Activities at the Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan. An aerial view of River Rouge plant. A line moves to open hearth furnaces where different types of steel are made. A rail road locomotive. An open hearth furnace. A huge crane on the tracks place scrap steel into the furnace. Burning charge in the furnace. An overhead crane carries a bucket over the furnace. Molten metal is poured into a mold. A worker takes testing sample from the furnace. He pours it into a small mold. The worker with a protective helmet over his head. The molten metal is poured from the furnace into ingot molds. The worker stirs the contents of the molds. An overhead crane lifts the molds from the cooled ingot. The ingot is moved to an oven called a soaking pit.
Activities at the Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan. A truck drawn train of lunch wagons enter the plant. Workers select food and eat. Workers alight from a street car. They mount stairs to an overhead walkway. Workers work in the factory. A production line and change of workers. Automobile and truck traffic. Manufacturing workers and family working in Ford garden and farm land beside the company plant.
Activities at the Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan. A crane removes hot ingot from a soaking pit and places it on the conveyor to a rolling mill. An operator's hand on the machinery controls. The ingot tipping into the rolling machinery . It is being rolled and shaped. It is moved from one machine to another until a long thin sheet of metal emerges. A worker examines a thin sheet of metal as it passes him. The rolling machinery in operation. An aerial view of the plant. A line moving to the motor building center. A piston polishing machinery in operation. Workers finish and weigh pistons. The pistons on an overhead conveyor. The workers assemble sets for motors.
American flag waving in a very stiff wind. Scene shifts to Silhouette of a sailor blowing a bugle as the American flag is raised. Montage of scenes from The United States Navy Service School in Dearborn, Michigan opened in early 1941, during World War 2. The school was built on land leased to the Navy at Ford's Rouge Plant. Sailors are seen marching at the school, with the Ford River Rouge plant in the background. Sailor students are seen inside a facility that a narrator calls "The world's greatest workshop." He describes the various matters taught including technical aspects of: aircraft and diesel engine manufacture. View of sailors looking at dynamos n the electrical department. Narrator mentions other shops in the school. Sailors assembled in a classroom where instructor is holding an armful of toothed gears.
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.
Film 'Harvest of the Years' about the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. Fields of grain. A gleaner on field. Orange trees against the sun. Corn stalks in field. Large relief globe with fence around it. Henry Ford's first workshop. Highway traffic. Worker operates a lathe. Aerial view of an industrial plant. Aerial view of a dock,tanker and a bridge
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