Farmer Miller Goes Into High Gear

Creator: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Silent film with liberal amount of title cards, all bearing Goodyear corporate logo.; Part I; TC: "Jim Miller, owner of Sunnydale Farms, is hard-headed, but he's keen for more profits, lower costs, more comfort and leisure.; MCU man milks cow. (Jim Miller lives in Connellsville, Pennsylvania.); MCU man at desk writing letter, there is a portrait of a man on the desk.; LS Bill Allen (editor of the journal Better Farming, with offices in the state of Iowa) seated at his desk. He calls his secretary over to dictate a letter. MS he dictates to her.; ECU typewriter platen (cylinder) with paper, we see the keys typing letters on paper (good). This shot will recur throughout the film.; LS mule teams pulling farm wagons; LS tractors with air-filled rubber tires; Runby shot showing tractor pulling cart -- fast; Tractor pulling harvesting equipment; Tractor pulling plow; CU of tractor pulling plow, seen from furrow height at ground level. The plow pulls away from the camera (good shot); VS tractor pulling various implements; Tractor pulls hay wagon, farmhands on its top; LS parade of tractors following one another in a line (good); ECU typewriter again; Tractor in orchard; Tractor on grassy lawn; Tractor in field, good VS of farming; CU hands signing letter and handling bunch of snapshots (photos, photographs); VS inserts of rubber tires and agricultural implements (as seen in snapshots); LS Jim Miller standing on farmhouse porch with wife, showing farm paper to her; LS Goodyear tire dealer in suit, hat and tie, greeting and shaking hands with Jim Miller, who is sitting on his tractor; Various charts and title cards comparing rubber vs. steel wheels; LS young man entering building seen from inside looking down; LS man climbing stairs to building, entering door (Goodyear facility in Akron, Ohio); There follows a sequence shot at the Goodyear tire plant in Akron, showing the process by which tractor tires are made.; Tire machine, trimming rubber sheets; Setting beads; Turning first band around bead; Placing second band of Supertwist Cord Plies; Turning down second and third bands around bead; Part II; Centering unit of cushion rubber and cord breaker; Placing the tread slab; Putting on the sidewall rubber; Title card: "An unfamiliar shape but a complete tire.; Inflation of this air bag shapes the tire; Getting its face lifted; Into the mold for curing; Shots of the finished tire being lifted out of the mold by four workers; How to install tires -- replacing the steel wheel on the tractor; A steel-wheeled tractor slipping on the hill, contrasted with the good traction experienced with the rubber tire; Tractor in front of country house, driving in driveway hauling a cart; Steel-wheeled tractor trying to enter barn, rubber-tired tractor driving right in; Title card: "And do the hands like it!" (referring to farmhands); CU hands holding sheet of paper, insert of "Savings" typed sheet; Hands holding sheet of figures and snapshot of Jim Miller; Tractor with Goodyear Sure-Grip tires at the National Plowing Contest. Its driver waves back to the camera as he drives away.; VS driver pats tractor tire, doffs hat to camera.; (This is probably Orvis Schroyer, National Champion Plowman).; CU tractor tire.; The End.; Lots of farm scenes; 09:37:28; CU Typewriter with 'sincerely' typed on page; More tractors