.

The Ford Rotunda, destroyed by fire in 1962. Aerial view of The River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Facts about the plant superimposed over the pictures of plant in the background. Freighter ' Henry Ford II' passes under drawbridge. View of captain at wheel. Aerial view of plant, buildings and smokestacks. Interior of power plant, generators and central control board. Cranes operators operate crane scoops to unload iron ore from a ship. Coke ovens discharge flaming coke. Clouds of steam arise from the quencher. Cable cars climb to top of the blast furnace. Molten iron flows from bottom of blast furnace. Aerial view of River rouge plant. Interiors of foundry. Workers fill molds with sand. Mold being removed from casting of V-8 engine block. View of mold production lines. Mold assembled and molten metal poured into the mold. Castings removed from the molds. Workers remove rough edged from casting. Engine casting travels on assembly line conveyor system. Multiple drilling machines in operation. Engine blocks on conveyor move through measuring device. (World War II period).

Date: 1941
Duration: 8 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030137
Steel making at the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant in Michigan

An Open Hearth furnace at the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant is being tapped and molten steel runs through troughs in the floor. View of the furnace opening. The scene brightly illuminated by the light of the molten metal. Hot molten steel flowing into crucibles on rails, just outside the plant. Activity in the plant yard is seen in the background. Molten steel begins pouring into another crucible. Next, the huge crucibles are seen outside the plant being pulled by a steam locomotive, along a railroad in the plant yard. View shifts to inside a building where molten steel is being guided by men with long poles as it flows towards a pair of conveyors for making of pig iron. Closeup of the pig iron being transported upwards on two conveyors. Glimpse of a quenching operation. Then, a huge crucible is seen moving by overhead crane and pouring its contents into another container. Fire and smoke are generated. More views of steel being poured from the crucible, and then of the receiving container being moved on a rail.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078282
Automobile engine block assembly line at Ford River Rouge Plant

Exterior view of crane operating at Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn Michigan. Scene changes to interior view. Many steps are shown in creation of automobile engine blocks, including casting of forms, workers pouring molten iron into forms for cast iron engine blocks. Car engine blocks being cooled and transported on elevated hanging racks, further steps in tooling and finishing work on assembly line. Many Ford workers and heavy factory machinery are shown involved in the process.

Date: 1928
Duration: 5 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078283