NARA Collection fc — Collection fc

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Henry Ford II introducing Roscoe Smith at Management Meeting; Smith introducing film. “Parts and equipment.” “The whole is equal to the sum of all its parts.” Tours through the different plants of the parts and equipment division: Ypsilanti, Dundee, Manchester, Brooklyn, Milford, Flatrock, Northville, Waterford, Green Island, New York, and Hamilton, Ohio - Smith explains production in each plant. “The End.” [1949]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Spencer Tracy in Edison's Laboratory. [1939]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Spencer Tracy and Henry Ford sitting inside office talking - Tracy talking to women - scenes of Tracy and Ford talking in Thomas Edison’s laboratory - Ford showing Tracy how to operate a machine - Tracy chats with Francis Jehl, Edison’s laboratory assistant. Tracy sits at Edison’s desk, writes in visitor book - Ford, Tracy, Jehl and another talk in laboratory - Jehl shows Tracy the workings of a vacuum pump - Ford, Tracy and group depart the laboratory - more views of Jehl and Tracy talking - Jehl demonstrates early phonograph for Tracy - Ford, Tracy and others outside building - Ford and Tracy depart in car - departure repeated. [1939]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Spencer Tracy's Visit to Greenfield Village. [1939]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Views of large Stover windmill - water pumping out of ground and filling trough - two-horse team pulls steam engine - many scenes of steam engine at work driving hay loader with long belt, in barn. [1937]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Man in field watching horse-drawn steam engine - steam engine on country road, entering farmyard - horse-drawn threshing machine entering farmyard - threshing machine being backed into barn - steam engine in operation - men feeding thresher - boy with pitchfork moving grain - workers running out of barn, food cooking over open fire - workers sitting down at table - workers in farmyard and on straw stack - drive belt of thresher, workers pouring grain into thresher - worker stopping steam engine - hitching team of horses to steam engine, driving away, moving along road, stopping in front of barn - steam engine in operation, spectators, barn, loaded grain wagon. [1923]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Workers forking wheat into threshing machine - horse-drawn wagon loaded with wheat entering barn - man tying sheaf of wheat, two men watching - workers forking wheat into thresher - barn, steam engine in operation, house - straw coming from thresher - steam engine in operation, barn, house - steam engine operating drive belt - close-up of piston in operation - worker stopping and starting engine - engine and drive belt leading into barn - man pumping water into kettle, washing potatoes, washing out kettle, washing hands, putting potatoes into kettle, filling kettle with water, placing kettle on grate over open fire, cutting head of cabbage, placing it into large kettle over fire, placing cut carrots into kettle - food cooking in kettle - straw stack. [1923]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Steam tractor in operation - views of men atop of wagons pitching wheat sheaves down to men loading threshing machine - men washing up for lunch - workers and families eating, including Henry Ford - people, standing and watching - steam engine powering loader - sacks of grain loaded into truck - men with pitchforks on top of large pile of hay dropping from loader - women on back stoop of house cleaning carrots - boys washing up - women washing up - windmill. [1937]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Steam tractor and workmen - man brings up two horses in harness, attaches steam tractor - horses pull tractor along dirt road onto field - spectators watch stationary tractor with engine in operation. [1923]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Steering with Standards, Part Two. “An MPO Production, New York City.” “Produced with the cooperation of the Management Development Committee and The Industrial Engineering Offices of Central Staff, Ford Division, Rouge Division, Lincoln Mercury Division, Parts and Equipment Manufacturing Division, General Manufacturing Division.” [1945]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Scenes of the exterior of the memorial, Stephen Foster’s house - dog ‘Old Tray’ rests in front of a doghouse - interior views of house: bedroom, furniture, clock, and portrait - several views of the steam powered sternwheel riverboat, ‘Suwanee’ traveling around the newly finished Suwanee River. [1937]