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General Motors Around the World (Part IV) (1927)

1927 · Ephemeral film · 13 min

  • Documentary

Synopsis

Documentary about the successful business ventures of General Motors around the globe.

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Details

Studio
Jam Handy Organization (JHO)
Released
1927-09-09
Running time
13 minutes
Language
English
Collection
Prelinger Archives

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★★★ · Getting your GM in Sao Paolo · Spuzz · 2005-05-17

In this movie, I was able to watch only Parts I and III. (Part II is unavailible, and part IV seems to be a duplicate of part III) anyways, In part I, We are shown that GM and it's many line brands (including the now defunct Portland) don't JUST operate in the US! Noooo, they have many branches, all over the world! We are then shown a map, where they have plants, warehouses and distributors. (It's sort of fun to "guess the location" here) From there, we go to the actual cities themselves, this is a nice tour as many of the towns appear to be quite modern (this is 1927 don't forget). That's…