Summary

HENRY FORD'S MIRROR OF AMERICA, 1914-1945

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Title: HENRY FORD'S MIRROR OF AMERICA, 1914-1945
File Number: AFP-3Z 16mm; VTM-3Z 1 inch; Beta SP; PA-1431 1 inch (pt.1); PA-0131 Beta SP; PA-0528 Digibeta; NET-289 DigiBeta (3Z at 01:00:00:00); Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Documentary
Year: compiled 1960s; footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s
Subjects: Aerials
Description: B W 1900s - 1920s Some 1900s 1910s 1920s Americana. The first 4 minutes of this film depict HENRY FORD relaxing in various guises: washing clothes by a stream, cooking at a grill, & camping with Thomas Edison country dancing in a barn w naturalist John Burroughs shooting a rifle ice skating with children on a pond in winter planting a garden w small children w his wife seated in his first car (the Quadricycle) inspecting a tractor motor plowing a field (horse-drawn) on a tractor beside his first Quadricycle and the "Ten Millionth Ford" (a Model T) operating a steam engine inspecting blueprints with his son Edsel Ford in a room vs shots of Greenfield Village. Following this Henry Ford material: footage of circa 1920 football game, then film editors of the same era developing 35mm movie film strips of 35mm movie film are shown drying on racks. (At this point the opening title cards appear on screen). Very good material. (NOTE 00:12:59:00 onward follows the opening credits): 00:12:59:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s AV Rolling hills of America before WWI. 00:13:08:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Farmer works plow horses, dog follows. 00:13:11:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Boy follows farmer thru field. 00:13:22:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Man milking cow munching on hay. 00:13:25:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Woman pumps water into pail by house, man joins. 00:13:31:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Kitchen, woman enters, talks to woman polishing silver. 00:13:34:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Man churns butter, boy strokes cat by fireplace cauldrons. 00:13:37:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Family reads at table, man pulls lantern toward himself, woman stands up & slaps him. 00:13:43:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Muddy country road, farmer whips horse along. 00:13:54:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Farmer repairs wheel on cart, train passes behind. 00:14:06:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Children walk forward on road. 00:14:12:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Large sleigh dashes thru snow, dog runs behind. 00:14:15:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Children have snowball fight before house. 00:14:20:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Children all climb tree to outer limbs, drop to ground. 00:14:32:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Train pulls into station. 00:14:38:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Train POV, it pulls away, cart crosses tracks. 00:14:41:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Conductor watches train. 00:14:47:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Train POV crossing bridge. 00:14:56:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Bicyclist rides down city road. 00:14:59:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Pennsylvania Ave., Washington DC, streetcar & traffic. 00:15:04:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS White House. 00:15:13:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS East Room in White House, tourists roam about. 00:15:25:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s AV Over Faneuil Hall marketplace (Boston), cars, stalls, horses, crowd. 00:15:26:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Crowds at New York City Lower East Side market. 00:15:31:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Old immigrant women jabber at each other, boys shove each other in back. 00:15:33:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS El train POV crossing bridge over city street past station. 00:15:41:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Train POV passing the Hippodrome. 00:15:45:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Fleet of tugboats facing dock. 00:15:45:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS People descend gangplank to excursion boat (New York Harbor). 00:15:53:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Boat POV at boats in harbor. 00:15:56:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Brooklyn Bridge. 00:16:03:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS The Battery. 00:16:09:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Navy cruiser, ocean liners. 00:16:27:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Flatiron Building. 00:16:31:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Tourists use binoculars (coin-operated type) atop Woolworth Building. 00:16:35:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s AV Congested Fifth Avenue. 00:16:43:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Riverside Drive, New York City. 00:16:49:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Grant's Tomb. 00:16:53:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Pond in Central Park, rowboats, people lounge in grass. 00:17:00:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Central Park fountain. 00:17:14:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Arched bridge over Central Park lake. 00:17:15:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS People spin off Coney Island Ride. 00:17:31:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Montage: various rides. 00:17:55:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Man takes tickets for Steeplechase. 00:18:04:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Crowds run along water's edge laughing. 00:18:15:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Train pulls into Atlantic City station, crowds pour out. 00:18:20:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Giant elephant hotel. 