Views of the Ford Motor Company Highland Park Plant building and several vehicles moving on street in front of the building. Automobiles move on the busy market streets of Detroit. People,streetcars, bicycles, some horse driven wagons, and automobiles move on the busy city streets at two different intersections. An accelerated view of traffic moving in Detroit.
Ford Motor Company employees move along roadway during a parade with sign 'Ford Patriotic rally' during World War 1. They carry banners along with British and American flags, as they move. '5000' formed of small stars appear. The text on signs reads: "This war is our business", "Put the Iron Cross on the man who 'double cross' ", "Hang the Spy", "Hell is too good for the Hun" and "There is no bridge over the Atlantic but there are thousands of Ford's boys". (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Ford Motor Company employees paint and finish United States Army Brodie-patterned M1917 helmets at a factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during World War I. Factory workers working in assembly line. Worker hammers a bolt in the center of the helmet. A worker attaches chin strap into the helmet. A machine attaches a bolt into the chin strap. Helmets are prepared for the paint tank. Workers dip helmets into paint tanks. Men wipe off helmets to remove a coat of tallow applied to prevent rusting. Helmets placed on rack, dipped in paint tank, and hung to dry on stands. Helmets are treated with sawdust applied with air pressure (“sawdusting”). Workers are seen wearing goggles as they apply sawdust in helmets. After applying sawdust, racks of helmets are placed in bake oven. The workers close the bake oven door. Workers sort and stack new helmets. Military and quality control personnel inspect helmets carefully. Finished U.S. Army helmets put into wooden crate and shipment lid placed onto it. Helmets are packed with air pressure. Crates stenciled, seals soldered, and crates fastened with wires. A man places a receipt on top of helmets before another man seals the crate. Wooden crates piled up for shipment. [Note: This was filmed at the Ford Motor Company assembly plant on Broad Street and Lehigh Avenue in Philadelphia. Helmet shells were manufactured by other firms and sent vie rail to the Ford plant where they were painted and finished. This video depicts that finishing process.]
Footage from 1933. An aircraft circles on the water surface. Anne Marrow Lindbergh descends from an aircraft. Charles Augustus Lindbergh nicknamed 'The Lone Eagle' and Anne Lindberg welcomed by the people. They get inside a car. From a November 27, 1958 newsreel feature "25 years ago today".
American actress Ann Blyth comes out of the door with husband James McNulty after wedding. She waves at crowd. Ann Blyth kisses her husband.
View of the White House. Charles A. Lindbergh with his mother, Evangeline Land Lindbergh and and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, stands in the White House garden conversing with President Herbert Hoover. Charles and Anne Morrow flank the President as they pose for a photograph. Vice President Charles Curtis can be seen behind them.
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