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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221689-26
Color: Colour
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1949,1940s,1950s
Country: USA
Location: Dearborn,Michigan
TC Begins: 12:49:45
TC Ends: 13:00:50
Duration: 00:11:05
Airplane Jet Engine Assembly, Color ca 1950s Workers around large jet engine assembling parts on it. CUs w/ hands, wrench tightening. Man at workbench working on sub-assembly & putting on cart. 12:51:45 CU twisting wiring on sub-assembly on bench. 12:52:21 Ford painted on water tower w/ red & white warning paint on top; pan to large buildings w/ towers & steam. 12:52:57 Shipping enclosures labeled Turbo Jet Engine. CU top of tower w/ steam rising against blue sky. Truck past cooling towers (?). 12:53:42 Entrance to factory complex w/ truck stopping & waiting for hand truck pulling large motor under canvas; to door w/ sign: Restricted Area Jet Test Cells, door raised & man pulls cart w/ jet engine inside. 12:54:31 CU red blinking light & stop sign on wall of building at entrance. 12:54:40 CU sign: Jet Test Cells. Int. w/ jet motor on test stand. Hoses moving. 12:56:15 Engine fires w/ blue flame in rear. 12:56:51 CU of engine exhaust (dark). 12:57:26 MCU flame firing seen from rear. 12:57:46 Interior of test control room w/ gauges etc., two men at control console wearing Ford uniforms; one leaves, returns. MCU men at controls, moving levers. Talks into microphone. Military Product Development; Ford Motor Company; Testing; 1940s; 1940ca;