- Title: VM-543A
- Summary: FORD COLLECTION STORIES:
- Description:00:29:23 - FILM CREW IN CONVERTIBLE WITH CAMERA SET UP IN REAR SEAT OF OPEN AUTOMOBILE. TAKING PICTURES OF A BUILDING. 00:30:24 - LINCOLN LIMOUSINE WITH CHAUFFER, MAN & WOMAN ENTER AUTOMOBILE FROM RESIDENCE AFTER SNOW STORM, DRIVE AWAY, 00:31:28 - CAR PARKING AT MOUNTAIN OBSERVATION POINT 00:31:36 - FORD ASSEMBLY PLANT, ROADSTER 00:31:52 - FORD ROADSTER MAKING TIGHT TURNS (DARK AT BEGINNING) 00:32:20 - ASSEMBLY LINE, WORKERS ATTACHING CAR BODIES TO FRAMES, HEADLIGHTS, HOOD, COMPLETED CARS ON TURNTABLES, NEW CAR BEING TEST DRIVEN 00:34:55 - BUSINESS DISTRICT OF VILLAGE WITH HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGES, ROOF TOPS IN A CITY RESIDENTIAL AREA, ROW HOUSES 00:35:09 - HENRY FORD DRIVING QUADRICYCLE, VIEWS OF HIS EARLY GARAGE & QUADRICYCLE 00:36:07 - EARLY RACING CAR "999" ON DIRT TRACK, MAN CRANKS ENGINE, RACER CIRCLES TRACK, DRIVER BARNEY OLDFIELD POSES IN STEERING POSITION 00:37:46 - INTERIOR FORD PLANT WORKERS ASSEMBLING CAR WHEELS. CONVEYOR BELT. MAN INSPECTING WHEEL RIMS 00:38:51 - ASSEMBLY LINES, AUTOMOBILE SERVICE GARAGES, FEMALE ASSEMBLY LINE WORKERS 00:42:23 - WOMAN LEAVING FARM HOUSE CARRYING CHILD. FARM HAND IN FRONT OF HOUSE FEEDING CHICKENS. WOMAN & CHILD GET IN CAR, DRIVE AWAY 00:42:42 - FORD RIVER ROUGE PLANT. RAILROAD COAL CARS ON SIDINGS LOADING A COAL HOPPER WITH COKE 00:43:10 - URBAN TRAFFIC SCENES, CARS PARKING ALONG CURB STREETCAR PASSING IN B/G. "LINCOLN" BUILDING GROUP INCLUDING MR. LEALAND POSING. INTERIOR, EDSEL FORD IN OFFICE BEHIND DESK. GUESTS SIGN DOCUMENT 00:45:29 - LUCKY LINDY FLIES SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS "JUST MARRIED". MOBILE TENT. 00:46:11 - LARGE GROUPS OF PEOPLE LEAVING LINCOLN BUILDING FORD & LEALAND SHAKING HANDS WITH PASSING GUESTS. GROUP POSING IN FRONT. FORD & LEALAND GETTING INTO OPEN CAR. CROWD WAVES. FORD & LEALAND RIDE AWAY IN BACK OF OPEN TOURING CAR 00:47:38 - BIPLANE AT FORD AIRPORT, PAN VIEW OF PLANE, HANGAR, MEN IN THE DISTANCE. SPECTATORS, PARKED CARS. 00:48:28 - PEOPLE RUNNING TO SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS PLANE AS IT LANDS. HENRY FORD & CHARLES LINDBERGH IN FRONT OF PLANE GREETING OFFICIALS 00:49:42 - CHARLES LINDBERGH IN BACK OF AUTOMOBILE SURROUNDED BY CROWD 00:50:00 - PARADE OF GUESTS IN TOURING CARS 00:50:05 - MS GIRL & OLDER MAN IN BACK SEAT OF AUTOMOBILE LOOKING AT NEWSPAPER. CAR DRIVEN PAST LARGE RESIDENCES. 