Ford Brazil / South American and Mexican Scenes / Liberator Bomber Production (1930)
1930 · Newsreel · 9 min
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Ford Brazil / South American and Mexican Scenes / Liberator Bomber Production Produced: 1930 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Dump truck filling holes in road, workers spreading dirt - workers clearing land - worker digging hole with hoe - boys, one carrying bundle of poles on his head, others with machetes - boy cutting poles into short pieces with machete - boy carrying pieces in basket, dropping two into hole, covering them over - view of young trees - worker pulling tree up exposing very large bulbous roots - young trees - native women sorting young sprouts from pile of plants - women planting sprouts in ground freshly hoed by man in background - man pushing two children in wheelbarrow, wife and boy walking at side, row of thatched houses lining road - men setting posts in line between houses - raking dirt into hole around post - view of houses beside road, jungle in background - long building with metal roof, small building beside it with pipe chimneys sticking out of roof - interior of smaller building, man cooking over open front wood stove - row of houses, men working in yards - house built of concrete block, porch, vines growing over doorway - grove of young rubber trees - close-up of base of tree - tree marked with numbers - worker holding pole up to tree which exceeds sixteen feet - marker ‘103’ at edge of grove - road through middle of grove - worker standing next to tree - roughly cleared jungle…
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