Hooping Up (Barrel Making), Part 2 / Sweetness (Sugar Cane) / Net Profits (Fishing) / Will Rogers / The "Four" Runners of Joy (Wheels)

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Hooping Up (Barrel Making), Part 2 / Sweetness (Sugar Cane) / Net Profits (Fishing) / Will Rogers / The "Four" Runners of Joy (Wheels) Produced: 1919

Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. “Staves are given their final preparation in the factory, planed and beveled.” Barrel factory - workers plane and bevel staves using power machinery. “Hooping ’em up.” Finished staves are placed in hoops. “The steam box gets the barrel used to the moisture.” Steaming barrels, final hoops placed and tightened. “No sooner out of the steam room than the barrel is dried.” “Often staves are broken.” Broken stave is replaced. “Large iron bands hold the barrel in shape much better than any corset add guarantees to do.” Bands pushed farther toward center of barrel by machinery. “Creating the well-known bung hole.” “Putting a bevel on each end of the barrel.” Placing ends on barrels by machinery. “Off come the iron bands, the barrel is planed and steel hoops adjusted.” Worker planes revolving barrel - hoops pushed down by machinery. “Making steel hoops.” Lengths of steel come out of machine, worker rivets two ends together, worker places them on stretching and shaping machine. “The inside of the barrel is glued and the outside painted by machinery.” “Nine months have elapsed since the oak tree was felled. Here, at last, is the finished product.” “And now loaded with various American products, the barrels start for all corners of the globe to develop our commerce.” Workers loading barrels into freight car. “The End.” [1919] b. “Along those same Hawaiian beaches you will find cultivated fields for 80,000 acres in Hawaii yield 500,000 tons of raw sugar annually.” Cane fields. “Three-gang plows, drawn back and forth across the fields, prepare the ground for planting sugar.” Tractor operated pulley mechanism moves plows, worker rides plow. “It takes cane from one to two years to mature. It takes some waiters nearly that long to serve you with sugar.” Cane field - workers and horses. “…feet long, spanning deep gulches, carry cane to the sugar mills.” Workers place cane in flume - view of flume over gulch. “Not a tight wire act but a workman running along top of flume to prevent cane from becoming clogged.” “And then it is delivered to the mill.” [1919] c. Child winds string on spindle, fishnets stretched out - men working on net - horizontal poles with net stretched between them. “Fishing boats getting ready for trip to fishing areas.” Boats at anchor. “Every good business must be conducted properly - so the fish net must be kept straight.” Net floats trailing boat, fisherman leans over stern, unsnarls net. “At the end of the drift the net is hauled in and the fish removed, then the drift is gone over again.” “Trolling is a sportier way of catching fish.” “Trollers on their way to the sea.” Fisherman baiting trolling lines. “Outside the rivers the action is started. The spoon hooks tempt the salmon into being caught.” Fisherman throws lines over side. “Boats returning to the cannery to unload.” “Each one has a price on his head, that’s the way they are bought.” Boats - fish tossed into large bin. “Think of a purse, for the next method of fishing is called ‘purse seining.’” Net aboard rowboat which leaves side of fishing boat - net is spread in circle - fish being seined out of net into hold of fishing boat - view of boat with net alongside and fishermen working on deck - cannery - fish moving along endless belt - tanks - workers. “Cans are lacquered to prevent rusting.” Machinery - cans - workers remove cans from conveyor. [1919] d. Will Rogers poses with rope framing head - does rope trick, jumping in and out of loop - close-up of Rogers. [1919] e. “Wheels -- ! Half the world’s on wheels -- and the other half is busy dodging flivvers. Wheels! They brought you here, they’ll take you home. We just can’t get along without ’em. So let’s see how they’re made.” Cartoon, globe with Ford running around it. “From carefully selected timber a club spoke is ‘turned.’” Lathe in operation. “‘Mitering’ and facing the spokes.” Workers operate wood working machinery. “Polishing by machinery.” “Who said an auto was dumb? Every wheel has a ‘spoke.’” Workers operate wood working machinery. “‘Felloe’ stock from selected hickory is thoroughly steamed and then bent into shape.” Worker removes wood from steamer, places it in press. “This is a case where two Good ‘Felloes’ get together.” Worker runs curved pieces for rim through machine. [1919]

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