U.S. Army Major General Hugh L. Scott and U.S. Representative from Montana Scott Leavitt meeting Native American Indian chiefs at Fort Browning in Montana to evolve methods of perpetuating the Indian sign language in 1930. The Indian chieftains seated in a Piegan council lodge. The formal features of the council are completed. A tribal chief plays an instrument. General Scott seated next to him. Several views of the Indian chieftains talking and sharing jokes with each other in sign language. General Scoot speaks to a chief in sign language. The chieftains crack jokes in sign language and laugh. The Indian chieftains talk in sign language. The council gets over. General Scott bids farewell to the chieftains using sign language.
Brazilian natives in Brazil. Men in a boat come ashore. A large tree in the foreground. A priest walks up to thatched houses and speaks to Brazilian children. Natives pose for a photograph wearing Cangaceiro hats. Close up views of native workers and one American worker. A man smokes a cigar. From a Ford film dealing with the Ford Rubber plantation (Fordlandia).
A group of people celebrates during a carnival in Brazil. People wearing costumes dance in a large ballroom. A band is playing. A woman in a costume stands on a platform. Band members wearing festive hats.
A dockyard in Brazil. Rusted boats at the dockyard. Rusted remains of the deck of a boat. Two rusted boats in the water at the dockyard. From a Ford film showing scenes in Brazil related to Ford rubber plantation (Fordlandia).
The River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Aerial views of the River Rouge Plant. A pile of new rubber tires. Brazilian workers assemble cars. Wheels with rubber tires move on conveyor belts. A display of several small automobile rubber parts and sheets. A map of Brazil shows Boa Vista and Belem. Pointer shows area of Brazil where Fordlandia rubber plantation is located. Goods being loaded on a freighter at a dockyard. Boxes being lowered into the hold of the freighter.
Buildings, fine houses and gardens in Brazil. A building, possibly a grand hotel, with large trimmed umbrella shaped trees in the foreground. A car parked on a street under an umbrella shaped tree. Two young capybaras with their mother in a cage. An old monumental building with palm trees in the foreground. A path with a canopy of trees overhead. Vehicles and pedestrians on the road. A number of fine houses and gardens. A rock garden with a small bridge in one of the houses. A woman walks in a park. People walk towards a large statue in the park. View of a church in Brazil.