Film titled, 'Cutting Up, A Story of the Meat Industry'. Cattle stand by a pool on a farm range. Views of cattle in pens at stockyards. Cattle herd into pens, cattle eat in pens. Cattle driven through chute. Slab of meat hangs in room, tagged "US retained". Men uses cleaver and saw to split hanging carcass in half. Men scrub sides of beef with brushes while meat is hanging from the overhead conveyor. Meat hangs in chill room. Men load quarters of beef on their shoulders and carry them to refrigerated boxcar. View of a boxcar. Two men leave the boxcar and close the door. Drawing labeled 'Beef Cuts', shows cuts and where they are cut from on animal. Slab of meat hangs in plant. Men with knife prepare to cut it into cuts. Slab of beef on the cutting table, man cuts beef and shows each different cut.
Before taking a 1906 Ford Model N car for a drive, a man inspects it. He begins by checking the radiator cap and coolant. He then goes to the side of the car and checks the steering wheel and controls associated with it. Next, he starts the car by means of the hand crank. . He pauses to check and clean the left oil lanp., as he climbs behind the wheel, cleaning it as he gets seated. Now ready to drive, he lowers goggles from his hat and leaves the parking spot. The car is seen driving along a rough dirt road until it encounters a log on the roadway. The driver stops to remove it, tossing off to the side of thr road, before proceeding again.
Ford Model-T car moves along a country road. The car stops. Passenger with golf bags get out.
A Ford Model-T Pick-up truck driven up steep tracked ramp. The truck reverses back down the ramp.
Henry Ford near Ford Model- A automobile engine block. Sign over the engine reads 'No 1 completed October 20, 1927'. Ford and guest stamp '1' into the engine block of this, the first Ford Model A built. Ford poses and converses with officials.
A tug pulls the "Lucky 7," the 7,000th Ford Liberator bomber (B-24) from a hangar at the Ford Willow Run plant. Views of the "Lucky 7," on the tarmac with other B-24s. scene shifts to an earlier period, showing a B-24 with labeling on its fuselage, reading: "5000th Ford Built Liberator." Henry Ford, in a straw hat, handles some papers with a British officer, as his grandson, Henry Ford, II, and an American military officer, stand nearby. Plant manager,Mead L. Bricker, is seen momentarily, at left of the group. Henry Ford shakes hands with the British officer. Closeup views of aircraft's engine and propeller with Hamilton Standard logos displayed on propeller blades. View of the aircraft's leading edge deicers (boots) and the "Lucky 7" sign painted on its fuselage. Closeup shows signatures of Henry Ford and Henry Ford II, next to the large painted 5000th sign. Change of scene to a later time, showing the 8000th Ford built B-24 Liberator bomber. It is labeled: "Ford's 8000th Liberator,"and displays "8" intertwined with the letter "V." U.S. Army Air Forces officers and Henry Ford,II, along with Ford executives, including plant manager, Mead L. Bricker, pose in front of the B-24. Henry Ford,II (using his left hand) scribes a line with a pen, under the bottom of the "V," and poses for the camera.
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