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As Dreams Come True - PT2
Iron Ore Mine: LS pan Imperial iron ore mine in Michigamme, Michigan, Fordson tractor seen driving along snowy road.
As Dreams Come True - PT2
Fordson Tractor: Nice MS of Henry Ford dressed in suit, driving a Fordson tractor toward camera, through a field on a summer day, farm buildings seen in BG. Elevated LS pan of Ford Motor Company plant during snowstorm, tractors & employees shoveling. Elevated LS pan stacks of tractor tires in factory lot during snowstorm.
As Dreams Come True - PT2
Boat Division, Rouge Plant: Title card reading "Setting aside one's dearest ambitions & releasing a flood of unnatural power to relieve the world..." High angle LS interior factory floor of Ford Motor Company, employees making engines. MS Ford 2500 horsepower steam turbine engine used for Eagle boats on display. High angle GV rows of work stations on floor. Exterior TLS Ford boat division facility, huge building of steel & glass. High angle traveling GV boat being constructed in shipyard. Traveling shot U.S. naval cruiser sailing speedily. TLS Ford workers working on plant floor. Panning GV biplane taxiing on airfield.
As Dreams Come True - PT2
Ford Employee Grocery Store: Title card reading "After all is said & done, there is nothing in life but good fellowship & goodwill." MS men in white coats working behind counter at store, serving women who place items in baskets. Title card reading "The greatest pleasure or constructive good that can come to any man anywhere in or out of business is doing something..." MS men looking at whole dead poultry in meat market, man hauling whole dead pig in BG (butcher).
As Dreams Come True - PT2
Henry Ford Trade School: Title card reading "Giving the boys a chance, in the trade school." Interior GV/MS teenage boys learning mechanics in trade school funded by Ford Co. Establishing GV Ford Trade School campus as man walks snowy path in FG. GV pan campus buildings. Title card reading "The D.T. & I.R.R. adds another realization to the long list of boy..."
The Ford Age - PT 1
Title card reading: "...low prices are made possible by efficiency & elimination of waste." MS white male workers inside Ford plant, large gears traveling on overhead conveyor. Title card: "Waste lumber is made into parts boxes" MS Ford workers making wooden boxes from waste lumber. Title card: "The waste metal is baled & melted with other metal.." Slightly out-of-focus MS white male workers sorting through scrap metal. Slightly out-of-focus MS white male workers using industrial tongs to lift molded block of scrap medal. MS three male African-American workers tossing metal in furnace.
The Ford Age - PT 1
Title card reading "Great Furnaces prepare the raw material for use in the building of Ford cars." Exterior tracking of Rouge plant showing steam/smoke rising from furnace. Title card: "Think of the tons of ore, coal and limestone used in the foundry daily." Exterior TLS Rouge plant showing piles of coal, limestone, ect. Title card: "Vast quantities of steel are required to keep the daily production balanced." Interior MS filthy grimy white male workers working in foundry, moving ladle of hot steel on pulley. Title card: "The manipulator is capable of handling a 5-ton ingot."
The Ford Age - PT 1
Title card reading "The 54 miles of conveyors, by their various performances... make possible this remarkable daily production of cars." Great GV automobile parts traveling along overhead conveyor system, man pushing broom in FG, truck drives by. GV automobile parts traveling along overhead conveyor system, male workers in FG. Title card: "All the wearing parts are accurately machined for close adjustment." MCU automation machine in action.
The Ford Age - PT 1
Title card reading "The body frame being assembled..." Excellent MS white men constructing wooden body frame of Ford Model T. Title card: "The metal parts of the bodies are shaped by powerful presses." Elevated GV man driving forklift. Title card: "The axels are forged out by powerful machines." MCU men installing body metal, one man holds the sheet metal while other tacks it in place. Title card: "The bodies are painted." Great MS men working in paint department, spraying car bodies.
The Ford Age - PT 1
Title card reading: "Tops are made of waterproof covering..." Elevated MS men working at bench, cutting leather strips. GV male worker on the assembly line, installing soft waterproof tops onto car bodies. Title card: "After all the thousands of parts are perfected the various units are assembled." MS men on the floor, using drill press, making crankshafts. High angle GV of factory floor w/ overhead conveyor & employees at drill press. Title card reading: "The transmission." MS Caucasian & African American men on the line assembling transmissions.
