The Ford motor laboratory in Dearborn, Michigan. Dock, freighter and large cranes. Plant in the background. Car stops in front of the building. Passenger gets out. Interior of the laboratory. Workers perform tests on strength of various objects. A metal object being bent by a machine. Worker use micro balance. Worker makes noise level tests in back seat of a car. Car being tested on track. Worker performs tests.
Workers in Ford motor laboratory in Dearborn, Michigan. Workers perform various tests in the laboratory. Herd of sheep in a pasture. Cattle and beehives on a field. Workers in a cotton field. Workers pick corn. Workers load corn onto horse driven carts. Rubber plantations. Workers tap trees. Ford train in a plant yard. Train moves on a bridge across the river as seen from between two ships. Workers leave plant. Business district. Automobile traffic. Wooden area and trees in the background.
Men camp with a car in the United States. Two men in open car in a field. Trees in the background. They unload camping gear from the car. Men set up cooking equipment from cabinet attached to side of the car. Table is set over the front the fender. Utensils kept on gas burner. Men cook. Man smokes a cigar. Top of car is put up. Beds being prepared. Men sleep in a car.
Activities at an industrial plant in the United States. View of large industrial plant. Smoke from burning coke in the foreground. Large group of people on lawn in front of ivy covered building. Automobile, truck and double decker bus traffic. Group enter a new building at side of ivy covered building. Lines of people entering the building. Panorama of large industrial plant. Ship at dock. A horizontal crane.
Lumbering being carried at Ford motor company camp in the United States. Piles of lumber. Snow on lumber piles. Logs on flat car. A locomotive pulls flat cars loaded with logs. Road grader clears a snow covered road. Ford motor company camp. Piles of logs in the foreground. Locomotive stationed. Workers load flatcar with logs using cable powered by tractor winch.
Film 'Homes For Defense' on the construction of homes for war workers under the Division of Defense Housing Coordination in the United States during World War 2. Houses constructed for soldiers and war production workers through the Federal Defense Housing Program. Houses for the people who construct planes, ships and guns for the protection of America. View of run down tenements and slum housing in a city or town. A car parked outside a house. Children stand near a fence outside the house. A map shows industrial centers. Men move to various industrial centers. Newport News: workers work on machinery for the Battle of Atlantic. Hartford: workers work on machine guns. Detroit: workers in an auto industry. Rock Island: workers in industry make coastal field artillery. Rolla Waynesville: army men at a training center. Corpus Christi: Army men at a new airfield to accommodate the expanding air force. Aircraft in flight. San Diego: workers construct planes in a factory. Signs of the various housing agencies that are doing a special job under the coordinated program.
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