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1920s - Transportation, Automobile: Making Wheels, Excerpt; 10 Millionth Ford, Trip Across USA Excerpt

Reel Number: 220455-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1924,1920s

Country: USA

Location: Detroit, Michigan,Eugene, Oregon,Olympia,Portland, Oregon,Seattle,Vancouver, Washington

TC Begins: 01:19:12

TC Ends: 01:28:48

Duration: 00:09:36

1920s - Transportation, Automobile: Making Wheels, Excerpt; 10 Millionth Ford, Trip Across USA Excerpt Car Manufacturing Main Title. 01:19:14 Intertitle: Turning a Club Spoke. CU man at lathe turning a club spoke. 01:19:35 Intertitle... Kiln for spokes, man pulling many out w/ long fork. Mitering, large machine shearing wood; man feeding into machine for facing, loading belt driven polishing machine & polishing; equalizing spokes by machine as man loads & inserts quickly. 01:20:58 Interitle: Felloe Stock, strips of selected hickory hickory are steamed for two hours before bending. 01:21:08 Black man feeds the steam box. Eight felloes bended using large machine tightening by chain, removing. Man trimming, planing. 01:22:39 Intertitle: Boring spoke holes. Man working belt driven drilling machine & men polishing, trimming, sanding 01:24:06 Slug 01:24:11 10 Millionth Ford Trip Across USA - Excerpt Pan group of old men & women posing w/ sign on building arch behind: Eugene Business College. 01:24:45 Model T cars lined up on bridge over Willamette River. Cars parade up street of Portland, Oregon past camera w/ band playing from back of pickup truck. Automobile district w/ many signs. Streetcar / tram. 01:25:33 Police on motorcycles along cars crossing Columbia River bridge entering Washington State. POV of motorcade from alongside on bridge. Four motorcycle police lead motorcade, stop under border sign; ;into Vancouver, Washington. 01:26:23 Jazz band w/ piano playing at back of pickup truck. POV alongside 10 Millionth Ford, bicycle messenger keeping up w/ car, around corner. Olympia, Washington State Capitol in background. 01:27:30 Crowd around cars at bottom of stairs of State Capitol (?). 01:27:47 Unidentified city (Seattle ?), workers in coveralls wave & watch car procession pass. Parked beside residential tobacco store, spectators & crowds look at cars. 01:28:29 Across bridge w/ five-masted ship seen (briefly). Three men talking, railroad cars behind. 1910s Machinery; Manufacturing; 1920s Auto Parts Industry; Hand Labor; Machines; Manual Labor; Child Labor (?); Promotion; Advertising; 1920s; 1924; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate.

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