Guide to the Ford film collection in the National Archives (1970)

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10 Education, News, and Special Subjects implements; Negro workers planting cane sprouts in trenches; mule-drawn plow; workers, including children, hoeing field, chopping cane with ma- chetes, and stacking cane and loading it onto ox-drawn carts; shipping; freighter at dock; unloading bags of raw sugar and taking samples from bags for testing; and refining and packing sugar. SUGAR FROM MAPLE TREES 624 ft., ed. (1922) Grove of sugar maple trees, map of Eastern United States, tapping trees and collecting sap, boiling sap over an outdoor fire, and processing and packing sugar in a modern refinery. WHEAT AND FLOUR 859 ft., ed. (1922) Wheat field preparation, planting, harvesting by hand and with machin- ery, threshing by machine, trucking to elevator, grinding flour in water- powered mill and in modern mill, and sacking flour by machinery. CIVICS AND CITIZENSHIP AMERICAN RED CROSS, WORLD WAR I 156 it., ed. (1918); 314 ft., uned. (1917, 1918) Work of the Red Cross at Newberry House, American Red Cross Teaching Center: attending patients and in- structing the blind in handicrafts such as basketmaking, chair caning, and weaving. BOY SCOUT ACTIVITIES 469 ft., ed. (1919); 1,886 ft., uned. (1919, 1920) Scouts at attention for inspection, pledge of allegiance, and scout oath; recreational activities such as hiking, setting up and breaking camp, swim- ming, sailing, and cooking over an open fire; contests including fire building, knot tying, gymnastics, and semaphore drills; and water rescue and first aid for people and animals. "CENTURY OF PROGRESS" 985 it., ed. (1921) Development of modern transpor- tation methods: horseback, covered wagon, and oxcart travel; truck and automobile traffic; railroad systems; steamships; and airplanes. Development of use of electricity: washing by hand, commercial laun- dry operations using electric equip- ment, baking bread in an outdoor oven, a commercial bakery, hand shearing and spinning, machine spin- ning and weaving, a water-powered mill, and dams and powerhouses for generating electricity. DETROIT, MICH. 601 it., ed. (1921) Detroit skyline and harbor area with excursion boat and freighters at dock, railroad station and crowds, traffic in center of city, public build- ings, industrial areas, open air mar- ket, and people in parks. GOOD ROADS PROMOTION 701 ft., ed. (1919); 905 it., uned. (1917) Indians and white men on foot in the forest; pioneers on horseback, with covered wagons, and with pack horses; cars and trucks on very bad country roads and on good paved ones; children walking on muddy road and on paved one; boy riding horse to post office for mail and mail delivery by truck to farm; horse and buggy transportation for the farm