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Former Secretary of Navy William Franklin Knox meets naval officers on board a ship in Brazil
Former Secretary of Navy William Franklin Knox arrives at Camp Ingram in Brazil. He along with other naval officers embarks onto United States ship Omaha as marines salute him. He meets naval officers on board the ship.
Flood water breaks earth dam and covers large area in North Eastern Brazil.
Flood in North eastern Brazil. Rain brings heavy flood damage. A huge earth dam gives way, flooding a rich 140 mile valley. Waterways through the valley. Buildings submerged in water.
Doctors and technicians work at a hospital in Brazil.
Activity in a Ford Motor Company built hospital in Brazil, likely in region of Ford Belterra rubber facility. People seated on benches in corridors. Men converse with each other inside the hospital. Equipment and scales in the office. A doctor unwraps a bandage from a patient's thumb. The doctor debriding the end of thumb with a pair of scissors. A cabinet full of chemicals. A technician works in a laboratory. A man writes in a large register. A doctor bandages a boy's arm. Another doctor writes prescriptions while two women attendants stand next to him.
Doctors examine patients in a Ford Motor Company built hospital in Brazil.
Activity in a hospital in Brazil built by Ford Motor Company to support Ford rubber production. This is possibly part of the Ford facility at Belterra, after the closure of the Fordlandia facility. A dentists examines a patient's teeth. A woman seated in a chair in the background. A technician looks through a microscope. A doctor checks heart beat with a stethoscope. A man with a tag on his shirt being photographed. Small houses on a hillside with a car parked in front of one of them.
Brazilian workers collect latex from rubber trees in Brazil.
A Ford Motor Company rubber plantation in Brazil (possibly part of Belterra). A Brazilian worker scoring a rubber tree. He places a can below a tap to collect latex. The worker nails a heavy cable at an angle around the rubber tree, chops off the bark below the cable and packs mud around the cable. He hangs a can at the lower end of the cable. The worker lights a fire and places a large can with holes on its top over the fire. He pours latex from a cup over a stick that is held over the smoke from fire. (World War II period).
Wide views of Fordlandia rubber plantation area, houses and gardens in Brazil.
Views of rubber tree forests and plantation of Fordlandia, built and operated by Ford Motor Company, in Brazil, to supply rubber for the company's needs. A forest area, fields and small thatched huts on the plantation. Houses with gardens and a swimming pool. Wide view from up high of buildings on the plantation, and the Ford water tower and power plant of Fordlandia in the distance, with the Tapajos river behind. (Data accompanying this reel of film gives a date of 1940, but this may be from circa 1934 near the time that Fordlandia operations stopped and Belterra operations began).
