- Title: VM-1300A
- Summary: FORD COLLECTION STORIES:
- Description:01:01:47 - ISLE OF SPRINGS LUSH MOUNTAINSIDE WITH NATIVE HUTS. 01:02:23 - GOAT GRAZING IN THE THICK FOLIAGE, NATIVE HUTS 01:02:45 - LUSH MOUNTAIN RANGE OF JAMAICA. 01:03:00 - NATIVES & BURROS IN VILLAGE. TWO NATIVE BLACKSMITHS POUND METAL ON ANVIL AS CHILD WATCHES. 01:03:31 - NATIVES CARRY BASKETS AND PACKAGES ON THEIR HEADS, DONKEYS WALKS ALONGSIDE THEM LADEN WITH GOODS. MEN ON HORSEBACK, NATIVES WITH LADEN BURROS WALK ALONG HIGHWAY, SURROUNDED BY PLUSH FOREST, & THROUGH A VILLAGE. 01:04:20 - MONTAGE BUSY NATIVE WOMEN IN MARKET PLACE, BARTERING THEIR GOODS. 01:05:14 - CROWD OF NATIVES & TOURISTS IN KINGSTON'S VICTORIA MARKET SQUARE. 01:05:57 - WOMEN VENDORS SIT ON GROUND WITH LARGE YAMS IN BASKETS & ON GROUND BEFORE THEM. ONE OF THEM BITES INTO A YAM. 01:06:25 - BREADFRUIT ON GROUND IN FRONT OF FEMALE VENDOR. 01:06:44 - NATIVES, MOSTLY WOMEN, AND TOURISTS CROWD TOGETHER IN OPEN-AIR FOOD MARKET. NATIVES DRESSED IN WHITE CLOTHING. 01:07:38 - DONKEY GRAZING BESIDE WAGON, CROWD IN MARKET PLACE IN BACKGROUND. 01:07:52 - OLD MAN SLEEPING ON TARPAULIN. 01:08:00 - MOUNTAIN RANGE, NATIVE HUT AND NATIVES IN MOUNTAIN VILLAGE. 01:08:35 - NATIVE MAN WITH BASKET ON HEAD STOPS OUTSIDE MOUNTAIN HUT REMOVES BASKET. 01:08:54 - MAKING BAKING POWDER. BAKED GOODS & CANS OF FOOD. WORKERS ON PLATFORM UNLOAD BARRELS FROM FREIGHT & PLACE THEM ONTO CONVEYOR GOING INTO ELEVATOR IN FACTORY, TO TOP FLOOR. 01:09:58 - BARREL BEING REMOVED FROM CONVEYOR, BROKEN OPEN, AND SAMPLE OF POWDERED CHEMICAL MIXTURE BEING REMOVED. POWDER IS DUMPED BY WORKER INTO HOPPER. WORKER IN WHITE CLOTHING FILLS SMALL HAND TRUCK FILLS SMALL HAND TRUCK WITH POWDER FROM HOPPER. 01:11:08 - WORKER ROLLS HAND TRUCK ON TRACKS & DUMPS CONTENTS INTO MIXER. 01:11:38 - WORKER CLIMBS UP STEPS TO VATS & TAKES SAMPLES OF POWDER. CHEMICAL TESTS BEING PERFORMED IN LABORATORY. CU CHEMIST COOKS BEAKERS OF CHEMICAL OVER BUNSEN BURNERS. 01:12:18 - CAKES AND PIES ON LARGE TABLE. CANNING MACHINERY IN OPERATION FILLING 800 CANS PER HOUR. COVERS BEING PUT ON CANS BY MACHINE. WOMAN WORKER TAKING CANS OFF ASSEMBLY LINE AND STACKING THEM. 01:13:18 - WOMEN IN WHITE COVERALLS AND CAPS LABEL CANS. CANS BEING ROLLED ON HAND TRUCK INTO DRIER. 01:13:28 - WORKER FRYING DONUTS IN DEEP FRIER. SMALL PAN OF PASTRY IS PLACED IN OVEN AND SHOWN WHEN BAKED. 01:13:48 - MAN IN OPEN-AIR MARKET DISHES OUT PLATE OF MACARONI FROM LARGE POT TO WORKER WHO COMICALLY EATS IT WITH HIS HANDS, AS OTHERS IN BACKGROUND HANDLE CRATES OF PRODUCE. PASTA 01:14:19 - SACKS OF FLOUR ON CONVEYOR. WORKERS REMOVING AND STACKING THEM. WORKER EMPTYING FLOUR SACKS INTO MIXER. MIXER IN OPERATION. 01:15:10 - DOUGH IS DUMPED INTO KNEADING MACHINE AND KNEADED. WORKER PLACES CHUNKS OF DOUGH INTO PRESS. 