Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago
This documentary provides a grim kaleidoscope of world trouble spots: the Berlin Wall, the Lebanon crisis, Laos, South Vietnam, and Cuba. Scenes document Red China as it crushed a revolt in Tibet, then attacked a militarily weak India; Cuban freedom fighters as they attempted to retake their homeland and met disaster; Russian missiles discovered in Cuba; and President John Kennedy's ultimatum to Nikita Khrushchev.
This documentary provides a grim kaleidoscope of world trouble spots: the Berlin Wall, the Lebanon crisis, Laos, South Vietnam, and Cuba. Scenes document Red China as it crushed a revolt in Tibet, then attacked a militarily weak India; Cuban freedom fighters as they attempted to retake their homeland and met disaster; Russian missiles discovered in Cuba; and President John Kennedy's ultimatum to Nikita Khrushchev.




![Ford Automobile Assembly Line / President Hoover Visits Detroit / Police Disperse Picketers
Plant interior - engine blocks suspended, from a moving overhead conveyor belt - engine blocks moving down an inclined conveyor belt - engine assembly line with workers - steel furnace and steel pouring into bucket, hoist is positioned, raises bucket - plant interior - automobile wheel rims suspended from moving overhead conveyor - metal working and fender stamping machinery and conveyor belt - worker operates Dow stamping equipment - engine assembly line. [1929]
b. Plant exterior with Ford railroad car on siding, truck with trailer driven up with four old automobiles aboard - man receipts shipment - cars are backed off truck, towed into building, stripped of parts - men with torches cut apart the body - large press crushes the frame, wreckages compressed, forced into open hearth furnace. [1930]
c. Automobile turns corner in business district - policeman stands at corner, spectators under umbrellas line sidewalk - flag decorated, speaker’s platform - audience in raincoats and hats, with umbrellas - train arrives at station in rain, spectators with umbrellas - President Herbert Hoover leaves passenger car, poses with Henry Ford and Thomas A. Edison - the three men conversing indoors while another man prepares an exhibit and experiment - Edison gestures as he points to equipment. [1929]
d. Crowd of workers leave streetcars at station, walk up steps - men parade with signs - policemen sit in back of open truck as men parade past - police disperse marchers, 5/26/37. Men running in all directions - police chase men across railroad tracks, through a field. [1937]
e. Field with Ford plant in background - automobiles are test driven and circle field at high speed. [1932]
f. Three armored trucks drive out of plant. [1918] Ford Automobile Assembly Line / President Hoover Visits Detroit / Police Disperse Picketers](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ohXSBdCk8u4/mqdefault.jpg)





