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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221688-21
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1940
Country: USA
Location: New York City,NYC
TC Begins: 11:12:29
TC Ends: 11:22:26
Duration: 00:09:57
River Rouge chimneys w/ smoke rising against blue sky. Unloading bundles of crude rubber from ship to conveyor; CUs passing. Int. w/ rubber hanging from conveyor. Man looking at string (?) on large spools. 11:13:25 Man beside opening machines w/ tires popping up. Overhead of truck w/ bags of Soy passing into factory. Pouring; machine w/ air blowing scrap. Men working on line of large extruding machines & removing plastic (?) parts. 11:14:18 Dashboards, hubcaps & various colorful auto parts displayed. Man painting / priming tractor; car bodies out of bake oven for curing paint 11:14:47 Steel furnace pouring into large buckets w/ sparks; assembled V-8 motors along assembly line. 11:15:13 Factory railroad engine & car into building; man blowing glass. Men working on sheets of glass for safety glass; glass polishers working. Man inspecting & marking flaws in glass. Side window glass sandwiched on assembly line; packed. Man inspecting car window as he rolls it down & up. 11:16:38 Unloading rolls of upholstery / body cloth from truck. Men cutting stacks of cloth or foam. 11:17:06 Int. sedan upholstery. Lowering sedan body onto chassis; attaching headlamps & driven off. 11:17:34 V-8 counter 27,999,954 increasing to 27,999,999 intercut w/ cars past on delivery truck, other various models finished & driven off assembly line. GOOD. 11:18:29 Beginning of puppet animation celebrating 28 Millionth. Parts moving in parade, assembling motor piece by piece. Springs bouncing, wire harnesses, etc anthropomorphic - like. Chassis & car assembled by stop motion. 11:21:27 Tiered turning platform of Ford parts & animated models of natural resources & manufacturing processes viewed by spectators at Ford World’s Fair exhibit for New York World’s Fair 1939 - 1940. 11:21:45 MCU of couple watching w/ excitement. Exhibit continues. 11:22:01 Title card: From The Earth Come The Materials To Be Transformed For Human Service By Ford Men, Management And Machines. The End. Promotion; Automobile Industry; Ford Motor Company; Marketing; Stop-Action Animation; Oddities; NOTE: Track raspy due to negative film source.