Ford Model T cars being driven out the exit door of the Highland Park factory, Michigan,circa 1916. Numerous Model T cars driving on both sides of a divided highway. The Ford Highland Park Plant, circa 1920. Panoramic exterior views of the Ford River Rouge plant and factory buildings, circa 1930. A Ford Freighter ship, docked at the River Rouge plant. A view of the home of Henry and Clara Ford, at 66 Edison Road (now 140) Dearborn, Michigan, in 1914. Sketch of children coming home from school, singing song from McGuffey reader school book. View of schoolroom with McGuffey readers on desk. Narrator relates story of Henry Ford trying to buy a McGuffey reader and being unable to obtain one. Narrator states that Ford realizes from this incident "the changes that are reordering his culture. The modes of life which Henry so loved are passing, disappearing into history." Street scene outside Ford Plant, during shift change, and street filled with workers. A car driving on empty road in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The historic Wayside Inn (immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Tales of the Wayside Inn") which Henry Ford purchased in 1923, to preserve for posterity. View of the original Pennsylvania Railroad Station in New York City, circa 1912. View of crowded sidewalks and street on 5th Avenue, and other street scenes in New York City, circa 1920. Model T Ford cars driving in U.S. National Parks. A visitor feeding a bear from his Ford car, as a U.S. National Park Ranger stands nearby. People in Ford Model T, stopped by side of road to pick wild flowers. Two men remove a seat back from their Model T car to make a camper. Both men lying down in the car. Man carrying picnic basket from Ford Model T, parked beside a beach, where he joins the rest of his party on the sand. Children run along the beach, and stop to play with seaweed.
Film opens showing Ford Motor Company President, Edsel Ford, with a shovel, breaking ground for some kind of construction at the company's Dearborn plant site. Camera pans over views of company buildings. Many cars driving in the vicinity, most are mid to late 1930s models. Pedestrians walking on sidewalks of the campus. Modern buildings on the campus.
Aerial views of the sprawling Ford Motor Company plant at River Rouge in Dearborn,Michigan. Views of smoke rising from tall chimneys. Ships at the harbor.
Ford Rouge plant in Dearborn, United States. The final assembly line in the plant in Ford Rouge in Dearborn. Workmen at work along the assembly line. The spectators move in a queue and watch the vehicles in the assembly line from behind a barrier. Men, women and children view the vehicles. The President-elect of Mexico Pascual Ortiz Rubio along with Edsel Ford, President of the Ford Motor Company. Edsel Ford points out something to the President-elect Rubio. The men talking. Several men and women watching the vehicles in the assembly line. The vehicles are rolled out of the assembly line. A group of men stand and talk beside the line. The vehicles are rolled by the workmen one after the other out of the assembly line. Spectators standing in a line. Men, women and children come out of the plant. The vehicles driven out of the plant one behind the other. Other vehicles in the background.
View of the entrance of the Ford Motor Company Engineering Laboratory in Dearborn, Michigan. Henry Ford and the visiting Andre Citroen converse while two workers put down top of a convertible. Convertible drives on, followed by other cars. Replica of Independence Hall in the background.
Ford River Rogue plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Interior views of production unit and workers operating heavy pressing machines, body shaping machines, and placing component parts for body tops on assembly line.
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