Dearborn, Michigan. Assembly line for automobile engines at the Ford River Rouge plant. Workers adding components to the engine block of a series of engines actively moving on the assembly line. An engine stopped at a testing bay undergoing performance tests under supervision of a man wearing a long lab coat. Views of test instruments including measurement of RPMs.
View of a Ford Model-T motorcar parked. Henry Ford and John Burroughs with his long white beard get into the car and a man cranks the car. Henry Ford drives the car away.
View of a Ford model-T outfitted with special wheels, moving on railroad tracks. A long line of Ford Model-T cars on a mountainous dusty road. Forest of tall trees and mountains visible at the sides of the road. Scenes of Ford-Model-T cars successfully navigating off-road, down steep embankments and ledges, and then down onto established roads.
A Ford Model -T roadster driven by a woman, with two women passengers in the rear seat, drives in the center of a race track. It lurches up and down over rough section of the track. Another Ford Model-T hastens to join in behind the women. It also bounces and jerks over the same section of track. At the inside edge of the track, a long line of Fordson Tractors moves by on parade, along with a large early steam roller. Edge of the spectator grandstand just visible.
A motorcycle policemen leads a parade of new (1926 models) Ford motor vehicles, on a race track. A long line of Ford cars, trucks, and buses follow slowly on the race track. A man in one of the first vehicles is speaking toward the the camera and spectators, with a large megaphone.
Jewish refugee men and women of all ages gathered together to eat at the Jews' Temporary Shelter, 63 Mansell Street, in London's East End. They sit at long tables. Women carry plates of food out to the tables. Some diners are wearing coats. A large parlor area. Some people sitting at a table working on documents. Others sitting, smoking, relaxing, and listening to a man playing the accordian. ( Supplemental notes: At the beginning of the clip (0.08-0.09 and 0.26-0,39) the gentleman with the moustache is Adolph Michaelson, who was superintendant of the Shelter. Later in the clip (at 0.1.30-01.48) the lady in the doorway is Mrs. Sarah Michaelson, who was matron of the Shelter. They ran the Shelter from about 1912 until 1940.)
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