00:18:25:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Guests enter elephant hotel thru its leg. 00:18:35:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS The shore, 3 guys stand on 3 others' shoulders. 00:18:41:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Crowds strolling along boardwalk, line of jitneys ("rolling chairs"). 00:18:53:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Belle Isle Park (near Detroit) canoes, footbridge, crowds. 00:19:08:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Woman plays piano, crowds in back, children listen. 00:19:13:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Men lace people into ice skates. 00:19:15:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS The rink, peple skate past. 00:19:19:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Couple does fancy steps in mid rink, man whirls woman round 00:19:30:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Iceboats skim by. 00:19:37:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU 2 girls get onto stomachs & toboggan. 00:19:38:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Man takes off down track. 00:19:41:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Toboggan POV, snow rushing by. 00:19:43:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Toboggans slide down 3 tracks. 00:19:45:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Race car drivers & crew mug for camera. 00:19:53:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Crew starts cars off in cloud of smoke, grandstand behind. 00:19:59:00 B W 1916 MS Buffalo Bill & entourage ride horses from tent, 1916. 00:20:08:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Indian war dance. 00:20:13:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Bucking broncos. 00:20:22:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Wilson throws first baseball at season-opener. 00:20:28:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Player holds ball to chest. 00:20:30:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Baseball reading "Woodrow Wilson". 00:20:34:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU John Burroughs w little girl doffs hat. 00:20:38:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Crowds wave back at him. 00:20:43:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Horticulturist Luther Burbank in field of spineless prickly pear cactus Burbank bends & rubs his nose across one. 00:20:52:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU He cuts piece of spineless cactus in hand, munches. 00:20:58:00 B W 1915 CU Thomas Edison fiddles w flower in car, San Francisco 1915. 00:21:00:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS He drives wife w Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Firestone. 00:21:07:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Former House Speaker Joseph G. Cannon. 00:21:12:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Will Rogers laughs. 00:21:17:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS WR handles 2 lassoes. 00:21:24:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Tourists stand by lake in Glacier National Park (Alaska). 00:21:32:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Tourists climb, 1 man helps them up. 00:21:53:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Snow-capped mountains. 00:21:56:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS They walk thru snow, 1 falls into hole, they drag him out. 00:22:15:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Horse pulls logging cart. 00:22:21:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Forest, man chops, tree falls 00:22:32:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Line of women making shoes in factory. 00:22:43:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Women sewing hats. 00:22:48:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Woman fits hat onto another's head. 00:22:53:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS "Girls" sort mail at post office. 00:22:59:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS One turns w pile of mail, drops letters all over, exclaims in chagrin, stoops to pick them up. 00:23:04:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Montage: women work at cleaners, assembly lines, machines. 00:23:33:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Man makes Model T Ford wheels, montage: Ford factory action in Michigan. 00:24:11:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Men leaving factory. 00:24:16:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS They pour into streetcar. 00:24:18:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Streetcars & other traffic go by. 00:24:24:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Civil War veterans in reunion tent, Vicksburg Mississippi. 00:24:26:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU 2 geezers sit on cots & talk. 00:24:30:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS They all wash up outside row of washbins. 00:24:37:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS They take places at mile-long tables, eat, "slaves" serve. 00:24:48:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Elderly Civil War veterans eating. 00:24:51:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Recruits in civvies march, uniformed soldiers supervise. 00:25:04:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Medicine ball, crowd of young recruits rushes into frame at it, pushes. 00:25:11:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS They play tug-o-war. 00:26:28:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Recruits w signs: EVERY SAILOR BOY IS A MAN, JOIN OUR NAVY 00:26:44:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Training montage: soldiers march at each other w bayonets, practice firing on their bellies, throw grenades in unison. 00:27:02:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Montage: working at WWI defense factory. 00:27:07:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Woman worker removes goggles, smiles. 00:27:09:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Man greets woman worker, hands her liberty bond certificate 00:27:17:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Henry Ford gets contract from Navy Secy. Josephus Daniels Ford poses with Daniels (in Washington DC). 