The U.S. Air Force 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. Men operate various machines in a dark room. Long rods being put inside a machine.
Activities at the Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan. A crane removes hot ingot from a soaking pit and places it on the conveyor to a rolling mill. An operator's hand on the machinery controls. The ingot tipping into the rolling machinery . It is being rolled and shaped. It is moved from one machine to another until a long thin sheet of metal emerges. A worker examines a thin sheet of metal as it passes him. The rolling machinery in operation. An aerial view of the plant. A line moving to the motor building center. A piston polishing machinery in operation. Workers finish and weigh pistons. The pistons on an overhead conveyor. The workers assemble sets for motors.
Several Ford Motor Company GPA amphibious jeeps driven by U.S. Army soldiers, cause big splashes as they drive into a river during a demonstration and test.in World War 2. They are a sample of so-called "Seeps" or "Sea Jeeps," assembled at the company's River Rouge complex, near Detroit, Michigan, from 1942-1943. View from behind a soldier driving one of them. Various views of the Sea Jeeps navigating singly and in groups and formations in the water. The soldiers in them are dressed in battle gear with weapons and steel helmets. One by one, the Sea Jeeps are seen driving out of the river up onto the river bank. Scene shifts to an area with military trucks and other vehicles parked. Three Army soldiers on motorcycles lead a long line of Sea Jeeps filled with soldiers through that area and along a highway
Restaurants in Miami, Florida. A sign outside a restaurant reads 'Fish Dinner with two vegetables and coffee with white belt dairy cream 30 cents'. A parked exotic car with extremely long hood and one piece curved windshield partially opened upward above the car hood. Sign at restaurant beside the car advertises "Hot fish sandwiches 10 Cents." A sign on sidewalk reading "Bar-B-Q. Fish and Beer." left front wheel of a car parked nearby. Camera focuses again on "Hot Fish Sandwiches" sign. Another view of the "Fish dinner for 30 cents," sign.
Factories of Ford motor company in the United States. Panoramic view of long corrugated steel building. Smoke comes out from the building. View of factory and a locomotive. Workers climb snow covered steps. Sign on building reads 'Ford motor co. camp 2'. Snow covered factory area. Boats and piles of lumber. Panorama of a plant. Locomotive carries flatcars loaded with logs.
A single funnel freighter, with two masts, is seen sinking from the stern, in U.S. waters, in 1919. Her aft section is already under water, with only her stern mast visible. There is no sign of life aboard the ship. Film is taken from another vessel nearby, that is rising and falling with surface waves. The sinking ship is going under rapidly, sternfirst. Next, only her bow is seen as it starts to slip beneath the surface of the water, rotating slightly to starboard, as she goes straight down, and disappears from view. (The clip is only 24 seconds long and no other information is available.)
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