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Workers paint cars on an assembly line at Ford factory in Dearborn, Michigan.

Ford assembly line in a factory in Dearborn, Michigan. Interior of Ford factory. Workers paint cars on the assembly line.

Date: 1920
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070883
Thousands of cars are parked in parking grounds outside the River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan.

Parking grounds for thousands at the Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Thousands of cars outside the exterior of the plant. Vehicles drive past along a road beside the plant.

Date: 1920
Duration: 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070888
Manufacture of a cast iron engine block in the foundry of the Studebaker automobile plant in South Bend, Indiana

Slates at start of film explain that we are going to be shown manufacturing processes inside an automobile plant. Glimpse of a 250 acre manufacturing plant of Studebaker Automobiles in South Bend, Indiana. Inside, overhead conveyors are seen moving ladles that are to be filled with molten iron from a cupola furnace. Closeup of molten iron being poured into a ladle. The conveyor moves the full ladle back from the furnace and others move ladles into position and they are filled too. Slate describes casting of engine blocks. Men in foundry are seen guiding a large ladle of molten iron to pour some into a smaller ladle. Then two men using handles to guide the small ladle, proceed to pour molten metal from it into some green sand molds of engine blocks. Closeup of the molten iron being poured into the sand mold. After cooling for some time, a crane lowers a device to remove the cope from the drag of the mold. The solid, but still smoking engine block is then lifted out of the mold with a chain hoist.

Date: 1920
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071727
Axles, gears and many other engine parts being manufactured in Studebaker automobile factory in South Bend, Indiana.

Film starts showing a steam driven hammer forging a Studebaker automobile engine part from a flaming hot steel ingot. Two men, in protective clothing and gloves, work together to position a hot steel billet under a steam hammer to forge it into an engine part. Next, a factory worker uses a chain hoist to remove a rough engine crankshaft from a stack. The crankshaft is moved to a machine shop where it is placed in a type of lathe and machined. Closeup of the crankshaft rotating in the machining process. Next, a machinist places the crankshaft between two spindles and spins it by hand to check its balance during rotation. A slate states that the gear cutting machine to be seen next was invented by a woman. Closeup of a gear being cut with cutting tool cooled by fluid. A huge milling machine made by Ingersoll Company of Rockford, Illinois, is shown. Closeup of it milling six engine blocks at the same time. Next, a drilling machine is seen making 36 holes at the same time in an engine part. (Note: The comment about gear cutting machinery and a woman, undoubtedly refers to Catherine “Kate” Anselm Gleason (1865-1933). She worked in the family business which burgeoned as a world wide gear manufacturer when her father, William Gleason invented and patented the first bevel gear planer machine in 1874. During the restrictive culture of her time, she helped shape the global cutting tools industry as a sales engineer for her family’s gear cutting business.)

Date: 1920
Duration: 3 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071728
Car engines being assembled and tested in Studebaker automobile plant

Views of an engine assembly line in Studebaker automobile factory in South Bend, Indiana. A worker selects a crankshaft from a stack and places it into an engine block. Another worker moves an engine block using an overhead chain hoist. At another assembly station, a worker places piston rod assemblies into an engine block. Workers seated at a series of stations add more parts into engine blocks. Nearly completed built up engines move slowly on a conveyor as workers add final touches to complete them. An engine started and run on a test stand. A small amount of oil smoke is seen as an inspector checks the running 6 cylinder engine.

Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071729
Auto body parts being manufactured and assembled in the Studebaker factory

Camera on a slowly moving overhead conveyor shows numerous stacks of sheet metal next to machines in the stamping section of the Studebaker automobile plant in South Bend, Indiana. Next, as a stamping machine slowly rises open, men remove automobile frame parts from it. Closeup of the stamping machine slowly stamping the frame parts which men then remove from the press. The name Studebaker appears on the machine. At another location men are seen removing stamped auto fenders from a similar press. Closeup of a machine slowly pressing sheet metal between a pair of mating presses to form a fender. Worker holds finished fender up for the camera. In the auto body section of the factory, men place an auto body frame on a wheeled dolly. Next workers are seen placing a lower rear body section on a car being assembled. Other workers are seen hand grinding and otherwise smoothing surfaces of assembled auto bodies. In final scenes, workers sit inside the assembled bodies and apply trim to the interior using tack hammers and other tools.

Date: 1920
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071730