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Visitors in buses tour the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plants
View inside a busload of persons touring the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plants. A Ford tour guide is standing at the front of the bus describing things to the visitors. Cars and trucks driving back and forth in the factory yard, next to a building with freight cars parked on an adjacent railroad siding. Another view of guide and visitors inside the bus. They pass a large building with a long conveyor in front of it, and men on a scaffold working on upper windows. Views alternate between inside the bus and views of plant buildings. Four very tall smoke stacks are seen extending from the ground in front of one building. A traveling crane is seen in motion where raw materials are stored at the waterfront. A large bulk carrier ship is docked in a canal. A compact plant with 8 closely positioned smoke stacks is seen in the background. Another large ore carrier ship is being unloaded by a crane. Glimpse inside the bus. View from the bus of two more buses, ahead, as they drive near rail lines between buildings. Another glimpse inside the bus. View upward to cranes and conveyors overhead. View from bus as it follows two ahead of it. At end, visitors exit the bus in an open area
Coal mining operations for the Ford Motor Company in Kentucky.
Open rail hopper cars of coal at a mine in Kentucky. (Ford coal was mined at the Banner Fork Coal Corporation at Wallins Creek, Kentucky and the Pond Creek Coal Company at Stone, Kentucky.) View inside the mine, where a miner is riding a bucket as it slides down a slope. Next, a miner is seen at a coal cutting machine in operation. Miners riding atop rail cars full of coal as they arrive at the surface. Mining cars being emptied at a tipple, where the coal is moved on a conveyor and loaded into open hopper cars. A steam locomotive pulling a long train of coal hopper cars, each displaying the Ford Company Logo. A train of coal cars arriving at the River Rouge Plant.
A Ford Motor Company iron ore mine. And various operations at the Rouge plant in Michigan.
View of a Ford Motor Company iron ore mine during winter. Snow covers the ground. Closeup of a ore car running up the Tiple. View from up on the Tiple as a iron ore car reaches reaches the top. Scene shifts to a bulk carrier freighter docked at pier. High above are a line of railroad open hopper cars. the next scene shows a large bulk carrier ship steaming away. Scene shifts to the Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan, where huge cranes and clamshell buckets are raising iron ore raw material into the plant. Closeup of an operator inside a compartment low in the crane, controlling the bucket. Another view of the cranes at work. A huge pile of iron ore at the River Rouge Plant. A dragline bucket being moved through an ore pile. Iron ore in a container moving along a conveyor. Hot Molten slag being poured into a special crucible on rails, beneath a steel furnace. A long line (a train) of slag-filled crucibles. Slag being dumped from a crucible onto the slag heap for use in road building and making cement. A steam shovel being used to load slag into a large railroad car. Men with shovels cleaning up areas of the plant. Tractors pulling wagons in the yard. More piles of raw materials for making cement are seen next to factory and railroad tracks where 2,000 barrels of cement are made daily.
Steel making at the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant in Michigan
An Open Hearth furnace at the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant is being tapped and molten steel runs through troughs in the floor. View of the furnace opening. The scene brightly illuminated by the light of the molten metal. Hot molten steel flowing into crucibles on rails, just outside the plant. Activity in the plant yard is seen in the background. Molten steel begins pouring into another crucible. Next, the huge crucibles are seen outside the plant being pulled by a steam locomotive, along a railroad in the plant yard. View shifts to inside a building where molten steel is being guided by men with long poles as it flows towards a pair of conveyors for making of pig iron. Closeup of the pig iron being transported upwards on two conveyors. Glimpse of a quenching operation. Then, a huge crucible is seen moving by overhead crane and pouring its contents into another container. Fire and smoke are generated. More views of steel being poured from the crucible, and then of the receiving container being moved on a rail.
United States President Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) signs one law after another on his desk, American farmers harvest produce such as onions
Calendar shows March 1933, some days are encircled. United States President Franklin Roosevelt at his desk after signing a law during the Great Depression. Narrator notes that with regard to Prohibition, "the end of the long drought was in sight." Farmers harvest vegetables. Turnips in crates after being harvested. Farmers pour turnips from crates. Farm workers sort out white onions. Farm workers arrange sacks of onions.
Scenes of sheep and cattle herding in the American West, United States President Franklin Roosevelt at his desk
View of sheep grazing in hills of Western United States. Flock of sheep being herded. Wide landscape views of cattle grazing in American frontier. Cowboys herd the cattle. Cattle herd in long line. Calendar shows March 1933, some days are encircled marking actions the President was taking for relief for American citizens during the Great Depression. United States President Franklin Roosevelt at his desk, pondering.
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