Monday, January 23, 2012

Ford Animated Weekly Excerpts (1916-1918)


Country: United States
The Ford Animated Weekly films were short productions distributed free between 1914 and 1921 to theaters, schools, YMCA's, prisons, etc. This is a selection of excerpts prepared by the Ford Motor Company; individual clip dates unknown. Included are views of workers on the assembly line; Ford automobiles being driven in the snow; Henry Ford and Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels leaving the White House after a conference with President Woodrow Wilson; women marching with signs proclaiming "Win the War," World War I Armistice Parade in Detroit, Michigan; troops waving from railroad passenger cars; and a World War I Liberty Bond Parade in Detroit, Michigan

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