A film about Sir Ernest Shackleton's journey to Antarctica during the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition, in their ship, The Quest. A view of St. Paul's Rocks off the coast of Brazil. Booby birds seated on St. Paul's Rocks. The birds take off.
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.
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.
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).
Brazilian natives in Brazil. A man comes out of a house and takes a ball of raw rubber out of a basket on a boy's back. Brazilian people stand at a sidewalk. A signboard reads 'Carne Fresco' (fresh meat). A scale and merchandise kept on a counter of a market. A pack saddle on a horse with boys standing in the background. (Other clips on same film reel show scenes from Fordlandia rubber plantation operated by Ford Motor Company, so these market scenes may be related to the Fordlandia facility.)
A motorized yacht underway in Brazil. Life boats on the deck. Wake in the water as the boat moves on the water surface.
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