Thousands of mummers stage a traditional New Year's Day parade in their colorful costumes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Many performers are men in drag (men dressed as women). Ornate floats pass by in the parade, including an "invasion from Mars" scene and a ship being tossed on the ocean. A car weighed down by a heavy cart attached to it drives with its front wheels up in the air. Crowd of Mummers parade participants dancing in street, including some in blackface.
A Ford stake bed truck, loaded with boxes, approaches, climbing up a hill, toward the camera. An elevated highway carrying traffic in background. The truck turns and proceeds up another street. Scene shifts to the truck moving on a highway. Then begins a sort of anatomy of the truck. Its various parts are shown. Beginning with the chassis, the film reveals its side rails; steel crossmembers; forward end;and 4-cylinder,50HP Ford engine. A cutaway of the automobile engine and animated illustration show cylinder, pistons, valves, intake manifold, and carburetor. Rotating crankshaft, fuel pump and filter, and positive lubrication system are shown in action. Cutaway view of crankcase shows lubrication and valve lifters and springs in motion.The entire engine lubrication system is shown. The cooling system is described and shown.The ignition system and distributor are shown.Three point rubber insulated engine mounting is shown. The 4-speed transmission is shown in cutaway with gears moving. Single plate clutch is shown and the drive shaft assembly.
Views underneath the chassis of a Ford truck, showing torque tube and radius rods, showing attachment to front axle, and how rear springs are devoted entirely to absorbing road shocks. Cutaway animated view of the Ford 3/4 type floating rear axle, with various gears in motion. Cutaway internal views of Double roller-type rear wheel bearings are shown and external view with double wheels.Front tranverse springs are shown. New semi-elliptic rear springs are shown. Brake cables and drum-type brakes are demonstrated.
A 1932 model Ford Stake bed truck drives up to the camera and stops. Several views of the truck. ( A playground with children at play is seen in background.) View of interior through right-hand door, as driver enters at left door and settles himself on seat. He sets manual choke and throttle, steps on foot accelerator pedal, checks gears in neutral and hand brake off. Driver turns steering wheel several turns to left. View shifts to cutaway of steering mechanism showing its action. Truck drives up to a loading dock, backs into position, and then drives away. Scene shifts to a busy city street, where the truck is seen in traffic. It waits with other vehicles as pedestrians cross with the light, and then proceeds. The truck pulls into a Ford Benzol station where operator refuels it.
New Ford trucks moving on assembly line in factory. Several drive out of the factory without final rear bodies. A truck equipped with stake bed sitting at a farm. views of the truck bed, and removable stake sides and back. Various configurations shown. Views of small dump truck with dual rear wheels sitting outside a factory. Demonstration of dumping with truck bed elevated by hydraulic cylinder.Another truck shown with open sides, covered roof, and bench seats along both sides of the truck body. A similar truck covered with tarpaulin cover. A pickup truck with tailgate. A bus built on a Ford truck chassis. Views of the bus, including demonstration of driver opening its door, and views of interior and seats. Examples of several different Ford bus body styles and several different truck body styles, including a wrecker-tow truck.
U.S. Senate Subcommittee investigating Army Signal Corps Subversion and Espionage at Fort Monmouth. Committee Chairman, Senator Joseph McCarthy and Committee Chief Counsel question witness Joseph Levitsky about his relationship to Julius Rosenberg. In the course of his testimony, the witness invokes the 5th Amendment to avoid answering. Seeking a tie to Communism, McCarthy reads text of a Communist party pledge and asks if Levitsky ever signed such a pledge.
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