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Montage of scenes at the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan

Activities at Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan during World War II. Freighter being loaded by a huge crane. Locomotive wheels turning. Smoke stacks of the Ford River Rouge Complex. Foundry and sparks flying in the factory. Metal poured into smaller ladle. Molten metal being moved by crane in a large ladle. Machine in operation. Crankshaft on conveyor. View of crane hooks and machine. Worker punching time card. Feet of workers walking in the plant yard. Automobiles in traffic that narrator states are nowadays equipped with safety glass.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031874
A car driven around a driveway and automobile parked in front of Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan.

The Soybean Car at Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Automobile parked in front of Ford Rotunda. The car driven around a driveway. The American flag atop Ford Rotunda.

Date: 1941
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068463
The settlement of strike at a big auto plant in Dearborn, Michigan.

Settlement of strike at an auto plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Idle assembly lines and damaged machinery in the plant. Men read a document and settle the strike. People gather outside the plant. Man watches them from the plant. A man and a woman come out of a building and walk. Cameramen take their photographs.

Date: 1941, April 15
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028549
Several stages in production of V8-engine blocks at the River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan.

The Ford Rotunda, destroyed by fire in 1962. Aerial view of The River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Facts about the plant superimposed over the pictures of plant in the background. Freighter ' Henry Ford II' passes under drawbridge. View of captain at wheel. Aerial view of plant, buildings and smokestacks. Interior of power plant, generators and central control board. Cranes operators operate crane scoops to unload iron ore from a ship. Coke ovens discharge flaming coke. Clouds of steam arise from the quencher. Cable cars climb to top of the blast furnace. Molten iron flows from bottom of blast furnace. Aerial view of River rouge plant. Interiors of foundry. Workers fill molds with sand. Mold being removed from casting of V-8 engine block. View of mold production lines. Mold assembled and molten metal poured into the mold. Castings removed from the molds. Workers remove rough edged from casting. Engine casting travels on assembly line conveyor system. Multiple drilling machines in operation. Engine blocks on conveyor move through measuring device. (World War II period).

Date: 1941
Duration: 8 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030137
Crankshaft production at the River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan.

Worker measures automobile part with a measuring device at the River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Milling machine in operation. Crankshafts move on overhead conveyor. Electric camshaft tester in operation. Crankshaft production inside an electric furnace. Test pouring from furnace. Inside a laboratory worker takes steel filings from test pouring, weighs them on micro balance and tests them chemically. Worker watches molten steel pouring into mold. Hot molds move along conveyor. Mold being removed from crankshafts. Crankshafts placed in furnace for heat treatment. Crankshafts on conveyor machined and polished.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030138
Henry Ford speaks at dedication of U.S. Navy Service School in Dearborn, Michigan in World War II. Montage of Navy ships

Opening scene shows Henry Ford speaking at the dedication of the U.S. Navy Service School, on land of the Ford Motor Company, in Dearborn, Michigan, during World War 2. Ford says, "During this crisis, our organization wants to do everything possible to help Americans and the President." Scene shifts to the Eickes-class destroyer, USS Elliot (DD-146), steaming with black smoke billowing from her stacks. Some other unidentified ships are nearby. View of a U.S. Navy Submarine tender with several submarines on either side of her. The U.S. Submarine, USS Sturgeon (SS-187) moving slowly in very calm waters, and then with two other submarines moving together in the ocean. Closeup of submarine O-3 (SS-64) moving at periscope depth and then surfacing and later cruising on the surface with crew on deck.

Date: 1941
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031866