00:27:24:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Traveling shot of workers riveting Eagle boat hulls. 00:27:49:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Eagle boat is launched it skims thru water. 00:28:04:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Ford test tank rolls over field in Highland Park. 00:28:11:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS People stare at wheels of tank fallen into hole. 00:28:15:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS People dig out tank wheels. 00:28:22:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s AV Detroit parade for men off to the trenches in WWI. 00:28:30:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Troops march by. 00:28:42:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Soldier, crowd in back. 00:28:44:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Soldier holds puppy. 00:28:47:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Soldier w small American flag & buddy, train in back. 00:28:48:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Soldier holds tuba, 3 women snuggle up to him, all smile. 00:28:53:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Train, man boards, rain begins, couple kiss under umbrella. 00:29:01:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Fleet of tanks roll over field, one in ditch, houses behind 00:29:09:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS One tank bumps into fence, flips backwards. 00:29:16:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Men try to rock tank back up. 00:29:19:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Huge tank crashes thru house side, soldiers look on amused. 00:29:48:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Highland Park parade. 00:30:06:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Men carry sign HELL IS TOO GOOD FOR THE HUN. 00:30:11:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS First model of the Martin bomber. 00:30:23:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Martin Bomber takes off. 00:30:33:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Eddie Rickenbacker, flying ace. 00:30:36:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Rickenbacker shakes hands w officer & little boy. 00:30:39:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s AV Curtis H-type flying boat factory. 00:30:49:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Flying boat factory, boat is lifted thru air. 00:30:57:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Shipyard workers at hog island. 00:31:05:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Red Cross girl hands papers to line of soldiers. 00:31:10:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Captain Kiddle at engraving machine. 00:31:19:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Soldier shaves in barracks. 00:31:23:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Boys hang out in barracks. 00:31:26:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Men watch troop trains pull out, boys wave goodbye. 00:31:35:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Troops stand & drink coffee. 00:31:43:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Army band. 00:31:56:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Troop ship escorteed by tugboats. 00:32:19:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Harthcliff in Detroit, line of tractors in field. 00:32:46:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Woman at desk holds up liberty bond. 00:32:53:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Man buys one from soldier. 00:32:55:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s AV Travel across hordes in street after WWI Armistice. 00:33:23:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS White horses w carts in Unknown Soldier parade, Washington 00:33:28:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS President Harding & General John "Blackjack" Pershing march. 00:33:40:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Cars bump along rutted country road. 00:33:50:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Man pushes car out of rut (car is Ford Model T). 00:33:56:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Man tries driving car out of rut (mud), gets out, kicks tire. (Car is Ford Model T truck, and man looks a lot like Will Rogers!) 00:34:07:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Truck with rope pulls, and men push truck out of ditch. 00:34:16:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Cars roll onto small ferry boat. 00:34:19:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Ferry boat crosses river Ford Model T drives off small ferryboat. 00:34:31:00 B W 1920s MS 1920s Montage: building new roads. 00:34:48:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Cars roll along smooth road. 00:34:51:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s AV Cars roll down smooth road. 00:34:57:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Model T Ford rolls over embankment. 00:35:11:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Model T splashes thru stream. 00:35:15:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Model T rolls thru snow. 00:35:18:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Model T crosses bridge. 00:35:21:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Model T rolls on railroad track (note: this does not look like a Model T to me. JAL). 00:35:26:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Model T inches across huge pipe (this is apparently one of the massive pipes for the Los Angeles water system !!) 00:35:33:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Montage: Ford Model T assembly line at Ford factory, Michigan. 00:36:03:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS New Model T cars drive out of factory every 10 seconds cut to EXT of Ford showroom as cars drive inside it's garage. 00:36:27:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Woman exits farmhouse w baby, enters Model T car, drives off, man feeds chickens in back. 00:36:36:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Woman drives around corner in Model T car. 00:36:42:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Truck stops at roadside stand. 