00:50:28 - SALESMAN LEADS GROUP PAST SIGN IN HIGH GRASS "LOTS" 00:50:34 - WEDDING PARTY LEAVING A CHURCH, SIGN ON BACK OF CAR "JUST MARRIED" 00:50:57 - MOUNTAIN VALLEY VIEW, AUTOMOBILE PULLING SMALL CAMPING TRAILER, GROUP GETS OUT, MEN TAKE CAMPING GEAR FROM TRAILER, UNFOLD SIDES OF TRAILER, UNFOLD SIDES OF TRAILER & UNFOLD TENT 00:51:24 - GROUP SEATED IN TENT EATING, VIEW OF CAR & TENT WITH FLAPS CLOSED. EARLY CAMPING TRAILER. 00:51:38 - "MODEL A" ASSEMBLY LINE & BUS TOUR 00:51:49 - HENRY FORD WITH MODEL A NUMBER 1 COMPLETED OCTOBER 20, 1927, FORD & GUEST STAMP I ON ENGINE BLOCK. FORD POSES & CONVERSES WITH OFFICIALS 00:52:55 - ASSEMBLY LINE WORKERS ASSEMBLING & TEST DRIVING MODEL A AUTOMOBILES 00:56:26 - AERIAL OVER DETROIT, MICHIGAN CIRCA 1927-1930 00:56:33 - SIGHTSEEING BUS LOADED WITH PASSENGERS DRIVEN PAST LINCOLN MERCURY BUILDING. POV ON BUS (DARK) 00:57:28 - INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS, SMOKESTACKS, FREIGHTER ORE BOAT DOCKED 00:58:09 - TOURISTS GETTING OFF TOUR BUS SIGHTSEEING BUS 00:58:17 - INDUSTRIAL MONTAGE SMOKESTACKS 00:58:23 - TOUR GROUP ENTERING PLANT INTERIOR PLANT, 00:58:38 - LOADING RAILROAD CARS WITH COKE (DARK) PAN LARGE INDUSTRIAL PLANT 00:59:43 - INTERIOR FERTILIZER PLANT MEN LOADING SACKS OF "FORD AMMONIUM SULFATE FERTILIZER" 01:00:10 - FREIGHT TRAIN. FORD RAILROAD COAL CARS IN PLANT YARD. 01:00:27 - POWER SHOVEL, STEEL MILL 01:01:27 - CEMENT PLANT, MEN LOADING BAGGED CEMENT ONTO TRUCKS 01:01:45 - INTERIOR METAL WORKING MACHINERY INSIDE PLANT BLAST FURNACE, BUCKETS OF MOLTEN METAL 01:02:46 - CONVEYOR BELTS, MOLTEN STEEL, JUNKING CARS, 01:02:57 - MONTAGE CONVEYOR BELTS, ENGINE BLOCKS, ENGINE ASSEMBLY LINE WITH WORKERS 01:03:25 - STEEL FURNACE, STEEL POURING INTO BUCKET, HOIST IS POSITIONED, RAISES BUCKET 01:04:38 - PLANT INTERIOR. AUTOMOBILE WHEEL RIMS SUSPENDED FROM MOVING OVERHEAD CONVEYOR, METAL WORKING & FENDER STAMPING MACHINE & CONVEYOR BELT. WORKER OPERATES DOW STAMPING EQUIPMENT. ENGINE ASSEMBLY LINE 01:06:20 - PLANT EXTERIOR WITH FORD RAILROAD CARS ON SIDING. TRUCK WITH TRAILER DRIVEN UP WITH FOUR OLD CARS ABOARD. MAN RECEIPTS SHIPMENT, CARS BACKED OFF TRUCK, TOWED INTO BUILDING. STRIPPED OF PARTS, MEN WITH TORCHES CUT CAR BODIES APART, LARGE PRESS CRUSHES THE FRAME (DARK) WRECKAGE COMPRESSED, FORCED INTO LARGE BLAST FURNACE. 