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Coal mining operations for the Ford Motor Company in ‌Kentucky.

Open rail hopper cars of coal at a mine in Kentucky. (Ford coal was mined at the Banner Fork Coal Corporation at Wallins Creek, Kentucky and the Pond Creek Coal Company at Stone, Kentucky.) View inside the mine, where a miner is riding a bucket as it slides down a slope. Next, a miner is seen at a coal cutting machine in operation. Miners riding atop rail cars full of coal as they arrive at the surface. Mining cars being emptied at a tipple, where the coal is moved on a conveyor and loaded into open hopper cars. A steam locomotive pulling a long train of coal hopper cars, each displaying the Ford Company Logo. A train of coal cars arriving at the River Rouge Plant.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078279
A Ford Motor Company iron ore mine. And various operations at the Rouge plant in Michigan.

View of a Ford Motor Company iron ore mine during winter. Snow covers the ground. Closeup of a ore car running up the Tiple. View from up on the Tiple as a iron ore car reaches reaches the top. Scene shifts to a bulk carrier freighter docked at pier. High above are a line of railroad open hopper cars. the next scene shows a large bulk carrier ship steaming away. Scene shifts to the Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan, where huge cranes and clamshell buckets are raising iron ore raw material into the plant. Closeup of an operator inside a compartment low in the crane, controlling the bucket. Another view of the cranes at work. A huge pile of iron ore at the River Rouge Plant. A dragline bucket being moved through an ore pile. Iron ore in a container moving along a conveyor. Hot Molten slag being poured into a special crucible on rails, beneath a steel furnace. A long line (a train) of slag-filled crucibles. Slag being dumped from a crucible onto the slag heap for use in road building and making cement. A steam shovel being used to load slag into a large railroad car. Men with shovels cleaning up areas of the plant. Tractors pulling wagons in the yard. More piles of raw materials for making cement are seen next to factory and railroad tracks where 2,000 barrels of cement are made daily.

Date: 1928
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078280
Loading trucks at the Ford Motor Company Cement Plant in the River Rouge complex

Two African American men working at the Ford Motor Company River Rouge cement plant. One loads bags of cement onto a flat bed truck with two trailers, while the other monitors the bags as the come down a chute. Another, smaller truck, behind the trailer truck, is also being loaded. After the loading is finished, A man retrieves a chock from behind the left rear wheel of the last trailer, while the the truck slowly pulls away.

Date: 1928
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078281
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
Cutting of steel and iron ships into scrap metal for reuse in Ford automotive factories

River dock scene near Ford River Rouge manufacturing plant. Men using blow torches stand inside partially disassembled old steel and iron ship hulls. They are cutting the ship hulls into large pieces, which are then moved by cranes to form giant stacks adjacent to a railroad train bed, awaiting transport to Ford factories for melting and recycling, to make automobiles.

Date: 1928
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078284