- Title: VM-548B
- Summary: FORD COLLECTION STORIES:
- Description:00:01:25 - WORKERS IN WOODWORKING SHOP MAKING CRATES. WORKER HAMMERING NAILS INTO CRATE IS TOLD BY SUPERVISOR TO PUT ON SAFETY GOGGLES, WHICH HE DOES. SAME WORKER HITS HIMSELF IN EYE WITH HAMMER, SHATTERING LENS OF HIS SAFETY GLASSES, AVOIDING SERIOUS EYE INJURY. WORKER SHOWS BROKEN GOGGLES TO SUPERVISOR. 00:02:15 - THREE WORKERS AND SUPERVISOR TEST HANGING SCAFFOLD BY RAISING IT A FEW INCHES OFF GROUND. THEY STAND ON IT AND JUMP UP AND DOWN. 00:02:40 - TWO WORKERS PLACE THEIR PAINT CANS ON SCAFFOLD AND RAISE IT TO TOP OF BUILDING. THEY CLIMB ONTO SCAFFOLD FROM THE ROOFTOP 00:03:07 - WORKER IN SHOP WALKING UNDER OVERHEAD PIPES, GETS HIT BY FALLING TOOL BEING USED BY WORKER FIXING PIPES OVERHEAD. 00:03:14 - WORKER BELOW THROWING TOOLS UP TO MAN ON PIPE IS STOPPED BY SUPERVISOR FROM DOING SO. WORKER ROPES OFF WORK AREA AND THROWS LINE TO MAN ABOVE FOR LIFTING TOOLS. 00:04:00 - REPAIRMEN WORKING ON CONVEYOR, SUPERVISOR SCOLDS THEM & WAVES 'DANGER, DO NOT START' SIGN IN THEIR FACES, THEN PLACES IT ON CONVEYOR TURN ON SWITCH. 00:05:15 - WORKER OPERATING OVERHEAD CRANE, STOPS, IS MOTIONED BY SUPERVISOR ON GROUND, WHO POINTS OUT MEN WORKING ON CRANE TRACK. SUPERVISOR ON GROUND MOTIONS TO MEN ON TRACK TO COME DOWN. MEN CLIMB DOWN AND SUPERVISOR MOTIONS CRANE TO CONTINUE. 00:06:00 - CU RULES CONCERNING WORK ON CRANE. MEN WORK ON CRANE TRACKS USE BUMPER GUARD. 00:06:17 - NUMBER OF WORKERS OPERATING PRESSERS WITH FOREMAN WATCHING. FOREMAN IS INTERRUPTED AND INTRODUCED TO SEVERAL NEW MEN BY SUPERVISOR. 00:06:25 - CU SAFETY REGULATIONS FOR PUNCH PRESSERS & WORKER'S HAND SIGNING IT. NEW WORKER WATCHES EXPERIENCED PRESSER WORK AT HIS MACHINE, THEN OPERATES IT AS OTHER WATCHES. HE IS THEN LEFT ALONE TO WORK ALONGSIDE OTHERS. 00:07:29 - WORKER PRESSING HEADLIGHT REFLECTORS. 00:08:39 - MAN PROPERLY CARRYING LADDER ACROSS PLANT YARD 00:08:53 - RAILING AROUND EXCAVATION. 00:09:05 - DRILL PRESS OPERATOR WEARING CELLULOID EYE SHADES, SUPERVISOR POINTING OUT DANGER OF SPARKS FROM NEARBY MACHINE, TAKES WORKERS EYE-SHADES AND SETS THEM AFIRE. DRILL PRESS OPERATOR CONTINUES WORKING WITHOUT EYE-SHADES. 