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Safety measures and automotive plant operations at a Ford Motor Plant in Michigan, United States.

A Ford Motor Plant in Michigan, United States. Smokestacks in the background. Conveyor rises to top of building. Sheet of metal come out of rollers. Sheet metal cutting machine. Molten metal flies from blast furnace. Crane dips into hold at bridge of a ship. Worker's hands operate controls. Ingot on rollers. Workers use arc welders. Worker heats long rod in furnace. Workers in plant yard with some entering for work shifts and many workers departing at end of work shifts. Sign on building reads 'Safety is Everybody's Business'. Workers walking down flight of stairs at company plant going to work or coming from work shift. Safety signs on various buildings. Men discuss blue prints and go through various safety manuals. Views of various types of protective gear. Workers stand in line to receive protective equipment at the start of their work shifts, such as google, lights, helmets, vests, etc. Man shows a worker operation of machine. He points out unsafe factor on machine. Plate covering hole in machine. Fireman fills well around explosives storage tank with water. Workers at assembly lines. Various safety signs and posters. Photographers take pictures of group of workers holding plaque. Aerial view of several plants of Ford River Rouge complex in Dearborn Michigan. Crane lifts large gear wheel onto flatcar. Worker operates drill. New cars come off the assembly line (1949 Ford Coupe, possibly). Man at desk speaks about the completion of 3 million man hours by Ford without a single accident. Aerial view of the Ford plant.

Date: 1949
Duration: 5 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030192
Copper ore mined and copper metal extracted at a copper mine in Montana, United States.

Documentary titled 'The Inside Story of Your Telephone'. Describes raw materials used in telephone manufacturing. Dynamite crew places dynamite at a copper mine in Montana, United States. Miners shovel the blasted ore onto ore cars. Ore is loaded into converters. Slag is poured off. Stacked bars of pure electrolytic copper. Picture of a telephone made of copper.

Date: 1928
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030433
Splitting and curbing of sandstone at Ohio Quarry Company in the United States.

The mills of Ohio Quarry Company in the United States. A machine is used to saw out sidewalk flagging from the sandstone. Rough curbing department show methods of splitting sandstone into blocks. A crane is used to bring in the sandstone. Men hammer large nails into blocks to split them. The split block is lifted and put aside with the help of a crane. Men working on sandstone blocks.

Date: 1915
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030499
Contribution of WPA federal buildings projects in Ohio, United States, during the Great Depression.

From a film titled "A better Ohio". Scenes of Great Depression period in the United States: Idle men, closed factories, men searching through trash, sleeping on sidewalk. Scenes of post depression recovery: Smoke from factories, lines of workers, ample food, happy families. Views of Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in Ohio: Airstrip construction of runways at Cleveland Airport; construction of Dayton Airport runways and aerial view of the Dayton Airport area; pipe capping and sealing work at abandoned coal mines to prevent pollution of local water supply; remodeled orphanage in Defiance, Ohio, with orphan children playing on the grounds of the Defiance County Children's Home; repaired and updated buildings at the Home for Sailor's and Soldier's Orphans at Xenia, Ohio; newly built dairy farm at the Sailor's and Soldiers Home; Rebuilt wing of the old people's home for care of the elderly in Napoleon, Ohio; view of the newly constructed tuberculosis sanatorium in Toledo, Ohio (the William Roche Tuberculosis Hospital). Scenes of fast moving flood waters during flood of Spring 1936 in Ohio. Flood water rushing past flooded buildings. WPA -constructed dams, levees, and retaining walls are seen during building process. African American and white workers seen digging together with shovels on the project. New trees are planted at the sites.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030500
Pictures depicting war, harbor and a courtroom discussion in Virginia, United States.

Events in the life of Thomas Jefferson in Virginia, United States. A picture depicts the Boston massacre. Another shows the Boston Tea Party. Another picture shows people in front of a building. Tower of a building with trees in front. A picture depicts the Continental Congress meeting attended by Thomas Jefferson. Trees in background.

Date: 1944
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031620
Depiction of Thomas Jefferson's political life and Continental Congress meetings in Virginia, United States.

Thomas Jefferson's life in Virginia, United States. Exteriors of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's house. A path with trees on either side. Dramatization: A person coming on a horse carriage. Two founding fathers discuss. A Congress member enters the room. The member maintains order using a bell. Continental Congress meetings. Congressmen read from a paper. Man portraying Thomas Jefferson discuss with another congressman. The members greet each other and move outside the meeting room Two Congress members sit on a horse carriage.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031621