- Title: CF877
- Date:1920s
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Summary:
00:01:51-00:10:54
Keywords: History of the Automobile, car industry, Ford UK, docks, industrial revolution, industry
GVs Hyde Park corner 1896, STILLS of Ford's first cars.
00:02:36 Factory interior, Ben Nevis trials. Inauguration ceremony, workers cheering.
00:03:53 Ford factory being built. Trials of trucks in the Welsh hills.
00:05:11 Factory nearing completion. 1931 car demo, Stratford. Trains arrive Dagenham with Machinery. Blast furnace in operation.
00:07:20 Production lines
00:07:43 1931. First ship brings raw material to factory, cranes unload. Ws jetty.
00:08:21 Truck trials.
00:08:53 HP unveiling in 1932 at Royal Albert Hall. More trials and production line footage.
00:10:55-00:20:34
BW,
Keywords: Incandescent light, light bulbs, Edison, Dr Coolidge, Langmuir, Steinmetz.
Selection of old lamps flashing on and off. Edison in lab with another. Tungsten hammering, Edison and others test light bulbms, Edison and others amid hundreds of light bulbs.
00:14:25 Edison and others inspect semi-automatic machinery and engineer, woman worker making bulbs, Edison meets Dr Whitney in lab, they shake hands, Edison signs Dr Whitney's visitors book. Edison and Whitney discuss metalised carbon filament. Dr Coolidge talks to Edison, more light bulbs, gas filled with Dr Langmjir.
00:18:17 Edison meets Steinmetz. Test effect of 1 million volts on peice of wood. Edison and Steinmetz at table and drive away in car.
00:20:45-00:26:08
BW,
Ford factory plant. Massive furnace, white steel being lifted watched by schoolboys, school children watch progress of steel, we tcement cu and view of road being built. Ext of Ford building, men operate machinery, man with moulded car panels, vs car panel construction, side view of cars on production line, vs cutaways of cars.
00:26:10-00:36:5
BW, 1920s
Keywords: Bell Telephone Company, history of the telephone, industry, office work
Bell outside lab, anniversary celebration, aerial view of massive telephone exchange and power plant, int machinery, big crowd of workers, panning shot, clerical department, skilled craftsmen at work, vs shots, women at work, gvs of making telephones and switchboards, very quick worker making knobs for switchboard, assembly of telephone, mount pieces on production line. ' Animated ' sequence of telephone being assembled.
00:36:59-00:43
1920s
Mr and Mrs Hoover arrive for party at station. Old fashioned steam train. President escorts Edison from baggage car, guests follow. Vs cutaways Hoover, Edison and others. GVs of guests by train. ' The Rocket ' gv moving. Guest escorted by motorcycles, drive through town in rain, top shot with tickertape, arriving at City Hall, gvs crowd. Hoover steps up to platform to speak. Mr and Mrs Hoover with flowers leave in car. Guests go sightseeing and vs parts of town. GVs of guests with name captions.
00:47:04-00:51
BW, 1920s
Keywords: Housing, fireplaces, Hollywood, families
' Better Housing ' caption. Boy scout tells us how to be safe in the home. Cutaways to Hollywood stars' homes, gvs cosy firesides and fires. ' Where do your children play? ' item. Children in traffic, children playing in streets, contrasted with moving to larger house in the country.
00:55:08-00:57:
BW, 1920s
Keywords: Detroit, railroad. Detroit Toledo Railroad
Vs views from train, tracking shots over bridges and through small American towns, crossroads etc.
Item 8 - No t/c
Keywords: Iron, electric irons, domestic appliances, housewife, social history
Woman presses / irons / ironing clothes with steam iron, mix to modern iron, irons being manufactured, vs iron factory scenes through to finished item.
- DATE:1920s
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- SOURCE:Historic
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- Colour:B&W
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- Segment:0
- Sound:Silent
