Unemployed men get work with the inauguration of the new auto project of Ford Company in Dearborn, Michigan, during the Great Depression. Sweeping aerial view of the Ford River Rouge Complex. Henry Ford seen riding his Ford Quadricycle invention on snow covered ground. Workers work in a Ford automobile plant factory and assembly line putting finishing touches on new 8 cylinder sedan. Henry Ford himself inspecting the first one of the new cars during its assembly. A test car of the new 1933 Ford car drives on rutted and rough terrain to show durability and handling.
A novel method to pay fines in food to aid the needy (during the Great Depression). inaugurated by the Mayor of Marion, Indiana, Jack Edwards. A policeman of Marion stops a motorist who has broken a law and talks to him. The police officer checks documents. A court building. The interiors of the building shows the Court in session. A lawyer questions the motor vehicle law breaker. The man is told to pay a fine in quantities of staple groceries, vegetables and meat, equivalent to dollars. The man presents the goods and brings in a live chicken as part of it, which he puts on a table in the court room. An official acknowledges his payment, encourages him to be safe, and tells him he is free to go.
Aerial views of the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant. View inside the plant, where automobiles are crated for shipment to New Zealand
First scene shows commuters in rush hour arriving and departing a major rapid transit station. Motor vehicles (mostly buses) are parked beside the station and electric street cars are lined up behing one another along the tracks. (No women are evident in the crowd of commuters.) Next is a nighttime scene showing commuters climbing stairs from a station platform, in what appears to be an incident of some kind. An empty streetcar is parked next to the platform. A flare is burning on the track and some passengers are walking along the tracks to the stairs .Another flare is burning on the platform, itself.
At beginning, Henry Ford is seen standing next to his son, Edsel Ford, and speaking to him. They are in a laboratory. A ford automobile engine is sitting next to them. A new segment shows them walking through a machine shop, where various machine tools are seen. A few men are seen working at these machines in the background. As they pass a particular machine, it attracts Henry Ford's attention and he pauses to examine it more closely.
American scientist Robert H. Goddard tests a rocket in Roswell, New Mexico during the 1930s. Title card “United States Marine Corps”. Program host, Dennis James, introduces. Early rocket launchpad built in 1927 by American scientist Robert H. Goddard. Robert H. Goddard and his assistants unload a rocket at their test site located in Roswell, New Mexico. Robert H. Goddard demonstrates an early gyroscope used for automatic stabilization. Assistants securing the rocket into the launchpad. Robert H. Goddard and his assistants watch the rocket from the observation shed during ignition. Distant view of rocket as it shoots straight up to 7500 feet in the 1930s. Robert H. Goddard and his assistants examine rocket and parachute after landing.
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