01:11:23 - (DARK FILM) AUTOMOBILE TURNS CORNER IN BUSINESS DISTRICT, POLICEMAN STANDS AT CORNER. FLAG DECORATED, SPEAKER'S PLATFORM. AUDIENCE IN RAIN COATS & HATS, WITH UMBRELLAS RAINY DAY. 01:11:50 - TRAIN ARRIVES AT STATION IN RAIN, SPECTATORS. CU HOOVER & FORD GETTING OFF TRAIN GREETED BY CROWDS. POSING 01:12:22 - HOOVER, FORD & EDISON WATCHING 01:13:01 - WORKERS GETTING OFF TRAIN, WALKING UP STAIRS DOWN STAIRS 01:13:09 - LABOR STRIKE, PLACARDS, POLICEMEN, RIOTS, BATTLE OF THE OVERPASS? POLICE DISPERSING CROWD & CHASING THEM ACROSS RAILROAD TRACKS & THROUGH FIELD 01:13:37 - AUTOMOBILE TESTS 01:15:14 - ROAD CONSTRUCTION. WORKERS USING CRANE TO MOVE BUCKET OF CONCRETE FROM TRUCK TO CONCRETE SPREADED. WORKERS USING HAND HAND TOOLS TO SPREAD CONCRETE. LOADED TRUCK OVER PARTIALLY GRADED ROAD BED. FLEET OF TRUCKS BEING LOADED ONE AT A TIME WITH DIRT BY POWER SHOVEL, BEING DRIVEN ON ROUGH ROAD. TRACTOR DRAWN ROAD GRADER, TRUCK PASSING, WORKERS 01:17:25 - CAMPING PARTY IN WOODS, TENT, CLOTHES HANGING ON LINE, AUTOMOBILE CAMPERS. WOMEN COOKING OVER OPEN FIRE 01:17:34 - TEN & FIFTEEN MILLIONTH FORD. MODEL-T CARS. BEING ASSEMBLED & DRIVEN IN THROUGH BUSINESS DISTRICTS. 01:25:15 - AUTO WORKERS STRIKING FORD PLANT. CROWD, POLICEMAN IN F/G. TWO WOMEN WITH NEWSPAPERS. MAN IN FRONT OF FENCE, CROWD, SOME PEOPLE WITH NEWSPAPERS, MAN TALKING TO POLICEMAN. WOMAN UNDER OVERPASS YELLING, DEFYING POLICEMAN, WORKERS IN YARD, MAN WITH NEWSPAPER POSING. CROWD IN B/G. CROWD MILLING. LABOR DISPUTES. PICKETS. PICKETERS. 01:26:25 - POLICEMEN PLACING WORKERS IN PADDY WAGON, WAGON DRIVING AWAY 01:26:43 - TRAFFIC AT PLANT. CROWD OF WORKERS NEAR FENCE. WOMEN DISTRIBUTING NEWSPAPERS, WORKERS WITH NEWSPAPERS. POLICEMEN. MILLING CROWD. WORKERS ENTERING & LEAVING PLANT, SOME TAKING NEWSPAPERS FROM PEOPLE IN CROWD, POLICEMEN HOLDING BACK CROWD 01:27:55 - CROWD AROUND SIGN "CONGESTED AREA HAWKING, SELLING DISTRIBUTING PROHIBITED" 01:27:59 - MAN IN PLANT YARD, CROWD WITH NEWSPAPERS AROUND SIGN "CONGESTED AREA..." VIEWS OF MILLING CROWD IN PLANT YARD & ON OVERPASS, POLICEMEN, HEAVY TRAFFIC, BUSES, CROWD AT PLANT ENTRANCE 01:28:18 - TAPE ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1910
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1910s
- File Name: VM-543A