00:09:36 - SIGN, 'SAFETY AND HYGIENE DEPARTMENT.' SUPERVISOR INSPECTING CLEANING MEN'S EQUIPMENT AS THEY PASS BY. WORKER SPRAYING FIXTURES IN BATHROOM. WORKER CARRYING COATS INTO FUMIGATING ROOM. SIGN, 'FUMIGATED IN FORMALDEHYDE GAS 175 DEGREES FOR 3 HOURS'. WORKER LIGHTS SMALL BURNER, SHUTS DOOR. 00:10:30 - WORKER OPERATING LATHE, TURNING TO WORKER AT ANOTHER MACHINE. SECOND WORKER BANDAGING FINGER OF FIRST, SUPERVISOR APPROACHING LOOKS AT FINGER, SENDS MAN TO INFIRMARY. DOCTOR LOOKS AT FINGER AND BANDAGES IT. 00:11:46 - CRANE LOADING ORE FROM FREIGHT CAR TO TRUCK. 00:12:15 - WORKER WEARING GOGGLES AT METAL GRINDER, OTHER WEARS GOGGLES AS HE MOVES MOLTEN METAL IN LADLE. CU WORKER PUTS ON GOGGLES AND CRAWLS INTO SMALL FURNACE OPENING, STICKS HEAD OUT AND REACHES FOR TOOLS. 00:13:10 - WORKER AT STOREROOM WINDOW IS HANDED HAND GRINDER WITHOUT SAFETY GUARD BY CRIB MAN. SUPERVISOR STOPS WORKER AND ATTACHES GUARD TO GRINDER, HANDS HIM GOGGLES. 00:13:57 - WORKER ON TOP OF LOCOMOTIVE, SUPERVISOR HANDING HIM LADDER FROM GROUND, WORKER LASHING LADDER TO SIDE OF LOCOMOTIVE. 00:14:19 - WORKERS ON RAILED SCAFFOLDING WATCH METAL BEAM BEING RAISED BY CRANE MOUNTED ON LOCOMOTIVE. 00:14:38 - HUGE SECTIONS OF RAILED SCAFFOLDING ON RAILROAD CARS MOVE UNDER SUPPORT BEAMS FOR ELECTRIC WIRES. 00:15:16 - WORKER AROUND CONCRETE ON RAILROAD BOX CAR. 00:15:30 - AERIAL WORKERS ON TRACKS PICK UP FIRE EQUIPMENT AS THEY RUN TO BOX CAR ON FIRE IN THE DISTANCE. FIRE HOSE IS TRAINED ON THE FIRE. 00:16:11 - FOUR WORKERS RIDING HANDCAR ON TRACK APPROACH INTERSECTION. MODEL-T WAITS TO LET HANDCAR GO BY BEFORE CROSSING. 00:16:20 - SMOKING STEAM LOCOMOTIVE APPROACHING TRAIN CROSSING. HEAVY AUTOMOBILE, TRUCK TRAFFIC OVER CROSSING. TRAFFIC STOPS. 00:16:50 - WORKERS JACK UP FREIGHT CAR, MOVING WHEELS FROM UNDER IT. PLACING WOODEN HORSES UNDER CAR FOR SAFETY. 00:17:54 - WORKER DONNING PROTECTIVE CLOTHING AND GLOVES AND JOINS OTHER WORKERS CUTTING GLASS. 00:18:17 - WELDER AT WORK. CU COPY OF SAFETY REGULATIONS BOOKLET. WORKER SIGNING BOOKLET, HANDING RECEIPT TO SUPERVISOR. 00:18:43 - WELDER AT WORK, SUPERVISOR APPROACHES, HANDS HIM PAPER, WELDER SIGNS, TEARS OFF RECEIPT, HANDS IT TO SUPERVISOR. 00:19:06 - RAILROAD TRAIN AT CROSSING, MODEL-T CARS WAITING, CROSSING AFTER TRAIN PASSES. 00:20:09 - MAN GETTING OUT OF CAR IN FRONT OF GARAGE TALKING TO DEALER INSIDE. MEN SHAKING HANDS. MAN SHOWS DEALER ADD OF NEW IMPROVED TRACTOR. 00:21:26 - DEALER TAKES CUSTOMER TO LOOK AT NEW TRACTOR WHICH IS ALSO BEING LOOKED OVER BY TWO OTHER MEN. CAPTION TELLS OF FEATURES ON NEW FORDSON. 