View source for Moving Image:Harvest of the Years - A Story of the Triumph of an Idea, The

{{Filmjr |title=Harvest of the Years: A Story of the Triumph of an Idea, The |embid=0750_Harvest_of_the_Years_A_Story_of_the_Triumph_of_an_Idea_The_14_30_52_20 |embsv=archiveorg  |desc=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.
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.


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