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Dearborn Michigan USA 1935 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
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
Henry Ford, Edsel Ford and William Stout, of Ford Motor Company, during the Ford Airplane Reliability Tour at Ford Airport, U.S.

Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. People gathered at the Ford Airport in Michigan during the Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour. People along the side of the airfield in front of the airport building. An aircraft in flight. A Ford Trimotor prepares to take off from the airfield. People beside another Ford Trimotor. 'Ford' and '23' written on the aircraft. The Ford Trimotor taxis and takes off from the airfield. A group of men watch the aircraft. A biplane on the airfield. Several people on the airfield. A man holding a flag walks with a woman among the crowd. Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and Edsel Ford, Henry Ford's son and President of Ford Motor Company and William B.Stout, an executive at the Ford Motor Company, with another man standing and talking on the airfield. William Stout and the man walk away. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford walk together behind them. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford on the airfield talking to another man. A large crowd beside an aircraft on the airport. A man getting into the cockpit of the aircraft.

Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066176
Several aircraft including Ford Trimotor takes off from airfield, during the Ford Airplane Reliability Tour.

Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. People gathered at the Ford Airport in Michigan during the Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour. A few men walk towards an aircraft. An aircraft flying low over the airfield. People walking about on the airfield. The aircraft in flight. A trimotor taxing in the airfield and taking off. A biplane taxis and take off, another aircraft taxis and take off. People beside an aircraft. Men taking pictures of a biplane aircraft. A group of people beside the biplane. The biplane taxis and takes off. Several men on the field. One of the men holds a flag. The man flags off aircraft. Another aircraft flagged off. The aircraft takes off one after the other. Three men on the field talking. One of them holding a book. People beside a Ford Trimotor. 'Ford' and '23' written on the aircraft. The Ford Trimotor taxis and takes off. Another aircraft taxis on the field and takes off. Groups of men on either side watch the aircraft. Three men standing on the airfield and talking.

Date: 1927
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066177
Henry Ford's second quadricycle and his work shop displayed at Ford Museum (Greenfield Village), Dearborn, Michigan.

Henry Ford's second quadricycle and his work shop displayed at Ford Museum (Greenfield Village), Dearborn, Michigan. The quadricycle and various equipment near it in the workshop. Equipment and parts at the workshop.

Date: 1951, November
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036833
Henry Ford's first work shop at Ford Museum (Greenfield Village), Dearborn, Michigan.

Henry Ford's first work shop at Ford Museum (Greenfield Village), Dearborn, Michigan. A small two room compartment near road where Henry Ford worked to build his first car.

Date: 1951, November
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036834