Ford motor company automobile assembly line in the United States. A steel furnace in operation. Steel poured into bucket. The hoist is positioned and bucket raised. A conveyor belt in the factory.
Ford motor company automobile assembly line in the United States. Automobile wheel rims suspended from moving overhead conveyor. Metal working and fender stamping machinery in operation. Conveyor belt in operation in the background.
A Ford motor company automobile assembly line in the United States. Workers operate fender stamping machinery. A worker operates dow stamping equipment.
Ford motor company automobile assembly line in the United States. Workers work on engine assembly line. Overhead conveyor belts in operation.
Scrapping old automobiles at a Ford Plant in the United States. Exterior of the Ford motor plant. Ford railroad car on siding. Trailer truck loaded with four old automobile is driven. A man receives the shipment. Cars are unloaded from the truck and towed into the building. Workers dismantle parts of the automobiles on an assembly line. An early 1920s Studebaker Big Six is among them. Men with torches cut apart parts of the automobiles. Large press crushes the automobile. The wrecked automobile forced into an open hearth-type furnace.
President of the United States Herbert Clark Hoover visits Detroit, together with Thomas A. Edison at invitation of Henry Ford for the celebration "Light's Golden Jubilee" honoring Thomas Edison and his invention of the electric light 50 years earlier. Automobile carrying President Hoover turns on corner of business district in rainy conditions. A policeman stands at the corner of the street. Spectators under umbrellas gather at a sidewalk. A decorated flag on the speaker's platform. Audience in raincoats and hats with umbrellas. A wood-burning locomotive train built in 1860 and decked with bunting arrives at railroad station of Smiths Creek Michigan depot at Greenfield Village. This station is where Edison, as a youngster 70 years earlier had been thrown off a similar train for a fire in the baggage car triggered by Edison's chemicals. Ford moved the station to Greenfield Village. Spectators with umbrellas on platform. President Herbert Hoover and Thomas Alva Edison exit the baggage car to join crowd on platform. President Hoover poses with American founder of the Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford, and the guest of honor, Thomas Edison. The three men converse. In the next scene, at a reconstructed Menlo Lab in Greenfield Village, Edison, Ford, and Hoover stand together as Thomas Edison recreates the lighting of the first electric lamp. Thomas Edison gestures as he points to equipment. Edison's former assistant, Francis Jehl, pours from a vessel into the top of the electric light apparatus as Hoover, Ford, and Edison look on.
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