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Dearborn Michigan USA 1967 stock footage and images

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People begin a tour of the Ford Motor company River Rouge Plants

Film starts showing a man speaking through a megaphone. Next is an aerial view of the city of detroit, Michigan. This is followed by views of steam locomotives moving on railroads near the Ford Motor Company River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan. One locomotive is pulling a long passenger train. People crowd sidewalk in front of the Cadillac Hotel on Washington Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan, where a bus has parked. View of people boarding the bus. Next, the bus is seen driving along the Boulevard. Then, two buses arrive and discharge passengers in front of the Ford Motor Company office building. Inside the building a Ford Company spokesman speaks to the visitors who are seated in a conference room. Folowing the briefing, they all stand and exit through the front door. View from inside one of the buses as of visitors re-board.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078274
Ford "Comuta" small electric automobile in Detroit in 1967

A small Ford electric automobile in Detroit, known as the Ford Comuta. Several men stand near the micro EV concept car. A man sits at the steering wheel and another one sits on the passenger seat. The car is driven for test ride on the roads. The car is maneuverable and silent with trim interior lines. Narrator indicates that advances in rechargable batteries and fuel cells have led to the car. Narrator points out economical virtues and benefits of lower air pollution due to absence of exhaust fumes

Date: 1967, July 25
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041335
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
An aircraft rolled out of hangar and the wing folding mechanism demonstrated at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan.

Demonstration of folding and unfolding mechanism of wings on an aircraft at Ford Airport in Dearbor, Michigan Several people on the airfield at Ford Airport in Michigan. The wings of an aircraft, in the interiors of a hangar. The front part of an aircraft with the motor and other parts. Few other parts of the aircraft in view. The side of an aircraft with the cockpit and the underside of one of the wings in view. Number '12' written on the aircraft. A folding mechanism on the aircraft. An aircraft is rolled out of the hangar with its wings folded. The aircraft outside the hangar. 'Fairchild' written on the side of the aircraft. Both the wings of the aircraft unfolded. 'Fair' written on the underside of one of the wings and 'Child' written on the underside of the other wing. Two men beside the aircraft. Both the wings are folded back again. The men stand beside the aircraft. A building and a few men in the background.

Date: 1926
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066199
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
Montage of U.S. scenes covering various parts of the nation

Opening scene shows a wheat field in the United States. White hot molten metal collected in ladles as a furnace is tapped. Sandstone buttes the Navajo Nation's Monument Valley Park. Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, looking North from the Art Institute. A white church in a suburban setting. The Japanese cherry trees in bloom along the Tidal Basin in Washington,DC. A major river and an old fashioned stern wheeler River Boat cruising on it. A street scene in New Orleans, Louisiana. A roadway in Florida. A fishing village scene in New England. A formation of oil well pumps operating out West. Cowboys herding cattle. View of the Statue of Liberty with dramatic sunset behind it. Two U.S. Marines conversing as they look at the Manhattan skyline in New York City. Aerial view of the skyscrapers on Manhattan Island. View of Times Square in Manhattan, with the Astor Hotel visible (It was razed in 1967). Police officer directing traffic at an intersection. Two Marines walking past the United Nations Building in Manhattan, New York City. View of the General Assembly Building and construction site of the The Dag Hammarskjöld Library Building being added in front of it. Camera pans upward showing Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Camera pans the U.S. Capitol building, followed by the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, and the Washington Monument (viewed from steps of the Lincoln Memorial across the reflecting pool, in Washington, DC. A Marine color guard marches across the lawn in front of the United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park Virginia, as the Marine Band marches and plays. Closeup of the Memorial with American flag flying above it.

Date: 1961
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064859