Final checks are made before the launch of German V2-Rocket at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. Jeeps loaded with men are driven to side of a hill to await the launching of rocket. Rocket is launched. A trail of white smoke is emitted as the rocket leaves the ground. A cub plane takes off a runway and is airborne.
Relates to the U.S. Antarctic expedition,Operation High Jump. Shows USS Philippine Sea underway in the Panama Canal. U.S. Navy Admiral Richard E. Byrd in conversation with naval officers on the deck. Sailors attach ice skis to the landing gears of the Douglas DC-3 aircraft aboard the deck.
Aerial view of Ford Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Railroad train. Close up of chunks of metal on a flatcar. Metal rolling machinery. Blast furnace interior. Foundry interior. Huge bucket on overhead crane. Showering sparks from molten metal.
View of a teeming (pouring) platform at the Ford Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Narrow-gauge train. Huge ladle on overhead crane. Showering sparks from molten metal being poured into ingot molds. Workers remove scaling with a rod, then place caps on the ingot molds . Worker with visor over face. Stripper crane removes the mold from red-hot ingot. Ingot is then moved to a soaking pit for uniform re-heating before being rolled in the mill.
Plant yard at the Ford Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. A truck hauls train of food service wagons into a plant. Workers on the assembly line manufacture automobile parts. Views of streetcar, truck traffic and others.
Workers and their families work in gardens at the Ford Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Shows plant interiors and casting on conveyor.
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