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Iron mine, blast furnace, ore ships and cement plant supporting Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan.

View of snow-covered iron mine area. (Ford Motor Company owned iron mines in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.), Ore bucket moves up incline to top of tipple. View from top of tipple. Ore ship under way at the dock. Large Hulett cranes unload ore from hold of ship at Ford River Rouge Plant in Michigan. Blast furnaces at the plant. Slag pours into large ladle on railroad car. Ladle cars with slag move through plant. Ladle cars tipping and pouring slag outside plant. Steam shovel scoops cooled slag and load it into railroad gondola. Workers shovel in yard. Tractor and cart move through yard. View of cement plant. Workers stacking bags of cement on truck and flat bed trailers. Loaded truck and trailers move away from loading ramp.

Date: 1928
Duration: 4 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030161
1951 Ford sedan being tested by machines, on test track, driving in the desert, and driven by mother with children.

Commercial advertisement for the new 1951 Ford Sedan automobile. Setting is a suburban neighborhood post-war. Front yard and suburban house. Woman leaves a house with her children. They all get into their 1951 Ford Custom Fordor sedan automobile. The children bounce on the car seat. View of Ford car seat springs tested by an automatic machine at Dearborn test facility. A car door hooked up to motor which continuously slams and opens the door. Car on the Dearborn Michigan test track, replica of Independence Hall in the background. Test car goes over steep hill, and cobble stones. The 1951 Ford is then seen in the Southwest United States, on a mountain road and a desert road. Label on side of car reads, 'Ford Test Car' View of speedometer. The new car arrives at an amusement park. Children get out of the car and run towards a merry-go-round. Ford emblem on front of car. Narrator stating "You can pay more, but you can't buy better."

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030131
Passengers aboard Stout airlines Ford Tri-motor passenger airplane; Ambassador Bridge under construction.

A male flight crew member inside a Stout Airlines Ford Tri-motor plane in the United States. He stands in the center aisle and adjusts luggage in overhead areas. View outside aircraft parked at Ford Airport, Dearborn, Michigan, as passengers board Stout Airlines Ford Tri-motor airplane NC9669 with name "Miss North Shore" (seen on nose) and "Stout Airlines - Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago" seen written on aircraft body. It is a a Ford type 5-AT-B. View of Ford Airport passenger terminal building in background. Plane taxis and takes off. The plane in flight. Interior cabin views while in flight as passengers inside the plane enjoy the view as they look out from the windows. Aerial view of aircraft in flight as seen from an adjacent flying aircraft (unseen). View of plane taking off again. Aircraft in flight over Detroit River. The Ambassador Bridge suspension bridge is seen, under construction, preparing to connect the USA and Canada between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.

Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048454
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