Mexican painter Frida Kahlo sketching during the construction of the Detroit Industrial Mural, designed by her husband Diego Rivera, at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She is dressed in a warm coat and seated on a wooden folding chair, while sketching on a note pad. She turns and smiles at the camera. A panel of the industrial mural is seen, depicting piping representative of the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant, with workmen standing above, and one down below.
Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera, during the painting of the Detroit Industrial Mural at the Detroit Institute of Art. Frida Kahlo is seen on a scaffold by an unpainted area, talking to a workman below. Later, she sits on the scaffold next to Diego Rivera, as he paints in this same section. She makes notes in a pad. She descends a ladder from the scaffold, throwing her note pad to an associate below, before coming down. View of the entrance gate of the room.
Aerial views of the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant. View inside the plant, where automobiles are crated for shipment to New Zealand
First scene shows commuters in rush hour arriving and departing a major rapid transit station. Motor vehicles (mostly buses) are parked beside the station and electric street cars are lined up behing one another along the tracks. (No women are evident in the crowd of commuters.) Next is a nighttime scene showing commuters climbing stairs from a station platform, in what appears to be an incident of some kind. An empty streetcar is parked next to the platform. A flare is burning on the track and some passengers are walking along the tracks to the stairs .Another flare is burning on the platform, itself.
At beginning, Henry Ford is seen standing next to his son, Edsel Ford, and speaking to him. They are in a laboratory. A ford automobile engine is sitting next to them. A new segment shows them walking through a machine shop, where various machine tools are seen. A few men are seen working at these machines in the background. As they pass a particular machine, it attracts Henry Ford's attention and he pauses to examine it more closely.
American scientist Robert H. Goddard tests a rocket in Roswell, New Mexico during the 1930s. Title card “United States Marine Corps”. Program host, Dennis James, introduces. Early rocket launchpad built in 1927 by American scientist Robert H. Goddard. Robert H. Goddard and his assistants unload a rocket at their test site located in Roswell, New Mexico. Robert H. Goddard demonstrates an early gyroscope used for automatic stabilization. Assistants securing the rocket into the launchpad. Robert H. Goddard and his assistants watch the rocket from the observation shed during ignition. Distant view of rocket as it shoots straight up to 7500 feet in the 1930s. Robert H. Goddard and his assistants examine rocket and parachute after landing.