A hot steel rod with square cross section is extruded from a machine. Underside view of actuators for devices that shake sand cores loose from newly made cast iron pipe. A worker watches parallel set of round steel rods pass under his machine. Then he cuts them, all at once, into proper length. Topside view of the machinery for loosening sand cores in newly made cast iron pipe.
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.
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.
A sad looking boy stands near steep iron stairs of a run-down tenement in a poor, blue-collar mill or mining town during the great depression. Workers with lunch buckets descend steep steps. Steam locomotive belches smoke and pollution. A woman stands on porch of house and watches as boys run across railroad tracks to school, in front of oncoming steam locomotive and train. The boys run back across the tracks again. A man with a peg leg breaks up coal in his back yard and brings some into his dwelling in a bucket. An African American man enters his shack. A woman throws dishwater from her back porch. Women and children on wooden stairs and porches Black smoke streaming from industrial mill stacks.Girl with doll and boy with puppy. Boy and girl at doorway. Huge amounts of smoke from mills and locomotives in nearby rail yard. Little blond girl with dirty face. A man washes his face and hands using a wash basin. A woman cooks food on coal stove. Smoke emitted by chimney in the house. Black smoke and smog from steam locomotive. Black smoke from steam shovel. Steam and smoke from numerous locomotives in rail yard.
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