Film taken at the new Statler Hotel in Detroit, Michigan (opened in 1915). The Statler Hotel main dining room Ala Carte menu is shown. A waiter in tuxedo takes orders from wealthy patrons. Glimpse of clams served on half shells. Closeup of a woman in fur coat eating soup. Waiter presenting a poultry entree. The woman eating a large portion. Side dishes of vegetables seen on the table. A different waiter (in white tie) taking order for the next course. Closeup of the woman eating a parfait with a long spoon. Dessert cookies seen in a dish on the table. The table of four all eating parfait, and one woman taking a cookie. One of the men passes the plate of cookies. Wider view of the dining room with many persons being served dinner by formally dressed waiters. The frame rate increases showing much activity quickly in the dining room.
The United States Navy battle fleet nicknamed 'Great White Fleet' that completed a circumnavigation of the globe, underway at sea in the North Atlantic Ocean. USS Maine underway at sea. American flag flutters atop a mast on USS New Hampshire.
Community members teaching various things and help new immigrants in Detroit Michigan. Community women workers instruct foreign immigrant women and teach them to how to sew. Immigrant children seated in the instruction room with their mothers as they take a class. Immigrants and poor people sitting in front of tenement shacks on an empty street in a slum and poverty area. Two African American men come out of a parked car on St Antoine street where they have spent the night.
Archbishop Peter Tatsuo Doi becomes the first Japanese Roman Catholic cardinal in history. Archbishop Peter Tatsuo Doi speaks with Japanese officials and priests. He is one of the 7 new cardinals named by Pope John XXIII.
Ford Motor Company rubber production in Brazil. Brazilian farmers work in a field in Brazil, possibly part of Ford's Belterra rubber plantation. A group of Brazilian natives picks sprouted rubber tree seeds from the ground and put them in hats. Men use a wooden platform to determine the location of holes to be dug in the ground with sticks. Women drop seedlings in the holes to plant new rubber trees. A boy holds a hat full of seedlings. Small rubber tree plants. A group of men dig up small trees and cut tap roots of the trees. Workers dig up a large hole and plant small trees in it.
The River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Aerial views of the River Rouge Plant. A pile of new rubber tires. Brazilian workers assemble cars. Wheels with rubber tires move on conveyor belts. A display of several small automobile rubber parts and sheets. A map of Brazil shows Boa Vista and Belem. Pointer shows area of Brazil where Fordlandia rubber plantation is located. Goods being loaded on a freighter at a dockyard. Boxes being lowered into the hold of the freighter.
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