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Film about the U.S. Navy Service School operated on land leased from the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan during World War II

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.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031865
CIO workers demonstrate against the factory owners in Dearborn, Michigan.

Auto workers strike in Dearborn, Michigan, shutting down the Ford River Rouge plant. Auto workers demonstrate with boards and placards. A board reads: 'We Want Democracy'. Others say "Ballots not Bullets" and "Ford won't talk Phooey". Buildings of the River Rouge plant complex seen along street. Michigan Police present and monitoring strikers. The CIO workers picket the plant. A near riot ensues as several non strikers (possibly scabs) are hurt as they try to enter the factory. Striking workers grab and hit a man, beating him with fists and sticks or a club. Several men help get the man back to safety after breaking up the fight. Police seen moving strikers workers back from the scene.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1941, April 8
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028543
An aerial view of the Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan and molten metal is poured into molds.

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.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031857
A truck drawn train of lunch wagons enter the plant and workers eat at the Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan.

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.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031858
Metal sheets being rolled, shaped and workers weigh pistons at the Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan.

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.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 4 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031859
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.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031874
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