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.
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.
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.
Opening scene shows a virtual tent city set up to facilitate voting by numerous elements of Ford United Auto Workers Union 600. Camera pans over the scene where buses are transporting members. It shows the headquarters building with sign reading: "Ford Local No. 600." Men are lined up to vote at tents marked according to Ward and District. They are voting on the question of ratifying the first UAW contract with Ford Motor Company that was signed June 20, 1941. A bus pulls up to a curb. It contains signs reading "Ride Free" and "Vote Yes."
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.
Glimpse in Winter, of Lake Huron bordering property of Harry Bennett, Director of the Ford Motor Company Service Department. Camera pans quickly to show his log cabin house in the woods. Next, he and three friends are seen roughhousing in the snow. Bennett starts throwing snowballs, and his friends continue the snowball fight near their parked cars (1934 Fords). Two women approach the cars. Next, his friends pummel Bennett with snowballs as he heads toward his parked car. He jumps inside it quickly and drives away, as they throw snowballs at his car. Meanwhile, as one of the women is getting into the back of a car, one of the men throws a snowball at her. He then goes quickly to brush snow away from her. Behind them another man begins to drive his car away. The two women seated on the back seat laugh. Snow is seen on inside of the open door. Camera pans over snow and then back to the other car driving away. (It is a 1934 Ford Fordor Sedan Deluxe with the optional Potter Trunk and the spare tire.) Closeup of Harry Bennet holding a snowball. Closeup of two women laughing in backseat of a car.
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