The Harvest Of The Years (1939)

★★★★ · There's A Ford In YOUR Future! · donwert · 2010-03-07

A Ford Motor company film about the Rouge plant--the greatest industrial plant in the world-- extolling the virtues of integrated manufacturing (iron ore in one end; finished cars out the other). The Rouge plant was, indeed, a modern wonder of organization. According to the film, "enlightened industrial management" is constantly alert to ways to make the workers' jobs easier to do. This would no doubt come as a surprise to Ford workers who, the year this film was made, were engaged in a bitter fight to organize, opposed by Ford's private police force and internal spies. Anyone thought to be…

★★★★ · America "Was" Great and so was Henry · Ron Raygun · 2010-05-09

An interesting 1937 film showing how mass production and the ownership of supply resources kept productivity high, quality high, and all at low cost. A previous post by an obvious Big Liberal, Big Union man, mentions how Ford fought the unionization of the company through some service company. Fortunately, this was never mentioned in the film. Looking back 73 years when the film was made, it shows how great America was before the "Collective Bludgeoning" of organized labor took place, and why America has priced itself out of the world markets do to the organized labor thugs and gangsters…

★★★★ · Don't Live Downwind · JSBejma · 2012-03-10

The one thing I was impressed with was the various colors of smoke that poured from that place everyday - except, apparently, on the day they filmed the segments seen here. The neighborhoods down wind in SW Detroit were of white clapboard originally but always had this grayish sickly tan color or sometimes a dusty rust colored deposit. People would sometimes have to hose down and scrub their houses. Whatta place though. The Ford Rotunda in later days was the origin of the Auntie Dee show on local TV - featuring Miss Artis. It burned to the ground in the early 60's - somewhat suspiciously…

★★★ · Eveen shakier then it's shock absorbers. · Spuzz · 2003-09-25

In this film which takes forever to start and get centered (which it really doesnt) the many different parts of the Ford company is shown, from it's own manufacture of rubber, coke and steel, to the assembly of the cars, to hell, even the tours that they have at the plant, the film seems to go all over the place. While sometimes that can be fine in a film as this some of the time, the film seemed to not be centralized in my opinion, and just seemed jumpy.