Views of Diego Rivera working on his Detroit Industry Murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Details from the Detroit Industry mural sections. View of a single section of the wall blank, and then after initial mural sketch has been added by Rivera. Diego Rivera and another worker at the wall of one of the sections of mural.
Mexican painter Frida Kahlo sketching during the construction of the Detroit Industrial Mural, designed by her husband Diego Rivera, at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She is dressed in a warm coat and seated on a wooden folding chair, while sketching on a note pad. She turns and smiles at the camera. A panel of the industrial mural is seen, depicting piping representative of the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant, with workmen standing above, and one down below.
Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera, during the painting of the Detroit Industrial Mural at the Detroit Institute of Art. Frida Kahlo is seen on a scaffold by an unpainted area, talking to a workman below. Later, she sits on the scaffold next to Diego Rivera, as he paints in this same section. She makes notes in a pad. She descends a ladder from the scaffold, throwing her note pad to an associate below, before coming down. View of the entrance gate of the room.
Families working in Ford garden plots provided by the Ford Motor Company. Men cultivating and tending crops in rows. A man carries loaded basket through the field. A signboard reads 'Ford garden Plots'
Aerial views of the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant. View inside the plant, where automobiles are crated for shipment to New Zealand
First scene shows commuters in rush hour arriving and departing a major rapid transit station. Motor vehicles (mostly buses) are parked beside the station and electric street cars are lined up behing one another along the tracks. (No women are evident in the crowd of commuters.) Next is a nighttime scene showing commuters climbing stairs from a station platform, in what appears to be an incident of some kind. An empty streetcar is parked next to the platform. A flare is burning on the track and some passengers are walking along the tracks to the stairs .Another flare is burning on the platform, itself.