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People begin a tour of the Ford Motor company River Rouge Plants

Film starts showing a man speaking through a megaphone. Next is an aerial view of the city of detroit, Michigan. This is followed by views of steam locomotives moving on railroads near the Ford Motor Company River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan. One locomotive is pulling a long passenger train. People crowd sidewalk in front of the Cadillac Hotel on Washington Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan, where a bus has parked. View of people boarding the bus. Next, the bus is seen driving along the Boulevard. Then, two buses arrive and discharge passengers in front of the Ford Motor Company office building. Inside the building a Ford Company spokesman speaks to the visitors who are seated in a conference room. Folowing the briefing, they all stand and exit through the front door. View from inside one of the buses as of visitors re-board.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078274
Aerial views of the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plants

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.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078275
Visitors in buses tour the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plants

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

Date: 1928
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078276
Persons touring the Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant visit its Power station

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.

Date: 1928
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078277
Visitors observe Coking operations at Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant

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.

Date: 1928
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078278
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