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Decommissioning Navy Service School / Flags Flown at Half Mast / Henry Ford's Funeral / Mr. Bugas Signing Union Contract / American Robot Bombs! (First Films) / Soybean Car at Ford Rotunda (1945)

1945 · Newsreel · 9 min

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Decommissioning Navy Service School / Flags Flown at Half Mast / Henry Ford's Funeral / Mr. Bugas Signing Union Contract / American Robot Bombs! (First Films) / Soybean Car at Ford Rotunda Produced: 1945 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Navy barracks - parade ground - flag pole, sailors lined up for review - flag raising and lowering ceremony, flag pausing at half-mast - sailors folding flag - officers, one holding folded flag and Henry Ford II reviewing trainees - trainees and officers marching off field - Navy Officer presenting flag to Ford II - sailors boarding Ford buses. b.Flags Flown at Half Mast c. Henry Ford's Funeral d. Group of men seated at table, one takes pen out of pocket, hands it to another, who signs papers on table, first man takes another pen out of pocket, signs papers, others at table sign - group standing, shaking hands, posing for the camera. e. Plant interior - worker welding bomb casing - workers moving long tube-like bombs with jet engines, bombs on wheels - man with earphones on - testing area, buildings in background - flame shooting from jet engines - plant interior, workers, some women, assembling bombs - bombs on launching pad, taking off, booster cuts loose from bomb, hits water in distance - bombs in flight, booster hitting water. f. Automobile parked in front of Ford Rotunda - pedestrian traffic - car driven around driveway.

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