Harvest of the Years - A Story of the Triumph of an Idea, The
Harvest of the Years - A Story of the Triumph of an Idea, The is a short film from 1938 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
Shows mass production of Ford cars in an assembly line; the research necessary to carry on the work; design, styling and modeling of new automobile models; materials that go into the making of the Ford.
| Harvest of the Years - A Story of the Triumph of an Idea, The | |
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| Produced by | Audio Productions, Inc., Eastern Service Studios |
Production companies | Audio Productions, Inc., Eastern Service Studios |
| Distributed by | Audio Productions, Inc., Eastern Service Studios |
Release date | 1938 |
Running time | 15:00 |
| Language | English |
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LS "Ford Industries Cover The World" relief globe slowly turning inside building.
Pan over the River Rouge complex at Dearborn, Michigan
- Ford Rotunda with futuristic vehicles in front
- Mercury Eight
- great assembly line sequences
- proving grounds
- new and modern Ford factories
- Ford Benzol motor fuel sold at Sinclair gas station
- shot of endless line of cars criving out of Rouge complex
14:31:12:09 Low-angle CU grain blowing in the wind, clouds in sky in background; field of grain undulating in the wind; combine tractor harvesting field of grain.
14:31:48:21 Gigantic globe stamped with Ford Industries in the middle of the pacific rotating in front of an office building, probably Ford headquarters.
14:32:09:11 VS inside small machine shop; disembodied hand cranks wheel spinning model of single cylinder engine, bare bulb hangs above the model.
14:32:20:17 Pan over huge Ford plant of over 1000 acres in Dearborn, Michigan, the Rouge Plant; tourist rotunda to Dearborn, Michigan Ford plant; guests to plant explore the Ford showroom at the Dearborn plant, various 1940s Ford and Lincoln models in showroom; two men watch rotating diorama display, above each the name of a metal or material like zinc, rubber and cotton; rubber display appears to show White man procuring rubber from shirtless dark skinned man, and edge of cotton diorama shows black slaves.
14:34:30:19 Low-angle shot of water tower with Ford and Lincoln logos painted on it, beside smokestack; VS inside ford assembly plant, long lines of men working on assembly lines, building engines.
14:35:40:00 VS drawbridge in Dearborn retracting, large ship with Lake Sapor Dearborn on hull.
14:35:49:16 1940s car pulls up to research center, names on fa ade of building include: Wright, Burbank, Edison; VS scientists running various tests with metal materials; CU ring of metal under steel clamp bent into a heart shape; scientists running various tests with instrument inside of 1940s Ford car; SLO MO car drives by man kneeling by camera on tripod.
14:37:08:03 Small cylindrical pieces moving down conveyor line fall into funnel into set of tubes; VS chemists working in laboratory.
14:37:56:16 African Americans picking cotton in cotton field.
14:38:00:06 Field hands picking corn off stalks throwing corn into bed of truck.
14:38:03:13 Horse-drawn harvester harvesting linseed.
14:38:07:13 Men cutting sugar cane.
14:38:10:29 Turpentine distillery in pine forest.
14:38:13:19 Rubber tappers; CU disembodied hand holding hammer and small vessel taps rubber tree; iris in to approaching train leaving what is probably Ford s River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan, men standing on front of train; Ford logo on side of train cargo cars; seaport outside of Rouge plant; VS workers leaving Ford factory.
14:39:03:14 CU worker small blower to blast away scraps from a machine press mold; CU shovel pours soy beans into a bucket.
14:39:20:13 Man in long white lab coat holds white piece of material up to life-size blue print of a 1940s Ford car model; Ford artists and designers working at draft tables; CU VS disembodied arm of artist working on detailed rendering of a 1940s style Ford car; CU disembodied hand carving from a clay a miniature model of a car.
14:39:37:22 CU various detailed drawing of Ford cars; CU artist leans into frame and puts finishing tough on drawing; drawing of cars dissolves into shot of man in actual car in illustration, car drives out of frame.
14:40:39:00 Aerial of Ford s test track in Michigan; VS 1940s Ford models driving on Ford test track; car skids in front of camera on wet pavement; CU car driving over cobblestone; 1940s Ford being tested driving over rough rocky road.
14:41:36:06 Great shot audience in elevated balcony inside factory, almost like in an anatomy theatre, looks down on a giant mechanical arm laying down a molten piece of metal onto a conveyor; low-angle shot from inside plant looking up on smoke stacks; LS Rouge plants blast furnaces, molten metal pouring out of blast furnace; men in factory inspecting tires; large Ford steamship on river outside of Rouge plant; antique Ford Steam engine pulling freight cars; LS of the Rouge plant, illustrations of car parts superimposed over sky in shot scrolls up and out of frame; VS the Rouge plant.
11:44:19:28 VS Ford s power plant; crane shoveling iron ore; silica sand, soda ash, salt, limestone, charcoal, and cullet.
14:4:46:07 Extremely long polishing table which according to narration was constructed according to the curvature of the earth; workers minding machine produced strips of rubber for car tires, VS tire manufacturing, hold molds press out tires. 14:45:21:15 Batteries of coke ovens; molten coke in trough.
14:46:08:05 Ammonium sulphate pouring off conveyor belt in large pile of white powder, byproduct from Ford plant sold as fertilizer; trucks carrying Ford Benzol oil leave plant, oil tanks in background; gas station attendant fills 1940s Ford car with gas from Ford Benzol gas pump.
14:46:34:23 Coke oven; blast furnace; foundry, workers casting metal into engine molds; open hearth furnace.
14:47:40:12 Huge stacks of paper to be recycled at Ford Rouge plant.
14:48:00:14 Reclaimed oil from Rouge plant spilled into river.
14:49:04:16 VS workers on Ford assembly line installing engine onto the car chassis; body of car installed on to the chassis; VS workers working on car engines and various other parts of plant, man reads X-ray of metal piece; machine tests cars suspension.
14:51:59:18 Visitors of the Ford s Rouge plant enter the visitor s rotunda; visitors crowding the showroom floor of the Ford Rotunda; Ford cars exiting front gate of the Rouge Plant.