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Henry Ford with the 15 millionth Ford car; Ford production line scenes during car assembly; 20 millionth Ford rolls off line

Henry Ford in the Highland Park plant steps into the fifteen millionth Ford Model T car just before it rolls off of the production line on May 26, 1927. Ford's son, Edsel Ford, is driving the car. Next scene shows Ford auto workers during car production on assembly line in factory. Wheels and tires moving on overhead line. View of the twenty millionth Ford automobile, a Model A, as it is completed and rolls off the line in Dearborn, Michigan, driven by Edsel Ford, on April 14, 1931. It is a 1931 slant windshield Town Sedan 160B.

Date: 1931
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078248
Life and times of Henry Ford and the Model T, with events from 1904 through 1936 (not always in chronological order).

Mix of scenes covering Henry Ford and his Model T cars, Model Ts travel through a stream and along rutted roads and through snow. Ford Model Ts equipped with special wheels travel on the rails along a railroad trestle. One drives slowly along a large pipeline. Views inside Ford auto factory of assembly line operations. Car hoods being pressed into shape. Car bodies on assembly line. Engine blocks moving on conveyer. Car bodies being placed on chassis. Henry Ford walking along garden path at his home, Fairlane, in Dearborn Michigan. Glimpse of Henry Ford joking with Scottish comedian, Harry Lauder, in 1914. Henry ford tinkering with an old steam engine, and later, driving one of his tractors. Ford in his office conferring with employees. Family gathering as Edsel Ford is about to embark on a transcontinental trip with Model T Ford cars, on May 5, 1924. The Fords doing country dances together. Henry Ford camping with Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs (later seen driving a 1918 Ford Model T). Views of the men (who called themselves the "Four Vagabonds," as they dine under a tent and use a large Lazy Susan table. Ford speaking directly into Edison's right ear (he was hard of hearing) while Firestone looks on, amused. Edsel Ford with his father outdoors, and in the Ford factory. Father and son sitting by the Quadricycle with a 1936 white Ford sedan behind them. Portrait of Henry Ford. Luxury limousine at a mansion. It has no right side door for the chauffeur, and a right hand steering wheel (British built?) Woman enters and luxurious interior is described. Chauffeur enters at left door and slides across seat to right-side steering wheel. Lincoln chauffeured limousine passes and parks in front of a Model T. May 1927, men assemble the body onto the 15 millionth Model T car, and it drives away with Henry Ford as passenger. Old Ford cars brought into plant where they are seen being crushed and scrapped, and their steel recycled into new cars.

Date: 1936
Duration: 5 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068822
Mine workers board a man-car inside a copper mine in Northern Michigan, USA.

View of a copper mine in Northern Michigan, USA. A shift of miners transported to underground stope via man-cars. Miners board the man car. The car descends down the mine. Travel shots of the haulage tracks running inside the drift. Timber blocks support the ceiling of the drift.

Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030423
Filled stope method being implemented at a copper mine in Northern Michigan, USA.

Copper rocks sorted from waste at a stope of a copper mine in Northern Michigan, USA. Miners fill ore car with waste rock from a chute. Waste rock is dumped into the stope for filling the stope. Miner draws sorted ore from a chute into an ore car.

Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030425
Copper ore is loaded on skips and lifted to upper levels by large hoisting machine at a copper mine in Northern Michigan,USA.

Mine workers load copper ore onto skips from ore car at a copper mine in Northern Michigan, USA. Ore is lifted from mine to the upper levels. View of large hoisting machine at work. Miners arrive at the shaft station on a man car. Miners disembark the man-car.

Date: 1927
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030426
Miners with an 8 ton find of copper in a copper mine in Michigan

Mine workers climb a steep slope of a stope at a copper mine in Northern Michigan, USA. Large timber blocks support the ceiling of the stope. Miners around a large mass of copper weighing approximately 8-tons.

Date: 1927
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030424