[RIVER ROUGE]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “River Rogue, Part Two.” “The basis for the automobile is iron.” Panoramic view of iron mine - ore car moving up incline to top of tipple - view from top of tipple, car moving up - view of ore ship at dock - ore ship under way - large cranes unloading ore from hold of ship. “The Rouge plants have two blast furnaces.” Views of River Rouge, blast furnaces, buildings, track, etc. “The slag is run off first.” View of slag pouring into large vat - ladle cars with slag moving through plant. “Nothing is wasted, so the slag is used for road building and making cement.” Ladle cars tipping and pouring slag outside plant - steam shovel scooping cooled slag and loading it into railroad gondola - workers shoveling in yard, tractor and cart moving through yard, plant in background. “More than 2,000 barrels of cement are made daily.” View of cement plant - workers loading bags of cement on truck and flatbed trailers - workers stacking bags of cement - loaded truck and trailers pulling away from loading ramp. “1,000 tons of iron are made daily.” Views inside plant, furnaces, molten metal pouring out, workmen. “Some of the molten metal is made into pig iron.” Train of ladle cars moving on track - red-hot molten iron in molds. “The molten iron is also poured into the foundry furnaces.” Molten metal pouring from ladle into furnace. “This is the world’s largest foundry with a capacity of 1,925 tons or 292,271 pieces of iron castings daily.” View of exterior of plant, large crane in operation. “Making cores and preparing cylinder block molds for casting.” Workers filling mold with sand - removing mold, cylinder block core - man painting half-circle with stencil - dipping mold in liquid - workers on assembly line putting molds together - views of assembly line, preparing molds, workers - views of furnace - ladle pouring molten metal into molds on assembly line. “The birth of a Ford motor.” Cylinder blocks moving on overhead conveyor. “There are hundreds of thousands of feet of conveyors in the Rouge plants.” Blocks on overhead and belt type conveyors. “Without pausing on the conveyor, part of the cylinder block machining takes place in the foundry.” Views of blocks on conveyors, men working - men machining blocks - blocks attached to huge revolving machine - overall view of block assembly line, workers - blocks on conveyors. “The motor parts are now conveyed to the motor assembly building.” View inside motor assembly building, workmen, blocks and parts of motors. [1926]