Damaged buildings during Detroit riots in Michigan, United States. Burned out house. Jeeps loaded with soldiers being driven away. Sign on street:' This Side of Sign'. Views of damaged stores on street. Damaged stairs, buildings and ruins. Sign on a damaged building: Dawn Patrol Alarm'.
Prisoners being transferred under Wayne County police during Detroit riots in Michigan, United States. Entrance of County Jail. Prisoners are taken from jail, loaded onto buses for transfer to another jail. Police and soldiers stand outside County Jail. Policeman stands on guard and smiles. Wayne County Police stands by. Men arrested get into a bus. Bus being driven away. Another bus being loaded with prisoners.
Pan American Highway Commission delegates visiting the United States. Caravan of cars moves towards Detroit. Delegates gathered atop a building with a sweeping view of the Ford Motor Company River Rouge complex. The Commission members inspect an automobile factory. The group attends a baseball game during a break. Delegates sitting at Navin Field at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull avenue, watching a Detroit Tigers baseball game. Baseball players in action on the field
Logo of United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers Union Local 407 in New Jersey is shown. Narrator says it it one of the places a group of 4 English and 4 American Working men were to see on their exchange visit to America. View of their luggage The group is seen examining a map of the United States as they plan to make their visits in pairs to save time. They decide that each British worker would visit the hometown of an American counterpart. One pair leaves to visit Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The pick up their luggage. Another pair are going to Detroit, Michigan. They pick up their luggage. The third pair is going to St. Louis, Illinois. They pick up their luggage. The final pair are going to Los Angeles, California. They pick up the last remaining pieces of luggage. One pair of workers is seen entering the Chrysler plant in Detroit. The American was welcomed home to America from his trip to England. View inside the plant of an African American woman working beside an older man, where they were making tank and marine engines. The visitors examine the gang drill presses containing multiple drills operated by a single operator. They stop to say hello to the American's daughter who also works at the plant, checking to assure parts met tolerances. It was noted that she was paid the same as any man doing the job. The pair of visitors are met at the American's home by some company union workers. They sit together on the step outside the house and get acquainted. An infant inside the house looks out the window at them. Scene shifts to Los Angeles where another English-American visiting pair is seated outdoors and the wife of the American brings out some bottles of beer for them to all share. Change of scene shows the pair visiting the offices of the Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood, where they meet celebrities Edward Arnold, George Murphy, Dick Powell, Alan Hale, Jane Wyman, Helen Hayes and Lena Horne. Edward Arnold, President of the Guild's Board, speaks with the pair, alone explaining how every actor in Hollywood belongs to the Guild which is affiliated with the America Federation of Labor (AFL). Arnold shows the pair his union card. Closeup of the card.
The Ford Plant in Detroit. Panorama of Ford Plants. Workers and automobiles outside a Ford Plant. Imperial Mine, Michigamme, Michigan. Ford iron ore mine buildings. Ford coal mines, Nuttallburg and Twin Branch, West Virginia. Kentenia, Pond Creek and Stone, Kentucky. West Virginia, supplies a low volatile smokeless coal. Coal mine and homes. Railroad coal cars drawn by locomotives. Lumber Iron Mountain and Sidnaw, Michigan. Lumbering Operations. Workers and automobile assembly line. Waste metal baled and melted with other metal. By adding this scrap steel greater strength obtained.
Mr Alfred Harmsworth, head of British War Mission, visits Detroit and is the guest of Mr Henry Ford. Mr Alfred Harmsworth is popularly known as Lord Northcliffe. Mr Henry Ford signs the guest book. Various distinguished persons stand nearby. Mr Ford and Lord Northcliffe pose. They leave the building and talk outside. They move to a field to watch tractor demonstration. Mr Ford, Lord Northcliffe and others drive tractors. The group poses near the tractor. Several farm buildings in the background. Mr Ford and Lord Northcliffe inspect the tractor. The group leaves the building.
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