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.
Large group of spectators gathers at Ford airport, Dearborn, Michigan. A Ford-Stout 2-AT passenger and mail transport aircraft ,one of several having the name, "Maiden Dearborn" , which is written on its tail along with: "Ford Airport of Michigan." The Ford logo is painted on its fuselage, as is "U.S. Mail." The field is snow covered. Aircraft taxis out with"assistance" from well-meaning spectators who push on the empennage as the plane moves. The airplane taxis to end of field and takes off.
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.
Inside airplane factory of Stout Metal Airplane Division, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn Michigan. Workers on scaffolding seen installing engine in nose of a Ford trimotor airplane (Ford 4-AT-A model). Workers join corrugated metal strips to form skin of airplanes. Man places rudder on empennage of plane. Two men use pneumatic guns to rivet airplane framework.
From movie "La Ciudad" (The City). Credited to Pare Lorentz. Opening credits text in Spanish. A reenactment of 18th Century life in American New England village. Reflections in water. Water gushing over an old water wheel at a mill. A sign over a structure reads 'Sias Farm 1791'. Old covered bridge spans river and waterfalls. Boys skinny dip swim naked in lake. Farmer drives a horse- drawn wagon on a path. Boy lying down in the wagon with head resting on a gunny sack next to a barrel of apples. Boy looks up at clouds overhead, daydreaming. Engraved granite milestone points to "Shirley" 3 miles and to "Shirley Village" 4 miles, the opposite way. Boy jumps off wagon as it enters village. Wagon stops at blacksmith shop, where farmer and blacksmith unload a damaged wheel as two boys and an old man watch.Blacksmith and farmer use hand-operated rollers to true-up broken iron strap from wheel. Old woman doing needle work. Young woman working on a loom. Man weaving a basket. Water wheel turning in water. View, inside mill, shows millstone, turning,as miller grinds corn. Farmers harvesting grain with scythes. White Wooden church with steeple.Graveyard with old gravestones.One reads: "Mary Day,died March 18, 1829,Aged 43." Blacksmith, at forge, repairing broken iron strap for wheel.
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