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Dearborn Michigan USA 1927 stock footage and images

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Safety measures and automotive plant operations at a Ford Motor Plant in Michigan, United States.

A Ford Motor Plant in Michigan, United States. Smokestacks in the background. Conveyor rises to top of building. Sheet of metal come out of rollers. Sheet metal cutting machine. Molten metal flies from blast furnace. Crane dips into hold at bridge of a ship. Worker's hands operate controls. Ingot on rollers. Workers use arc welders. Worker heats long rod in furnace. Workers in plant yard with some entering for work shifts and many workers departing at end of work shifts. Sign on building reads 'Safety is Everybody's Business'. Workers walking down flight of stairs at company plant going to work or coming from work shift. Safety signs on various buildings. Men discuss blue prints and go through various safety manuals. Views of various types of protective gear. Workers stand in line to receive protective equipment at the start of their work shifts, such as google, lights, helmets, vests, etc. Man shows a worker operation of machine. He points out unsafe factor on machine. Plate covering hole in machine. Fireman fills well around explosives storage tank with water. Workers at assembly lines. Various safety signs and posters. Photographers take pictures of group of workers holding plaque. Aerial view of several plants of Ford River Rouge complex in Dearborn Michigan. Crane lifts large gear wheel onto flatcar. Worker operates drill. New cars come off the assembly line (1949 Ford Coupe, possibly). Man at desk speaks about the completion of 3 million man hours by Ford without a single accident. Aerial view of the Ford plant.

Date: 1949
Duration: 5 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030192
Mine workers board a man-car inside a copper mine in Northern Michigan, USA.

View of a copper mine in Northern Michigan, USA. A shift of miners transported to underground stope via man-cars. Miners board the man car. The car descends down the mine. Travel shots of the haulage tracks running inside the drift. Timber blocks support the ceiling of the drift.

Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030423
Filled stope method being implemented at a copper mine in Northern Michigan, USA.

Copper rocks sorted from waste at a stope of a copper mine in Northern Michigan, USA. Miners fill ore car with waste rock from a chute. Waste rock is dumped into the stope for filling the stope. Miner draws sorted ore from a chute into an ore car.

Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030425
Copper ore is loaded on skips and lifted to upper levels by large hoisting machine at a copper mine in Northern Michigan,USA.

Mine workers load copper ore onto skips from ore car at a copper mine in Northern Michigan, USA. Ore is lifted from mine to the upper levels. View of large hoisting machine at work. Miners arrive at the shaft station on a man car. Miners disembark the man-car.

Date: 1927
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030426
The Ford Reliability Tour of 1929

Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan on October 5, 1929. Film opens showing two aviators in ten-gallon hats standing next to some airplanes parked on the Ford Airport in Detroit Michigan. The pilot on the left is E. W. Cleveland, known for his ten-gallon hat, which is filled with autographs and other written memorabilia pertaining to aviation. Camera shows several formations of biwing training airplanes flying over the field, and then focuses on the Texaco number 13 aircraft with pilot Frank M. Hawks in the cockpit shaking hands with someone seeing him off. Closeup of Hawks sitting upright in the cockpit. Next, his wife Edith Bowie Hawks is seen standing next to his airplane. He playfully touches her cheeks. Next a man is seen wearing a heavy fur coat with hood. He smiles for the camera and then heads into an airport building. The wind (natural or from propellers turning) causes some of the men to hold onto their hats. Views of several men and women and a child gathering in front of the corrugated fuselage of a passenger airplane. Film ends showing two men smiling and chatting with May Halzlip, one of the three women pilots in the tour, who is dressed in flying gear with helmet and goggles on top.

Date: 1929, October 5
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066166
Manufacturing process at Ford Company's rouge plant at Dearborn in Michigan

People visit Ford motor company's rouge plant at Dearborn in Michigan. Steel rolling mill, blooming mill and open hearth furnace buildings are seen. At the plant, workers work on machine to convert molten steel into ingots.

Date: 1932
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037754