01:15:54 - CU SMALL BITS OF MACARONI ARE CUT AUTOMATICALLY AS THEY OOZE OUT OF PRESSER. 01:16:12 - LONG STRINGS OF SPAGHETTI SHAPED MACARONI SLOWLY OOZING DOWN FROM PRESSER. WORKER CUTS BATCH OF MACARONI STRINGS AND PLACES THEM OVER POLES AND SLIDES THEM INTO CABINET. 01:16:51 - RACKS OF SPAGHETTI SWAY AS WARM AIR BLOWS ON THEM. WORKER SAWS DRY STRINGS OF SPAGHETTI, ON TABLE SAW, INTO SMALLER UNIFORM PIECES. FEMALE WORKER PACKS THE SPAGHETTI INTO SHIPPING CARTONS. 01:17:28 - WOOL FARMER PICKS UP PILE OF RECENTLY SHEARED WOOL SHEEP IN BACKGROUND CORRAL. 01:18:27 - WOMAN SPINS WOOL ON A HUGE OLD-FASHIONED WHEEL OUTSIDE PORCH OF HOUSE. 01:18:40 - FABRIC PLANT WITH ITS MANY LOOMS, MAKING CLOTH WOMAN WORKER TENDS TO LARGE SPOOLS OF THREAD BEING FED BY MACHINE. 01:19:47 - WOMEN WORKERS IN WHITE UNIFORMS USING WASHING MACHINES IN PLANT. ANOTHER GROUP OF WOMEN PRESSING WITH FLAT IRONS. WOMAN PRESSES AND SMILES AT CAMERA. 01:20:04 - MEN & WOMEN WORKING IN COMMERCIAL LAUNDRY. WORKER S SORTS AND COUNTS SHIRTS. WOMEN WORKING AT MACHINES. 01:20:33 - WORKER POURS SACK OF FLOUR INTO VAT. KNEADING MACHINE KNEADS HUGE BALL OF DOUGH. WORKER DUMPS THE DOUGH FROM THE KNEADER. 01:21:08 - TWO MEN PRESS THEIR HAND INTO LONG VAT OF RESILIENT, RISING DOUGH ROLLING IT OVER AND OVER. 01:21:25 - BAKED BREAD LOAVES SLIDE FROM OVENS, WORKERS PLACE THEM OM RACKS. 01:21:45 - SMALL OLD NEW ENGLAND FACTORY WITH STREAM-FED WATER WHEEL. CIRCA 1800 01:21:58 - MONTAGE SEVERAL VIEWS OF DAM PRODUCING ARTIFICIAL WATERFALLS FOR POWER. WATER CASCADING FROM DAM INSIDE POWER PLANT WITH ITS MANY GENERATORS. 01:22:22 - WATER POURS OUT OF DAMS LOCKS. DIFFERENT VIEWS 01:22:54 - MONTAGE DIFFERENT VIEWS OF HUGE ROOSEVELT DAM. AERIAL HORSE AND BUGGY RIDES ACROSS TOP OF DAM. 01:23:28 - 1800 VS 1900. HORSEBACK RIDERS & HORSE-DRAWN COVERED WAGONS FORDING STREAM, DOG FOLLOWING (REENACTMENT 1800'S) 01:24:53 - OXEN-DRAWN CART AND TWO HORSEBACK RIDERS ON PRAIRIE (ALA 1800'S) REENACTMENT 01:25:13 - WORKER UNLOADING MILK CANS FROM TRUCK. VINTAGE TRUCK-AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC ON PAVED ROAD 01:25:43 - DRAWING OF EARLY RAILROAD TRAIN ON MOUNTAINSIDE. MAP OF U. S. SHOWS RAILROAD SYSTEMS ACROSS COUNTRY 01:26:26 - SIDE-WHEEL STEAMSHIP AT DOCK. 01:26:39 - FREIGHTER UNDER WAY IN HARBOR. 01:26:51 - CROWD WATCH AT DRY DOCK AS SHIP IS LAUNCHED SIDEWAYS. 01:27:13 - ANIMATED MAP SHOWS TELEPHONE SERVICE ACROSS U. S. 01:27:35 - HEAD OF PILOT IS SEEN AS HE FLIES OPEN COCKPIT PLANE. AS SEEN FROM BACK SEAT. TRACTOR-DRAWN PLOW & HARVESTERS AT WORK IN FIELD.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1920
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1920s
- File Name: VM-1300A