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Henry Ford Trade School plays against Williamston team in football game in Michigan, United States

A football game in the United States. Football players run and practice on a field. Cars and spectators in the background. The players practice before the match. Players of both teams lined up on the field: Coach Broker and the the Henry Ford Trade School team and the Williamston team. The captains, Honstain for the Trade School, and Martin for Williamston, shake hands and a referee flips a coin. The football game gets underway. The game in progress.

Date: 1925
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066128
Mass production of the printed works in a printing process.

Explains how the newspaper printing process works and allows the distribution of millions of copies of the Detroit News newspaper in a single day. High speed newspaper printing press running as workers look on. Tons of ink is consumed. Interiors of the Detroit News press company is shown where the whole process is being carried out using huge paper rolls that are cut, folded and counted faster. Printing presses running. Then these papers are bundled and distributed. Newspaper delivery boys boxing and cheering while they await arrival of papers. Other boys cheering the boxers. A police officer looks on and serves as referee during the boxing match. Views of the color presses running, tended by an operator. Operator checking an edition of the "funnies" comic section created using the color presses. Newspaper men playing tennis on the roof of a tall building. Newspapers with pictorials are shown. Group of ladies receiving calls to place classified advertisements at a newspaper agency. Group of civilians reading newspapers while seated on a park bench that appears to be gender segregated, with "Ladies Only" and "Men Only" signs.

Date: 1919
Duration: 4 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038924
Tough working conditions of trucks than cars and their cooling mechanism.

Various steps of truck manufacturing, at a General Motors Company factory in Pontiac, Michigan. Engine cooling system of a truck. A truck unloads at a workplace. Cars run on smooth roads while truck descends from rough mountainous terrain. Diagram explains cooling mechanism of truck.

Date: 1923
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036577
1951 Ford sedan being tested by machines, on test track, driving in the desert, and driven by mother with children.

Commercial advertisement for the new 1951 Ford Sedan automobile. Setting is a suburban neighborhood post-war. Front yard and suburban house. Woman leaves a house with her children. They all get into their 1951 Ford Custom Fordor sedan automobile. The children bounce on the car seat. View of Ford car seat springs tested by an automatic machine at Dearborn test facility. A car door hooked up to motor which continuously slams and opens the door. Car on the Dearborn Michigan test track, replica of Independence Hall in the background. Test car goes over steep hill, and cobble stones. The 1951 Ford is then seen in the Southwest United States, on a mountain road and a desert road. Label on side of car reads, 'Ford Test Car' View of speedometer. The new car arrives at an amusement park. Children get out of the car and run towards a merry-go-round. Ford emblem on front of car. Narrator stating "You can pay more, but you can't buy better."

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030131
Motor vehicle traffic in city contrasted with that in a pleasant residential neighborhood.

A main street in a city in Michigan. Trolley car and a horse-drawn wagon pass in front of a building. Scene shifts to a wide road with pedestrians gathered in center, waiting to cross. An oncoming car swerves toward the pedestrians, who jump out of the way. A police officer waves the motorist to a stop, jumps on his running board and directs him to the side of the road. Another change of scene shows car driving in residential neighborhood along a divided road with grass and shrubs planted in the divider. The curbs are tree lined and there are ample sidewalks for pedestrians.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064462
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.

Date: 1928
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078278