Camera pans across fireplace in log cabin style home belonging to Harry Bennett, head of Ford Motor Company Service Department. He is entertaining guests. One, a woman, is seated near the fire. Interior of cabin near front door is seen. View shifts to different woman guest descending stairs. She warms herself in front of the fire. Harry Bennett places some more logs on the fire. The woman settles comfortably in a chair. Next, she is seen picking up a rabbit from the floor and trying to pose it on a chair for the camera. But it is struggling and she puts it down. She picks it up again and holds it. She then opens the front door as the cameraman (unseen) moves into the doorway to show the snow on the ground outside. Scene shifts to several women and men guests socializing near the fireplace. Change of scene shows one guest with a gun outside the cabin. A rabbit is nearby. Later, inside, he picks up the, now dead, rabbit up by the ears and places it in a cardboard box. Harry Bennett speaks to his guests.
Brief view of a slate at start of a movie film that reads: "In compliance with the law of this state, this is SAFETY (NON-INFLAMMABLE) FILM."
View of the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plants from an aircraft flying low overhead. Smoke is visible throughout the area. Closeup of one plant containing eight smoke stacks close together. Large conveyor belts near yards filled with raw materials, such as coal. A canal containing large cranes and bulk cargo carrying barges and ships. Rail lines near low buildings containing rows of smoke stacks. Liquid storage tanks. A parking lot filled with cars. Curving river views showing ships and barges. Factories across the river obscured by smoke. Suddenly, a Stout Airlines Ford Trimotor passenger plane (Number 12) appears close to the right of the camera aircraft. View of electrified locomotive pulling a train of freight box cars, while a steam locomotive and coal car back up on another track.
View inside a busload of persons touring the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plants. A Ford tour guide is standing at the front of the bus describing things to the visitors. Cars and trucks driving back and forth in the factory yard, next to a building with freight cars parked on an adjacent railroad siding. Another view of guide and visitors inside the bus. They pass a large building with a long conveyor in front of it, and men on a scaffold working on upper windows. Views alternate between inside the bus and views of plant buildings. Four very tall smoke stacks are seen extending from the ground in front of one building. A traveling crane is seen in motion where raw materials are stored at the waterfront. A large bulk carrier ship is docked in a canal. A compact plant with 8 closely positioned smoke stacks is seen in the background. Another large ore carrier ship is being unloaded by a crane. Glimpse inside the bus. View from the bus of two more buses, ahead, as they drive near rail lines between buildings. Another glimpse inside the bus. View upward to cranes and conveyors overhead. View from bus as it follows two ahead of it. At end, visitors exit the bus in an open area
Views of the Electric Power generating station at the Ford Motor Company River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Closeup of the eight smoke stacks atop the power station. A group of persons on a tour of the River Rouge plants is seen standing outside the entrance to the power station as a Ford Company guide speaks to them. Next, they all enter the power station. View of the electric generators inside the power station. The visitors walk past the generators on the turbine floor of the power plant. (View gives perspective of the huge size of the generators in contrast to the persons walking past them.) Scene shifts to the control room of the power station, where technicians are seen monitoring a huge set of instruments.
Production of coke for steel making and production of ammonium phosphate fertilizer as a byproduct at Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors stand in a group near coking ovens. View of huge pile of coal and the eight smoke stacks of the company power plant in background. Closeup of traveling device for collecting coke as it is expelled from coking ovens. View of it moving along rail as it collects hot coke being expelled from ovens. View of the collector moving toward the camera and into a quencher, where water flows to cool the coke. Smoke and steam issuing from smoke stack above the quencher. The smoking coke container moving back along its rail to a dumping location where the contents are discharged into an area filled with coke. Next, a man is seen opening a screen gate to allow coke to flow to a conveyor. View from ground of closed conveyor that transports coke material to an adjacent by-products plant, for making of tar, gas, ammonia, oils, and fertilizer. Water running over sets of baffles. Change of scene to part of the plant that transforms byproducts of the coking process into Ammonium phosphate fertilizer. The fertilizer falling through large pipes into carts. Huge mounds of the fertilizer and a drag bucket filling and rising above the heaps. Men loading fertilizer into cloth bags labeled "Ford Ammonium Phosphate Fertilizer." View of storage yard containing piles of coal, limestone, ammonium phosphate, and ore. Traveling crane moving above the piles, and raising a bucket full of ammonium phosphate.
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