According to the slate, Edsel Ford is seen in his open Ford motorcar automobile. He says goodbye to several other men and then drives away in the Ford car, on his way to the Panama Pacific Exposition, in San Francisco. The remainder of the sequence shows ordinary American citizens walking on the sidewalk at intersection of Moore Place and a main thoroughfare in Dearborn Michigan. Teenage boy or young man with slicked down hair, big ears and a bow tie, smiles and mugs for the camera.
View from side of railroad track as steam locomotive passes pulling a long passenger train at high speed. A freight train passes at the same time in opposite direction on parallel track. Split screen presentation shows automobile traffic, pedestrians, and street cars on Woodward Avenue, in Detroit, and a ferry boat plying a river on the other screen. The ferry boat appears to converge onto the avenue, as if to collide with a trolley car.
Litter of kittens in a box. Mother cat picks up one of her litter by the nape of the neck and carries it away, out of sight. Man places mother cat and kitten back into the box. She jumps out, but returns later to pick up kitten again.
Image showing part of the painting, "Declaration of Independence," by artist John Trumbull, depicting a draft of the Declaration of Independence being presented to Congress.
A steam locomotive pulling a passenger train of the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad (acquired by Ford Motor Company in 1920) arrives at a station and passengers alight. Train leaves the station. Buildings at the station. A group of men on the station platform. Large water tank for servicing steam locomotives with logo of DT&I railroad on it. A porter wheeling a dolly passes on way to some buildings. Passengers standing on platform of train station. Railroad man switches several gondola rail cars to siding. A steam locomotive backing up pulls several Ford Motor Company gondola rail cars from a loading facility and then returns again. A local worker and his family are seen as he pushes two children in a swing. The family poses in front of a modest dwelling, and then go inside. One small house is a log cabin with chinking. The other is a simple wooden house or shack.
Steam locomotive of Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad is rotated slightly on turntable to align it with track entering a Roundhouse.The locomotive engine is then raised on jacks. Mechanics remove a pair of wheels and dismantle them. View of machines in maintenance shop. Mechanics roll several new steel wheels into the maintenance shop. View of mechanics working on connecting rods.
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