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A German shepherd walks with a flock of sheep on a road and a United States GI removes snow from a vehicle in Germany.
United States GIs with their equipment in Germany during World War II. A German shepherd walks with a flock of sheep on a street of a town. United States Army jeeps and trucks parked on the ground. Vehicles covered with snow. A United States GI removes snow from the windshield of an army jeep.
Harry Bennett, a Ford Motor Company executive, hosts guests at his log cabin during the winter
After underexposed start, Harry Bennett, Head of Ford Motor Company Service Department (In light hat) and two women, and a friend (holding newspapers) greet another woman stepping from a house, carrying an overnight case. It is wintertime with snow on the ground. As the five begin to walk toward parked cars, Bennett picks up some snow and throws a snowball at his friend. View of them all standing by cars parked at the curb. One woman waves toward the camera. Next, Harry Bennett is seen standing by a gas station gas pump, while the station attendent cleans the rear window of his car. Abrupt scene change shows the car driving away past snow piled at roadside. Then it is seen (from a following car) speeding along a wet road. It veers off onto a snow-covered rural road still followed by the camera car. They travel through pine forest until Bennett turns into a driveway with trees bordering close on both sides. He parks and runs up to his log cabin house. Closeup of one of the women standing with snow background. Momentary glimpse of another woman.
Harry Bennett, an executive with Ford Motor Company, entertains guests at his log cabin in Michigan
Camera pans across fireplace in log cabin style home belonging to Harry Bennett, head of Ford Motor Company Service Department. He is entertaining guests. One, a woman, is seated near the fire. Interior of cabin near front door is seen. View shifts to different woman guest descending stairs. She warms herself in front of the fire. Harry Bennett places some more logs on the fire. The woman settles comfortably in a chair. Next, she is seen picking up a rabbit from the floor and trying to pose it on a chair for the camera. But it is struggling and she puts it down. She picks it up again and holds it. She then opens the front door as the cameraman (unseen) moves into the doorway to show the snow on the ground outside. Scene shifts to several women and men guests socializing near the fireplace. Change of scene shows one guest with a gun outside the cabin. A rabbit is nearby. Later, inside, he picks up the, now dead, rabbit up by the ears and places it in a cardboard box. Harry Bennett speaks to his guests.
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
Visitors observe Coking operations at Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant
Production of coke for steel making and production of ammonium phosphate fertilizer as a byproduct at Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors stand in a group near coking ovens. View of huge pile of coal and the eight smoke stacks of the company power plant in background. Closeup of traveling device for collecting coke as it is expelled from coking ovens. View of it moving along rail as it collects hot coke being expelled from ovens. View of the collector moving toward the camera and into a quencher, where water flows to cool the coke. Smoke and steam issuing from smoke stack above the quencher. The smoking coke container moving back along its rail to a dumping location where the contents are discharged into an area filled with coke. Next, a man is seen opening a screen gate to allow coke to flow to a conveyor. View from ground of closed conveyor that transports coke material to an adjacent by-products plant, for making of tar, gas, ammonia, oils, and fertilizer. Water running over sets of baffles. Change of scene to part of the plant that transforms byproducts of the coking process into Ammonium phosphate fertilizer. The fertilizer falling through large pipes into carts. Huge mounds of the fertilizer and a drag bucket filling and rising above the heaps. Men loading fertilizer into cloth bags labeled "Ford Ammonium Phosphate Fertilizer." View of storage yard containing piles of coal, limestone, ammonium phosphate, and ore. Traveling crane moving above the piles, and raising a bucket full of ammonium phosphate.
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.
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