00:22:06 - WORKERS TESTING TRACTOR ENGINE IN PLANT, CONSULTING GAGES ON TESTING MACHINERY. CU VARIOUS GAUGES. 00:23:14 - DEALER & CUSTOMER SIT IN OFFICE & CHAT. DEALER SHOWS BROCHURE TO CUSTOMER. 00:23:47 - TRACTOR-DRAWN PLOW, DISKS IN FIELD. 00:24:17 - CATERPILLAR-DRAWN PLOW CUTTING FURROWS IN PREPARED FIELD. 00:24:24 - TRACTOR-DRAWN FLOATER, PLANTER, CULTIVATOR IN CORN FIELD. FLEET OF TRACTOR-DRAWN CULTIVATORS IN CORN FIELD. TRACTOR-DRAWN MOWERS IN OPERATION. 00:27:20 - TRACTOR-DRAWN RAKE FORMING WIND 00:27:30 - TRACTOR-DRAWN HAY LOADER, REAPER, RAKE, MOWER IN ACTION. 00:28:20 - FLEET OF TRACTOR-DRAWN THRESHING MACHINES IN OPERATION, WORKERS PITCHING WHEAT INTO THRESHERS, WHICH POUR OUT HUGE PILE OF STRAW. 00:29:05 - TRACTOR-DRAWN BEET HARVESTER IN OPERATION TRACTOR-DRAWN CORN HARVESTER IN OPERATION. 00:30:40 - WORKERS PITCHING CORN FROM TRUCK INTO TRACTOR-POWERED SILAGE GRINDER AND SILO FILLER. 00:31:05 - TRACTOR BEING DRIVEN THROUGH FIELD. 00:31:34 - TRACTOR-DRAWN RAKE FORMING WINDROWS IN HAY FIELD. TRACTOR-DRAWN BINDER IN WHEAT FIELD. 00:32:42 - TRACTOR-POWERED SNOWPLOW CLEARING ROAD. TRACTOR-DRAWN SLED LOADED WITH LOGS ON SNOWY ROAD. 00:33:10 - WORKERS IN FARMYARD CUTTING HUGE PILES OF LOGS WITH TRACTOR-POWERED SAW. SAWING LOGS 00:34:30 - ALL METAL TRI-MOTOR PRODUCTION, AIRPLANE MANUFACTURING. AERIAL FORD AIRPORT DEARBORN, MICHIGAN, INCLUDING FACTORY & MAIN HANGAR GROUP. "FORD" WRITTEN IN LARGE LETTERS ON GROUND. PAN 00:35:25 - FORD TRI-MOTOR ALL-METAL PLANES NEAR HANGARS. 00:36:05 - WORKERS PLACING ALUMINUM SHEET ON TABLE, MEASURING THICKNESS WITH MICROMETER. 00:36:26 - WORKER PLACES METAL PIPE ON SCALE. CU HAND PICKS UP EDGE OF ALUMINUM SHEET 00:36:56 - SHEET OF ALUMINUM RUNNING THROUGH CORRUGATED PRESS GIVING IT THE CORRUGATED SHAPE. 00:37:13 - ROLL OF ALUMINUM BEING DIPPED IN VAT OF HOT LIQUID 00:37:34 - CU POWER PRESS STAMPS SHAPE IN METAL SHEET MAKING SPARS AND CHANNELS. 00:37:46 - WORKER POLISHES LARGE PLANE PART ON A BUFFING WHEEL. ANOTHER WORKER HOLDS SMALL PART IN HAND AND SPRAY PAINTS IT. 00:38:26 - WORKER INSPECTING FINISHED PARTS AND PUTTING THEM ON STOCK SHELVES. 00:38:51 - PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED TRI-MOTOR WITH WORKERS ATTACHING LANDING GEAR. CU ENGINE IS INSTALLED ON WING.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1925
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1920s
- File Name: VM-548B