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United Auto Workers Union organizers outside the Ford Rouge plant

Opening scene shows policemen keeping things calm in a group of men gathered outside the Ford River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Union organizers of the United Auto Workers (UAW) are passing out newspapers, or Union flyers of some kind. Policemen circulate among the men as this is happening. At time 00:37 a man is seen talking with UAW President, R.J. Thomas (Roland Jay Thomas). More scenes of men mingling. Policemen seen now include one on horseback. At time 00:52, R.J. Thomas is talking with his organizers again. Scene shifts to UAW women representatives passing out the papers to workers carrying lunch boxes. The women wear hats reading "Aux No 5." Views of policeman directing heavy traffic passing the Ford plant. A blind man with a cane is escorted across the street. Workers are lined up for buses.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078258
Young men and women punch time clock as they enter a Ford training facility

A bus rides up and parks in front of a building in a suburban campus. Men begin to exit the bus and walk toward the camera. The scene is repeated again and this time a group of young men and women step from the bus and walk along a pathway toward the building entrance (unseen). View shifts to inside the entrance hallway of the building, where doors are open to what seem like classrooms. Along the wall is a time clock and cards for persons. A succession of young men take their cards and "punch in" at the time clock, followed by several young women who do likewise.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078259
People leaving the Martha-Mary Chapel at Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan

Film opens showing a woman sitting at a kitchen table along with several children, eating dinner. Abrupt change of scene shows many men, women, and children exiting the Martha-Mary Chapel in Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan. Small boys seen are in short pants, and somewhat older boys wear Knickers (Kickerbockers). It is a summer-like day and seems to be the end of a church service. After momentary interruption, the camera pans over the chapel structure. Next, little girls and boys are shown leaving the chapel. Many of them run, happily. They are followed by grownups who could be Sunday School teachers, or the like. They linger and converse at the front of the chapel. Soon older children begin leaving the chapel.

Date: 1938
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078260
Forced laborers working on bunker and buildings in Siegfried Line while guarded by Nazi German official in western Germany

Jaeger-Schnellmischer high-speed cement mixers at construction site for building of the Siegfried Line in Nazi Germany. A Nazi German official oversees construction work. Laborers haul a cement mixer using ropes. Various pile drivers in operation at the construction site. A welder works on metal form.. Laborer bends bar. Laborers pass around rebar. View of a bunker being constructed. View of a bunker excavation underground.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078734
German laborers construct the Siegfried Line on the western border of Nazi Germany

German laborers pour concrete from cement mixers during work on the Siegfried Line defense fortification in western Nazi Germany. Two men talk beside a high-speed cement mixer. Concrete pours into bucket that are then hoisted to pour into forms. Mixers rotate, process cement. Mixer pours cement down shoot into forms. Water being sprayed on newly created Dragon's teeth tank barriers to cure concrete via hydration. Shirtless laborers dig soil with shovels amongst surveyor's stakes indicating placement of new barriers. Men walk in trench. Man arranges grasses outside finished bunker to ward off soil erosion. Men tamp down soil with shovels. A man waters newly planted pine tree saplings.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078735
Cook prepares stew in kitchen supply room, communal toilet room and boiler room in a bunker in Nazi Germany just prior to WWII.

A cook brings supplies inside a kitchen supply room of a bunker in Nazi Germany. Kitchen supply room door says “Küche vorratsraum n. 27,”which is German for "Kitchen Pantry." A cook prepares stew in a large stainless steel drum pot in kitchen. German men shower in communal shower room in bunker. German man shaves in the “Abortraum n. 34” (lavatory). View of toilets in bathroom stalls. Man enters a first aid - medical room via door that reads“Verbandsraum no. 18” (“First Aid" in German). Soldiers in bunker communications room. One soldier changes patch cable on switchboard while another picks up a telephone handset to make a call. View of a boiler room in a bunker. Generator room in bunker showing generators II and III . Close up of pushrods and valve lifters on running generator. Soldier starts belt driven machinery in generator room.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078736