A Mexican actress Dolores del Rio drives in a Ford car in the United States. Miss Del Rio leaves her house. The chauffeur opens a door of a Ford car. She is greeted by a chauffeur. She enters the car. A close up of Dolores with a dog. Rio gets out of the car fiddles with a radiator cap. Miss Del Rio enters the house.
The passenger locomotive- Paulista Railway of Brazil. A railway station in Brazil. People at the station wait for the arrival of a railroad train. Electric passenger train Paulista arrives at the station. A freight train moves along a railroad track.
President GetĂșlio Vargas resigns after 15 years as President of Brazil. Brazilian troops in tanks and army vehicles guard the President's Palace. Soldiers with rifles in hand. President GetulIo Vargas in his palace balcony. He prepares to depart from the palace. Jose Linhares being sworn in as the next President of Brazil. Jose Linhares shakes hands with Brazilian political leader Monteiro. (World War II period).
Ford Motor Company rubber production in Brazil. Brazilian farmers work in a field in Brazil, possibly part of Ford's Belterra rubber plantation. A group of Brazilian natives picks sprouted rubber tree seeds from the ground and put them in hats. Men use a wooden platform to determine the location of holes to be dug in the ground with sticks. Women drop seedlings in the holes to plant new rubber trees. A boy holds a hat full of seedlings. Small rubber tree plants. A group of men dig up small trees and cut tap roots of the trees. Workers dig up a large hole and plant small trees in it.
Young Brazilian boys attend a class in Brazil. A boy writes 'School Henry Ford' on a blackboard. He writes English sentences on the blackboard. A teacher reads from a book while the students write in their note books. (Other clips on this same reel show verified scenes of the Fordlandia community built by Ford Motor Company in Brazil. The classroom scene shown in this clip may be at the school in Fordlandia. Data accompanying this reel of film gives a date of 1940, but this may be from circa 1934 near the time that Fordlandia operations stopped and Belterra operations began).
Brazilians in a boat in Brazil. A group of Brazilian people in a boat. Men get off the boat at a beach. View of a hillside and a forest area on the beach. Sailboats ashore. (Other clips on this same reel show verified scenes of the Fordlandia rubber plantation built by Ford Motor Company in Brazil. This clip likely shows scenes of the Finlandia rubber tree plantings. Data accompanying this reel of film gives a date of 1940, but this may be from circa 1934 near the time that Fordlandia operations stopped and Belterra operations began).
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