00:36:42:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Man loads produce & milk jugs on truck. 00:36:57:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Truck pulls up to man w bundles, mailman loads onto truck. 00:37:05:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Line of Model T cars pulls out one by one. 00:37:15:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Cars round curve in mountains (Oregon). 00:37:20:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Cars cross Columbia River Highway bridge, Oregon. (This is the Latourell Creek Bridge, constructed in 1914). 00:37:30:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Car leaves tunnel. 00:37:34:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Ford Model T car drives thru redwood tree "tunnel", couple hikes. Early automobile tourism. 00:37:43:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Man in Model T car feeds bear. 00:37:52:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Family sets up tent at back of car early automobile tourism (pre-motel era). 00:38:04:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Woman sets table, men smoke. 00:38:13:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Family eating bananas at picnic table by lake, car behind. 00:38:19:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Women pick flowers, men talk in car. 00:38:27:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Man sleeps in car. 00:38:30:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Henry Ford & friends drink tea under tent. 00:38:35:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS President Harding & entourage arrive in cars. 00:38:42:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Warren G. Harding & Harvey Firestone. 00:38:49:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Henry Ford chops wood. 00:38:53:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Thomas Edison naps nearby in grass. 00:39:00:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Firestone takes over woodchopping, Ford mocks him. 00:39:10:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Harding takes a turn at the ax. 00:39:20:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS 2 men shake hands, look over Fordson tractor. 00:39:41:00 B W 1910s MS Circa late 1910s: woman in kitchen uses primitive early electric "washing machine", puts newly-washed clothes through wringer atop washing machine. 00:39:55:00 B W 1910s MS Late 1910s woman using early electric vacuum cleaner, vacuums around man reading in chair. 00:40:00:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Teenage girl washes face at bathroom sink. 00:40:06:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Grandma rocks, knits by fire, electric churning machine churns butter odd shot. 00:40:15:00 B W 1920s AV Montage over traffic at street corner (This is 7th and Broadway, Los Angeles, early 1920s Bank of Italy upper right corner) becomes a time-lapse shot of rushing cars & pedestrians. Pedestrians rush across street in time-lapse, EXCELLENT SHOT cars and streetcars zoom past. Then, a generic small town circa 1920, some cars parked diagonally in middle of wide main street. 00:40:45:00 B W 1920s WS Traffic cop halts traffic for school children to cross street. Happy kids run across the street. (Circa 1920). 00:41:01:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Policeman pulls woman out of car's way. 00:41:03:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Policeman in traffic booth. 00:41:10:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Sign: NEW TRAFFIC ORDINANCE - PENALTIES 500 FINE & 3 MONTHS IMPRISONMENT. 00:41:12:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s MS Truck carries new cars & traffic safety sign. 00:41:20:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Float carries actors dressed as Grim Reaper, with sickles. 00:41:33:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Children play ball at curb, run in and out of oncoming traffic. 00:41:34:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CU Woman watches, smiling, then screams, hands to head. 00:41:35:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Kid runs into oncoming car & falls. 00:41:41:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Truck crashes into cart on street. 00:41:42:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Man steps off curb into car backing around corner. 00:41:50:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Man chases boys off back of his ice truck. Boys grab onto ice truck. Ice falls out of ice truck, boy rescued by friends after large block of ice falls on him. Boy jumps onto rear bumper of moving car. 00:46:29:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s WS Flatiron Building (5th & Broadway, New York City), trolley cars in FG. 00:46:32:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s HA WS Los Angeles street scene, church in FG. 00:46:39:00 B W 1920s 1920s cars driving down tree lined street. 00:46:43:00 B W 1910s Street scene in Los Angeles w streetcar, late 1910s cars on busy street, and the 3rd Street Tunnel Angels' Flight Inclined Railway (tramway up hill). 00:46:54:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s CHARLES LINDBERGH's famous plane, the "Spirit of St. Louis", is signalled to land in field "Spirit" taxis and comes to a stop on grass. Good CU of lettering "Spirit of St. Louis" on side of plane. 00:47:10:00 B W 1920s Circa 1928: CHARLES LINDBERGH poses with HENRY FORD and other notables beside the "Spirit of St. Louis". Lindbergh shaking hands and posing for the CAM. 00:47:20:00 B W 1920s Circa 1929 1930: EXT airport terminal w airplane propeller in FG. Pilot assists passengers onto plane. 00:47:30:00 B W 1920s Circa 1929 1930: FORD TRI-MOTOR plane taxiing for takeoff, heads directly to CAM POV, takes off & circles. CU little boy & woman looking out of passenger plane's window. Ford Trimotor passenger plane levels off in mid-air (Logo on plane reads "Stout Airlines"). 00:48:08:00 B W compiled 1960s footage: 1900s 1910s 1920s EXT National Archives building in Washington DC, & end credits.
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