Henry Ford in quadricycle in Detroit, Michigan. Henry Ford, founder of the Ford motor company in a quadricycle. He examines the quadricycle. He poses in the quadricycle.
Henry Ford in Ford motor cars in Detroit, Michigan. Henry Ford, founder of the Ford motor company, seated in a 1903 Ford Model A car (a 1903-1904 model). Ford Model T car parked beside a Model A car. Views of several old cars lined up in a row and being driven, including a 1905 Ford four seater "Model F" and a 2 seater Model F. Ford model A car at the end of the line. Building and trees in the background.
Henry Ford with Edsel Bryant Ford in Detroit, Michigan. Henry Ford, founder of the Ford motor company with son Edsel Bryant, president of the Ford motor company with quadricycle. They examine the quadricycle. They stand near the quadricycle and pose.
Henry Ford with Edsel Bryant Ford in Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan during celebration of Ford Motor Company's 30th Anniversary. Henry Ford, founder of the Ford motor company with son Edsel Bryant Ford , president of the Ford motor company, pose in several old model cars. Other early model cars with their owners are seen behind them. Greenfield Village Chapel can be seen in the background of some scenes.
Ford old model cars in Detroit, Michigan. Model of a Ford tractor on display. Several models of the ford motor cars on display.
World War 2 era film that also includes some World War 1 scenes. Show girls or chorus girls in follies-like show, costumed as U.S. silver dollars and marching to tune and lyrics alluding to dramatic increase of currency in circulation, over the years. Animation with stacks of coins shows increase in national income from $46 billion,in 1933, to $71 billion, in 1939, and $142 billion in 1943. Back to the "follies dollars," a boy asks why, and then scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,are shown, with U.S. battleships being sunk. Wartime arms plants are shown. An M2A3 Light Tank rolls off a production line. Ships being constructed in a shipyard. B-24 Liberator bombers being built in a factory. Artillery shells being produced. Defense workers receiving their pay. The "follies dollars" group themselves to illustrate the fractions of income devoted to taxes and savings. But other spending is curtailed by wartime shortages. A woman talking with clerk in a drug store. U.S. Army troops crossing a pontoon bridge in open trucks, towing 75mm M1A1 howitzers. Infantry on the march. Animation showing industrial production devoted to war materiel and lots of dollars chasing few civilian goods. A grocery clerk offers to sell a woman customer butter for more than the established price, and she agrees. The "follies" performers then introduce the idea of an "inflationary dollar," and some history of past U.S. inflations. Animated examples of price inflation are shown. Glimpses of World War I scenes are seen, circa 1917 -1918, including: a 12-inch railway gun firing; a huge explosion from shell bursting near the camera; various scenes of United States infantry soldiers and French soldiers in battle action, running to bomb craters for cover and emerging from trenches to go up "over the top" into no-mans land during combat. Meanwhile, singing narration refers to the home front inflation due to competition for limited civilian goods. Map shows Europe and singing narration cites rising prices for food in occupied France and other countries suffering ravages of World War II. Montage of scenes showing needy civilians obtaining food in those countries. Animation shows increases, by 1944, in cost of U.S. civilian goods since the Pearl Harbor attack. "Follies" character called "Double-duty dollar," appears explaining he serves the war and curtails inflation on the home front by being saved through investments in War Bonds and stamps.
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