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.
Film opens showing Ford Motor Company President, Edsel Ford, with a shovel, breaking ground for some kind of construction at the company's Dearborn plant site. Camera pans over views of company buildings. Many cars driving in the vicinity, most are mid to late 1930s models. Pedestrians walking on sidewalks of the campus. Modern buildings on the campus.
Unemployed men in Newark, New Jersey during the Great Depression. Disturbance at railroad and dockyard being brought under control by policemen on horseback. Train and ships in background. A sign reads 'No men wanted'. Men sleep on park benches. A man holds a sign reading 'Unemployed'. Men sleep in doorways Sidewalk soup kitchen. View of shacks and an order by the Department of Health declaring them unfit for human habitation and ordering them vacated at once. Order is signed by Charles V. Craster, M,D, D.P.H., Health Officer.
A dust storm in Dalhart, Texas during the dust bowl era. A farm family at table. No electricity. A boy writes in dustbowl dust settled on the table. A farmer reads the bible by light of oil lamp..
Impact of a dust storm in Dalhart, Texas during time of dust bowl in American midwest. View of a tower. A house in the background. A man runs towards the tower. A heap of sand. A damaged house. Dust infiltrates nests in chicken coop. Chickens run around in dust. A hen inside a shelter lay eggs. Eggs of a hen. Wheels of a cart. Cat sleeps on a parched soil.
A dust storm in Dalhart, Texas during Dust Bowl period. A nest sticks to a fence due to wind pressure. View of the base of a tower. A house in the background. A paper sticks to a fence due to the wind pressure. A damaged house. A man walks towards a damaged house. He enters the house.
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