The Ford Age - PT2
Silent corporate industrial film produced by and for the Ford Motor Company, 1923. Beautiful archival footage documenting the multifaceted innovation of Henry Ford including: auto plants, factory workers & Model T assembly.
The Ford Age - PT2
Title card reading: "Assembling the magneto." TLS white men working on assembly line, assembling the magneto. Title card: "Single women & widows who have dependents are given a chance in the Coil Unit Department & are paid the same wage.." TLSs large room filled with Caucasian women doing coil assemblage at long table, traveling conveyors overhead. Title card: "Assembling the starting motor, Bendix drive & generator." Panning GV white men working on assembly line, assembling starting motors, finished ones are moved via conveyor. Title card: "assembling motor and transmission...Placing starting motor and generator" Title card "Numbering one of the millions of Ford motors." GV pan factory floor w/parts moving on conveyor & man stamping number on motor.
The Ford Age - PT2
Title card reading: "The completed motors are conveyed to the loading dock for shipment..." MS assembled motors traveling on overhead conveyor system bound for shipping detail. MS men unhooking motors from conveyor. TLS men boxing motors into crates. CU shipping crate reading "Ford-Sa Paulo". Exterior GV men loading crate onto railroad car.
The Ford Age - PT2
Title card reading "The rear axle." Nice MS/GVs white men assembling rear axles on assembly line.
The Ford Age - PT2
DO NOT USE: Stills of Ford service branches: Columbus, New York City, Detroit, Washington, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Kearney, St. Louis, San Francisco; Cork, Ireland; Buenos Aires, Copenhagen.
The Ford Age - PT2
Title card reading: "The parts now go to the final assembly line, starting with the chassis." MS white men working on assembly line, assembling chassis. Title card: "Lowering engine into frame." GV men working on assembly line, engine being lowered into frame. Title card: "As the car moves along the engine and other parts are secured to the frame." GV men around the car frame, working together to attach all sorts of parts to car frame. Title card: "The dash unit assembly is made on a special rack." MS men working on dashboard parts on assembly line, a steering wheel with a bunch of wires. Title card: "Putting the dash on the car." GV assembly line as dashboard w/ steering wheel is lowed & attached to body frame. Title card : "Think of the amount of wood and rubber used in a day's manufacture of wheels and tires for Ford cars."
The Ford Age - PT2
Title card reading: "The radiator is then installed." Nice MSs assembly line as radiator is attached & adjusted. Title card: "Inspecting the chassis." TLS nearly complete Model Ts moving along the line, men with wrenches check the cars for final adjustments & tighrenings. Title card: "...fenders and running boards are positioned and secured to the brackets." GV men working on the assembly line, fenders & running boards being attached.
The Great American dream machine - Opinion Robert Kaiser - Nixon and the Press
DO NOT USE CU of newspaper headlines.
The Great American dream machine - Opinion Robert Kaiser - Nixon and the Press
Stuart H Loory, reporter for Los Angeles Times, speaking about how administration is very controlling, compares it to the Kremlin.
The Great American dream machine - Opinion Robert Kaiser - Nixon and the Press
MCU John Pierson, reporter, talks about how there is some distortion but it may be because of poor access.
The Great American dream machine - Opinion Robert Kaiser - Nixon and the Press
MCU Simon Fentress (Time Magazine) talks about how Time used to have access to John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, but no time w/Richard M. Nixon to ask about his policies. MCU Simon Fentress continues to talk about how White House makes it them and against us (the media), and division because of liberal reporters, eastern etc.
The Great American dream machine - Opinion Robert Kaiser - Nixon and the Press
MCU Aldo Reckman talks about how Nixon has had a difficult time w/the press so it is understandable.
The Great American dream machine - Opinion Robert Kaiser - Nixon and the Press
MCU Robert Kaiser goes states how Nixon conducts a lot of business in private, how image is not like Nixon, how government is supposed to answer to us and our right to know, selling of presidency, trouble.
The Ford Age - PT2
Title card reading: "The chassis now ready for the body." MS assembly line as Model T body is body lowered onto chassis. MS factory men attaching body to the chassis. Title card: "The car then drops from the conveyor to starting platform and is started through the rear wheels." GV finished car rolling off conveyor system, car is started and shows a puff a smoke, the car drives off the line.