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In The Service of America Part II (ca 1944)

Reel Number: 221153-11

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 12:15:47

TC Ends: 12:24:40

Duration: 00:08:53

In The Service of America Part II (ca 1944) WWI Liberty motor lowered into chassis; WWI tank; staged scenes people buy newspapers w/ headlines re WWI victories & reading in windows, ‘Germany Surrenders’ etc.; celebrations. 12:16:42 Chimneys & steel industry; Ford cars - stills montage w/ dates. 1920s Ford Tri-motor assembly first plane made entirely of metal & in flight. Vars car models towards camera: Mercury, Lincoln Zephyr, Continental, Custom, & trucks. Tractor in field. 12:19:17 WWII map w/ swastika & newspaper headlines supered. Pacific War map; radio announcer reading at 'Blue' microphone re Pearl Harbor; housewife listening in kitchen, man in car etc. staged. 12:20:31 LS factories w/ smoking chimneys. VO re Ford contribution to War Effort - Jeeps driven off, M-4 tanks, M-10 tank destroyers, DUKWs amphibian jeeps, armoured cars, glider on airfield & in flight. CU Supercharger; Anti-aircraft director; airplane engines. 12:21:59 INT Ford factory plant, men & women workers assembling aircraft engine. Pratt & Whitney engine assembled. 12:23:08 Young people taught assembly of engines at Ford Aircraft School. Large engine moved about & going thru testing process. Monitoring gages. Automobile Industry. War Production. US Home Front. Montage WWI; Montage WWII; radios; mass production; manufacturing; broadcasting; technology; wartime;

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